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

About this episode

Trinity Mouzon Wofford shares her approach to easy weeknight meals without strict meal planning.

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…

People in this episode

Host: Maggie Hoffman

Guest: Trinity Mouzon Wofford

Topics covered

• meal planning
• component cooking
• easy weeknight dinners
• summer entertaining
• cooking techniques

Keywords

• meal planning
• component cooking
• easy dinners
• summer menu
• flavorful beans
• broccoli pasta

Sponsors

Dirty Labs, Made In Cookware

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: America's Test Kitchen, Eating At Home

Books & works: Will This Make You Happy, I Changed My Mind

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