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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 listened to when you don't know what

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Speaker 1: to make for dinner. Today's episode one hundred and twenty three,

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Speaker 1: how to build a recipe binder. This week, I visited

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Speaker 1: hospital thanks to an awful case of pneumonia. I hopped

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Speaker 1: on a plane and went to help her shuttle her

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Speaker 1: kids from place to place. I made a few meals.

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Speaker 1: It was a quick trip, but I had brought her

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Speaker 1: a copy of our newest recipe collection that launched last week,

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Speaker 1: our Salad Collection, to put in her recipe binder. I literally,

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Speaker 1: we had launched it the exact day that I ended

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Speaker 1: up traveling, and I thought I'll just grab it and

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Speaker 1: take it to her. When I got to her house,

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Speaker 1: up her binder to add the salad collection under her

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Speaker 1: salad tab, and like half the recipes fell out of

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Speaker 1: the binder. And I quickly realized that it was kind

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Speaker 1: of a mess, and to no fault of hers. Life

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Speaker 1: is crazy, get it. But I thought, you know what

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Speaker 1: if I just spent a little bit of time cleaning

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Speaker 1: this up. I just got to clip these recipes into

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Speaker 1: the categories that they belong in, fill in some blanks.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to get this binder ready to go, so honestly,

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Speaker 1: I had it in tiptop shape in about forty five minutes,

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Speaker 1: and now she's got a super helpful tool for meal

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Speaker 1: planning and making dinner at her fingertips, especially as she's

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Speaker 1: kind of getting back to full health. She's already called

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Speaker 1: when setting up your binder to simplify your life really

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Speaker 1: surrounding dinner, and I want to walk through those with

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Speaker 1: you today. Whether you're using our recipe binder or a

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Speaker 1: I will forever stand by the fact that having a

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Speaker 1: decision fatigue. But before we do that, let's do what

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Speaker 1: we always do and start by suggesting a few recipes

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Speaker 1: Because dinner never takes a break. First, we are making sturfry.

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Speaker 1: I'm on a sturfry kick. I made this Mediterranean sturfry

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Speaker 1: week before. This week pork and pineapple sturfry. It happens

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Speaker 1: the pork tenderloin at Costco, I usually portion it into

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Speaker 1: All right, there are your recipes for the week. You

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Speaker 1: or in our weekly meal plant with an easy to

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Speaker 1: follow shopping lists broken down by recipe. I also want

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Speaker 1: time just a few days before Easter. But don't forget that.

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Speaker 1: In Recipe Club, we have our Holiday Hub where we

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Speaker 1: have holiday menus for all of the main your holidays

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Speaker 1: throughout the year, including Easter. I just did a test

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Speaker 1: you check out our Easter Holiday Hub. There's lots of

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Speaker 1: I am so excited to be chatting with you about

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Speaker 1: building that recipe binder today. And if you are someone

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Speaker 1: how to build your binder. It's gonna be a lot

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Speaker 1: the back half of the podcast and chat about recipe

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Speaker 1: That's why I created a recipe Club, and the recipe

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Speaker 1: binder was created as a companion piece to recipe Club.

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Speaker 1: making a storefry. It took nearly a year to bring

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Speaker 1: Recipe Clubs certainly has. When I set out to create

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Speaker 1: intended to be both an everyday resource plus an heirloom

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Speaker 1: and updated, with recipes swapped in and out of it

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Speaker 1: every so often. As you experience different chapters of life.

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Speaker 1: The recipes you cook will obviously change. You'll have some

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Speaker 1: empty nesters, and the recipes in your binder would change

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Speaker 1: be a place where you store every single recipe you've

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Speaker 1: And we all know that the hardest part about making

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Speaker 1: to contain more than one hundred recipes because no one

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Speaker 1: look all around to find them. All right, that's it

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Speaker 1: we're going to do kitchen office hours. Answer your questions,

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Speaker 1: and so if you have any questions you'd like me

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much for listening today. I'm so glad you're here.

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Speaker 1: Until next time, happy cooking. I'm Kelsey and look forward

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