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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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Dip for Dinner With Alyse Whitney Feb 02, 2025

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Get recipes and links for free by subscribing to The Dinner Plan on Substack. In this episode, host Maggie Hoffman talks to Alyse Whitney, author of Big Dip Energy, about Super Bowl food ideas, weeknight dinner favorites, and dips you can make starting with a store-bought rotisserie chicken. She also shared a luxurious dinner she makes using a carton of crabmeat from Costco.

Thanks to Wilderton Aperitivo Co. for supporting this episode.

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Warm Dinners for Cold Nights With Lesley Enston Jan 30, 2025

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Get Lesley's pelau recipe and links to her favorite books by subscribing for free to The Dinner Plan on Substack. In this episode, host Maggie Hoffman talks to Lesley Enston about her book, Belly Full: Exploring Caribbean Cuisine through 11 Fundamental Ingredients and over 100 Recipes. Lesley recounts the process of gathering recipes from friends, aunties, and older neighbors—and the way that testing and tasting these recipes brought back vivid memories. She also shares go-to warming dinners for cold evenings, a favorite use for the broiler, and some highly recommended cookbooks to add to your shelf. (Grab the links on The Dinner Plan's free newsletter on Substack.)

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Bringing Kids Into the Kitchen With Hsiao-Ching Chou and Meilee Chou Riddle Jan 24, 2025

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Get recipes and links at TheDinnerPlan.Substack.com. “As a parent," says cookbook author Hsiao-Ching Chou, "you have to let go of your own anxieties and perfectionism" when you're cooking with kids. "I think that a lot of folks bring a lot of baggage into the kitchen and they think that everything needs to be perfect, everything needs to look the same.” This week, The Dinner Plan host Maggie Hoffman talks to Chou and her daughter Meilee Chou Riddle about their new book, Feasts of Good Fortune, their favorite dishes for Lunar New Year, and the recipes they cook over and over at their Seattle home. Get full show notes at The Dinner Plan's free Substack newsletter.

Thanks to King Arthur Baking Company and Bjorn Qorn for supporting this episode.

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For Carla Lalli Music, Cooking for One Is Not a Bummer Jan 17, 2025

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Get the recipes and links in The Dinner Plan's free newsletter on Substack. This week, Carla Lalli Music, the author of That Sounds So Good and Where Cooking Begins, shares guidance on cooking for one, the pasta cookbook she thinks everyone should own, and a bevy of recipe ideas for times when you're not sure what to make for dinner.

Thanks to King Arthur Baking Company and Purple Carrot for supporting this episode. Get 50% off your first two orders on PurpleCarrot.com with the code DINNERPLAN.

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Beyond the Kitchen Grind With Jessica Battilana Jan 10, 2025

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Get full recipes and links at TheDinnerPlan.substack.com. On this week's episode, host Maggie Hoffman talks to Jessica Battilana, a many-time cookbook author and staff editor at King Arthur Baking Company. We cover Jessica's favorite winter weeknight dinners, what to bake from King Arthur's new Big Book of Bread, and game-changing cookbooks from Jessica's collection. Thanks to King Arthur Baking Company for supporting this episode.

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The Vegetarian Dinners Hetty Lui McKinnon Keeps on Rotation Jan 03, 2025

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Get Hetty's crispy rice recipe—and links to her favorite cookbooks on The Dinner Plan's free newsletter on Substack. This week's guest, Hetty Lui McKinnon, is a frequently-mentioned favorite on the show. She's written five cookbooks and contributes frequently to NYT Cooking. On this episode, host Maggie Hoffman talks to Hetty about the hardest part of weeknight dinners, her secret love for out-of-season tomatoes, and how to keep winter salads exciting. Listen for vegetarian dinner ideas and a smart way of thinking about your weeknight meal rotation.

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Jenny Rosenstrach’s Best Advice for Part-Time Plant-Based Eating Dec 27, 2024

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Get links and recipes at The Dinner Plan's free Substack newsletter. This week, host Maggie Hoffman talks to Jenny Rosenstrach, the author of The Weekday Vegetarians, The Weekday Vegetarians Get Simple, and Dinner: A Love Story. Jenny offers advice on easing slowly into more plant-based eating, how to make winter salads hearty and delicious, and why you should always, always have a block of pre-baked tofu in your fridge.

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Zoe Barrie Soderstrom Gives Meal Planning the Restaurant Treatment Dec 19, 2024

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Get the full show notes at The Dinner Plan's free Substack. Zoe Barrie Soderstrom hated wasting food. So she devised a meal planning system inspired by her days as a restaurant cook. Advance prep and careful shopping—plus a jigsaw puzzle of ingredients getting reused in multiple dishes—helps cut down waste and get your dinner on the table fast. This week Dinner Plan host Maggie Hoffman talks to Zoe about what can get prepped ahead (and what can't) plus how to use up the bits and bobs of ingredients that always hang out in the fridge this time of year. Got half a carton of heavy cream? Give this show a listen.

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Sweet Rolls and Holiday Gumbo With Toni Tipton-Martin and Morgan Bolling Dec 13, 2024

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Get the recipes every week from The Dinner Plan's free newsletter on Substack. On this week's episode, host Maggie Hoffman talks with Toni Tipton-Martin and Morgan Bolling of Cook's Country about their new book, When Southern Women Cook.

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Caroline Choe Makes the Best Mac and Cheese Dec 06, 2024

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Get Caroline Choe's kimchi mac and cheese recipe on The Dinner Plan's free Substack. In this episode, host Maggie Hoffman talks to Caroline about collaborating with her parents on her book, Banchan, the greatest way to revive leftover chicken, plus her favorite cookbooks for both kids and adults.

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