[speaker001:] okay Diane and a very good afternoon to you
[speaker002:] and afternoon good afternoon to you
[speaker001:] do you uh do most of your cooking at home or do you uh have a lot of people come in and have to prepare for them
[speaker002:] um no I do most of my cooking at home and um I could safely say that I have never cooked for a dinner party
[speaker001:] ah my goodness well what would you uh like to cook what's what what what is your favorite uh recipes uh that you would like to have for a dinner party now you're in Dallas is it
[speaker002:] um  uh right I'm in Dallas of course um dinner parties down here probably
[speaker001:] okay
[speaker002:] oh turn out to be more things like barbecues and
[speaker001:] I was I was thinking in terms of Mexican almost Tex-Mex Tex-Mex
[speaker002:] uh-huh yes yeah uh Tex-Mex Tex-Mex uh Mexican food um
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] probably a little bit different than what you serve up in Pennsylvania for a dinner party
[speaker001:] well that's a very interesting food though and when I go out to eat dinner sometimes that's the type of foods I like to find we have uh
[speaker002:] um-hum right
[speaker001:] I think Chico's or or these different restaurants in this area that uh have all those fine Mexican foods but um if I were to cook uh a dinner party
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] uh it may be standard to you but uh actually I never get too much fried chicken
[speaker002:] fried chicken
[speaker001:] but I would have fried chicken um with reasonably hot sauce on it almost a Mexican type thing
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and I love twice cooked potatoes have you ever had twice cooked potatoes
[speaker002:] oh yes I have
[speaker001:] with with the cream made of the the sour cream and cream cheese and uh little oleo and I use uh oregano and maybe dill weed on mixed in with it
[speaker002:] uh-huh right
[speaker001:] and uh I like broccoli casseroles
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] which would include onion and cheese and again more dill weed and some medium hot peppers as you can see I'm inclined towards the Mexican type of a meal
[speaker002:] um-hum right
[speaker001:] and I would probably have some quiet and gentle fried onion rings mixed in there with it too
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] so uh how would you improve upon that
[speaker002:] improve upon that let's see I'd probably put a bunch of fresh vegetables in
[speaker001:] more fresh vegetables included to that
[speaker002:] and some yeah uh green beans and um carrots and things like that
[speaker001:] uh-huh how do you cook your green beans
[speaker002:] my green beans um I just get fresh green beans from the grocery store and snap off the ends and put them in water and steam them for about ten minutes
[speaker001:] um-hum  so you
[speaker002:] and I like to put a little Mrs Dash in with them
[speaker001:] all right that's what I was wondering about what what you use and and and herbs and so forth
[speaker002:] uh-huh right uh-huh um I like to just put a tablespoon or so of Mrs Dash in there and it makes them pretty tasty
[speaker001:] um-hum have you ever tried Chinese type green beans
[speaker002:] the Chinese type are they the real
[speaker001:] we use soy sauce
[speaker002:] no I haven't ever used that
[speaker001:] well you might uh be interested in that have it gives a very delicious taste you you have a soy sauce taste and you also have a little cream sauce in there because you you would use the water and um
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] golly what's this white powder that that uh that you mix with water and gives a thick sauce and I can't even think of the name of that right at the moment
[speaker002:] a white powder um gosh
[speaker001:] anyhow sorry about my mind but uh it does make a nice thick creamy sauce with the green beans and then you have the nice soy sauce taste under it
[speaker002:] that's okay um-hum
[speaker001:] with a few onions in there with it it does it it brings out such a so much different things in uh in the string beans
[speaker002:] um-hum yeah
[speaker001:] I like I like it to try them differently I hardly ever cook them the same way twice
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] just so I can enjoy them so you might uh think about that Chinese
[speaker002:] yeah I might try that
[speaker001:] Chinese cooking actually has a lot of very delicious tastes to them
[speaker002:] oh yes I love Chinese
[speaker001:] and uh north African cooking is good when you use something called couscous
[speaker002:] North African uh-huh
[speaker001:] and that's uh made from uh semolina I think they call it beans and that's the type of something that whatever you mix with it this couscous uh absorbs the taste of whatever else you put in it with it makes a very delicious dish you probably probably have to buy that from specialty stores
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] C O U S C O U S and that's a a north African dish they eat it one to two meals every day in North Africa
[speaker002:] hm
[speaker001:] and it is very very flexible you can do a lot of things with it makes a fantastic uh uh salad with cucumbers and olive oil and onions and oh boy real tasty
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] well I've enjoyed talking with you and I hope I've given you some ideas and uh
[speaker002:] well I've enjoyed talking with you
[speaker001:] that's one thing we can enjoy is good delicious food
[speaker002:] oh yes
[speaker001:] well thank you very much Miss Diane
[speaker002:] okay thank you bye-bye
[speaker001:] bye-bye