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Food Friends: Home Cooking Made Easy

Food Friends: Home Cooking Made Easy

What to Cook on Busy Weeknights: 6 Dinners, with Maggie Hoffman

Sep 8, 2026 · 37m

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How do you make dinner happen every night without feeling like you’re starting from scratch? If you’re staring into the fridge at 5 p.m. with no idea what to make, this week Maggie Hoffman, host of The Dinner Plan , shares smart strategies for making weeknight cooking easier, along with a lineup of deeply satisfying fall dinners that come together quickly. Think: chewy noodles tossed in a 5-minute sauce, a crowd-pleasing sheet-pan meal, and a foolproof take on pasta e ceci. By the end of this episode, you’ll discover: Flexible meal-planning tricks that help ingredients stretch further Flavorful, low-effort meals that can pull you out of even the deepest cooking rut Two meatless dinners that…