The Dinner Plan
by Maggie Hoffman
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Postpartum Meals and Feeding New Parents With Clarissa Wei
Postpartum Meals and Feeding New Parents With Clarissa Wei
About this podcast
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.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 141 episodes
- Postpartum Meals and Feeding New Parents With Clarissa Wei · 54 min · Episode 140Postpartum 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…
- Adrianna Adarme’s Sweater-Weather Dinners · 43 min · Episode 139In 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…
- How One-Pot Pasta Found Its Way to Your Table · 1 h 0 min · Episode 138In 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…
- Fuchsia Dunlop’s Flavor Templates for Easy Weeknight Dinners · 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…
- How Jeanine Donofrio Got Her Love of Cooking Back · 47 min · Episode 136Jeanine 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…
- John Kanell: Preppy Kitchen’s Tips for Joyful Baking Every Day · 49 min · Episode 135John 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…
- What Mark Bittman Actually Makes for Dinner · 45 min · Episode 134Mark 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…
- How Kay Chun Plans a Week of Easy Dinners · 44 min · Episode 133Kay 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…
- Leah Victoria’s Meal Prep for Real Life · 55 min · Episode 132Meal 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…
- Even Yotam Ottolenghi Gets Nervous Before a Dinner Party · 1 h 4 min · Episode 131Yotam Ottolenghi’s new cookbook, Simple Too, makes weeknight dinners even easier than the original book did. In this episode of The Dinner Plan, Yotam admits that he feels…
- Sara Bradley’s Soup Season Tips · 52 min · Episode 130Two-time Top Chef finalist Sara Bradley loves to play with soup recipes, and in this episode of The Dinner Plan, she shares her favorite ways to dress up squash soup, tomato…
- Meherwan Irani’s No. 1 Best Indian Cooking Tips in the World · 1 h 0 min · Episode 129As a teenager, Meherwan Irani would sneak out to eat street food against his mother’s wishes. These days the chef of Chai Pani and Boti Walla shares the flavors of his childhood…
- Nik Sharma Breaks Down the Science Behind His Best Cooking Tricks · 37 min · Episode 128Nik Sharma wants home cooks to better understand food science; in this episode of The Dinner Plan, he shares some of the best cooking tips from his new book, Fundamentals of…
- Swanky, Low-Stress Entertaining With Cortney LaCorte · 49 min · Episode 127Cortney LaCorte—also known as Cheese Gal—joins The Dinner Plan this week to share her best advice on how to make a cheese plate and all the ways she makes entertaining more…
- For Olivia Tiedemann, Rich People Food Comes Down to the Right Moves · 44 min · Episode 126Olivia Tiedemann will be the first to tell you that working as a private chef isn't easy. You've gotta know what each guest likes and doesn't like, all the dietary restrictions…
- Pati Jinich Cooks the Bold Flavors of the Mexican Border · 51 min · Episode 125You may know Pati Jinich from her long-running series, Pati’s Mexican Table, or her previous cookbooks, but this fall you’ll be seeing a lot more of her, including her new…
- Carla Lalli Makes Dinner the Best Part of a Bad Day · 1 h 0 min · Episode 124When Carla Lalli separated from her ex and moved part-time into a sublet after decades of marriage, the first thing she did was make dinner. “I cooked because it gives me a sense…
- The High-Protein Vegetarian Dinners Grace Elkus Makes on Repeat · 50 min · Episode 123The high-protein vegetarian recipes in Grace Elkus's new cookbook, Protein-Packed Vegetarian, are exactly the kind of dinners I crave, packed with flavor and easy to make, even…
- Fresh Thai Cooking With Pim Techamuanvivit · 53 min · Episode 122I've been looking forward to chef Pim Techamuanvivit's Thai cookbook for years. It's an essential guide to cooking Thai food, including fresh curry pastes, grilled dishes…
- Grocery Prices Are Wild. The 99% Cooking Club Can Help. · 54 min · Episode 121Steel Russell started The 99% Cooking Club after walking out of the grocery store with a single bag of food that cost $150. He focuses on tips for making easy, cheap meals taste…
