{"podcast":{"title":"The Dinner Plan","slug":"the-dinner-plan-7020485","podcast_index_feed_id":7020485,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/66c89a9da45b7b5037ed3a26","website_url":"https://shows.acast.com/the-dinner-plan","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/66c89a9da45b7b5037ed3a26/1776383643773-dcf9a9c3-685e-4373-8b60-3ccc828b120b.jpeg","author":"Maggie Hoffman","episode_count":113,"summary":"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.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-29T22:18:41.601674+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-dinner-plan-7020485"},"episode":{"title":"Ham El-Waylly’s Comfort Food","slug":"ham-el-waylly-s-comfort-food","published_at":"2026-03-19T10:37:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-dinner-plan-7020485/ham-el-waylly-s-comfort-food","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-dinner-plan-7020485","url":"https://thedinnerplan.substack.com/p/ham-el-waylly","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/66c89a9da45b7b5037ed3a26/e/69af3cd4b58ea3074dd33015/media.mp3","summary":"Ham El-Waylly has a restaurant—Strange Delight in Brooklyn—but the chef's new book, Hello Home Cooking , is not a restaurant cookbook. In this interview with host Maggie Hoffman, Ham shares his most important tips for home cooks, including smart farmers market shopping advice, thoughts on your nonstick cookware, and his favorite thing to put on a salad. He also shares his most beloved out-of-print cookbooks, memories of his mother's cooking, and the snacks and comfort food he'd sneak from the freezer while playing video games as a kid. Hop over to The Dinner Plan's newsletter at TheDinnerPlan.Substack.com to get the free recipe of the week. ____ Thanks to today's sponsors: Rouxbe Online Culinary School:  Get 30% off your first course with code DINNERPLAN30 at Rouxbe.com/dinnerplan Dirty Labs :  Use code THEDINNERPLAN to get 15% off your first order at DirtyLabs.com Society Insurance : Find your agent at SocietyInsurance.com Made In Cookware:  Head to  madein.cc/dinnerplan  to unlock your discount offer. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","meta_description":"Ham El-Waylly has a restaurant—Strange Delight in Brooklyn—but the chef's new book, Hello Home Cooking , is not a restaurant cookbook. In this interview w…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2824,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-dinner-plan-7020485/episodes/ham-el-waylly-s-comfort-food/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-dinner-plan-7020485/ham-el-waylly-s-comfort-food.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}