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Speaker 1: Hi everybody.

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Speaker 2: I'm Kelsey Nixon and this is Kitchen Prescription, the podcast

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Speaker 2: you listen to and you don't know what to make

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Speaker 2: for dinner. Today's episode one hundred and sixteen, Cooking while

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Speaker 2: on vacation. I hope everyone has had a great week

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Speaker 2: and that you're settling in nicely to the new ish year.

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Speaker 2: We all survived January, albeit barely, and I feel the

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Speaker 2: which is nice. I spent a huge chunk of time

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Speaker 2: we have taken our most popular slow cooker recipes and

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Speaker 2: tab with some really reliable, delicious slow cooker recipes that

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Speaker 2: are going to save you for those super chaotic days.

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Speaker 2: In addition to me like putting the literally burned the

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Speaker 2: We are preparing to go to Hawaii, so we're going

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Speaker 2: on a family vacation, my parents, my siblings, all the cousins.

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Speaker 2: We're headed to Maui, and we are so excited we

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Speaker 2: can hardly stand it. We've been counting down the remaining

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Speaker 2: really excited. And speaking of Hawaii, it shouldn't come as

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Speaker 2: a surprise that my job on the family vacation has

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Speaker 2: been to make the family meal plan. So we're staying

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Speaker 2: it certainly does not make sense to go out for

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Speaker 2: But this week I'm updating it with what we're actually

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Speaker 2: these are so good. You marinate chicken in this dressing,

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Speaker 2: this podcast can be helpful to you as you do

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Speaker 2: the same. Next week, I'll be taking off because I

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Speaker 2: will be enjoying Hawaii with my family, but I'll be

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Speaker 2: back in two weeks and we'll look forward to that

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Speaker 2: until next time. Happy Cookie, I'm kilthy. I'm look forward

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Speaker 2: to chatting with you all in the two weeks. Thanks

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