[speaker001:] okay well I I I guess if I was having a dinner party I depending on the number of people I might cook a like a brisket or a roast or a maybe a chicken dish
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and um I guess I usually plan probably a lettuce salad and a a potato dish and we usually serve fresh fruit and uh then make a dessert
[speaker002:] oh that sounds good
[speaker001:] so that makes
[speaker002:] um we're not uh real wealthy at the moment last time I had people over for dinner we had lasagna and I used my mother's recipe I really like it it's got um you cook the noodles and make and brown hamburger and put tomato sauce in with it and I'm not sure she even puts must be some Italian spices in there I can't remember but um for the cheese part you mix uh sour cream and cream cheese and cottage cheese
[speaker001:] well that sounds good
[speaker002:] and uh layer all that and it's good and then then uh uh tossed salad and
[speaker001:] that sounds good
[speaker002:] and um oh my goodness Diane get down from there and uh let's see what else did I serve with that corn yeah I made French bread with that one too I have a recipe that's pretty good for that
[speaker001:] bread do you have bread to go with it gosh
[speaker002:] so
[speaker001:] oh well lasagna's always wonderful for large crowds
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] I've heard you know I've heard a lot of people say uh it short cut on the cooking for lasagna they they've told me that they go to Sam's and buy a great big pan of lasagna
[speaker002:] I've heard that Sam's has a really good lasagna
[speaker001:] so
[speaker002:] in in fact I think I had it at a at a party once it was good yeah
[speaker001:] did you well I I know people that have have served it and they say gosh if you have company coming
[speaker002:] easy
[speaker001:] where you don't want to be always in the kitchen it's easy and she said it's they said it's good so that that's always sounds good to me um I feel like I feel like I'm in the kitchen cooking a lot
[speaker002:] yeah yeah
[speaker001:] I cook guess I cook a seems seems like I cook a lot of dinners so uh not always for company just for just for family
[speaker002:] oh I know oh yeah
[speaker001:] so feels like I'm often in the kitchen
[speaker002:] not my favorite place but
[speaker001:] but a time consuming place to be
[speaker002:] a necessity
[speaker001:] yeah right right so what
[speaker002:] let's see what else do we like to have for trying to think what else I like to serve my mother likes to serve taco grandes
[speaker001:] no I don't know what that is no I don't know what that is
[speaker002:] have you ever had that you take a flour tortilla and you fry it like a taco shell and you uh for all the inside parts you brown hamburger and put some um
[speaker001:] okay right
[speaker002:] tomato sauce in it and and I like to just add Picante sauce to get the Mexican flavor so you don't have to mess with spices and stuff and then um
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] let's see and then and you heat up refried beans and you cut up tomatoes and lettuce and grated cheese and what you do to make it you take the shell and you spread the beans on first then you put the meat then you put the grated cheese and then you put um see what's next then and I I usually put the cut up tomatoes next and then the um
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] lettuce and you can put uh like guacamole and Katy I'm on the phone well get a towel or go change I'm on the phone um oh a little sour cream is good and and chopped olives
[speaker001:] right right do you like to make your own guacamole
[speaker002:] uh yeah
[speaker001:] yeah we've we don't make it very often I guess but uh
[speaker002:] no no I don't very often usually when we get avocados my kids just like to eat them plain so it yeah I just cut slices off and I like an avocado sandwich too
[speaker001:] oh do they gosh oh gosh oh that's good that's good or it's always good on top of something in the sandwich
[speaker002:] yeah yeah
[speaker001:] oh well we made I made guacamole that I would take to a pool party across the street the other day and and everyone there said they never made guacamole salad
[speaker002:] what you want uh where do they get it
[speaker001:] so well I don't know I guess they don't have it at home
[speaker002:] I can't imagine it would stay fresh long enough to I guess they just buy it at a restaurant when they eat it at a restaurant maybe
[speaker001:] they must they just said they never had it at home so I I was concerned that I oh taking this you know taking this as a dip I thought gosh you know sometimes when we have it at home it it turns dark on the top so quickly so I just
[speaker002:] yeah it helps if you it helps if you leave the pit in it
[speaker001:] oh does that help
[speaker002:] yeah if you leave the pit in the bowl with the thing especially while you're waiting before you serve it
[speaker001:] okay well
[speaker002:] that's supposed to help keep the um keep it from turning brown so quick
[speaker001:] well I'll have to remember that well I just I that day I just took extra lemon and just squeezed across the top and it really stayed longer than I ever thought it would so I thought maybe that was the trick
[speaker002:] oh oh that's good that probably helps too
[speaker001:] yeah yeah so oh well I guess we bought a lot of we've been buying turkey lately instead of beef so even though you know the ground turkey it's
[speaker002:] do you want it oh yeah we have too
[speaker001:] the meat is softer and I everybody seems to like it so
[speaker002:] do you want scrambled
[speaker001:] we've most sometimes it seems to be cheaper too so we often buy the we buy the
[speaker002:] yeah yeah if you get it on sale
[speaker001:] yeah yeah so we bought that or we bought the the fillets and then the chicken or turkey nuggets and I don't think anybody in my house knows the difference unless you tell them so or in
[speaker002:] yeah yeah I don't think mine know either in fact we've been getting lunch meat that's turkey too it costs less than the other and I don't know there's supposed to be something more healthy about it poultry instead of the beef and
[speaker001:] yeah yeah less cholesterol less cholesterol yeah right right well I guess that's probably all we need to do for today
[speaker002:] pork yeah yeah I I can't think of any other specific things I like to serve um
[speaker001:] I always like dessert
[speaker002:] one sa lad that we always like my sister-in-law always brings to family dinners is a I don't know what you call it uh you mix um cottage cheese and a package of JELL-O and a thing of uh like CoolWhip
[speaker001:] right right that's always good probably probably the only family recipe that we
[speaker002:] that's good and quick and easy
[speaker001:] we make and it's really for special occasions is cheese cake and we take a recipe from my grandmother and um
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] it's probably fairly typical cream cheese and egg and sugar in the insides but the