May 16, 2024 • 10 mins
We're back with a little extra from Laura Prepon. Laura Prepon answers some rapid fire questions where she reveals her favorite dinnertime recipe and why she has never tried tuna fish.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hello, parenting is a joke. Listeners, Hi, it's o Fira
and I'm back with a little snack for you, a
little little bonus with actor and director Laura Prepon. If
you haven't listened to my full interview with her, do
it now. It is fantastic. I feel like she is
one of the icons of the working mom in entertainment
because she is directing that ninety show and she took
(00:24):
a little time off to talk to me. And she
also has some great advice about meal prep and planning,
which most of us feel is the most loathsome chore
as a parent, just so hard to come up with
new ideas and just get it done over and over again.
So here's our rapid fire conversation about cooking prep and
(00:44):
food preferences. So enjoy. I just want to ask you
some sort of rapid fire questions. Oh you don't have
to answer them rapid, but they're non sequarters. That's what
I need.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Okay, okay.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
What is one of your favorite meals to cook?
Speaker 3 (00:58):
I would say a really incredible homemade soup with my
homemade broth.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Yes, I love like a wedding soup Italian wedding wedding soup.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Or like a riff on, like an albondigas kind of soup.
But I love that kind of soup with a homemade broth.
That's probably one of my favorite things. Pasta a little
bit of homemade marinara sauce mixed in there, you know,
really great like grass fed meatballs in there. Oh yes, yes,
like a bunch of fresh vegetables and herbs and just
(01:29):
making a really great riff on that kind of soup.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Love it, Yeah, so good.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
What is one food that you hate that might surprise
me since you are such a foodie.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Tuna fish? Wow, you do it?
Speaker 1 (01:46):
That is such a mainstay for so many people.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
You know why? You know, I'll tell you why, o parah,
I'll tell you why.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
What Tuna fish is so amazing to have as like
a great go to protein. When I was a kid,
I'm the youngest of five siblings, okay, grew up in Jersey,
and one of my sisters would just torture me. She's
tall like now, she's like six to one okay, but
(02:15):
when we were kids, she was always taller than me
and I'm pretty tall, right. She would eat tuna fish,
hold me down and breathe it in my face over
and over and over again, and wouldn't stop, like wouldn't
stop like from me laughing to me, like crying, like
all the emotions in the fish trauma torture. So now
(02:36):
I can't do it like I and you want me
to double down, Yes I do. As a kid, I
always was like hustling, like trying to be like how
do I get out, Like like let's.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Go, Like I got to get out of here and
get to work.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Even as a kid, I'm like there's a lot to
do something outside of the school, like move it along.
And I always hated lunchtime at school, hated it. And
there was on top of my sister breathing on me
and sona trauma trama. There was this girl in my
class who I also had braces. Okay, she had braces,
(03:13):
and every day her mother made her a tuna fish
sandwich on wonderbread wonderbread like which is already like a
gummy mess. So on top of my sister holding me down,
breathing in my face until I was laugh crying. Then
I would go to school and at lunch, which is
my least favorite time of the day, see tuna all
over braces.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Mixed with that gummy white bread.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
By white bread.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
I also had braces and it was just a lot
of tuna at once.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
So between all of that, oh, fear you're gonna laugh about.
I've never never eaten tuna fish in my life.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
I've had ahi tuna, I've had tuna like sush tuna
like different solid and stuff.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
I've never eaten tuna fish.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Out of a can. I mean, that's the only way
it happens.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
And it's a bummer because it's such an incredible note.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Listen, when the apocalypse comes, it's gonna be your momentment moment.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
I've gone down so many health rabbit holes, Like yeah,
I've gone down many a rabbit hole regardless, but especially
health and wellness rabbit holes.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
And a lot of them like love tuna.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
And it's such a bummer because I'm like, oh my gosh,
that is such a great prep ahead protein and I
just get a visceral reaction now, you know, my inside
I love it. That was way too much like inside pants.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
No, No, the.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Title of this episode is tuna trauma. Just saying that
right now my favorite combination of words that I've heard
in a long time. Okay, amazing. So what's uh, what's
one thing you wish your kids enjoyed?
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Eating spaghetti and meatballs would be nice. They're not into
that yet.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Well, I'm not even gonna say sushi because I've never
given it. They haven't had it yet, But I don't
know if they'll like it, but they.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Haven't gotten it. They'll they just got into.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Pizza, yeah, but they're really not a Marinera. They're not
Marinera kids.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
No kid either.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
They're not into that, but I wish they would because
then it would open up a whole world of like
I made this incredible homemadelasagna wouldn't come near it.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
They wouldn't come hear it.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
I'll make like spaghetti and meatballs for like myself and
my husband. They won't come near it. Right now, I
have to like make everything, but like omit the marina,
And once they do that, It'll just be so much
easier to like cook at home, to be able to
eat other places like It'll just I really look forward
to them being into that.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Listen, whenever we go to a restaurant, they what place
that has a kid's menu And I give it to
my kid. He wants none of them he doesn't eat
any of those things. He doesn't like chicken fingers, he
doesn't like a hot dog. Literally, he'll be like, oh,
he puts it down and looks at me and goes,
I'll have the steak.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
I'm like, are you yet you are raising your kids?
Well that's awesome.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Yeah, Like why can't you eat a hot dog like
all the other kids?
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Yeah, exactly. I don't like.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
What's easier a weekend of solo parenting weekend or weekend
like that's right, my friend, or a eighteen hour day
of directing television.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Eighteen hour day of directing without even a hesitation. I
know you were like, just give it whatever it is.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
It's then hesitation. And that's what's so funny, is like,
like I get it. Like eighteen hours might seem like
a long day to some people. For me, it's like
a usual thing. Especially doing an hour long solo parenting
is so difficult, and it really like it's and it's
(06:57):
interesting because you hear about like tropes of like you know,
over the years, even before I was a parent, of
like stay at home parents or whatever. It's absolutely ridiculous
to me because it's really hard.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
So hard. It's like so hard, nowhere to turn the
person who's going off to like do their job. I
find that that.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Tends to be easier than being at home managing the kids.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Like I don't know. Maybe people have a different opinion
of that, but that's just what I think.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
No, I think if they do have a different opinion,
as I like to say, they're lying. Okay, let's just
pretend tomorrow. I was like, all right, we've got forty
eight hours. I said to my son, you get iPad
as long as you want, and I'm ordering food. Something's
gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Something's gonna happen. I know, it always does. It always does.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Can you beat your husband at poker?
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Oh wow? Okay, how about my fairness? He doesn't really
know how to apply. Okay, it's fair. We know.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
It's kind of a thing with us, like I whenever
we play, like, I'm really into Rummy five hundred.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
I don't know what that is?
Speaker 1 (08:09):
What is Rubby five hundred?
Speaker 3 (08:11):
I tend to like the more like adrenalized version of things,
Texas hold him versus like you know, regular stud or
something like that. Texus hold Him is the more adrenalized
version of poker. Rummy five hundred is like an adrenalized
version of Rummy, fast paced and like clips along and
it's like super fun.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
It's like speed chess versus chess. You know.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
So when when my husband and I first started dating,
we would love like hanging out and playing Rummy five hundred.
You know, I would win, but then you know, he
would give a hang of it, and he's he's so
incredibly smart, Like he would then like just be like
a total like sneak attack and then like annihilate me
and like go out in the entire you know, with
all the points possible. But you know, in all fairness
(08:57):
with poker, he doesn't really know how to play.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
I used to be so hardcore about poker. Like now
I as a parent, I just don't have the time.
But yeah, oh man, I would literally go to the
casino and it's round for hours, like I.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Was really oh yeah, Like I would.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Go on an appointment or finish work or whatever, and
I would drive down to a casino in LA and
I would just sit there and play for hours, or
like take trips to Vegas and wow as p choker
and like I played in the World Series twice and
like you know, like I and I would have home games,
like people would literally come to my house to like
(09:39):
make the rent money. Like I loved the mind game
of it. Like of course, like winning money is always fun,
but like I.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Love the very mental game. And my friends knew that
if a bluff, if I was bluffed in a hand,
I would literally.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Obsess over that for like a full twenty four hour,
Like I wouldn't sleep at night if someone got one
and it was a good hand and I and I
played it wrong, I would literally obsess.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Like I'm not kidding, I wouldn't sleep at night.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Good luck your kids should will never be able to
lie to you. Oh my god, good luck when your
daughter is like, no, I wasn't all those.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Hours of playing like up to something, because I'm just like,
oh gosh, it wasn't just a waste.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
No, I'm just kidding.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
I gotta tell you, thank you. First of all.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Second of all, I know that you this is like
some time that you have off from working. So the
fact that you came on and did this for me
and my listeners for our Mother's Day, I so appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
No, it's all good. Thanks for having me. It was
so fun,
Hello, parenting is a joke. Listeners, Hi, it's o Fira
and I'm back with a little snack for you, a
little little bonus with actor and director Laura Prepon. If
you haven't listened to my full interview with her, do
it now. It is fantastic. I feel like she is
one of the icons of the working mom in entertainment
because she is directing that ninety show and she took
(00:24):
a little time off to talk to me. And she
also has some great advice about meal prep and planning,
which most of us feel is the most loathsome chore
as a parent, just so hard to come up with
new ideas and just get it done over and over again.
So here's our rapid fire conversation about cooking prep and
(00:44):
food preferences. So enjoy. I just want to ask you
some sort of rapid fire questions. Oh you don't have
to answer them rapid, but they're non sequarters. That's what
I need.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Okay, okay.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
What is one of your favorite meals to cook?
Speaker 3 (00:58):
I would say a really incredible homemade soup with my
homemade broth.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Yes, I love like a wedding soup Italian wedding wedding soup.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Or like a riff on, like an albondigas kind of soup.
But I love that kind of soup with a homemade broth.
That's probably one of my favorite things. Pasta a little
bit of homemade marinara sauce mixed in there, you know,
really great like grass fed meatballs in there. Oh yes, yes,
like a bunch of fresh vegetables and herbs and just
(01:29):
making a really great riff on that kind of soup.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Love it, Yeah, so good.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
What is one food that you hate that might surprise
me since you are such a foodie.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Tuna fish? Wow, you do it?
Speaker 1 (01:46):
That is such a mainstay for so many people.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
You know why? You know, I'll tell you why, o parah,
I'll tell you why.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
What Tuna fish is so amazing to have as like
a great go to protein. When I was a kid,
I'm the youngest of five siblings, okay, grew up in Jersey,
and one of my sisters would just torture me. She's
tall like now, she's like six to one okay, but
(02:15):
when we were kids, she was always taller than me
and I'm pretty tall, right. She would eat tuna fish,
hold me down and breathe it in my face over
and over and over again, and wouldn't stop, like wouldn't
stop like from me laughing to me, like crying, like
all the emotions in the fish trauma torture. So now
(02:36):
I can't do it like I and you want me
to double down, Yes I do. As a kid, I
always was like hustling, like trying to be like how
do I get out, Like like let's.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Go, Like I got to get out of here and
get to work.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Even as a kid, I'm like there's a lot to
do something outside of the school, like move it along.
And I always hated lunchtime at school, hated it. And
there was on top of my sister breathing on me
and sona trauma trama. There was this girl in my
class who I also had braces. Okay, she had braces,
(03:13):
and every day her mother made her a tuna fish
sandwich on wonderbread wonderbread like which is already like a
gummy mess. So on top of my sister holding me down,
breathing in my face until I was laugh crying. Then
I would go to school and at lunch, which is
my least favorite time of the day, see tuna all
over braces.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Mixed with that gummy white bread.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
By white bread.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
I also had braces and it was just a lot
of tuna at once.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
So between all of that, oh, fear you're gonna laugh about.
I've never never eaten tuna fish in my life.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
I've had ahi tuna, I've had tuna like sush tuna
like different solid and stuff.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
I've never eaten tuna fish.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Out of a can. I mean, that's the only way
it happens.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
And it's a bummer because it's such an incredible note.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Listen, when the apocalypse comes, it's gonna be your momentment moment.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
I've gone down so many health rabbit holes, Like yeah,
I've gone down many a rabbit hole regardless, but especially
health and wellness rabbit holes.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
And a lot of them like love tuna.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
And it's such a bummer because I'm like, oh my gosh,
that is such a great prep ahead protein and I
just get a visceral reaction now, you know, my inside
I love it. That was way too much like inside pants.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
No, No, the.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Title of this episode is tuna trauma. Just saying that
right now my favorite combination of words that I've heard
in a long time. Okay, amazing. So what's uh, what's
one thing you wish your kids enjoyed?
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Eating spaghetti and meatballs would be nice. They're not into
that yet.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Well, I'm not even gonna say sushi because I've never
given it. They haven't had it yet, But I don't
know if they'll like it, but they.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Haven't gotten it. They'll they just got into.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Pizza, yeah, but they're really not a Marinera. They're not
Marinera kids.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
No kid either.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
They're not into that, but I wish they would because
then it would open up a whole world of like
I made this incredible homemadelasagna wouldn't come near it.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
They wouldn't come hear it.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
I'll make like spaghetti and meatballs for like myself and
my husband. They won't come near it. Right now, I
have to like make everything, but like omit the marina,
And once they do that, It'll just be so much
easier to like cook at home, to be able to
eat other places like It'll just I really look forward
to them being into that.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Listen, whenever we go to a restaurant, they what place
that has a kid's menu And I give it to
my kid. He wants none of them he doesn't eat
any of those things. He doesn't like chicken fingers, he
doesn't like a hot dog. Literally, he'll be like, oh,
he puts it down and looks at me and goes,
I'll have the steak.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
I'm like, are you yet you are raising your kids?
Well that's awesome.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Yeah, Like why can't you eat a hot dog like
all the other kids?
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Yeah, exactly. I don't like.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
What's easier a weekend of solo parenting weekend or weekend
like that's right, my friend, or a eighteen hour day
of directing television.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Eighteen hour day of directing without even a hesitation. I
know you were like, just give it whatever it is.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
It's then hesitation. And that's what's so funny, is like,
like I get it. Like eighteen hours might seem like
a long day to some people. For me, it's like
a usual thing. Especially doing an hour long solo parenting
is so difficult, and it really like it's and it's
(06:57):
interesting because you hear about like tropes of like you know,
over the years, even before I was a parent, of
like stay at home parents or whatever. It's absolutely ridiculous
to me because it's really hard.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
So hard. It's like so hard, nowhere to turn the
person who's going off to like do their job. I
find that that.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Tends to be easier than being at home managing the kids.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Like I don't know. Maybe people have a different opinion
of that, but that's just what I think.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
No, I think if they do have a different opinion,
as I like to say, they're lying. Okay, let's just
pretend tomorrow. I was like, all right, we've got forty
eight hours. I said to my son, you get iPad
as long as you want, and I'm ordering food. Something's
gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Something's gonna happen. I know, it always does. It always does.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Can you beat your husband at poker?
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Oh wow? Okay, how about my fairness? He doesn't really
know how to apply. Okay, it's fair. We know.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
It's kind of a thing with us, like I whenever
we play, like, I'm really into Rummy five hundred.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
I don't know what that is?
Speaker 1 (08:09):
What is Rubby five hundred?
Speaker 3 (08:11):
I tend to like the more like adrenalized version of things,
Texas hold him versus like you know, regular stud or
something like that. Texus hold Him is the more adrenalized
version of poker. Rummy five hundred is like an adrenalized
version of Rummy, fast paced and like clips along and
it's like super fun.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
It's like speed chess versus chess. You know.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
So when when my husband and I first started dating,
we would love like hanging out and playing Rummy five hundred.
You know, I would win, but then you know, he
would give a hang of it, and he's he's so
incredibly smart, Like he would then like just be like
a total like sneak attack and then like annihilate me
and like go out in the entire you know, with
all the points possible. But you know, in all fairness
(08:57):
with poker, he doesn't really know how to play.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
I used to be so hardcore about poker. Like now
I as a parent, I just don't have the time.
But yeah, oh man, I would literally go to the
casino and it's round for hours, like I.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Was really oh yeah, Like I would.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Go on an appointment or finish work or whatever, and
I would drive down to a casino in LA and
I would just sit there and play for hours, or
like take trips to Vegas and wow as p choker
and like I played in the World Series twice and
like you know, like I and I would have home games,
like people would literally come to my house to like
(09:39):
make the rent money. Like I loved the mind game
of it. Like of course, like winning money is always fun,
but like I.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Love the very mental game. And my friends knew that
if a bluff, if I was bluffed in a hand,
I would literally.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Obsess over that for like a full twenty four hour,
Like I wouldn't sleep at night if someone got one
and it was a good hand and I and I
played it wrong, I would literally obsess.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Like I'm not kidding, I wouldn't sleep at night.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Good luck your kids should will never be able to
lie to you. Oh my god, good luck when your
daughter is like, no, I wasn't all those.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Hours of playing like up to something, because I'm just like,
oh gosh, it wasn't just a waste.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
No, I'm just kidding.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
I gotta tell you, thank you. First of all.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Second of all, I know that you this is like
some time that you have off from working. So the
fact that you came on and did this for me
and my listeners for our Mother's Day, I so appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
No, it's all good. Thanks for having me. It was
so fun,
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