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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 one hundred and

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Speaker 1: twenty Hacks to help with dinner. Anyone getting ready to

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Speaker 1: head out for spring break? Our system for a few

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Speaker 1: more weeks, but I'm starting to hear about friends and

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Speaker 1: family that have plans and their spring breaks are kicking

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Speaker 1: off now. In fact, we're getting a little, let's call

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Speaker 1: it a spring break preview this weekend where my sister

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Speaker 1: spring break. So we're gonna drive out and meet them

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Speaker 1: for the day and it'll be fun. My kids can swim,

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Speaker 1: see cousins, and we'll get just a taste of spring break.

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Speaker 1: So it's not technically our spring break, I will say

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Speaker 1: we are having insanely gorgeous spring weather and I am

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Speaker 1: soaking it all up. We came off of two weeks

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Speaker 1: of lots of rain, and now it's green, and it's warm,

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Speaker 1: and it's blues. It's just beautiful. So my husband turns

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Speaker 1: forty this week, which is kind of exciting. I turned

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Speaker 1: forty about six months ago, so I am older and wiser,

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Speaker 1: but that means I have some fun things planned that

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Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to this weekend. It includes some surprises,

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Speaker 1: but I am not going to share in the off

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Speaker 1: chance that he actually listens to this podcast. But we

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Speaker 1: did go out to dinner last week for date night,

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Speaker 1: and I was talking about what do you want for

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Speaker 1: your fortieth and neither himri or big party people. We

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Speaker 1: kind of went on a small trip for my husband's

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Speaker 1: fortieth a couple weeks ago with friends from high school,

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Speaker 1: and then I actually wanted to have a little solo

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Speaker 1: trip a couple months ago. And one thing he said

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Speaker 1: is he's said, one of my favorite things is just

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Speaker 1: eating at a good restaurant. I love to eat at

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Speaker 1: a good restaurant. And as we have been in the

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Speaker 1: building a business, it's date nights happened far and few between,

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Speaker 1: and so it doesn't happen. And we lived in New

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Speaker 1: York City for ten years, so we were constantly eating

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Speaker 1: and we still have access to lots of good restaurants

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Speaker 1: but he said, to celebrate forty, I want to do

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Speaker 1: forty restaurant meals to celebrate forty. And obviously a restaurant

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Speaker 1: meal constitutes something bigger than an in and out burger,

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Speaker 1: but going and sitting down and having a proper meal

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Speaker 1: together over the course of the next year. So we're

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Speaker 1: gonna make a list and kind of check it off,

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Speaker 1: and it'll be just a little thing we do to

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Speaker 1: I guess both celebrate turning forty this past year. So

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Speaker 1: there you have it. Another exciting thing this week is

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Speaker 1: it's not that exciting, but it's just it's really just

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Speaker 1: kind of silly. Is I had a real go viral,

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Speaker 1: probably the biggest real I've ever done, over baked potatoes.

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Speaker 1: And we've been laughing all weekend about how who knew

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Speaker 1: that potatoes would be the thing that people are most

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Speaker 1: I went viral this past weekend and naturally we had

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Speaker 1: kids can impact my eleven year old or no, he's twelve.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, exactly, you could do that. So we're gonna

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Speaker 1: to help with dinner, because this really is such a

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Speaker 1: people are seeing it right now and hopefully it's going

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Speaker 1: to lead to some easy weeknight dinners. But first, let's

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Speaker 1: get into a few recipe ideas you could throw on

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Speaker 1: your meal plan for the upcoming week. Since it is

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Speaker 1: birthday week for my husband, we have a couple of

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Speaker 1: his favorites, starting with this tortellini with lemon and dill.

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Speaker 1: It's I've got a couple of TORTLINI recipes that are

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Speaker 1: really popular in recipe Club. But the reason I like

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Speaker 1: tortellini is you can either buy a cheese filled or

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Speaker 1: And this lemonon dill is this delicious springy cream sauce.

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Speaker 1: But the story behind this recipe is so great. My

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Speaker 1: mom's dad, my grandpa Kent, years ago, entered this recipe

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Speaker 1: And it's also the very first thing I made for

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Speaker 1: This is what I made him. So what a way

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Speaker 1: to celebrate forty. Next on the list are chili lime tacos.

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Speaker 1: My family loves these. They are made with ground turkey

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Speaker 1: if your by ground turkey, this recipe is perfect for that.

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Speaker 1: It's very Trader Joe's friendly. You certainly don't have to

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Speaker 1: get all the stuff at Trader Joe's, but you can,

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Speaker 1: and it's very easy to pick this stuff up. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: with the Mexican theme because that is my husband's favorite

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Speaker 1: pancake sadia. And this is like the thing. It's perfect

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Speaker 1: Make this. It's kind of like a what do you

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Speaker 1: thing to make for easy weekendight dinner too. All right,

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Speaker 1: for dinner time. All right, let's jump into the back

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Speaker 1: half of the podcast and discuss hacks that help with dinner.

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Speaker 1: Like I mentioned earlier, this week, one of my favorite

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Speaker 1: that's currently being shown to millions of people, and that

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Speaker 1: So I thought, let's do like a baked potato bar,

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Speaker 1: But my kids love it too. It's filling, they're super inexpensive,

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Speaker 1: so if you're looking ways to bulk up dinners. While

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Speaker 1: all sorts of stuff you could do, but that is

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Speaker 1: take that whole potato, you slice it in half, you

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Speaker 1: number two. You know how your kids like certain things

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Speaker 1: happy cooking. I am Kelsey and look forward to chatting

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