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Figuring out what to make for dinner can be exhausting. The Dinner Plan helps you start every week with fresh cooking inspiration, thanks to Maggie Hoffman and a roster of top cookbook authors. You'll get dinner ideas for every season, advice on how to make weeknight meal planning easier, smart budget cooking and grocery shopping tips, and easy dinners to make when you're short on time and energy. Guests on The Dinner Plan include experts like Molly Baz, Melissa Clark, Justine Doiron, Hetty Lui McKinnon, J. Kenji López-Alt, Hailee Catalano, and more. Guests answer questions like: What store-bought shortcuts make your weeknight dinners more flavorful? How do you meal prep or ingredient prep without getting bored? What weeknight dinner recipes would you text to a friend? Where do you find dinner ideas when you don't feel like cooking? To get each guest's cookbook recommendations, plus a free recipe of the week from that guest's latest book, subscribe to The Dinner Plan newsletter at TheDinnerPlan.Substack.com (thedinnerplan.substack.com)—that's also where you'll find our list of 99 dinner ideas you didn't have to think of. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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  1. Postpartum Meals and Feeding New Parents With Clarissa Wei

    Postpartum meal prep is all over the internet in the US, but in Taiwan, 65% of new moms check into a full-service postpartum hotel to recover after giving birth. When Clarissa Wei, author of Sitting the Month (https://link.amazon/B0e5ff3V1)

  2. Adrianna Adarme’s Sweater-Weather Dinners

    In A Cozy Kitchen Cookbook (https://link.amazon/B0hIbt3eS), Adrianna Adarme zeroes in on the right recipe for every mood: There are easy dinners for the midweek slump, quick family dinners for the nights you’re low on time, and pajamas-reco

  3. How One-Pot Pasta Found Its Way to Your Table

    In this episode of The Dinner Plan, cookbook author Nora Singley shares the story behind Martha Stewart's famous one-pot pasta, a pasta recipe that's been riffed on so many times you probably don't even remember the first time you saw it. N

  4. Fuchsia Dunlop’s Flavor Templates for Easy Weeknight Dinners

    “A lot of my books have been very much about reflecting traditional Chinese cooking and trying to just report accurately on what I find in China,” Fuchsia Dunlop says in this episode of The Dinner Plan podcast. For her new cookbook, Five Ta

  5. How Jeanine Donofrio Got Her Love of Cooking Back

    Jeanine Donofrio of Love and Lemons was in a cooking rut. Rushing through busy weeknight dinners made cooking so much less enjoyable, and she missed the days when she had time to linger in the kitchen. Her dinners felt boring, too. With sma

  6. John Kanell: Preppy Kitchen’s Tips for Joyful Baking Every Day

    John Kanell of Preppy Kitchen is practical about dinner; he’ll use two air fryers at once to get chicken on the table fast. But the former middle school teacher sees baking as an important outlet for his family, and a way to make even lefto

  7. What Mark Bittman Actually Makes for Dinner

    Mark Bittman's latest cookbook, How to Cook Everything Vegan (https://link.amazon/B0a08aaDR), isn't meant to convince you to declare yourself a 24/7 vegan. Instead, Mark explains in this episode of The Dinner Plan with Maggie Hoffman, he's

  8. How Kay Chun Plans a Week of Easy Dinners

    Kay Chun has created numerous recipes for the New York Times, and worked in the test kitchens at Gourmet, Bon Appétit, and Food + Wine in addition to being a restaurant chef. She's one of my go-to trusted names when I'm looking for new dinn

  9. Leah Victoria’s Meal Prep for Real Life

    Meal prep systems can feel like an all-or-nothing commitment, but Leah Victoria thinks there’s a reasonable way to prep some dinner building blocks without committing to a full week of recipes that you cook on Sunday and get sick of by Wedn

  10. Even Yotam Ottolenghi Gets Nervous Before a Dinner Party

    Yotam Ottolenghi’s new cookbook, Simple Too (https://link.amazon/B02zNETA1), makes weeknight dinners even easier than the original book did. In this episode of The Dinner Plan, Yotam admits that he feels pressure to host the perfect dinner

  11. Sara Bradley’s Soup Season Tips

    Two-time Top Chef finalist Sara Bradley loves to play with soup recipes, and in this episode of The Dinner Plan, she shares her favorite ways to dress up squash soup, tomato soup, corn soup, and cantaloupe soup. (Yes, cantaloupe soup.) Sara

  12. Meherwan Irani’s No. 1 Best Indian Cooking Tips in the World

    As a teenager, Meherwan Irani would sneak out to eat street food against his mother’s wishes. These days the chef of Chai Pani and Boti Walla shares the flavors of his childhood in India with guests at his restaurants, and cooks at home thr

  13. Nik Sharma Breaks Down the Science Behind His Best Cooking Tricks

    Nik Sharma wants home cooks to better understand food science; in this episode of The Dinner Plan, he shares some of the best cooking tips from his new book, Fundamentals of Flavor: 100 Recipes for the Science of Better Cooking (https://lin

  14. Swanky, Low-Stress Entertaining With Cortney LaCorte

    Cortney LaCorte—also known as Cheese Gal—joins The Dinner Plan this week to share her best advice on how to make a cheese plate and all the ways she makes entertaining more relaxed. That includes tips on what to cook for a dinner party, the

  15. For Olivia Tiedemann, Rich People Food Comes Down to the Right Moves

    Olivia Tiedemann will be the first to tell you that working as a private chef isn't easy. You've gotta know what each guest likes and doesn't like, all the dietary restrictions, "who doesn't eat anchovies, who doesn't eat onions, who doesn'

  16. Pati Jinich Cooks the Bold Flavors of the Mexican Border

    You may know Pati Jinich from her long-running series, Pati’s Mexican Table, or her previous cookbooks, but this fall you’ll be seeing a lot more of her, including her new docuseries, Panamericana, and her new cookbook, Foods of La Frontera

  17. Carla Lalli Makes Dinner the Best Part of a Bad Day

    When Carla Lalli separated from her ex and moved part-time into a sublet after decades of marriage, the first thing she did was make dinner. “I cooked because it gives me a sense of comfort,” Carla says in this week’s episode of The Dinner

  18. The High-Protein Vegetarian Dinners Grace Elkus Makes on Repeat

    The high-protein vegetarian recipes in Grace Elkus's new cookbook, Protein-Packed Vegetarian (https://amzn.to/4xmKEJe), are exactly the kind of dinners I crave, packed with flavor and easy to make, even on a busy weeknight. In this episode

  19. Fresh Thai Cooking With Pim Techamuanvivit

    I've been looking forward to chef Pim Techamuanvivit's Thai cookbook for years. It's an essential guide to cooking Thai food, including fresh curry pastes, grilled dishes, curries, soups, and laab. In this episode of The Dinner Plan, I talk

  20. Grocery Prices Are Wild. The 99% Cooking Club Can Help.

    Steel Russell started The 99% Cooking Club after walking out of the grocery store with a single bag of food that cost $150. He focuses on tips for making easy, cheap meals taste complex and flavorful, and shares recipes for family dinners t

  21. Alex MacLaren’s 10-Day Grocery Strategy

    When you ask cookbook author Alex MacLaren how to save money on groceries, her answer is simple: don't go to the store for as long as possible. The author of We Use What We Have (https://amzn.to/45uPYy6) is known for making family dinners o

  22. Pierce Abernathy’s Peak Summer Dinners

    Pierce Abernathy is my go-to source for summer vegetable inspiration, and he's exactly the recipe developer I turn to when I want to make the most of summer corn and tomatoes in every dinner I cook before the season ends. But Pierce's new c

  23. Caroline Chambers Needs Even Quicker Dinners Now

    Caroline Chambers knows how to make easy dinners easier, and the mother of four needs quick weeknight recipes now more than ever. In this episode of The Dinner Plan, Caroline shares a bit of her behind-the-scenes chaos and her strategy for

  24. Omi Hopper Cooked Through the Hardest Year of Her Life to Get Here

    Next Level Chef contestant Omi Hopper has published a new cookbook full of essential Puerto Rican recipes—the ones that feel like a welcome home to the folks who follow her on Instagram and TikTok. In this episode of The Dinner Plan, she sh

  25. Serena Wolf’s Easy Summer Dinner Ideas

    Serena Wolf hosts a big pool party every year, and in this episode of The Dinner Plan, she's sharing her go-to bbq menu and the mac and cheese trick that always impresses her guests. Her new book, You Do You (https://amzn.to/3T6gw60), is fu

  26. Recipes for College Cooks and First Apartments from Claire Thomson

    Getting your kid ready to go to college includes a lot of tangible stuff, like dorm setup. But they might also be cooking dinner for the very first time in their first apartment or a university-housing kitchen, and chef Claire Thomson has a

  27. Tuscan Summer Cooking: Giulia Scarpaleggia’s Vegetable Playbook

    This episode highlights so many Italian vegetable recipes: ideas for cooking eggplant, tomatoes, zucchini, peppers and all the other produce that's at its peak right now. Your expert guide: Tuscan cooking teacher and cookbook author Giulia

  28. Relaxed Summer Entertaining With Mélanie Masarin

    Mélanie Masarin wants you to feel less stressed out about hosting. She says that her rule with friends is: “If I’m home, you can come over.” Her pantry is stocked with tinned fish and olives, and other little snacks to serve—but her ideal s

  29. King Arthur Baking’s Secrets for Better Pizza at Home

    Want to make better pizza at home but not sure how to start? Today's guest, David Tamarkin of King Arthur Baking Co., is the co-author of The Book of Pizza (https://amzn.to/3QDdCEQ). This episode of The Dinner Plan podcast is packed with ad

  30. Going Camping? Here’s What to Cook

    Camping food doesn't have to mean freeze-dried meals you reconstitute with water. On this week's episode of The Dinner Plan, Emma Frisch, the author of Feast by Firelight, (https://amzn.to/4eEc1GE) shares cooking inspiration for your next o

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