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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. This is episode one and Gifting

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Speaker 1: from your Kitchen. We are officially halfway through December. How

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Speaker 1: are you holding up? I would say I'm hanging by

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Speaker 1: a thread. This month has been so crazy for me

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Speaker 1: that I've genuinely had to take things just one week

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Speaker 1: at a time. So early this morning, during my little

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Speaker 1: early morning work session, I sat down and I did

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Speaker 1: a status check on gifting. What I need to still buy,

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Speaker 1: acknowledging that I still need to wrap everything, what parties

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Speaker 1: we still have left to attend, how many days my

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Speaker 1: et cetera. I also made a game plan for gifting

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Speaker 1: from my kitchen. What are we going to make and

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Speaker 1: take to neighbors, teachers, friends, and so forth. It's a

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Speaker 1: two parter because not only do I think it's a

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Speaker 1: nice gesture to give to these people, it's also kind

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Speaker 1: of woven into our family tradition each year, and so

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Speaker 1: if we didn't do any gifting from our kitchen, I

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Speaker 1: think I feel a little bit sad about it, so

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Speaker 1: in the midst of everything we still have going on,

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Speaker 1: we will bake. And it's actually what we're going to

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Speaker 1: spend the last half of today's podcast talking about. But

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Speaker 1: before we do that, let's do what we always do

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Speaker 1: and discuss a few recipes you could throw on your

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Speaker 1: meal plan for the week. First up, a new recipe

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Speaker 1: and recipe Club Orange chicken Pacata with pomegranate. Now. Inspired

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Speaker 1: this recipe as I was developing it was I love

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Speaker 1: chicken pacada, just classic lemon chicken pacata, and my family

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Speaker 1: love this simple lemon butter sauce. And as we are

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Speaker 1: moving into fall and winter, I was like, what if

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Speaker 1: we did this with fresh orange juice instead of fresh

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Speaker 1: lemon juice, and instead of adding capers, we hadd pomegranate seeds.

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Speaker 1: And so I kind of took the formula of chicken

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Speaker 1: with rice. It's so pretty because you've got the pomegranate seeds.

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Speaker 1: This orange butter sauce that you drizzle over the chicken

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Speaker 1: and I'm gonna make this because it looks as good

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Speaker 1: as it tastes. And it's very very simple, a little

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Speaker 1: So that's not our meal plan. Secondly, I am feeling,

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Speaker 1: food season and mama needs salad. Like I put on

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Speaker 1: our meal plan my chopped kale caesar with salmon, because

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Speaker 1: I've just been feeling something that feels a bit lighter,

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Speaker 1: and this homemade caesar dressing is so good. In fact,

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Speaker 1: I saw someone this week, a friend who said she'd

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Speaker 1: was like, oh, yeah, I need to make that. I'm

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Speaker 1: missing that. That is such a good recipe. So we've

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Speaker 1: we're going to make my creamy chicken toortlinip. So simple,

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Speaker 1: so hearty because it's got the toortolini in it and

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Speaker 1: So those are three recipes I'm definitely making this week.

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Speaker 1: back half of the podcast and chat about gifting from

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Speaker 1: your kitchen. My favorite holiday gifts to give are usually thoughtful,

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Speaker 1: when we're talking about gifting to our neighbors, to teachers,

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Speaker 1: Especially with a nice spool of ribbon a few handwritten labels,

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Speaker 1: to make this year. Before you decide what you'll be

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Speaker 1: simple to decide what you're giving. It's like your family's

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Speaker 1: So these are things that I have gifted in the

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Speaker 1: beautiful color, so that when you gifted in little mason jars,

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Speaker 1: it's just very pretty. And in the past I've attached

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Speaker 1: I have a pork tenderloin recipe with the cranberry barbecue sauce,

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Speaker 1: And if you're in Recipe Club, you could get that

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Speaker 1: because all of our recipes are so darned pretty in

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Speaker 1: it'd look amazing. Buttermilk biscuits are great, pickled onions that

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Speaker 1: no kneed. Bread I talked about all good stuff. Finally,

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Speaker 1: let's just quickly talk about packaging a little bit. Presentation

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Speaker 1: is one of my favorite parts of gifting from the kitchen.

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Speaker 1: So if you've got the bandwidth, go beyond the paper

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Speaker 1: plate wrapped in foil, and there is some great links

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Speaker 1: on my Amazon storefront. You can find most of these

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Speaker 1: items that I list there right on Amazon or even

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Speaker 1: Things like takeout boxes are perfect for cookies and brownies.

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Speaker 1: It's nice because the coated material will keep the outside

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Speaker 1: I usually get those on Amazon. Clear Deli containers are

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Speaker 1: and popcorn, even frosting for things like cinnamon rolls. They

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Speaker 1: so ye it. Thank you so much for listening today.

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Speaker 1: Make sure you're subscribed so that you never miss an episode.

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Speaker 1: Remember I created this entire podcast so that you would

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Speaker 1: listen to a podcast, and it's really, I think a

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