“Mike and Fran Unrehearsed”
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We are thrilled to announce the fourth season of “Mike & Fran Unrehearsed” a radio show featuring me, Mike and Fran, my Mom. “Mike & Fran Unrehearsed” is a bi-weekly internet radio show now on BuzzSprout in addition to weekly broadcasts of "Mike & Fran Unrehearsed" on Monday mornings at 7:30am on www.216TheNet.com "REAL LIFE RADIO".
What do Mike & Fran talk about ? What do we not talk about would be an easier question. Let’s say you go to the beach with your Mom and share a couple of Pina Colada’s .. and chat for 2-3hrs or so .. and record the best 30min of that conversation. It’s really that simple .. Solving all the world’s problems .. in 30 minutes or less.
We will chat all about our take on current events, TV Shows, Movies and award shows .. and don’t forget our favorite pass time .. watching Tennis! Their interesting personalities, and the Drama of a professional Tennis player including a wardrobe critique and ensuring that the folks in the stands are not left out of the conversation.
Mom, the eldest out of six, grew up in Eugene, Oregon, put herself through school at the University of Oregon, yes, Mom is an Oregon Duck. Mom was born Jan 26th, 1927 and has vivid memories of her past with entertaining stories that are hard to believe. Needless to say, we are never at a loss for words. As a retired school teacher, Mom is amazing at solving her daily crossword puzzle and will keep her son Michael in line with “proper english usage” ha! Mom has been known to tie the shoelaces together of one of her problem students, then had to carry him out under her arm for recess! Those were the days!
Mike is a former engineer who is now a modern day renaissance man with many interests including: Acting, Violin, Guitar, Fine dining, and Doctor with play by play stories as a care giver for Mom. Mike has been employed in many areas such as: Grill man at McDonald’s, Model, Spokesperson, School of Barbizon Modeling Instructor, Actor in short films & commercials, Talent Manager, Manufactures Rep, Product Specialist, English as a second language Instructor, Taste Tester, Cryptocurrency investor and Uber driver. .. to name a few!
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“Mike and Fran Unrehearsed”
Celebrating New Beginnings: Resolutions, Tennis, and a Taco Party for Fran at 98!
One, two, three is Mike.
Speaker 2:Hello, this is Fran.
Speaker 1:And this is Mike and Fran Unrehearsed, season 4, episode 1. Ladies and gentlemen, I want to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. A very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. This is January 3rd 2025, and we're kicking off the new year with a brand new season of Mike and Fran Unrehearsed, where you can listen to Mike and Fran talking about everything under the sun on 216, the Net real-life internet radio, at 7 30 in the morning on Monday mornings, and if you miss us, you can go to mikeandfranradiocom. So Mike and Fran Unrehearsed is a show that you can now listen to us on TuneIn, apple Music and Anchor FM, featuring my mom, fran, the oldest podcaster in the world, soon to be 98 years old, january 26. Wow, happy birthday, mom.
Speaker 2:Thank you.
Speaker 1:We're going to have a little bit of a party with our family and it's going to be really nice. And guess what Mom wants to have for her birthday? Tacos. Ladies and gentlemen, I love tacos. It's simple, it's easy, easy, it's great. Yeah, everybody likes them. So, guys, uh got a couple things we want to talk about for the new year that we want to try to do. I know you probably have things that you want to do too, but we're not going to get crazy about it, because mom was just telling me today that these new year resolutions aren't not quite cracked up to what they used to be right.
Speaker 1:No what do you say A lot of?
Speaker 2:people aren't making resolutions.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, because they don't keep them right.
Speaker 2:Well, I just said one automatically was to be kinder and to be more patient. Yeah, wow I think that's something you can try to change in yourself.
Speaker 1:You mean me personally. I think that's something you can try to change in yourself. You mean me personally? I don't know. You've got your own problems. You take care of them. This is mine on getting regular exercise, and I have to pump it up in that area because, guess what, since it's been cold out, I haven't been playing tennis and I haven't been playing pickleball. I could have, I could have joined a club where they played during the winter, but I haven't done that yet. So I gotta get started on something, because you know it's kind of like you snooze, you lose. You just got to remain active. I mean, that's what our doctors always tell us Just keep moving, just do something. I want to get you to the pool, actually, and Lisa probably wants to do that too.
Speaker 2:Well, that'll be a great day when I get in the pool.
Speaker 1:You think that'll happen?
Speaker 2:No, I need a new bathing suit. I don't know. Well, let's talk about that Let me think about it.
Speaker 1:I mean, can't you just go in there with some shorts on and a?
Speaker 2:bathing suit, top or something.
Speaker 1:Can't they make something easier to slip in and out of for somebody your age, you know? It doesn't have to be like a skin bone tight kind of thing. I don't know. Something to look into right.
Speaker 2:We'll see. I don't even know where my suits are.
Speaker 1:Well, let's look, let's look this week, if all we need to do is just get you in the water and you can walk back and forth a little bit.
Speaker 2:True, that is good exercise, that would be good and I could swim over there.
Speaker 1:Lisa can swim. I mean we've got the indoor pool, We've got a hot tub over there.
Speaker 2:I'll say we will see.
Speaker 1:Let's try to do that, okay, all right.
Speaker 2:All I know is today is the first time that I can remember standing up and screaming.
Speaker 1:Why is that?
Speaker 2:Well, I mean going on 98, I usually don't have that much exuberance about things now, exuberance.
Speaker 1:I'm sort of calmer and take them in stride.
Speaker 2:Exuberance but today, when the Bears made a 94-yard touchdown, I put my hands above my head and screamed like I was a kid again. Wow Could not believe it. It was so marvelous, so happy to see that happen. And then again at the end, when the quarterback what's his name?
Speaker 1:Caleb Williams, caleb Williams. No, that was the quarterback, that's the quarterback. No, when the kicker, that's the kicker.
Speaker 2:I'm talking about the kicker.
Speaker 1:Whatever when they did what.
Speaker 2:When the kicker made it and then ran back shaking his arms, I screamed again and the Bears won.
Speaker 1:Wow.
Speaker 2:It was just made you feel good that they finally did it. Even though it was the last game, that was an interesting football game from beginning to end for me.
Speaker 1:They're 5-14. They lost 10 in a row. It was a miserable year. That was supposed to be so spectacular and a lot of things didn't go right. We lost our coach. He fired him.
Speaker 2:I only looked at today.
Speaker 1:So at least they ended on a high note, and we will see what happens for next year.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:So you know what are you going to do, but you were watching your Oregon Ducks. Now I want to ask you guys how many of you guys know somebody that's an Oregon Duck? Because that would mean that you went to University of Oregon.
Speaker 2:Well, a lot of people have gone to the University of Oregon.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:But two of my nieces and their husbands went to the Rose Bowl, but when they were playing in the Rose Bowl I was sitting here wearing my shirt of 1995, when I went to the Rose Bowl then to see Oregon play. Yeah Of course we didn't win. Then, 1995, when I went to the Rose Bowl then to see Oregon play, of course we didn't win then and I, oh that busy place, big place, pasadena.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:And they sent me all the pictures of the dunk and of the game and of the seats and et cetera. But it was a great experience when I was there in 1995.
Speaker 1:Oh, absolutely. I mean, we watched the parade this year. Oh, I watched.
Speaker 2:I missed out on the parade when I went to Pasadena. We got there too late. Half of my family flew down earlier and then went to the parade. I drove down from Portland Well, I didn't drive, I rode down from Portland with my brother-in-law and sister. So we got there too late for the parade. So I finally watched the parade again this year. I hadn't watched it in ages it was great. I marveled at those beautiful floats and the flowers.
Speaker 1:Put a lot of work into that.
Speaker 2:The leaves and the vines and how they did this.
Speaker 1:It was pretty impressive.
Speaker 2:It was marvelous.
Speaker 1:So anyway, as far as football goes, we'll wait until next year.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and Oregon. You know Super Bowl's coming up First time.
Speaker 1:We've been watching, you know, other football, because there's a lot of teams out there that are pretty good and we've seen some really, really good games, like on Thursday night, monday night, and what I'll do is I'll watch it, sometimes in the garage with my friend Steve, so that I can have a cigar while I watch football a little bit. And then mom's been getting down on me now because I'm not supposed to have a cigar every day, you know. I mean like once a week maybe what do you think?
Speaker 1:once a week, once a month, once a year, I mean once in a while?
Speaker 2:you know it's okay, once in a while, it shouldn't be every day, no no, you're right that's smoking you're right.
Speaker 1:you're right, I gotta, I gotta get away from that. But. But there's nothing better than sitting it down with a little drink, and the drink that I prefer to have is a drink called a Godfather. So it's a shot and a half of scotch and a shot of Amaretto on ice, and you just slowly sip that with a cigar and you're in heaven, and that's all you need sometimes that's not my life.
Speaker 2:I grew up in a family no alcohol. I don't want that to be your life.
Speaker 1:Okay, so it has nothing to do with you at all my background is so different that I don't really care for the drinking good, but that's what I like once in a while. That's what I like I know you I'm not asking you.
Speaker 2:I have an Italian husband who likes to drink.
Speaker 1:I'm not asking you to have a cigar and a glass of whiskey. I don't think I would like that if my mom did that, okay. Okay, I'm just saying, every once in a while, these small little pleasures that you get in life once in a while, that's what I like. All right, it makes me happy.
Speaker 2:That's why we live.
Speaker 1:It makes me level-headed and gets me looking forward to the next day. Okay, so every once in a while I'm going to try, not to do it every day, every couple of weeks or something like that. Okay. So that's what I'll try to do. But what I'm saying is I have like five little TVs now so I could watch in there. I put a tv in the dining room so that I could watch the recipes when I'm cooking things, and that's kind of fun, and then I'll watch football in there, and then I'll bring that one in the garage because it's really cold out now, like like 30 degrees, 26 degrees well, it's nine at night.
Speaker 1:I'll put this, I'll put the space heater out there and we could actually have a cigar in the garage. If it's like maybe 35, 36, it's okay, but if it's like 20 or 17, it's damn damn cold. It's just too cold for even that heater.
Speaker 2:This is something you get pleasure from. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I used to get great pleasure from watching the Golden Globes or the Academy Awards, like that. I knew the actors, I knew the movies, blah, blah, blah. Tonight we watched the Golden Globes and I think 90% I didn't know the people. My gosh, and then it came to the people no, my gosh, no, no. And then it came to the features I never heard of. Oh gosh, Brutality. I think it was Brutality.
Speaker 1:Baby.
Speaker 2:Reindeer.
Speaker 1:Baby Reindeer.
Speaker 2:I never watched any of these, no, I never even heard of some of them. And just so many different people. There were a few that I did know. Yes, harrison Ford was there. Angelina Jolie, oh, a lot more that you knew. The Kates, cate Blanchett, kate Winslet, but the majority were young people Adrian Brody. Oh, yes, but you never even heard of so many.
Speaker 1:That guy's got a nose on him, doesn't he Did? You see that guy?
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, but he's a good actor.
Speaker 1:His mom and dad were there and I'm looking at his mom and dad going. Which one has the nose and you know who it was.
Speaker 2:His dad.
Speaker 1:The mom.
Speaker 2:Oh, I didn't see the parents really I. Oh, I didn't see the parents really, I'm just guessing.
Speaker 1:If I were him, I'd have something done with that nose. Yeah, you could like make it a little smaller.
Speaker 2:I'm just saying.
Speaker 1:But I just felt like Let me just say this he is a very good actor, okay, and I think he's Armenian or something.
Speaker 2:I don't remember or.
Speaker 1:Romanian or something, and they came over here and and, uh, you know, he started acting, but he actually did something else he's a, he's a painter, he's an artist well, he took some time off to be an artist, that's right, I didn't know what was very creative what was interesting to me about the golden globes is they did.
Speaker 1:They always do something a little different. Okay, they show you the four people that are coming up that they're going to talk about after the commercial break, but they're also going to give you a little bit of inside information about each person that's going up there winning an award and a little text on the bottom Now they don't normally do that that was different. That was kind of interesting.
Speaker 2:That was very interesting, that was different.
Speaker 1:I thought that was interesting Anyway. But yeah, half of that stuff, more than half of that, I don't even know what they're talking about.
Speaker 2:Well, if they had asked me about tennis, yeah. I watch tennis so much I would have known everything about tennis, that's right. That was just not my field.
Speaker 1:Yep, I watch tennis sports things, but Well, you and I both.
Speaker 2:Give me tennis and ask me about who played this game. Who won Wimbledon or Aussie Open when they are.
Speaker 1:I know all of that. Okay, so right now they're working up to the Australian Open.
Speaker 2:Yes on the, I think the 11th.
Speaker 1:Next week something, yeah, and they're doing all these little smaller ones like in Sydney and Brisbane, auckland, new Zealand yeah, smaller ones. Right, right, right, like four or five. Now, if you live in Australia, from what I understand, you have to play tennis. I mean, everybody plays tennis.
Speaker 2:In my mind, Australia has always been big in tennis.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah. In my mind Always always, and so that's why they have all these little, you know, smaller venues. And then they have the Australian Open, and we'll see what happens. So that'll be the first big one of the year the Australian Open.
Speaker 2:Yes, and I used to love to play tennis. I was good at tennis, I love tennis.
Speaker 1:I miss it now because I haven't played since, like you know, I don't know, september or something like that, october, I don't know, it gets cold out, you can't play. So there are people that are playing very close by. It's a racquet club in Crystal Lake and they go there and I should just start going and showing up and checking it out. But I've been kind of tongue-tied for time, you know, dropping Lisa off for the classes she's going to and this and that back and forth. And you know, I'm glad that she's real enthusiastic about it and I think she really wants to get better. And I just hope to hell that she does real enthusiastic about it and I think she's really wants to get better and I just hope the hell that she does, you know, I mean, but there's silly like today, there's silly things. She'll take the butter and put it over here and I'm like we always put it over here and I'm like, okay, whatever, I guess it'll all work itself out. Time will will tell right, that's about all I can say about that, okay, well, I have to say that this holiday season I think I went all out with the decorations and it didn't start out that way. It didn't start out that way, because usually I go out around December 1st and I pick up a you know eight-foot tree of Douglas fir, frasian fir, either at Home Depot or Menards. And I think last year I went to Menards and I was real happy. It was fresh, I drank some water, it lasted well through the Christmas holidays and we're good to go.
Speaker 1:This year I happened to be up here and I said, well, I'm closer to Home Depot, let's see what they got. I wound up getting a noble fir because it was you know the right shape Fraser fir, similar kind of tree. I got it home, I put water in it in the garage, didn't drink a drop, not a drop. The thing was, you know, a month old when I picked it up. It was terrible, but you don't know that when you pick up a tree. So I put the thing in the stand and all the branches go down. You can't even see the trunk on the thing.
Speaker 1:I started wrapping it up with lights. I had a swirly light on there and it was not enough lights and I go you know what, I'm going to just pile them up on the bottom. I bought more lights. I think I've got 150 lights on the tree. I got some new ornaments and I learned something that if you put a ton of lights on it, you can make any tree look good. And that's basically what it looks nice Because it looks like a solid tree. You know it looks nice. Don't touch it, because it's very brittle. You just touch one of those little branches and it falls right off.
Speaker 2:Well, it goes up to the ceiling. You had to cut a little bit off.
Speaker 1:Well, let's just back up. So this is the first year that we had this other furniture in the family room and we usually move it around and put the tree by the window. And it just wasn't going to work. Because if you ever go to, like costco and you see one of those big palm trees there and you say that would be really nice to have at home, you bought one and then you get one and that thing has a big pot on the bottom and you can't move it's about 10 feet tall you can't move that thing no so that's not going to move.
Speaker 1:So I'm thinking and that's where we put the christmas tree you're saying move the chair over here and there, and it's just me and he can't move the plant.
Speaker 2:I can't by himself.
Speaker 1:So we look at the front room here. That that actually used to be a dining room at one time you know the den now and and I just said, well, let's put it in that room. And I'm silly, and I get the tree and I put it in the middle of the room and I'm like, well, that's fine, but there's no room around here, I go, let's just push it in front of the window. But remember that has an ordinary ceiling.
Speaker 2:Our living room, where we used to put it, is a two-story ceiling.
Speaker 1:You don't have to remind me Mother.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I know, because I had to clip the top of it to get it over there.
Speaker 2:I know, so top of it to get it over there.
Speaker 1:So what that tells me is, if we put up a tree in the window next year, I don't have to get an eight or nine foot tree because it won't fit in there. I can get a smaller tree, you know, and that and that'll be fine, because if you, if you have a great room, that's like 24 feet ceiling oh, ours is high you, you, you want to put a tree in there we've had 10 or 12 in here but you want to put a tree in there that fills some of the room.
Speaker 1:You know, I mean, I remember, I remember a big, tall, 10, 12-foot tree falling down because I didn't have the right stand. In the middle of the night you hear this thing crash. I got a good stand. Now it's a solid, you know, like a steel canned, welded to a huge x. It's like I like to say it's german engineered. Okay, because it's it's meant to hold a tree, a tall tree. So anyway, next year, if we put a tree in the window, I get a smaller tree. It'll look nice. And I'm not gonna go to home depot, I'm gonna go to menards, because I've been going to Menards now for a lot of things. I got the lights. I'm looking at the decorations. We we used to have like a deer, you know, you know like uh, you know Rudolph out in front of the house and they all fell apart. And I'm looking at they had at Menards and it was like 40% off. And I go, I go I go.
Speaker 1:Do you still have those?
Speaker 2:and a baby. That's right, three of them. He came home with three deer and I go do you still have those, Mama, Papa and a baby? That's right three of them he came home with three deer.
Speaker 1:And I'm thinking, well, that would be pretty nice and it was right before Christmas and I go. Are they going to go down anymore? She goes, come back on Saturday and they'll be 50% off, so for like 60 bucks. I got three of them and I think they're great. It's shimmering. I got three of them and I think they're great. It's shimmering, it's got a little mirror kind of on it.
Speaker 2:They're very stylistic, they're stylistic.
Speaker 1:I put them out front, I kind of put the mom and the dad together and then the kid kind of running away and being a kid and the mom was looking back at the kid. But first we had them in our living room for a couple of days lit up on the side of the television because he was so proud of him he wanted to show everybody.
Speaker 2:That's right, then they finally went outside and are In our front, past the entranceway.
Speaker 1:Well, I wanted to show them to you so I thought they were pretty cool. So, yeah, they flash and you know they light up and blink and stuff like that. So that was cool. And then the other lights that I used to put on the tree I put in the backyard around the banister so you can see that through the you know, the sliding glass door back there. And then I put some extra ones in the front and so I went out, put more lights up than I usually do and I like it. But I want to make sure to get a tree that's fresh, because if it doesn't drink any water when you get it home, it's been sitting around for months and I was shocked, because you can't tell when you buy a tree if it's fresh or not. You can feel it, you can touch it, but when you get it home you do a cut on it. It doesn't do any good if it's been dead for a while.
Speaker 2:Well, outside of the tree business All right.
Speaker 1:So we got the tree. It looked good, and then we were going to figure out what to eat. So we usually have ham. I was going to say you did a great job of cooking. Well, we, we got the ham at uh, I like to get it at costco. I got the biggest ham I could. It was about 20 pounds and what was what was key about warming up the ham is to not overcook it. Don't don't heat it up too much, because it starts drying and curling up. And I use the thermometer and I think it had to be like I don't know, I think it had to be like I don't know. I think it was like 120 degrees or something like that, and when it reached that it's good to go, and when you do that, the ham tastes beautiful. It was really nice cut of ham and then, uh, it was spiral ham and you know we ate a little part.
Speaker 1:And then we had ham and some other things that we made, but we also made what we made scallop potatoes well, we made scallop potatoes I got tired of the baked ones ham and scallop potatoes go together pretty good and they did turn out okay. But I liked it but mom, mom said during the meal we had 15 people here she goes, these scallop potatoes were better three days ago and I and I'm like mom, make sure you say that really loud, right before somebody puts it in their mouth and they're going to go. Oh, they're not as good, are they?
Speaker 2:Because she's telling me, they were not as good. Well, lisa, I and you made eggplant parmesan. Yeah, three cooks don't do as well as one. Wow, too many people in there. It wasn't as good as it usually was the problem with eggplant parmesan.
Speaker 1:You can't make it like once every two years and expect it to come out perfect well, mine always used to okay when I did it by myself well, we had too many people. The the other thing is we don't fry it in the pan with the oil anymore.
Speaker 2:We cooked it in the air fryer well, I like it better fried it gives a different taste it doesn't have as much taste at all in the eggplant okay okay, but it can still work.
Speaker 1:It could still work. So the problem that we had is we were a little bit uh, you know the gravy, wasn't uh gravy gravy was a little thicker than it usually is so, so I didn't know that, so I could have thinned it out. But the biggest problem, was the disconnection we had on how long you're supposed to cook it, Because when you told me something it sounded like 525 for a half hour, I know, I know, and it was actually like 325 for a half hour and I had it at 400 for the other stuff.
Speaker 2:No, it was 325.
Speaker 1:So we cooked it too much or whatever. Yeah, it still tastes like eggplant parmesan, but we it burned a little bit on the top and then we cut that off and now we have like, uh, you know, 10 little, uh miniature containers now of eggplant parmesan. So so what we'll do is we'll try to make it again in a little bit and then make it nice and make it good, and I think it'll be enjoyable because it's still tasty. We put plenty of cheese in there and gravy and everything.
Speaker 2:Well, that used to be my speciality, so to speak.
Speaker 1:It was always so good.
Speaker 2:It is good we also had an Italian tossed salad with everything in it. Michael made the soup.
Speaker 1:Well, what we usually put in the salad is extras. We put in artichokes. I usually put those in only for the holidays, you know, the artichokes hearts.
Speaker 2:Oh, and olives and onions, all that's regular stuff. Peppers and all that that's regular.
Speaker 1:Put Italian dressing, mix it up. In fact, we're still eating on the salad that we had, because we don't mind having it the next day. It's okay with us. It's kind of like pickled salad now, but that's fine. So the other thing that I like to make is escarole soup.
Speaker 2:Oh, that is delicious.
Speaker 1:And this is from Giada De Laurentiis, her recipe, and I add a little bit of Italian sausage to it and I think it comes out pretty good, the kids? Like it and I'm always torn because I want to make it more liquidy. But if you put more liquid in it you lose the flavoring from the escarole. You send it down too much, yeah, so I'm always kind of torn, but I don't want it real thick, but I want it thin, but I want to put more escarole in there, so that turned out pretty good.
Speaker 2:And we also had the cranberry and pineapple casserole. That's right, and Linda brought a broccoli casserole.
Speaker 1:So we were good, we covered all the bases. So that was christmas. Now, new year's was a smaller party.
Speaker 2:Uh oh, you went out and bought that expensive meat.
Speaker 1:I went online and I'm looking for, like what's some, some new ideas for new year's eve dinner and I saw, uh, beef wellington, and it looked so this is beef tenderloin. So if you ever go out and buy beef tenderloin you're spending $14 a pound, or whatever. You go to Costco they got a four or five pound one, this big long piece of meat, for like 180 bucks. And I'm like I don't think. So I go, I go, I'm thinking, well, maybe I picked the wrong thing to make you know. And then I went to Jewel and I wound up getting one for about 75 bucks, because because if you look at a beef tenderloin, it's nice and round like a log, but if it gets real narrow on the end it's going to get well done when you cook that you're going to have to like cook it separately. So I tried to get one that was kind of uniform and I went to like you know two or three different stores and I go okay, 75 bucks, that's what I'm going to get. So we wound up cooking, you know, two pieces of it and I learned a few things. That really wasn't that bad.
Speaker 1:I tell people I made beef tendon like, oh, that has pastry out of it. That's pretty hard. It's not really that hard, you know. You chop up the mushrooms, you fry them up with some onions, some garlic, you know a little wine in there, and then what you do is you lay out cellophane and then you put prosciutto all down on the cellophane, you put the mushrooms on that, so you make a bed of the mushrooms mushrooms, and then you sear the meat in the pan and then you put, uh, brown mustard, or or uh, what is it? Dijon, uh, mustard, brown mustard, what is it, what do you call it?
Speaker 2:I don't know.
Speaker 1:I wasn't in there when you did it yeah, you put brown mustard on it and then you wrap it up and put it in the fridge for like a half hour and then you roll it up. And you roll it up and then you put the pastry, you put it in the pastry and you roll that up and you tie it up like it's a Christmas present or something, and then you just bake it for like a half hour at 400, and it's good to go. 120 degrees is really rare, but 140 degrees is perfect. So I know how to make that now and it wasn't that bad. So I cut them into individual slices so you can just, you know, have a piece for lunch or whatever, and I use the electric knife, because if you start cutting that with a knife it doesn't work that well.
Speaker 1:Anyway, now everybody's hungry and they want to have some beef wellington, because now they know how to make it right. So I I did get invited to uh a christmas party from our choir at uh saint anne's over here. This will be the first official christmas party I go to and I and I said I could make either uh fried rice or maybe escarole soup and I'll see which one she comes up with.
Speaker 1:But we'll see. We'll see how that goes and that should be fun. That should be a lot of fun. Oh, there's one thing I wanted to mention to you guys, that I came across something called Curious Elixirs and they like relax, like relax, restore. They spice things up, give you a boost of energy. It's really cool. I'm gonna try these out. They're non-alcoholic beverages, but it makes you think that you're drinking an alcoholic beverage, so that might be kind of fun. Anyway, I'm gonna give him a shot. What do you think, mom? Good idea, sure? Okay? Well, I guess we're kind of running out of time, folks, so we're gonna say goodbye and have a happy new year with us all goodbye from mike and fran hope our country is safe that's right.
Speaker 1:Let's hope this is that we don't have any more big disasters and let's just say let's hope it's a prosperous year for everybody and we wish everybody all the best, okay, All right. We'll see you soon, goodbye for now. Bye-bye, bye.
Speaker 2:Bye-bye.
Speaker 1:Bye-bye.
Speaker 2:Bye-bye, thank you.