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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 and you don't know what

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Speaker 1: to make for dinner. I am so excited to be

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Speaker 1: chatting with you today give you some really simple ideas

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Speaker 1: also excited to talk about something that's really important to me,

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Speaker 1: and it's just the general idea of family dinner. And

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Speaker 1: it may sound a little old fashioned, uber traditional, but

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Speaker 1: I think that no matter what culture you come from,

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Speaker 1: what part of the country you come from, we can

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Speaker 1: all agree that having dinner regularly is a family unit

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Speaker 1: as a household, has unbelievable benefits. Whether you want to

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Speaker 1: look at the scientific research or the social emotional research,

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Speaker 1: there's so much that points to just a positive family

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Speaker 1: culture when we admit to sitting down and breaking bread

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Speaker 1: with the people that we love each day. So I'm

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Speaker 1: and why it's personally important to me. But first let's

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Speaker 1: get into these recipes. So our first recipe suggestion this

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Speaker 1: week is chicken fahita bowls, and this is a recipe

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Speaker 1: Club October recipe. I love fahitas like there's nothing better

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Speaker 1: than being at a Mexican restaurant and having that sizzling

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Speaker 1: fahita plate to come out that smells delicious. It's like

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Speaker 1: a full sensory experience, from the way it looks to

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Speaker 1: the way it sounds, to the way it smells delicious.

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Speaker 1: But fahitas themselves can feel overwhelming at times, especially at home.

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Speaker 1: So this idea of taking all of those favorite fahita

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Speaker 1: just feels like an entire meal contained in one dish.

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Speaker 1: I'm ready to replace the dinner plate with the dinner bowl.

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Speaker 1: That's how much I love bowl recipes. And so I

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Speaker 1: take a classic fahita mixture of peppers, onions, chicken, really delicious, mayonade,

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Speaker 1: put that on top of a bowl of rice with

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Speaker 1: some of my favorite fahita toppings like guacamole and pico

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Speaker 1: de gallo, pickled onions if you've got them on hand,

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Speaker 1: some cotillhead cheese delicious. So it's great about this recipe

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Speaker 1: is that you could serve it as a bowl, or

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Speaker 1: you could also just do traditional fahitas and serve them

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Speaker 1: wrapped up in tortillas. My kids tend to eat bowls better,

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Speaker 1: so that's what's a better fit for my family. But

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of flexibility in this recipe, all right.

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Speaker 1: The second recipe is our bacon mac and cheese, And

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Speaker 1: in the month of October, we like to call it

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Speaker 1: our bacon Maco Lantern because I like to make this

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Speaker 1: particularly festive mom, I'll take crisped bacon and make like

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Speaker 1: I maybe do it once a year twice if I'm

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Speaker 1: that the homemade mac and cheese is always a hit.

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Speaker 1: Everybody loves it. It's probably the thing that my son

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Speaker 1: Oliver requests more than anything else. And this is a

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Speaker 1: website for just the regular bacon mac or how you

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Speaker 1: third recipe is a five ingredient recipe. It is my

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Speaker 1: five ingredient veggie curry. While this is a Trader Joe's

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Speaker 1: friendly recipe, you certainly could make it if you shop

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Speaker 1: at another store. But it is so simple. It is

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Speaker 1: like stir fried veggities my favorite curry sauce. It's got

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Speaker 1: So those are your three SIPs for the week. The

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Speaker 1: think that it's important to you as well. You guys

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Speaker 1: whether that's sports or school activities, or homework or career opportunities.

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Speaker 1: It is a constant fight to spend time together. I

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Speaker 1: that we can reconnect leave behind our individual pursuits and

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Speaker 1: games or sports, YouTube emailing, doing homework. For parents, it

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Speaker 1: might be career stuff or church service. Dinner is this

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Speaker 1: family unit. And that may sound overly idyllic, and I

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Speaker 1: get that. I want you to know that my dinner

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Speaker 1: I feel your pain. I get it. But as a mother,

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Speaker 1: this idea of having a regular ritual so that when

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Speaker 1: for us to sit down and break bread together. That's

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Speaker 1: researched for over the past twenty years, and what that

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Speaker 1: research has confirmed is what most parents really have known

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Speaker 1: for a long time that sharing a family meal as

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Speaker 1: your younger kids, your toddlers, dinner conversation is a more

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Speaker 1: like you know, maybe even the icing on the cake,

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Speaker 1: it's undeniable when it comes to the benefits of having

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Speaker 1: I've told you why it's important to me. Time is

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Speaker 1: certainly the biggest obstacle when it comes to families gathering

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Speaker 1: enter in a cooking competition. It really doesn't. Quick and

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Speaker 1: it comes to family dinner. In fact, I don't care

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Speaker 1: this idea of gathering as a family. In fact, a

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Speaker 1: couple of days ago, we had literally drove through McDonald's,

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Speaker 1: just as much benefit from that interaction as they would

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Speaker 1: If this is something where you feel like you're going

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Speaker 1: You've got to start with a really manageable goal. So

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Speaker 1: of day. Maybe breakfast is easier to execute. I recently

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Speaker 1: had someone on Instagram reach out and say, dinner's too crazy.

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Speaker 1: breakfasts midweek. Amazing way a problem solve. I think that's brilliant.

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Speaker 1: So I think that as long as you sit together

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