[speaker001:] um hello um what is your favorite um food for a dinner party
[speaker002:] um I don't know I I think I make things you know that I do things kind of simple because I I you know I just have close friends over I make like lasagna and uh oh we like to have barbecues outside so you know when the weather's nice because in Texas you have a lot of nice weather so we do a lot of um things like that um I'm not really into gourmet cooking so I don't know how to do that so I don't have gourmet foods
[speaker001:] do you do Tex-Mex
[speaker002:] um yeah you know like fajitas and and stuff like that so
[speaker001:] oh fajitas how do you make fajitas
[speaker002:] um it's kind of like made out of skirt steak and you marinate it
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] you can buy marinating mixes here I don't know if get it up there or you can you know marinate it in any kind of barbecue sauce you like and then you um
[speaker001:] oh
[speaker002:] you quick fry it real fast with in hot hot grease you know not a whole not not deep frying it but you can either barbecue it which is really good
[speaker001:] oh
[speaker002:] with uh green beans not green beans but green peppers and red peppers and onions
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] and um then you put it on a flour like you know you make your meat real um thin you know bite size pieces
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] then you put it on flour tortillas with you know guacamole and um sour cream and you know all kinds of you know kind it's like a Tex-Mex type thing
[speaker001:] oh it sounds good
[speaker002:] it's really good you can do it with chicken too chicken fajitas and stuff
[speaker001:] okay
[speaker002:] so
[speaker001:] well that's nice
[speaker002:] so what kind of cooking do you do up there
[speaker001:] oh well basically um because I lived in the Middle East for a while I tend to fix Middle Eastern foods when I have have people over
[speaker002:] oh that sounds interesting
[speaker001:] and so um some of the dips are like um chick peas mashed with um sesame
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and um called food um what's it called I forgot what it's called anyway and and lemon
[speaker002:] you cook them so often you kind of forget their names yeah yeah
[speaker001:] that's right that's right it's called humus now I remember it and um uh dipping Arabic bread the thin pita bread in that
[speaker002:] oh  uh-huh
[speaker001:] or another dip is made with very similar but with um eggplant which has been actually barbecued it ends up with a barbecued taste although we usually bake it in the oven or if we have uh those of us that have gas stoves bake it on top just by putting it in the gas flame and sort of getting it black on the outside but mushy on the inside
[speaker002:] oh that's unusual I'd never heard of anything like that you know here in Texas it's all you know Tex-Mex cooking and barbecue and they're really big on stuff like that and yeah
[speaker001:] but barbecue is it like steaks or is it uh turkey
[speaker002:] yeah you barbecue steaks pardon me
[speaker001:] would you barbecue a turkey or a chicken or
[speaker002:] oh yeah you can barbecue turkey if you have a big enough grill but my I cook my turkeys inside you know it buy you can buy smoked turkeys
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] and or uh but most the stuff that we barbecue is like steak and chicken and hamburgers hot dogs
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] you know the simple things like that and
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] you know we we like things like that you know barbecue beans or baked beans and
[speaker001:] um-hum I'm sure that uh the chicken that we barbecue from the Middle East has a lemon garlic sauce I wouldn't imagine that a barbecued chicken would
[speaker002:] no no this is more like hickories hickory type you know depending on the barbecue
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] it's like a smokey flavor if you've ever you know had stuff like that yeah it's totally different sounds like it would be interesting to eat some of the Middle Eastern cooking so
[speaker001:] um-hum right right
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] well it's been fun talking to you
[speaker002:] yeah it's been fun it's been nice it's uh you know neat to learn some what different people eat so
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] you get to think you know I come from Wyoming and it's basically the same same type of thing except for you do eat more the Tex-Mex down here so
[speaker001:] uh in Wyoming it would be less spicy
[speaker002:] yeah yeah you you know down there it's just like meat and potatoes you know
[speaker001:] vegetables once in a while
[speaker002:] yeah right
[speaker001:] oh dear
[speaker002:] well it's been interesting to talk to you
[speaker001:] okay very good
[speaker002:] thank you for calling bye-bye
[speaker001:] okay bye-bye