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Speaker 1: Hi, everybody. I'm Kelsey Mixon 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 is episode eighty three, how

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Speaker 1: to Make Salad Feel Like Dinner. We are smack dab

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Speaker 1: in the middle of May, which means I hope you

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Speaker 1: had a wonderful Mother's Day. I hopped on a plane

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Speaker 1: last minute with my two girls to celebrate with my

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Speaker 1: literally in Salt Lake City for maybe thirty six hours,

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Speaker 1: but on actual Mother's Day, we made it home. We

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Speaker 1: attended such a nice church service. I got an epic nap,

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Speaker 1: which is really the only thing I care about on

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Speaker 1: Mother's Day, and my husband, Robbie, and the kids made

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Speaker 1: pizza for dinner using our Uni Pizza oven and it

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Speaker 1: was just, you know, a great day, weekend all around. Today,

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Speaker 1: we're going to chat about how you can make salad

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Speaker 1: especially during this and summer months, I love a hearty

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Speaker 1: salad for dinner with like a simple protein on the side,

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Speaker 1: and I want to share if you tried and true

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Speaker 1: tips that I've discovered when it comes to having. You know,

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Speaker 1: maybe you live with someone who never thought salad or

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Speaker 1: soup for that matter, could be counted as dinner, and

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Speaker 1: how I have changed his opinion. But before we really

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Speaker 1: get into that, let's do what we always do on

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Speaker 1: this podcast and start by giving you three ideas for

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Speaker 1: recipes that you could throw on your meal plan this week.

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Speaker 1: The first one is Da Da da a salad, a

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Speaker 1: salad for dinner. Yes, I am making guys, this is

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Speaker 1: not just any old salad. This is a bread salad.

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Speaker 1: It's called pansanella. Some of you listening may know, many

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Speaker 1: of you may know, many of you may not, But

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Speaker 1: pansanella is a delicious bread salad where you use like

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Speaker 1: a hearty bread like a chabata, and you make a

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Speaker 1: vinagrette and you add things like tomatoes and peppers and onions,

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Speaker 1: and I love throwing some fresh herbs in there. I'm

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Speaker 1: adding basil to this one, some mozzarella, and then you

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Speaker 1: let it sit for a while and what happens is

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Speaker 1: the bread absorbs that vinagrette and the juices from those

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Speaker 1: it is so good. It is so so good. It

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Speaker 1: is especially good in the summer months when your produce

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Speaker 1: I'm going to do I got a skirt steak to

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Speaker 1: grill alongside it, and it's funny. This is something kind

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Speaker 1: of a way that I adjust my thinking in the

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Speaker 1: spring and summer is I almost get more excited about

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Speaker 1: the side dishes, and I kind of stick to a

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Speaker 1: I use my air fryer a lot. I kind of

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Speaker 1: talk a little bit more about that later. But this

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Speaker 1: is a perfect example of how you make salad feel

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Speaker 1: like dinner. You grill up a skirt steak, you make

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Speaker 1: a panzanella, and it feels like a restaurant meal. Okay,

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Speaker 1: the next recipe we're making this week our crispy carnita

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Speaker 1: I have written into this recipe one of my best

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Speaker 1: tips for any time you're doing any sort of slow cooked.

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Speaker 1: I like to get it nice and you know, tender

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Speaker 1: when I make these crispy carnitas bols. And I it's

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Speaker 1: So I am making this recipe. But I am actually

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Speaker 1: going to use the Ken's Carnitas. You'll see that at

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Speaker 1: let's jump into the back half of the podcast and

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Speaker 1: discuss how to make salad feel like dinner. I really

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Speaker 1: love a salad anytime, but I haven't always been that way,

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Speaker 1: Recipe Club because I might be a lady who likes

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Speaker 1: six categories you should always think about when building a salad. Greens, grains, protein, veggies,

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Speaker 1: The first one is so obvious. Okay, some of these

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Speaker 1: I've talked about making salad from scratch, but all of

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Speaker 1: And we all know that Costco is the best I've

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Speaker 1: heard Sam's Clubs as pretty good rotisserie chickens as well.

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Speaker 2: It tastes so good. So if I'm doing.

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Speaker 1: But don't discount a rotistory chicken. In fact, it's part

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Speaker 1: of my weekly shopping list to get a rotistory chicken.

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Speaker 2: It's a really good bang for your buck. Okay.

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Speaker 1: Next, I have had a resurgence of use with my

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Speaker 1: Next week I'll be holding Kitchen Office Hours Summer edition,

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Speaker 1: I'm so glad you're here. Until next time, happy cooking.

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Speaker 1: I'm Kelsey and look forward to chatting with you next week.