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Speaker 1: Hi, everybody. I'm Kelsea 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 three,

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Speaker 1: Halloween Recipes and Hacks. We have officially caught the spirit

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Speaker 1: of Halloween in our house, and I feel like my

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Speaker 1: kids are at prime ages for celebrating this spooky holiday.

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Speaker 1: My oldest is twelve, which means he still wants to

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Speaker 1: dress up and gets excited about trick or treating, but

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Speaker 1: that will likely fade in the next year or two

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Speaker 1: when he just wants to go to a party. My

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Speaker 1: eight year old is obviously over the moon excited, along

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Speaker 1: with my four year old, who's been putting on her

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Speaker 1: tinker Belt costume almost every day after school. We are

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Speaker 1: like leaning in. We've got Halloween decorations up in the house,

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Speaker 1: a fall candle seems to always be burning, I've got

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Speaker 1: a Halloween playlist I'm playing in the car, and a

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Speaker 1: stack of Halloween picture books I've collected over the years

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Speaker 1: really is so much fun. But another way I really

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Speaker 1: like to keep some of our traditions alive is by

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Speaker 1: having a few festive recipes. These are recipes I tend

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Speaker 1: to repeat every year and they've become traditions for us,

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Speaker 1: and my kids genuinely look forward to them. So today

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Speaker 1: we're going to chat about those. They are all super

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Speaker 1: simple and very easy to pull off, and hopefully my

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Speaker 1: do that, let's discuss a few recipes you can throw

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Speaker 1: on your meal plan this week. We're continuing to embrace

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Speaker 1: schedules seem to be relentless. So here's what's on our

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Speaker 1: meal plan for the upcoming week. We are making my

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Speaker 1: Caso chicken chili. This is a new recipe we added

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Speaker 1: this past month. It is delicious. It is a cross

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Speaker 1: between a chili and a dip. If I'm being on

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Speaker 1: excited to make that. We'll serve it with tortilla chips

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Speaker 1: So crushed tortilla chips, sour cream, maybe some pickled onions

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Speaker 1: Then we're going to take a pivot and we're gonna

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Speaker 1: go like homy hardy harvest flavors and make my balsamic

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Speaker 1: rosemary chicken. It's got a balsamic glaze on it. It's

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Speaker 1: just a classic fall meal. And I haven't made it

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Speaker 1: this fall season, but last year we made it all

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Speaker 1: make that. And then the third recipe is a five

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Speaker 1: ingredient recipe, my brown butter, nyoki and butternut. This time

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Speaker 1: of year, nyoki tends to be a shortcut staple for me.

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Speaker 1: I can make a skillet dinner out of nyoki so quickly,

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Speaker 1: Over the years, we've developed some fun Halloween traditions, and

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Speaker 1: it should not be surprised to you that many of

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Speaker 1: I try and focus on things that are fun for

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Speaker 1: It is the perfect example of something that has high

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Speaker 1: do during the month of October. Next, Sloppy Joe Monsters.

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Speaker 1: the tomato soup, I will take mazzarella balls and some

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Speaker 1: a Halloween breakfast. Whether Halloween falls on a weekend or

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Speaker 1: Listening to a podcast has always been part of my

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Speaker 1: I'm so glad you're here, and until next time, Happy king.

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Speaker 1: I'm Kelsey and look forward to be chatting with you all.