The Dinner Plan

How Trinity Mouzon Wofford Makes Weeknights Easy, Without a Meal Plan

April 20, 2026·54 min
Episode Description from the Publisher

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.comMade 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.

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