The Dinner Plan

By Maggie HoffmanArts Food

The Dinner Plan episodes

February 20, 2025 Let Melissa Clark Solve Your Pantry Problems
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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51 min
February 14, 2025 Kenji López-Alt Cooks Differently Now
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.

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57 min
February 09, 2025 Truly 15-Minute Dinner Recipes With Ali Rosen
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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45 min
February 02, 2025 Dip for Dinner With Alyse Whitney
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.

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1 hr 3 min
January 30, 2025 Warm Dinners for Cold Nights With Lesley Enston
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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32 min
January 24, 2025 Bringing Kids Into the Kitchen With Hsiao-Ching Chou and Meilee Chou Riddle
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.

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55 min
January 17, 2025 For Carla Lalli Music, Cooking for One Is Not a Bummer
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.

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52 min
January 10, 2025 Beyond the Kitchen Grind With Jessica Battilana
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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55 min
January 03, 2025 The Vegetarian Dinners Hetty Lui McKinnon Keeps on Rotation
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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1 hr 10 min
December 27, 2024 Jenny Rosenstrach’s Best Advice for Part-Time Plant-Based Eating
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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45 min

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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…