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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—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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Hailee Catalano on Fresh Spring Dinners and the Rules of Sandwich Construction Apr 11, 2025

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Find recipes and cookbook recommendations from Hailee on the free newsletter at The Dinner Plan.Substack.com. On today's episode, host Maggie Hoffman talks to Hailee Catalano, the author of By Heart: Recipes to Hold Near and Dear. Hailee offers tips for keeping cooking low-stress, thoughts on the essential rules of making a great sandwich for the beach or a picnic, and the spring recipes she's excited to cook this year.

Thanks to our sponsors: Maille Mustard; the California Prune Board; John Bersani, author of 20 Amici, 40 Ricette; and Kuhn Rikon. For 25% off at KuhnRikon.com, enter code DINNERPLAN—all one word!

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Meera Sodha on Breaking Through Burnout in the Kitchen Apr 03, 2025

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Subscribe to get recipes and cookbook links at TheDinnerPlan.Substack.com. On this long-awaited episodes, host Maggie Hoffman chats with Guardian columnist and cookbook author Meera Sodha about how she came back to cooking after a period of intense burnout. Meera, whose new book Dinner just came out in the U.S., shares some of the mental health tools that helped her through, as well as the cookbooks and pantry ingredients that inspire her now.

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What Zaynab Issa Always Has in Her Pantry Mar 28, 2025

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Get recipes from Zaynab and her cookbook recommendations free at TheDinnerPlan.Substack.com. In this week's episode of The Dinner Plan, host Maggie Hoffman talks to cookbook author and NY Times Cooking contributor Zaynab Issa about the recipes she's most excited about, her tips for stress-free dinner party hosting, and the flavorful staples she cannot live without. Hear her thoughts on how to do fusion food right, and hear why she doesn't like to get too far ahead with meal planning.

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Kiano Moju Thinks Kale Is Boring Mar 21, 2025

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Get Kiano's coriander chicken katsu recipe and links to her cookbook recommendations free on TheDinnerPlan.Substack.com. In this episode of The Dinner Plan, host Maggie Hoffman talks to Los Angeles-based recipe developer Kiano Moju. Kiano’s cookbook, Africali, draws on her Kenyan and Nigerian heritage and her upbringing in California, as well as travels abroad. Today she shares her tips for a cookout—including what you should always do first—and the all-stars of her pantry and fridge, plus favorite vegetable recipes from the book.

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How Calvin Eng Plays 'Chopped' at Home Every Night Mar 14, 2025

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Get the recipes for free on TheDinnerPlan.Substack.com. In this episode of The Dinner Plan, Maggie Hoffman talks to chef Calvin Eng of Bonnie's in Williamsburg, Brooklyn about his new cookbook Salt Sugar MSG, and how he juggles feeding a young family with running a restaurant. He shares a unique meal-prep division of labor, his favorite way to use a rotisserie chicken, and thoughts on staying flexible in the kitchen in order to avoid food waste.

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Homemade Harissa and Black Garlic BBQ Sauce With Cortney Burns Mar 06, 2025

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Get Cortney's harissa recipe and cookbook recommendations on our free newsletter at TheDinnerPlan.Substack.com. Today's episode features chef Cortney Burns, formerly of San Francisco's Bar Tartine. Cortney talks about how preserving fruits and vegetables and making your own condiments can serve as stored-up effort to make weeknight dinners deeply flavorful—and quick. Cortney shares her dinner planning routine—and how she challenges herself to put off a trip to the grocery store for as long as possible.

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Marisel Salazar Makes Her Own Grab-Bag of Frozen Burritos Feb 28, 2025

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Get Marisel's recipes for molletes and her chicken jibarito BLT for free on TheDinnerPlan.Substack.com. In this episode, host Maggie Hoffman talks to Latin-ish cookbook author Marisel Salazar about her research process for this groundbreaking book on American Latino cuisines, plus everything she keeps around for easier weeknights. Marisel shares her go-to quick dinner recipes from around the internet and the cookbooks that inspire her most. You can enter to win a copy of Marisel's book by subscribing to The Dinner Plan's free newsletter on Substack.

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Let Melissa Clark Solve Your Pantry Problems Feb 20, 2025

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Get a recipe from Melissa plus links to all her recommendations at TheDinnerPlan.Substack.com—subscribe free! In this episode of The Dinner Plan, host Maggie Hoffman chats with New York Times Cooking contributor Melissa Clark about how her dinners at home serve as a starting point for the recipes you end up seeing in the paper, and how her gig as an interim restaurant critic who’d never let a leftover go to waste has changed what she’s been cooking lately. Listen for her favorite moves for making the most of pantry ingredients, plus her thoughts on how to make your kitchen your happy place.

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Kenji López-Alt Cooks Differently Now Feb 14, 2025

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Subscribe to TheDinnerPlan.Substack.com for links to Kenji's recommendations and full recipes for the cucumber salad and egg and tomato stir-fry from The Wok. On this episode, The Dinner Plan host Maggie Hoffman catches up with J. Kenji López-Alt about the new book he's working on, how his cooking has changed over the years, and his best advice for keeping chaos to a minimum in a small kitchen. He shares what's in his fridge right now and the most important thing you need to know about salads.

Thanks to Wilderton Aperitivo Co., BjornQorn, and Mama Lil's Peppers for supporting this episode. For 15% off on MamaLils.com, use code DINNERPLAN15.

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Truly 15-Minute Dinner Recipes With Ali Rosen Feb 09, 2025

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Get Ali Rosen's quick chicken piccata—and her cookbook recommendations—at TheDinnerPlan.Substack.com. In this episode of The Dinner Plan, cookbook author (and novelist, tv host, and mother of three) Ali Rosen shares her definition of a good weeknight meal, and the flavor-packed ingredients she reaches for to make it happen. She also gets into Valentine's Day dinner ideas and offers meal inspiration to a listener.

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