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The Dinner Plan

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—that’s also where you’ll find our list of 99 dinner ideas you didn’t have to think of.

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Copyright: © Margaret Hoffman

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What Does Food & Wine's Executive Editor Actually Cook at Home? Jun 13, 2025

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How does an idea make its way into Food & Wine magazine? What older recipes should we all be making now? Hear Karen Shimizu, Food & Wine's executive editor, answer these questions—and share her weeknight dinner favorites and the lessons she's learned through her years at the magazine. Get all the links from this episode at TheDinnerPlan.Substack.com.

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Chetna Makan Says to Cook For Yourself First Jun 06, 2025

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On the 40th episode of the podcast, host Maggie Hoffman chats with cookbook author Chetna Makan about her love for grilling, her go-to sides and salads for a barbecue, plus her favorite ways to use up zucchini and eggplant once they come into season. Hear Chetna's advice for staying inspired in the kitchen, plus learn about her favorite summer desserts. Get recipes and recommendations from Chetna on The Dinner Plan's newsletter at TheDinnerPlan.Substack.com.

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Cook for Your Kid Like a Chef Who’s Done the Michelin Thing Jun 02, 2025

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Chef Scott Clark has run recipe R&D at fancy restaurants like Saison and Benu in San Francisco—but these days you'll find him cooking in a little traincar on the side of Highway 1 in Half Moon Bay. In this episode of The Dinner Plan, Scott shares tips for organizing a small kitchen, memories of the amazing California road trips featured in his new cookbook, Coastal, and his philosophy on cooking for his daughter and cooking when you're camping. Get Scott's umami oil, panzanella, fish stick hand rolls, and more recipes mentioned in this episode at TheDinnerPlan.Substack.com.

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Andrea Aliseda’s Kitchen Ritual May 29, 2025

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Andrea Aliseda, author of Make It Plant Based! Mexican, shares advice for getting in the zone when it's time to cook, her favorite ways to prepare mushrooms so they're not at all soggy, and how she gets a week of different meals out of one big pot of beans. Find recipes from Andrea and all the links mentioned on the show at TheDinnerPlan.Substack.com.

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A Crowd-Sourced Meal With Casey Elsass May 19, 2025

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To get Casey's pickled potato salad and caesar salad recipes, head to TheDinnerPlan.Substack.com. On this episode of The Dinner Plan, host Maggie Hoffman talks to Casey Elsass, whose new book, What Can I Bring?, shares recipes for dips, salads, sides, drinks, and sweets that are ideal for toting along to a barbecue, picnic, or dinner party.

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Front-of-Closet Recipes With Peter Som May 16, 2025

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Head to TheDinnerPlan.Substack.com for all of Peter Som's recipe recommendations. When a fashion designer invites you over for dinner, you know it's going to be stylish. This week, The Dinner Plan host Maggie Hoffman talks to Peter Som about his tips for chic dinner parties without too much effort, his go-to method for cooking tofu, and what he's really looking forward to making for dinner in warmer weather. Get his Lemony Miso Garlic Shrimp recipe and Famous Lemon Chicken on The Dinner Plan newsletter on Substack here.

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Snacks for Dinner With Georgia Freedman May 09, 2025

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Go to TheDinnerPlan.Substack.com for all the recipes mentioned here—and this week's book giveaway! On this episode, host Maggie Hoffman chats with cookbook author Georgia Freedman, whose new book Snacking Dinners shares 50 low-effort meals that feel like a special occasion. Georgia shares advice for stocking your pantry so that these fun dinners come together quickly, plus tips on making snacks for a crowd without exhausting yourself. Get links to all the recipes in Georgia's weeknight meal rotation at The Dinner Plan's free newsletter on Substack.

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Rick Martinez’s New Salsa Cookbook Will Transform Your Cooking Apr 28, 2025

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Get the recipes and cookbook links—and enter to win Rick's book—at TheDinnerPlan.Substack.com. On this week's episode, host Maggie Hoffman talks to Rick Martinez, author of Mi Cocina and Salsa Daddy, a new book of over 70 traditional and modern salsa recipes. Rick shares how making salsas can make simple weeknight meals so much more flavorful—and which salsa you can freeze for later. He tells you what to look for when you're buying chiles, how to pair specific salsas with whatever you're eating, and gives us a list of his all-time favorite cookbooks and the recipes he leans on most at home.

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Date Molasses, Black Lime, and Fluffy Rice With Noor Murad Apr 24, 2025

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Get the recipes and cookbooks mentioned here our free newsletter: TheDinnerPlan.Substack.com. On this episode, Noor Murad, author of the new cookbook Lugma: Abundant Dishes And Stories From My Middle East, shares memories of her childhood in Bahrain and the meals she loves most, whether she's hosting friends or looking for an easy weeknight dinner. She talks about life at Ottolenghi in London and her pantry essentials at home, plus some cookbook authors she looks up to.

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Gena Hamshaw's Meal Prep System for Busy Weeks Apr 18, 2025

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Get the recipes and enter this week's cookbook giveaway at TheDinnerPlan.Substack.com. (It's free!) If you just aren't feeling inspired to cook right now, you're going to want to listen to this interview. On this week's epsiode of The Dinner Plan, host Maggie Hoffman talks to Gena Hamshaw, the author of A Grain, a Green, a Bean: One Simple Formula, Countless Meatless Meals. Gena works long hours at a hospital, so she's figured out a meal prep and freezer system that allows for homemade meals in minutes on the weeknights, even when she just isn't feeling excited about cooking. She shares some favorite store-bought shortcuts, her hands-off method for baking whole grains in the oven, and go-to cookbooks for plant-based dinner inspiration.

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