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Speaker 1: Hello, Hello, 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. I want to start by telling

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Speaker 1: you a funny story. Now, many of you know that

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Speaker 1: I lived in New York City for just under a decade,

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Speaker 1: and there's no doubt that my New York City chapter

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Speaker 1: will be one of those that I look back on

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Speaker 1: most fondly. I loved living there for so many reasons.

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Speaker 1: But when you live in a big city like Manhattan,

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Speaker 1: you are bound to have some good stories, like awesome

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Speaker 1: celebrity sightings. And just in case you're curious, I think

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Speaker 1: my best celebrity sighting was Meg Ryan. I rode in

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Speaker 1: an elevator with her, and for Robbie, Kanye West, and

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Speaker 1: Jerry Seinfeld. Come on, come on, you guys like such

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Speaker 1: good as celebrity sightings. But in addition to that, you're

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Speaker 1: gonna have interesting stories about, you know, jaw dropping things

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Speaker 1: you see on the subway. And you may even have

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Speaker 1: a couple of good stories about living in a seven

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Speaker 1: hundred square foot apartment in a walk up building, meaning

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Speaker 1: So when Robbie and I got married in oh eight,

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Speaker 1: one of the wedding gifts we'd received was a small

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Speaker 1: bucket grill. And if you don't know what a bucket

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Speaker 1: grill is, imagine like a metal pail with a great

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Speaker 1: that you really can grill anywhere, camping the beach, or

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Speaker 1: in our case, as residents of New York City, on

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Speaker 1: our fire escape, or so we thought. We obviously didn't

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Speaker 1: have a grill as city dwellers. In fact, I think

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Speaker 1: that most grills are illegal to own in Manhattan. Someone

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Speaker 1: may have to check me on that. But as we

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Speaker 1: were getting settled into our first department, we thought it

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Speaker 1: was brilliant, like, oh yeah, we got this bucket, girl,

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Speaker 1: we'll just strow it on the fire escape and we'll

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Speaker 1: have you know, charred hot dogs and no time. Like

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Speaker 1: it made so much sense to us. Well, so we

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Speaker 1: little higher than maybe we thought they would get. And

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Speaker 1: this was first time using that bucket grill, and our

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Speaker 1: apartment faced ninety sixth Street, which is a pretty big

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Speaker 1: like thoroughfare, like it's a big street in New York.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of traffic, and we knew it was

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Speaker 1: and it made me scared. I mean, this bucket rolls

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Speaker 1: we took a bowl of water and we threw the

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Speaker 1: bowl over the coals, which also meant that someone below

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Speaker 1: that bucket grill got soaked. I'm so sorry. It was

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Speaker 1: such a crazy story. We had no idea what we

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Speaker 1: were doing, but ultimately there was no serious damage. Nothing

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Speaker 1: got out of control. But it's not where the story ends,

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Speaker 1: because we ended up receiving a ticket from the New

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Speaker 1: York Fire Department for illegal grill use that we had

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Speaker 1: And I'll never forget this. I just felt so stupid.

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Speaker 1: But who knew? Who knew? So? But honestly, since we

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Speaker 1: spent the better part of our twenties and early thirties

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Speaker 1: In fact, when we moved to Portland from New York.

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Speaker 1: more about grilling and grilling basics later in this episode

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Speaker 1: to kind of give you all the information you need

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Speaker 1: Maybe you've decided, Oh, my partner or my husband whatever

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Speaker 1: to just learn a few things. Learn a few things.

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Speaker 1: But before we do that, I want to first start

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Speaker 1: by sharing a few recipes for your meal plan this

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Speaker 1: dinner time. Oh, this is a good one, grilled skirt

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Speaker 1: steak with chimmy cherry. And this is a Recipe Club

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Speaker 1: recipe from June and Recipe Club is my recipe membership

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Speaker 1: So if you're someone that thinks steak is something I

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Speaker 1: probably ideal. But it's served with a chimmy cherry, which

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Speaker 1: is a traditional condiment from South America that is so yummy.

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Speaker 1: It's green, bright green flavor, and it's so bright in

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Speaker 1: econdiment to drizzle over your steak. And then I'm calling

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Speaker 1: this summer steak freets because I love serving this with

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Speaker 1: sweet potatoes sweepotato fries. So you've got your steak and

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Speaker 1: to make ovenroasted sweep potato fries as well. Next recipe,

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Speaker 1: Greek grain bowls. You guys know how much I love

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Speaker 1: a grain bowl, especially in the summer, easiest dinner. These

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Speaker 1: ones are so yummy. They're shrimp in the recipe, but

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Speaker 1: So consider making the Great grain bawl. That's recipe you'll

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Speaker 1: with the chimmy cherry. And you're going to be such

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Speaker 1: we're going to chat all about the basics when it

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Speaker 1: comes to grilling. So I know that grilling can seem

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Speaker 1: intimidating if you don't know where to start, but really,

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Speaker 1: And since moving from the city, what was that six

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Speaker 1: All Right, there's nothing more quintessential to summer cooking than

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Speaker 1: desserts is grilled peaches with vanilla ice cream. So delicious. So,

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Speaker 1: We're going to talk about a few of them. Market

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Speaker 1: really is kind of saturated with companies that liked out

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Speaker 1: you've got everything from a gas grill to a pellet

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Speaker 1: grill to a charcoal commodot. Like, there's so many different

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Speaker 1: you know, if you're a hardcore griller, you may turn

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Speaker 1: So another benefit is that right after you fired up,

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