The Dinner Plan

Andrea Aliseda, author of Make It Plant Based! Mexican , shares advice for getting in the zone when it's time to cook, her favorite ways to prepare mushrooms so they're not at all soggy, and how she gets a week of different meals out of one big pot of beans. Find recipes from Andrea and all the links mentioned on the show at TheDinnerPlan. Substack.com . _ Thanks to this week's sponsors: Soyrizo®...

To get Casey's pickled potato salad and caesar salad recipes, head to TheDinnerPlan. Substack.com . On this episode of The Dinner Plan, host Maggie Hoffman talks to Casey Elsass, whose new book, What Can I Bring? , shares recipes for dips, salads, sides, drinks, and sweets that are ideal for toting along to a barbecue, picnic, or dinner party. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more inform...

Head to TheDinnerPlan. Substack.com for all of Peter Som's recipe recommendations. When a fashion designer invites you over for dinner, you know it's going to be stylish. This week, The Dinner Plan host Maggie Hoffman talks to Peter Som about his tips for chic dinner parties without too much effort, his go-to method for cooking tofu, and what he's really looking forward to making for dinner in war...

Go to TheDinnerPlan. Substack.com for all the recipes mentioned here—and this week's book giveaway! On this episode, host Maggie Hoffman chats with cookbook author Georgia Freedman, whose new book Snacking Dinners shares 50 low-effort meals that feel like a special occasion. Georgia shares advice for stocking your pantry so that these fun dinners come together quickly, plus tips on making snacks f...

Get the recipes and cookbook links—and enter to win Rick's book—at TheDinnerPlan. Substack.com . On this week's episode, host Maggie Hoffman talks to Rick Martinez, author of Mi Cocina and Salsa Daddy , a new book of over 70 traditional and modern salsa recipes. Rick shares how making salsas can make simple weeknight meals so much more flavorful—and which salsa you can freeze for later. He tells y...

Get the recipes and cookbooks mentioned here our free newsletter: TheDinnerPlan. Substack.com . On this episode, Noor Murad, author of the new cookbook Lugma: Abundant Dishes And Stories From My Middle East , shares memories of her childhood in Bahrain and the meals she loves most, whether she's hosting friends or looking for an easy weeknight dinner. She talks about life at Ottolenghi in London a...

Get the recipes and enter this week's cookbook giveaway at TheDinnerPlan. Substack.com . (It's free!) If you just aren't feeling inspired to cook right now, you're going to want to listen to this interview. On this week's epsiode of The Dinner Plan, host Maggie Hoffman talks to Gena Hamshaw, the author of A Grain, a Green, a Bean: One Simple Formula, Countless Meatless Meals . Gena works long hour...

Find recipes and cookbook recommendations from Hailee on the free newsletter at The Dinner Plan. Substack.com. On today's episode, host Maggie Hoffman talks to Hailee Catalano, the author of By Heart: Recipes to Hold Near and Dear. Hailee offers tips for keeping cooking low-stress, thoughts on the essential rules of making a great sandwich for the beach or a picnic, and the spring recipes she's ex...

Subscribe to get recipes and cookbook links at TheDinnerPlan. Substack.com . On this long-awaited episodes, host Maggie Hoffman chats with Guardian columnist and cookbook author Meera Sodha about how she came back to cooking after a period of intense burnout. Meera, whose new book Dinner just came out in the U.S., shares some of the mental health tools that helped her through, as well as the cookb...

Get recipes from Zaynab and her cookbook recommendations free at TheDinnerPlan. Substack.com . In this week's episode of The Dinner Plan, host Maggie Hoffman talks to cookbook author and NY Times Cooking contributor Zaynab Issa about the recipes she's most excited about, her tips for stress-free dinner party hosting, and the flavorful staples she cannot live without. Hear her thoughts on how to do...

Get Kiano's coriander chicken katsu recipe and links to her cookbook recommendations free on TheDinnerPlan. Substack.com . In this episode of The Dinner Plan, host Maggie Hoffman talks to Los Angeles-based recipe developer Kiano Moju. Kiano’s cookbook, Africali , draws on her Kenyan and Nigerian heritage and her upbringing in California, as well as travels abroad. Today she shares her tips for a c...

Get the recipes for free on TheDinnerPlan. Substack.com . In this episode of The Dinner Plan, Maggie Hoffman talks to chef Calvin Eng of Bonnie's in Williamsburg, Brooklyn about his new cookbook Salt Sugar MSG , and how he juggles feeding a young family with running a restaurant. He shares a unique meal-prep division of labor, his favorite way to use a rotisserie chicken, and thoughts on staying f...

Get Cortney's harissa recipe and cookbook recommendations on our free newsletter at TheDinnerPlan. Substack.com . Today's episode features chef Cortney Burns, formerly of San Francisco's Bar Tartine. Cortney talks about how preserving fruits and vegetables and making your own condiments can serve as stored-up effort to make weeknight dinners deeply flavorful—and quick. Cortney shares her dinner pl...

Get Marisel's recipes for molletes and her chicken jibarito BLT for free on TheDinnerPlan. Substack.com . In this episode, host Maggie Hoffman talks to Latin-ish cookbook author Marisel Salazar about her research process for this groundbreaking book on American Latino cuisines, plus everything she keeps around for easier weeknights. Marisel shares her go-to quick dinner recipes from around the int...

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 le...

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....

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 inspirat...

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 A...

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 te...

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 Hof...

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 sup...

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...

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...

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-...

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 Z...