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Speaker 1: Hi everybody. I'm Kelsey Nixon and this is Kitchen Prescription,

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Speaker 1: the podcast you listen to and you don't know what

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Speaker 1: to make for dinner. Today's episode forty six, we complete

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Speaker 1: Kitchen Refresh Part one. Are you guys on spring break?

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Speaker 1: We are technically on spring break, but didn't leave town

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Speaker 1: like most. We took our family's spring vacation a little

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Speaker 1: earlier this year when we went on a Disney cruise

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Speaker 1: with our kids in February and it was amazing. I mean,

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Speaker 1: we could do a whole podcast episode about a Disney cruise,

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Speaker 1: but my kids are great ages for a ten six

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Speaker 1: three like, it was pretty magical, and we went with

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Speaker 1: my family and it was so great, but that it

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Speaker 1: was also while magical, it was a lot to get there,

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Speaker 1: especially when you're traveling from California to Florida with a

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Speaker 1: three year old into who's a COVID baby who has

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Speaker 1: very little experience on an airplane. It was exhausting. And

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Speaker 1: then we did it Disney World, so it just was

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Speaker 1: a lot. And then we had up a baseball tournament

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Speaker 1: in Arizona two weekends ago, and I just was kind

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Speaker 1: of ready for a staycation, especially since we recently relocated

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Speaker 1: to what is essentially a beach town. I didn't see

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Speaker 1: any reason for us to travel or leave, so we're here.

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Speaker 1: We're getting caught up. We are continuing to get moved in.

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Speaker 1: Almost every single box is unpacked almost and doing a

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Speaker 1: bit of spring cleaning refreshing around the house and especially

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Speaker 1: in the kitchen, which we are going to get into

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Speaker 1: three simple ideas you can throw on your meal plan

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Speaker 1: for this week. The first recipe big hit at my house,

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Speaker 1: sheet pan beef and broccoli. This is a it's a

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Speaker 1: hit with my kids. The marinate in particular for the

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Speaker 1: beef is so good, and I've made this recipe. I've

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Speaker 1: subbed the beef for chicken and pork tenderline before and

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Speaker 1: it's been fantastic. There's also instructions in our Recipe Club

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Speaker 1: recipe for using like a firm tofu if you are

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Speaker 1: a vegetarian. But beef and broccoli is just such a

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Speaker 1: classic flavor combination. There's red pepper in this recipe as well,

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Speaker 1: and we always start it with rice. Rice tends to

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Speaker 1: be like a huge hit with my kids right now,

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Speaker 1: So any recipe that's got rice we embrace around here,

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Speaker 1: so it comes together so quickly. And then a recipe club,

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Speaker 1: there's also instructions for how to meal prep this. So

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Speaker 1: if you wanted to prep it like on a Sunday

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Speaker 1: instructions for that. So she pan beef and broccoli, that's

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Speaker 1: one thing we're having next week. Then we are doing

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Speaker 1: this skillet creamy pesto lasagna. I love a skillet lasagna

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Speaker 1: because lasagna is awesome, but lasagnia can also take forever

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Speaker 1: all of those great lasagna e flavors without all of

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Speaker 1: doing a Mediterranean baked orzo, which is another recipe I

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Speaker 1: it's got chick peas, it's got things like orzo and

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Speaker 1: tomato paste and fire rusted tomatoes broth, like it's just

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Speaker 1: things I can pull from my pantry. And then that

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Speaker 1: Mediterranean like finish of the crumbled feta and lemon in

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Speaker 1: the dill is just so yummy to me. There are

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Speaker 1: in recipe Club. People really like it. So those are

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Speaker 1: your recipes for the week, really simple. You can find

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Speaker 1: them all and recipe Club individually, or you can check

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Speaker 1: out our weekly meal planning document with an easy principal

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Speaker 1: shopping list as well. So we made that easy so

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Speaker 1: checking out recipe Club, April is the perfect month to

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Speaker 1: We have not done this since Black Friday. I don't

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Speaker 1: this really fun thing this month called the Complete Kitchen Refresh,

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Speaker 1: that's a big part of Recipe Club this month as well.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's jump into the back half of the

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Speaker 1: All right, so let me drop your memory if you

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Speaker 1: listened last week. And as reminder, I have this theory

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Speaker 1: we've all been there before when we've got something simmering

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Speaker 1: so you're like googling, what can I swap for coconut milk?

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Speaker 1: And then things have burned and you're like, I'm a

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Speaker 1: actually assists with easy weeknight cooking. And so this next

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