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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 one hundred and twelve,

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Speaker 1: how to refresh your dinner routine. It's our first episode

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Speaker 1: after the holiday break, and I'm so happy to be

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Speaker 1: back here. I hope you had a really nice holiday.

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Speaker 1: We had mostly highs, some lows which came in the

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Speaker 1: form of the stomach bug, and it sounds like nearly

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Speaker 1: half of the country dealt with that this holiday season.

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Speaker 1: But we in our household are fully recovered. Hopefully we've

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Speaker 1: got some immunity for the stomach bug. Moving forward, my

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Speaker 1: kids are back in school and we are ready to

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Speaker 1: take on twenty twenty five. It's a new year, and

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Speaker 1: there is lots of talk about resolutions, goal setting, even

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Speaker 1: words for the year, and it really is a good

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Speaker 1: time for resetting and self reflection. And you guys know

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Speaker 1: this about me, I happen to love it. I like,

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Speaker 1: maybe January's my favorite month. That's not much. I love it.

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Speaker 1: I really love fresh starts. But whether your personality is

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Speaker 1: like mine and it loves the practice of goal setting

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Speaker 1: or not, I think this is a great time to

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Speaker 1: think about whether or not you're satisfied with your routine

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Speaker 1: surrounding cooking and breaking bread with your people. So today

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Speaker 1: we're going to chat a bit about how you could

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Speaker 1: re establish or refresh some of your dinner habits and

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Speaker 1: routines to maybe make dinner feel a little easier in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. But first, we're going to run through

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Speaker 1: three simple recipes you could throw on your meal plan

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Speaker 1: for the week if you're stuck trying to decide what

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Speaker 1: to make for dinner. So first up, tie peanut noodle salad.

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Speaker 1: I really love this because it's a hardy enough salad

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Speaker 1: that I can it passes as dinner. And we're we're

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Speaker 1: like kind of recovering from all the comfort food situation

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Speaker 1: of the holidays, and so everyone seems to be fine

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Speaker 1: with like hardy salads and deconstructed salads in my house

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Speaker 1: right now, so I'm leaning in. The thing I love

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Speaker 1: so much about this recipe is the peanut dressing. It's

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Speaker 1: like next level delicious. In fact, I think I'm going

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Speaker 1: to make a double batch and then just use it

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Speaker 1: on some lunch salads throughout the week as well. But

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Speaker 1: eat the full composed salad, but I can make the noodles.

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Speaker 1: It works in the salad, it works for them, and

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Speaker 1: it's just delicious. We are going to make. Oh, this

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Speaker 1: is a new recipe, my spiced chicken and yogurt sauce.

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Speaker 1: This is inspired. If you've ever been to New York

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Speaker 1: or you're familiar with New York, there's something called the

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Speaker 1: Hawal Carts and it's like really great Indian food. Lots

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Speaker 1: of times you can get it just in carts on

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Speaker 1: the side of the street. There's now a restaurant called

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Speaker 1: the Hawal Guys, and it's just it's delicious. It's very

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Speaker 1: very good. And what it is is it's kind of

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Speaker 1: spiced chicken and it's served typically with crisp lettuce, tomatoes,

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Speaker 1: and this yogurt sauce that is so so good. So

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Speaker 1: I'm making that this week. I am doing a lot

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Speaker 1: that it gives, like instead of like a vinagrette or

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Speaker 1: I haven't made it for my kids yet, but I

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Speaker 1: think that they're really gonna like it. So I tested it,

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Speaker 1: made it for Recipee Club and it's so good, so

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Speaker 1: I'm hoping I can make my kids believers as well.

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Speaker 1: And then third, we are doing a veggie for Tata.

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Speaker 1: This is this recipe is becoming infamous, Like it's so good.

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Speaker 1: It's a five ingredient recipe. I like to get all

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Speaker 1: the ingredients to Trader Joe's, but you can absolutely get

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Speaker 1: the ingredients at other grocery stores. I just like their

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Speaker 1: unexpected cheddar cheese that goes in this. But we are

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Speaker 1: back on our breakfast for dinner HAC like that is

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Speaker 1: once a week. My kids really look forward to it,

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Speaker 1: and I don't know why, but it's like easier to

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Speaker 1: prep for breakfast for the days that follow. So there

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Speaker 1: you have it. There are your recipes for the week.

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Speaker 1: to follow shopping list that's broken down by recipe. If

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Speaker 1: It's running through the end of the month, and let's

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Speaker 1: Like many of you, I feel like I'm just barely

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Speaker 1: I'm okay with it because we are making memories around

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Speaker 1: make seven home cooked meals this week. It's you won't

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Speaker 1: feel like you can confidently say Okay, we're gonna eat

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Speaker 1: three nights this week, start there, but don't don't try

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Speaker 1: and like completely revamp it so that it's so unrealistic

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Speaker 1: the sweet and the Sour. We've also used Brooke Romney's

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Speaker 1: In fact, it's on my list. Trader Joe sells really

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Speaker 1: affordable no drip taper candles, and I'm going to get

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Speaker 1: so I'm just gonna I'm gonna do this. I suggest

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