Do you have a hectic schedule and want to spend less time cooking, but still eat delicious homemade dishes? Or, do you feel overwhelmed by a pile-up of dishes in the sink? Or do you wish you had a fail-proof recipe in your back pocket that can effortlessly feed a crowd?

We can think of a thousand reasons why keeping dinner contained in a single pot is a great idea, so we’re sharing some of our favorite one pot meals with each other, and you! And when we say 'one pot,' we mean just that – a solitary pot, not the main pot plus a 'side pot' for boiling pasta or rice. It’s true, chicken and rice can cook perfectly together, with a dose of veggies to boot, but so can creamy comforting pasta and hearty complex stew. Just because dinner can be easy doesn't mean it can't be fancy!

Curious about our secrets to the ultimate one-pot meal? Tune in this week to find out!

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Links to from this week’s show:

Weeknight fancy chicken and rice – recipe from Asha Gomez and Martha Hall Foose, adapted by Sara Bonisteel via the NY Times

Dried Apricots from Kachka

Sonya’s plov (one pot chicken and rice)

One-pot turmeric coconut rice with greens by Ali Slagle via the NY Times

Ina Garten’s Italian Wedding Soup

Tashkent Market in Valley Village, CA

European-style egg noodles

Budae Jjigae (army stew) from My Korean Kitchen

One-pot broccoli mac n’ cheese by Ali Slagle via NY Times

Nora Singley’s substack

Tannaz Sasooni’s Instagram

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