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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 when you don't know what

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Speaker 1: to make for dinner. Today is episode eighty eight Birthday

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Speaker 1: food Traditions. It's a big week in my household. My

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Speaker 1: oldest turns twelve? Twelve? Can you even believe that? I

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Speaker 1: certainly can't. I'm officially raising a tween and as a result,

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Speaker 1: hanging on for to your life. All jokes aside. Allie

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Speaker 1: is such a great, fun, cool kid and I'm so

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Speaker 1: so grateful to be his mom. Since birthdays are on

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Speaker 1: my mind, I wanted to spend just a bit of

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Speaker 1: time today discussing food traditions surrounding birthdays. Do you have them?

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Speaker 1: Are they important to you? Maybe you make the same

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Speaker 1: recipes on birthdays, or one of the same recipes, or

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Speaker 1: maybe you like to always switch it up. I have

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Speaker 1: a couple of core birthday memories from my own childhood,

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Speaker 1: and all of them include food. So it feels important

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Speaker 1: to me that I do my best to offer those

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Speaker 1: same traditions and memories rooted in food for my own kids.

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Speaker 1: But before we really get into that, let's do what

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Speaker 1: we always do on the podcast and start by giving

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Speaker 1: you three recipe ideas you could throw on your meal

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Speaker 1: plan for the week. These are all super friendly, very

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Speaker 1: easy summer meals, all right. First up, skillet Italian chicken. Now,

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Speaker 1: this is a recipe that's coming from our summer five

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Speaker 1: ingredient recipe lineup. It is so simple. So what I

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Speaker 1: did is I love cooking for my pantry during the

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Speaker 1: summer because if you're like on vacation, We've just been

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Speaker 1: make dinner and you feel like you have nothing. I

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Speaker 1: like having some recipes on hand that I can rely

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Speaker 1: on my pantry for and this is one of those.

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Speaker 1: So the shortcut ingredient includes is Italian dressing. Now can

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Speaker 1: I make an Italian vinagrette quickly? You bet? You bet?

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Speaker 1: I can, no problem. But there is something about having

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Speaker 1: a shortcut Italian dressing on hand for a quick chicken marinade,

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Speaker 1: to quickly throw on a pasta salad, or in this case,

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Speaker 1: to make my skillet Italian chicken. The five primary ingredients

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Speaker 1: are boneless, skinless, thinly cut chicken breasts or cutlets. You

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Speaker 1: could really use any chicken, some Italian dressing obviously, A

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Speaker 1: red onion, cherry, tomatoes, and grated palm. If you happen

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Speaker 1: to have Italian parsley, that's great too. But you basically

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Speaker 1: it's dealish, especially when you serve it with pasta on

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Speaker 1: the side, or even like like a Caesar salad mix

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Speaker 1: or something like that, like just super super simple. I

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Speaker 1: happen to be partial to the Olive Garden Italian dressing.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if that is because of some deeply

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Speaker 1: rooted childhood memories for the breadsticks, salad and soup combo

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Speaker 1: But it just happens to be a really good vinegrette

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Speaker 1: you can buy at the store. Costco also sells it,

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Speaker 1: and more than anything else, I use it as a

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Speaker 1: chicken marinate, like a marinad for grilled chicken in the summer,

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Speaker 1: So skillet Italian chicken. If you're looking for a quick,

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Speaker 1: five ingredients summer meal that does not require to turn

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Speaker 1: It's very colorful, okay. Next the heat is with tomatioguacamoli.

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Speaker 1: This is a recipe and recipe club that you can

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Speaker 1: either make in a skillet or on a sheet pan.

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Speaker 1: I love fajetas, especially to kind of mix up our

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Speaker 1: traditional like Taco Tuesday nights or we like probably have

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Speaker 1: out of our traditional go to's. But what really makes

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Speaker 1: this recipet delicious is the tomatillo guacamole. Now, you could

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Speaker 1: make traditional guacamole and be fine. You don't even have

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Speaker 1: to make guacamole with these fajtas. But tomatillos are probably

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Speaker 1: You should be able to get them at nearly any

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Speaker 1: would be your favorite Mexican restaurants, and it's just so good.

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Speaker 1: So this is a recipe I developed for Food Network

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Speaker 1: barbecue sauce also for my pantry this week. Could I

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Speaker 1: grilled chicken, maybe little cilantroll lime rice on the side. Done. Okay,

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Speaker 1: In fact, I think that many of the things he'll

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Speaker 1: great candidates for gestational surrogacy, and I had a sister

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Speaker 1: me to the point. The night before Nora is born. Okay,

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

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Speaker 1: look forward to chatting with you next week