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The Dinner Plan

The Dinner Plan

By: Maggie Hoffman
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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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Episodes
  • Adrianna Adarme’s Sweater-Weather Dinners
    29 Oct 2026

    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 weekend recipes that can simmer in the oven while you relax on the couch. In this episode of The Dinner Plan, Adrianna walks us through a full meal plan for the week, including a big-batch dinner you can make on Sunday and freeze for Thursday, and quick dinner ideas for Monday when you need things to be easy. She shares her thoughts on which viral recipes that are actually worth cooking, and offers advice on stocking the freezer for lunchboxes and easy dinners for her toddler. Before you do any meal prep this weekend, listen in.


    Get the recipes at TheDinnerPlan.Substack.com


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    43 min
  • How One-Pot Pasta Found Its Way to Your Table
    26 Oct 2026

    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 first time you saw it. Nora's new book dives deep on the method, and here, she shares the many reasons why it can actually be better to skip the separate pot of boiling water when you're making weeknight dinners. She walks us through her finely-tuned version of the popular cooking method, and explains why it works so well for carbonara, cacio e pepe, and even lasagna. Nora also shares her most-loved pantry staples, her go-to easy dinner, and the wildest story of a cooking disaster we’ve had on the show yet.


    Get Nora’s recipe for Creamed Spinach and Minty Trenne (Plus Rotisserie Chicken) on The DinnerPlan.Substack.com


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    Find Nora’s book, One-Pot Pasta, wherever you buy cookbooks.

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    1 hr and 1 min
  • Fuchsia Dunlop’s Flavor Templates for Easy Weeknight Dinners
    22 Oct 2026

    “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 new cookbook, Five Tastes, the author of Land of Fish and Rice, The Food of Sichuan, and Every Grain of Rice, among other Chinese cookbooks, found herself reflecting on the flavor combinations she learned in culinary school in Sichuan but applying those templates to dishes and ingredients that are more common in the UK. The result: a more personal book that reflects what Fuchsia's been cooking at home lately. Fuchsia shares her go-to quick and easy dinner ideas for nights when she hasn't been shopping, and helps us think through a dinner party menu for less stressful hosting.

    Get Fuchsia’s recipes on TheDinnerPlan.Substack.com


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    52 min
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