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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 is episode seventy four, Beating

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Speaker 1: Boredom in the Kitchen. Now. Usually when I'm discussing boredom

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Speaker 1: in my current chapter of life, it involves one of

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Speaker 1: my kids coming to me and telling me they're so

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Speaker 1: bored and then there's nothing to do, which I usually

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Speaker 1: follow up with, it's so good for you to be bored.

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Speaker 1: Boredom proceeds creativity and they roll their eyes. And if

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Speaker 1: I'm being honest, kids claiming boredom can kind of feel

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Speaker 1: annoying as a mom. But when it's not one of

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Speaker 1: my kids and instead it's one of my girlfriends that

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Speaker 1: comes up to me and says, I am so bored

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Speaker 1: with dinner. I am sick of making the same recipes

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Speaker 1: over and over again. I I am ready to dive

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Speaker 1: in and help you problem solve. So that's what we're

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Speaker 1: going to do. Dig into today some of my best

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Speaker 1: tips to help you pull yourself out of a dinner

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Speaker 1: rut or boredom. If you feel as if you are

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Speaker 1: stuck making the same recipes over and over again. But first,

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Speaker 1: let's discuss a few recipes you can throw on your

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Speaker 1: meal plan for the week. And remember these are all

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Speaker 1: five ingredient recipes this month to help you really simplify

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Speaker 1: as you get through the and of winter, the beginning

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Speaker 1: of spring, and survive a crazy chapter of life. All right.

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Speaker 1: First up, speaking of that transition from winter to spring,

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Speaker 1: as I was mapping out my meal plan, I kind

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Speaker 1: of found myself wanting to get in a few more

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Speaker 1: comfort food recipes before spring comes and you know, likely

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Speaker 1: we've all got at least another couple weeks of cold

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Speaker 1: ish weather. But so it feels like my it feels

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Speaker 1: like my menu plan this week is very cozy. Starting

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Speaker 1: with that first recipe of beef and farrow soup. So

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Speaker 1: this recipe is inspired by a recipe grew up with.

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Speaker 1: My mom used to always make beef and barley soup

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Speaker 1: in the fall and winter months, and I really love

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Speaker 1: this recipe. I have memories of this recipe like it's

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Speaker 1: a good one. But her recipe is pretty time intensive.

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Speaker 1: This one is five ingredients and you can throw together

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Speaker 1: in under thirty minutes, and it uses one of my

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Speaker 1: I like to buy the quick Cooking ten minute farrow

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Speaker 1: at Trader Joe's. It's nutty, it's chewy, it's a whole grain.

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Speaker 1: It's amazing, and my kids eat it all the time

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Speaker 1: just as a regular side dish. I often use it

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Speaker 1: in grain bowls and soups and stews, and it is

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Speaker 1: particularly great in this one so really simple recipe, so

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Speaker 1: good with like crusty bread and a like a bright

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Speaker 1: side salad. So that's on our on our meal plan

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Speaker 1: for the week. We're also making tariaki chicken stirfry. This

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Speaker 1: is one of my go to pantry meals, meaning I

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Speaker 1: I definitely always have a jar of my favorite store

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Speaker 1: bought kariyaki sauce in the pantry. I really like the

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Speaker 1: soyaki sauce from Trader Joe's, but I also like the

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Speaker 1: very tariyaki that you can get at almost any grocery store.

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Speaker 1: It is one of those shortcut ingredients for me. I

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Speaker 1: don't use it all the time, but boy does it

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Speaker 1: have driven to McDonald's. So this is a great easy

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Speaker 1: favorite comfort food recipes and it's only five ingredients and

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Speaker 1: it is so perfect for a Sunday. We are having

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Speaker 1: our slow cooker Mississippi pot roast. It's delicious. It's got

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Speaker 1: banana peppers in it. It's like zingy and rich and

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Speaker 1: for Sunday, so we're gonna have it on Sunday. There

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Speaker 1: are your recipes for the week. You can find and

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Speaker 1: print them all on Recipe Club individually or in our

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Speaker 1: weekly meal plan with an easy follow shopping list broken

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Speaker 1: down by recipe and While we publish new monthly recipes

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Speaker 1: and weekly meal plans every month of the year so

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Speaker 1: that you don't have to get tired of cooking the

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Speaker 1: same things over and over again, seasonally, we do like

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Speaker 1: to do an entire month of five ingredient recipes and

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Speaker 1: So if you've been thinking about trying Recipe Club, check

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Speaker 1: it out. This would be a great month to do

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Speaker 1: so and get your hands on all those five ingredient recipes.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's jump into the back half of the

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Speaker 1: Some people can eat or cook the same thing every

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Speaker 1: why you're in a rut, and if I were guessing,

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Speaker 1: it would be one of these two things, either repetition.

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Speaker 1: Repetition often will create a rut and you just don't

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Speaker 1: reason it could be is circumstantial. Now, those of you

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Speaker 1: And chances are it could be both. I also believe,

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Speaker 1: Initiate a very casual like recipe swap or exchange. Whether

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