[speaker001:] okay while I was waiting for you to connect I I thought of a couple of menus I decided it'd to be if it's informal or not you know if it was informal I'd probably choose something I mean just like hamburgers or steaks out on the grill
[speaker002:] um-hum um-hum
[speaker001:] because that's a lot of fun especially this time of year where it's so nice out
[speaker002:] yes
[speaker001:] um it was formal I'd probably go with something like a chicken breast or lasagna or something I'm not I'm not into formal dinner parties but
[speaker002:] I see
[speaker001:] I'd probably go with lasagna a green salad and garlic bread
[speaker002:] so what what do you use for cookbooks
[speaker001:] um I have a Pillsbury cookbook I got when I was married but it's kind of the bible of cooking for me then I have some from like church
[speaker002:] um-hum um-hum
[speaker001:] that are more family recipes that are more useful you know budget cookbooks but
[speaker002:] um-hum um-hum
[speaker001:] and of course you get a lot from when you're growing up
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] um I cook a lot the same as as my mom did of course I've added several different recipes but what would you serve or what would you
[speaker002:] right well I I I think we come from from different backgrounds um so the the
[speaker001:] well that's good
[speaker002:] I I I start with different you know have different perspectives that you are I find the Joy of Cooking to be a remarkably useful book to to fall back on because it has almost everything in it
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] but on the other hand it's not very inspiring uh it's a good reference when you need to dig something up
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] what we've find very useful is a a book called The Thirty Minute Cookbook I think that's the title uh by Marion Burrows
[speaker001:] huh
[speaker002:] uh which has recipes which allegedly can all be prepared in thirty minutes you know the whole meal
[speaker001:] yeah that would be wonderful in these times
[speaker002:] and so she's yeah now now I I find that the cutting up of the food and all that really makes it take a little longer than thirty minutes
[speaker001:] yeah either they're really fast or
[speaker002:] but but they're but they're but they're interesting they're interesting menus um
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] combinations that you wouldn't have normally thought of
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] um
[speaker001:] what's one of your favorites
[speaker002:] um gee the one I had most recently was was one that was had she she describes as Jim Beard's favorite um summer menu or something and it consisted of uh grilled kielbasa sausage um a
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] potato salad with olive oil and uh some tomatoes that had been chopped up with onions and curry powder and probably some yogurt was in there
[speaker001:] wow sounds pretty good
[speaker002:] um and that and that was you know that's that that's certain you can do in thirty minutes
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] but there are a whole lot of you know I mean I I would recommend you look at that book if you're if you are a busy person Thirty Minute Cookbook
[speaker001:] yeah those Thirty Minute Cookbook that sounds fun I find a lot of the cookbooks that I don't know that you buy over the counter ask for really strange ingredients or things I don't keep on hand all the time
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and I have young children and our budget's set you know at this time but I want to use simple recipes that I have things on hand I don't have to run to the store to buy
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] or look for something I haven't heard of so that's why sometimes I shy away from uh more of a traditional cookbooks but
[speaker002:] yes yes um-hum
[speaker001:] but well it was interesting talking to you it's a fun subject food is one of my favorite things too
[speaker002:] yes
[speaker001:] anything else you wanted to add
[speaker002:] well you had said dinner you know you know what would I put together for a formal dinner we had we had some friends over as recently as Saturday night and and um
[speaker001:] oh wow um-hum
[speaker002:] put here here the inspiration was a combination of Julia Child for the dessert well you know a chocolate mousse recipe
[speaker001:] um-hum that's good
[speaker002:] and a sort of palate cookbook which has a recipe for a thing called chicken Marabella
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] um which is this wonderful thing you can do um basically you're baking baking chicken in a in an open pan um having marinated it first hand my my wife did this part so I don't remember all the details but it's marinated in olive oil and some seasoning
[speaker001:] uh-huh uh-huh
[speaker002:] um and cooked with some olives and some and some prunes uh there's a little bit of brown sugar in there and it bakes up it's a delicious thing and it's easy
[speaker001:] that sounds good
[speaker002:] comparatively so I
[speaker001:] that sounds really good
[speaker002:] um I'm sorry I just love food
[speaker001:] it sounds like you guys are a little more gourmet than I am I'm pretty simple right now but
[speaker002:] well maybe we had a little more leisure time to do it I don't know
[speaker001:] yeah that's probably that's true I have little ones and we and they won't eat you know too many different foods right now so
[speaker002:] yeah I found my kids were very frustrating when they were little
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] in terms of their tastes
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] on the other hand sometimes it was easy they'd you know canned ravioli was was one of their favorites and so it was easy to
[speaker001:] yeah spaghetti's a pretty staple every other week or so so and it goes a long ways too so
[speaker002:] open a can of ravioli or yes well nice talking to you Cheryl
[speaker001:] all righty we'll talk to you later maybe
[speaker002:] okay bye