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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 is episode ninety four, Establishing

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Speaker 1: a new dinner Rhythm. I feel like August is kind

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Speaker 1: of like a mid year reset for my family. This

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Speaker 1: week we've been talking about things like resolutions and goal setting,

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Speaker 1: even words for the upcoming school year with our two

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Speaker 1: a great time for resetting and even maybe a bit

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Speaker 1: of self reflection. I happen to love it. It aligns

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Speaker 1: well with my type, a first child, enneagram free personality.

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Speaker 1: But whether your personality loves the practice of goal setting

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Speaker 1: or not, I do think it's a great time of

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Speaker 1: year to think about whether or not you're satisfied with

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Speaker 1: a couple of your routines, namely your cooking routine and

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Speaker 1: that routine that you may or may not have been

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Speaker 1: put in place for breaking bread with the people you love.

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Speaker 1: So today we're going to chat a bit about how

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Speaker 1: you could maybe reestablish some habits or rhythm or systems

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Speaker 1: to make dinner time feel a bit easier. But first

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Speaker 1: we're going to run through three simple recipes you could

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Speaker 1: throw on your meal plan if you're stuck trying to

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Speaker 1: decide what to make for dinner this week. I know

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Speaker 1: that I'm not the only one that cooking is not

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Speaker 1: the problem. I love to cook. It's the deciding what

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Speaker 1: to make night after night after night that feel so daunting.

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Speaker 1: So hopefully by sharing a few ideas with you every week,

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Speaker 1: it helps with that decision fatigue. So here we go.

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Speaker 1: First recipe, skillet steak fajitas with tomatio guacamal. So a

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Speaker 1: lot of this meal plan was kind of inspired by

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Speaker 1: my kids because we're heading back to school, and I,

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Speaker 1: you know, every now and then. In fact, this is

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Speaker 1: a great tip and just generally a good practice if

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Speaker 1: you're mapping out a meal plan and you feel stuck

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Speaker 1: and you just are so uninspired asking your family members

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Speaker 1: to pick something like, hey, Alli, you're in charge of

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Speaker 1: picking a meal this week. What do you want? That's

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Speaker 1: kind of what happened this week, And Allie said steak.

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Speaker 1: I want steak, And so I said, how about steak vegetas?

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Speaker 1: And he said even better. So you're gonna have my

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Speaker 1: skillet steak fijitas. We'll see if I end up doing

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Speaker 1: the tomatio guacamole, which is so delicious, but it does

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Speaker 1: require you to get some tomatillos, and I know that

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Speaker 1: that might mean an extra trip to a grocery store.

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Speaker 1: So if you aren't going to do that, just make

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Speaker 1: regular guacamal. These skillet steak fijitas are so yummy, peppers, onions, steak,

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Speaker 1: a little bit of a sauce, lime cilandro just it's

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Speaker 1: a great way to replace Taco Tuesday if you've had

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Speaker 1: one too many Taco Tuesdays in your life lately. So

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Speaker 1: we're gonna have that. Nora is my girls have always

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Speaker 1: loved rice, but she's on a coconut rice cake right now,

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Speaker 1: and so I've got a recipe for a mingle lime

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Speaker 1: chicken with coconut rice that is so, so so good.

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Speaker 1: I will probably still have to deconstruct it for her

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Speaker 1: because she is my picky right now, but she loves

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Speaker 1: the coconut rice. And anytime my picky kids get excited

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Speaker 1: about a new flavor profile in the mix, we lean

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Speaker 1: be expanding the palette. So that's how mango lime chicken

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Speaker 1: finally we've got family coming into town, and so I

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Speaker 1: wanted to do an easy, like summer slow cooker recipe

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Speaker 1: to feed a lot of people, honestly, So I'm making

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Speaker 1: my one pot salsaverde shredded beef. I got a couple

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Speaker 1: for this recipe this week, and I was like, you

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Speaker 1: know what, this is a delicious recipe. It's funny how

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Speaker 1: we kind of forget some of those hits. My go

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Speaker 1: to is making the carnitas that I made last week,

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Speaker 1: but I should not forget about this salsaverdy shredded beef.

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Speaker 1: Like many of you, I feel like I'm a bit

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Speaker 1: discombobulated after two and a half months of summer schedules

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Speaker 1: with less routine and predictability, and while I love summer,

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Speaker 1: I genuinely do, my goodness, it throws any sort of

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Speaker 1: week of August, I find myself crazing that structure and

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Speaker 1: where we're having regular dinners again. That's what I want

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Speaker 1: First of all, start small. If you've fallen out of

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Speaker 1: a routine, don't sit down and say I'm going to

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Speaker 1: start making dinners again and plan seven home cooked meals

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Speaker 1: by keeping it simple, so so simple, even just one

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Speaker 1: And we talked about, let's start with two days. Start

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Speaker 1: Maybe it's introducing a new tradition like rose and thorn.

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Speaker 1: Or we do sweet and sour at our dinner table.

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Speaker 1: we're bringing candles back to the dinner table. Now, it's

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Speaker 1: usually more pleasant family dinners. My four year old Penny

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Speaker 1: of a moody dinner. It's not moody, it's usually silly

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Speaker 1: Another way you could make it fun is maybe I mean,

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Speaker 1: We want to keep it simple. We want to follow

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Speaker 1: that first rule of starting small. But you could also

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Speaker 1: maybe you pick you tell the kids everyone has one

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Speaker 1: make it get fun. Everyone's families are different ages and personalities,

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