{"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":"How Trinity Mouzon Wofford Makes Weeknights Easy, Without a Meal Plan","slug":"how-trinity-mouzon-wofford-makes-weeknights-easy-without-a-meal-plan","published_at":"2026-04-20T10:45:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-dinner-plan-7020485/how-trinity-mouzon-wofford-makes-weeknights-easy-without-a-meal-plan","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-dinner-plan-7020485","url":"https://thedinnerplan.substack.com/p/trinity-mouzon-wofford","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/66c89a9da45b7b5037ed3a26/e/69e24142d2febdbec9a78b54/media.mp3","summary":"Trinity Mouzon Wofford doesn’t want to be locked into meal planning. Her advice: get into the routine of putting together a base layer of component cooking, transforming raw ingredients into something that's easily assembled into a salad, a soup, a rice bowl, or a pasta. In this episode of The Dinner Plan, Trinity urges home cooks to relax into the process of doing some things by hand on a slow day, so our quicker meals can build on that foundation. What kinds of dinners does she assemble? Trinity answers that, and shares her go-to summer entertaining menu, her method for cooking more flavorful beans, and the best soup she's ever had in her life. Get the free recipe of the week—Trinity’s easy broccoli pasta recipe from Eating At Home —on TheDinnerPlan.Substack.com . ___ Thanks to today's sponsors: Dirty Labs :  Use code THEDINNERPLAN to get 15% off your first order at DirtyLabs.com Made In Cookware:  Head to  madein.cc/dinnerplan  to unlock your discount offer. Find Tanya Bush’s Will This Make You Happy wherever you buy cookbooks. Watch I Changed My Mind with Dan Souza of America's Test Kitchen on Netflix or listen on your favorite podcast app. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","meta_description":"Trinity Mouzon Wofford doesn’t want to be locked into meal planning. Her advice: get into the routine of putting together a base layer of component cookin…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3272,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-dinner-plan-7020485/episodes/how-trinity-mouzon-wofford-makes-weeknights-easy-without-a-meal-plan/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/how-trinity-mouzon-wofford-makes-weeknights-easy-without-a-meal-plan.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}