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

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

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Speaker 1: to make for dinner. Today is episode one hundred and eleven,

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Speaker 1: What I'm Cooking for Christmas. It's the final countdown. Christmas

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Speaker 1: is less than a week away, and my guess is

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Speaker 1: you are feeling it. You're probably feeling a lot of things,

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Speaker 1: but you certainly shouldn't feel alone. Of overwhelmed happens to

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Speaker 1: be one of those feelings. So if you're anything like me,

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Speaker 1: you're wrapping up shopping, wrapping gifts, checking things off that

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Speaker 1: holiday traditions list. I genuinely hope you can find ways

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Speaker 1: to lean into the chaos and really soak up the

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Speaker 1: best parts of the season. Or at least that is

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Speaker 1: the mini mantra I've been saying to myself every morning

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Speaker 1: this week, lean into the chaos and soak up the season.

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Speaker 1: So today I want to chat with you about what

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Speaker 1: I'm planning to make on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day

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Speaker 1: because food is such a big part of this holiday,

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Speaker 1: and you know, I feel like the Thanksgiving menu feel

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Speaker 1: Thanksgiving but Christmas can go a lot of different ways,

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Speaker 1: So I'll tell you exactly what I'm doing and see

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Speaker 1: if it might be a good fit for your family.

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Speaker 1: But before we do that, let's discuss a few recipes

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Speaker 1: you can throw on your meal plan for the week,

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Speaker 1: because dinner never takes a break, and even though it

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Speaker 1: is one of the busiest weeks of the year, you

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Speaker 1: still got to make dinner. So first on my list,

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Speaker 1: we're going real simple this week. Sausage and potato skillet.

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Speaker 1: I make this in my big twelve inch dual handle

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Speaker 1: lodge skillet, or sometimes I'll use my brazer, But I

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Speaker 1: because you really can make an entire meal for your

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Speaker 1: family in one skillet. And this one's so great because

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Speaker 1: it has protein, potatoes and peppers like Benji's all in

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Speaker 1: one dish. It you finish it with a little bit

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Speaker 1: of unexpected cheddar cheese and a thing of squeeze of

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Speaker 1: so hearty and insanely simple. So that is if you'd

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Speaker 1: this is perfect. This is as easy as it gets

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Speaker 1: to satisfy your meat and potato lover. Next up loaded

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Speaker 1: sweet potatoes, so we love a loaded sweet potato. I

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Speaker 1: did a Mediterranean sweet potato couple. Love was it last

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Speaker 1: month that I did that? But we the way we

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Speaker 1: Sometimes I'll throw a little hollowpen you in there that

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Speaker 1: real good. So those are happening this week. And then

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Speaker 1: the month that was just such a hit. It's my

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Speaker 1: creamy spinach mushroom yoki. Maybe twelve minutes to make this,

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

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Speaker 1: podcast and chat about what I'm cooking for Christmas. So

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Speaker 1: everyone knows what the menu is supposed to be for Thanksgiving, turkey, stuffing, cranberries,

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Speaker 1: Feast of Seven Fishes and so on. There's just so

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Speaker 1: many ways you can do a Christmas dinner, but ultimately,

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Speaker 1: a traditional Christmas dinner really should just be a celebration

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Speaker 1: the specific dishes we ate. So it's creating this time

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Speaker 1: So if you're stuck you haven't decided what you're serving,

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Speaker 1: ideas for you. So let's do that. First up, Reindeer ribs.

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Speaker 1: This is a tradition we stole up from my friend

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Speaker 1: It's like a perfectly retro nineteen sixties dump and star recipe.

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Speaker 1: with something savory, which is usually my bacon cheddar scallion strata.

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Speaker 1: It's in Recipee Club and it is fantastic, delicious, my

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Speaker 1: Growing up, for dessert on Christmas Evening, we would always

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Speaker 1: Probably not, probably not. Probably. Maybe what we'll do instead

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Speaker 1: is I'll make a really delicious batch of brownies and

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Speaker 1: top that with peppermint ice cre so that I get

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