[speaker001:] okay what do you cook
[speaker002:] well I have dinner parties quite often and so we we really I really enjoy cooking um
[speaker001:] oh really
[speaker002:] I like desserts and uh main dishes I'm a chocoholic
[speaker001:] oh definitely oh yeah well see I consider baking different than cooking though yeah I can I can bake
[speaker002:] do you yeah yeah  well you know the best recipes that I have come from Southern Living
[speaker001:] oh yeah
[speaker002:] um do you get that magazine
[speaker001:] no but my mother-in-law tells me and gets it and just loves to get the recipes
[speaker002:] oh it's wonderful you know I've never had a recipe fail that I've gotten out of Southern Living and I've had dinner guests come over for dinner and you know say I don't know what this is going to taste like I got it out of Southern Living it's a brand new recipe and I've never tried it before and and I've never had them fail
[speaker001:] wow that's great yeah my mother used to like pick out a magazine and show us the pictures and say okay this is what we're going to have and we're like oh God no
[speaker002:] yeah right I well well that's what I do too and it has a it's been wonderful right
[speaker001:] yeah she did really good she did really well but I mean like her four basic food groups were kind of like mine they're frozen canned boxed and take home and I'm I'm a very picky eater so that's another part of my problem when I look at a recipe there's ingredients that I don't like or won't taste and so it's kind of difficult
[speaker002:] uh-huh uh-huh yeah yeah where you from originally
[speaker001:] I'm from Oklahoma and then I've been in Texas for a long time but uh
[speaker002:] Oklahoma uh-huh so you've had you you know Tex-Mex and that kind of thing I
[speaker001:] oh yeah definitely now see I love stuff like that but and a lot of it I will eat but there's ingredients sometimes that I'm just like I don't even know what that is
[speaker002:] yeah yeah yeah well I had never had chili in my whole life until I moved down to Texas and I had Connecticut and I had never even tasted chili and I moved down here and
[speaker001:] where are you from oh wow
[speaker002:] it's hysterical because my kids have to have a refried bean fix at least once a week you know and it's like a week has gone by and we haven't had
[speaker001:] oh yeah
[speaker002:] fajitas or or something and and I just laugh and laugh my family would die if they knew all these things my kids were eating
[speaker001:] oh yeah  how funny
[speaker002:] that is funny that is funny
[speaker001:] yeah we've always always had southern foods but uh mother my mother is from the deep south and so she would do like the hominy and grits and stuff and I couldn't do that
[speaker002:] oh really no no no I don't think I would I would care for that but you know what I recently discovered there's something um at the grocery store it's called Cajun Magic
[speaker001:] no oh really
[speaker002:] and it's like in the gourmet section of the grocery store it's on the bottom shelf and and it's um
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] um uh like red beans and rice with all the spices already in it and all you have to do is add water and and cook it and it is so good
[speaker001:] ooh that does sound good
[speaker002:] it is good it is good and it's called Cajun Magic and I'm sure you could probably you know I buy I buy it at Albertson's
[speaker001:] okay I'll have to look for that yeah
[speaker002:] and um that's wonderful
[speaker001:] huh and it's in the gourmet section
[speaker002:] well you know where they have those kind of hard to find items you know the the real funny mustards and and that spices and things like that and that's that's where they have it at Albertson's and it's really good I like
[speaker001:] yeah yeah huh so your kids aren't picky eaters
[speaker002:] easy I have a daughter who will eat everything and a son who will eat nothing so as a matter of fact she's babysitting tonight and she called and she said
[speaker001:] oh
[speaker002:] mom they had the most wonderful dinner it was Hamburger Helper and it's delicious
[speaker001:] how funny
[speaker002:] and I laughed
[speaker001:] well that's what when I got married um both my husband and I had been living separately so my girlfriend wanted to give me uh a wine shower where people brought recipes
[speaker002:] what a neat idea
[speaker001:] yeah it was really neat because they brought the bottle of wine and then they brought a recipe that went with the bottle of wine
[speaker002:] oh how nice
[speaker001:] and one of my girlfriends brought a really nice bottle of wine and she had written down the number to Domino's Pizza
[speaker002:] I love it I love it when I worked one time we had a thing where we had uh uh luncheon and everybody had to bring a dish and somebody
[speaker001:] oh yeah
[speaker002:] gave directions to a to a bakery you know turn left on Campbell Road and right on you know and that was cute that was cute
[speaker001:] yeah well desserts are definitely a weakness but uh oh I love them and I'm definitely a chocoholic but I found something it's a white chocolate mousse cake
[speaker002:] do you like desserts oh
[speaker001:] that is just heaven
[speaker002:] is it wonderful
[speaker001:] yeah but I wouldn't even know how to begin to make it
[speaker002:] oh oh
[speaker001:] but I need to definitely find the recipe and at least attempt it because it it's so good
[speaker002:] oh I would love that I I like
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] I'm not crazy about sweets but I really have a passion for cakes any kind of cake I I really like chocolate cake and um apple cake
[speaker001:] um yeah ooh I've never had apple cake
[speaker002:] love apple cake oh I love apple cake or spice cake something like that yeah yeah I really like that
[speaker001:] yeah yeah especially in the morning that's really good then
[speaker002:] um-hum yeah it is yeah it is
[speaker001:] um well I'm getting hungry now
[speaker002:] and I just got done with dinner so um we had beef ribs and a potato casserole and a salad yeah I do I well
[speaker001:] oh really what did you fix um God you really are a cook
[speaker002:] you know it was so funny when I was when I was reading the things and they said you know checkoff different categories that you could talk about I thought food I could talk about food have you not eaten yet tonight
[speaker001:] well I I did I went to the doctor the other day and my cholesterol is really high and so he's putting me on a special diet on Tuesday and that's what when the category came up tonight I thought oh God I'm so glad this is tonight and not next week because
[speaker002:] oh oh
[speaker001:] um he's putting me on a liquid protein diet and so
[speaker002:] oh really was your was your cholesterol that high
[speaker001:] it was two forty and I'm only twenty nine years old
[speaker002:] hum
[speaker001:] so he said let's bring that down so he's putting me on some liquid protein and I'm not doing to be able to eat for two weeks
[speaker002:] really
[speaker001:] yeah so
[speaker002:] really wow
[speaker001:] yeah I kept telling my husband while a go
[speaker002:] is two forty really that high though
[speaker001:] it is for for me and my age bracket
[speaker002:] yeah yeah
[speaker001:] um so I think it's supposed to be one eighty and he thought two forty was a little bit high for me
[speaker002:] you know what I just recently got um a cookbook it's it's the oh what's the name of it uh Love Your Heart
[speaker001:] oh really
[speaker002:] cookbook it's a low cholesterol cookbook and then I got the American Heart Association cookbook now this is not Southern Living
[speaker001:] huh yeah
[speaker002:] yeah lots of yogurt and stuff like that but if you go to like the Bookstop do you have one of those in Carrollton
[speaker001:] yeah uh-huh yeah
[speaker002:] um they have lots and lots of of uh cookbooks with low cholesterol recipes
[speaker001:] huh yeah
[speaker002:] and uh I every once in a while I get real ambitious and I think okay I'm going to do all this wonderful stuff and then that lasts for about a week and then I'm like give me the blue cheese dressing
[speaker001:] yeah  I want a burrito
[speaker002:] yeah yeah give me some more refried beans have you have you tried
[speaker001:] well it's like like Oprah Winfrey says every once in a while you've just got to have ribs
[speaker002:] oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah have you tried the the no fat no cholesterol dressings like the Kraft
[speaker001:] yeah I I've tried them
[speaker002:] the Italian is the Italian is not bad
[speaker001:] well see that that's part of my problem though it goes back to being such a picky eater the only one I like is Ranch which is like the worst as far as cholesterol goes so
[speaker002:] oh yeah and does it take have you tried that is it terrible
[speaker001:] um I haven't tried the new ones that Heart Smart or not
[speaker002:] heartwise or heart yeah
[speaker001:] I haven't tried the the newest one yet so what I've been trying to do is just cutback because I just recently even started eating dressing and the only one I like like I said is Ranch