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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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Arnold Myint’s Quick Thai Dinners Oct 06, 2025

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Arnold Myint juggles restaurant life with his role as a single dad. In this episode of The Dinner Plan, he shares his go-to quick dinners for busy weeknights, the ingredients that you really need for great Thai food at home, and the lessons he learned in his family's 50 year-old Nashville restaurant. Head to TheDinnerPlan.Substack.com for two recipes from Arnold and a chance to win the book.

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Salads to Linger Over With Hetty Lui McKinnon Oct 03, 2025

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Hearty salads are at the center of Hetty Lui McKinnon’s new cookbook, Linger. But the book is also about the power of gathering friends to eat together. “The opportunity to stop, slow down and enjoy just other humans is something that we don't do enough right now," says Hetty in this episode of The Dinner Plan. Get a recipe from the book—and Hetty’s recent cookbook favorites—at TheDinnerPlan.Substack.com now.

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Natalia Rudin’s Quick and Cozy Cooking Sep 29, 2025

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Natalia Rudin, author of Cooking Fast and Slow, shares her current hyperfixation meal, her freezer essentials, and tips on layering protein into plant-based dinners, plus the reason she always keeps a whimsical pasta shape on hand. Get Natalia's spicy sweet corn chowder recipe (made from frozen corn!) and her savory mushroom miso gnocchi at TheDinnerPlan.Substack.com.

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At The Post-Soviet Table With Polina Chesnakova Sep 26, 2025

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Polina Chesnakova's new book, Chesnok, opens at her family table, where Georgian food sits next to old Russian favorites and the classics of Armenia. In this episode of The Dinner Plan, Polina shares her soup-season go-tos, her flavor-packed pantry essentials, tactics for cooking dinner during a particularly busy time of her life, and a few beloved older cookbooks that still inspired her. Get two recipes from Polina's new book—plus all her cookbook recommendations—at TheDinnerPlan.Substack.com.

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How Top Chef Unlocked Melissa King’s Cooking Sep 22, 2025

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“I used to keep it so separate,” chef Melissa King explains, “Cantonese cooking at home, and then the sort of French, Italian cooking that I was doing in my career in all these Michelin kitchens.” But being on Top Chef showed her she could bring it all together—and her new cookbook, Cook Like a King, is full of Melissa’s signature recipes. In this episode of The Dinner Plan, Melissa shares dinner party tips and easy weeknight favorites. Get her lettuce wrap recipe and her Roasted Japanese Sweet Potato With Olives, Walnuts, and Miso-Tahini (plus a chance to win a copy of the book!) on TheDinnerPlan.Substack.com.

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Sabrina Ghayour Finds an Easier Path to Dinner Sep 15, 2025

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Sabrina Ghayour has a particular gift for simple recipes, and her eighth book, Persiana Easy, is full of dinner ideas that’ll save you during busy fall evenings. In this episode of The Dinner Plan, Sabrina shares her go-to weeknight meals, the cookbook authors that inspire her most, and her advice for anyone who’s struggling to cook these days. If you love food but meal planning feels overwhelming right now, this conversation is for you. Get Sabrina's recipes for roasted saffron chicken kebabs and her extra-speedy spin on lahmacun at The Dinner Plan's newsletter: TheDinnerPlan.Substack.com.

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Improvising Dinner With Peter J. Kim Sep 08, 2025

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Peter J. Kim's new book,Instant Ramen Kitchen, is about making quick, delicious dinners from the pantry staple. But it's also about setting yourself free to improvise as a cook. In this episode of The Dinner Plan host Maggie Hoffman chats with Peter about essential flavor-boosting pantry staples, the best way to add richness and body to a bowl of ramen, plus the "perpetual stew" he adds to throughout the fall and winter. Get all the links mentioned on the show plus full recipes for Peter's Spinach Ramen Gratin and Xi’an-Style Cumin Lamb Ramen at TheDinnerPlan.Substack.com.

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The Flavor Bombs in Ixta Belfrage’s Fridge Sep 05, 2025

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Ixta’s new Brazilian-inspired book, Fusão, demonstrates how much concentrated flavor you can pack onto a plate—and into a little jar. The building blocks to her recipes include pineapple hot sauce, gingery mango jam, and a must-have quick chile condiment that's great on eggs, rice, or tinned fish. In this episode, Ixta shares the flavor bombs she makes at home to jazz up simple meals, a peek at her ideal dinner party menu, plus her favorite ways to use up that mountain of eggplant, zucchini in your kitchen right now—and the butternut squash that's on the way. Get Ixta's recipe for fish with mango curry butter on TheDinnerPlan.Substack.com

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Dan Pelosi on the Power of the Dinner Party Sep 01, 2025

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This week, host Maggie Hoffman talks to cookbook author Dan Pelosi, also known online as Grossy Pelosi. Dan’s new book, Let's Party, is full of smart advice for dinner party hosts—and so many dishes you can make ahead. Dan shares tips for dialing down the stress when you’re feeding a crowd, the hosting mistake he’ll absolutely never make again, what he’s cooking from late-summer garden abundance, and when he’s at his happiest in the kitchen. Get Dan's pineapple pulled pork slider recipe—and all his cookbook recommendations—at TheDinnerPlan.Substack.com.

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How Yasmin Khan Gets Ahead on Dinner Aug 25, 2025

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Host Maggie Hoffman talks with cookbook author Yasmin Khan, whose new book, Sabzi, shares vegetarian meals to cook at home. Yasmin shares her time-saving prep-ahead dinner tips, her essentials of salad-making, and thoughts on stocking the freezer if you've got a baby on the way. Get two vegetarian recipes from Yasmin at our newsletter at TheDinnerPlan.Substack.com. And be sure to enter the big 50th-episode giveaway there before Aug 31.

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