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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's episode eighty two, how to

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Speaker 1: make dinner when your kids play sports. Life certainly has

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Speaker 1: its chapters. Personally, I've gone from worrying about building a

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Speaker 1: family to surviving sleep training or oh Heaven forbid, potty training,

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Speaker 1: to sending kids off to their first day of kindergarten

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Speaker 1: and so forth. All chapters seem to have their hard aspects,

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Speaker 1: especially that potty training one, and they're wonderful aspects. But

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Speaker 1: let me tell you one chapter I did not see

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Speaker 1: coming The kids in sports chapter. There's so much I

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Speaker 1: love about it, but boy does it make dinner difficult.

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Speaker 1: And I want to be clear when I say sports,

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Speaker 1: I'm really referring to kind of after school extracurricular activities.

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Speaker 1: I've also got a daughter that does theater and musical

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Speaker 1: theater and drama and all that stuff. But today we're

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Speaker 1: going to chat about how you make dinner when your

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Speaker 1: kids do stuff after school. I have a few tried

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Speaker 1: and true tips that I've discovered navigating this chapter of

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Speaker 1: life and trying to lean into the chaos while still

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Speaker 1: making dinner happen. But before we really get into that,

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Speaker 1: let's do what we always do on the podcast and

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Speaker 1: start by giving you three ideas for recipes that you

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Speaker 1: could potentially throw on your meal plan for the upcoming week.

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Speaker 1: First step rainbow white bean and corn salad with I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna start with air friar salmon. But I have, first

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Speaker 1: of all, I have two little girls, ages four and seven,

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Speaker 1: and if I can label a recipe as a rainbow recipe,

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Speaker 1: this is really delicious. Od It's super colorful, it's got

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Speaker 1: really delicious red white vinaigrette and it and it's a

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Speaker 1: corn obviously. And one of the things I love so

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Speaker 1: much about this recipe, especially for this time of year,

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Speaker 1: is I can meal prep it in advance, make it

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Speaker 1: It's so good and it's just a really hearty side.

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Speaker 1: And so I typically will serve it with either a

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Speaker 1: slice rotisserie chicken or I'm gonna do air fryer salmon

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Speaker 1: this week, and it's so fresh and delicious. It's perfect

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Speaker 1: for that transition from spring to summer. And like I said,

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Speaker 1: I love it, I can't wait to eat. I haven't

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Speaker 1: make that second. So, like some of you, we're talking

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Speaker 1: about that transition from spring to summer, spring, you still

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Speaker 1: summery soup, and I decided my one pot coconut corn chowder.

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Speaker 1: our skillet spinach artichoke creamy orzo. And this is a

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Speaker 1: But it's also such a good pantry meal, especially if

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Speaker 1: I have every single thing to make this recipe on

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Speaker 1: It helps that both my husband and I work from home,

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