The Dinner Plan

Weekly conversations on weeknight dinner planning and cooking shortcuts AI summary

Maggie Hoffman Visit website › Arts · EN · 142 episodes · latest 2026-11-09

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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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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  1. 2026-11-09 · 1 hr 9 min · Episode 141

    Planning a Thanksgiving menu can feel overwhelming, but we're here to help! On this special episode of The Dinner Plan, host Maggie Hoffman is joined by Sonya Sanford and Kari Lauritzen, the two former private chefs who…

  2. 2026-11-02 · 54 min · Episode 140

    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, had her…

  3. 2026-10-29 · 43 min · Episode 139

    In A Cozy Kitchen Cookbook, 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-recommended…

  4. 2026-10-26 · 1 hr 1 min · Episode 138

    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…

  5. 2026-10-22 · 52 min · Episode 137

    “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…

  6. 2026-10-19 · 47 min · Episode 136

    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…

  7. 2026-10-15 · 49 min · Episode 135

    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…

  8. 2026-10-12 · 45 min · Episode 134

    Mark Bittman's latest cookbook, How to Cook Everything Vegan, 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 trying to…

  9. 2026-10-08 · 44 min · Episode 133

    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…

  10. 2026-10-05 · 55 min · Episode 132

    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…

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09/2024 · over 2 years
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50 min
Format
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Keywords
cooking, food, meal planning, dinner, cookbooks, Maggie Hoffman, recipes

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