Weeknight Kitchen with Melissa Clark

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Weeknight Kitchen with Melissa Clark takes on one of the biggest dilemmas of busy people: what are we going to eat? In each episode, you’ll join cookbook author and New York Times food columnist Melissa Clark in her kitchen, working through one of her favorite recipes and offering helpful advice for both beginners and seasoned cooks. It’s a practical guide for weeknight eating, from the makers of The Splendid Table. Follow along and get more recipes at weeknightkitchen.org. Produced by American Public Media.

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  • wilhelmina a.
    More please!
    Please make more episodes of this excellent podcast.
  • JOB_starving
    More seasons please!
    Please make more seasons! This was informative and really soothing to listen to!
  • CBM98765
    I could listen to this all day
    Please make more episodes! Who knew listening to someone cook could be so entertaining?!
  • AK Bon
    The very best of all cooking podcasts!
    Melissa, Perhaps you feel too busy to do this podcast and I understand that. However, I hope that you might reconsider. I am blind and absolutely love to cook! Having you describe each step in beautiful detail as you cooked wonderful dishes has been such an enlightening and helpful experience for me. I have cooked a lot as my youngest of four children is 25 and your podcast has been so helpful in upping my game with cooking. My heart felt thanks and a continued hope that someday I'll be rewarded with another season of shows. I totally agree with the others... We need more!
  • 🥖🍷🧀
    Please give me more!
    I enjoy your Podcast so must that I’ve listened to each episode multiple times. Your style is approachable, easy to follow and makes cooking FUN!
  • ArzonaGirls
    Amazing podcast! I have cooked every dish...
    This is so accessible to “average” home chefs. Please come back for another season! We miss you!
  • jcchill
    I love Melissa Clark but...
    I really dislike the music. That hokey/whisley music that sounds like Peter and the Wolf. Modernize the music and I’m all about this podcast.
  • ChiMamma31
    Love these short/concise episodes
    I find most cooking/food podcasts drag, but these are the perfect length. The sound quality could be improved a bit - it sounds like you’re in the frying pan and can sometimes barely hear her voice.
  • theoriginalphillyboy
    Please, please , please come back!
    Where did you go! Please return! Did you have a run in with the Lam guy? Please start up again!
  • homerdays
    Nothing compares to visualizing through audio only
    Absolutely love this podcast. Please please please come back with more! Simply the most amazing audio ever!
  • TheMattAct
    I hope this returns!
    This was, for the brief season it was on air, my favorite podcast. I hope it returns!
  • JuElVe
    Enjoyed this podcast very much
    Do hope it will return - seems to have stopped and I miss it
  • HRLou
    More, Please!
    I absolutely LOVE this show. Can we have seconds, please?
  • electronic.luvr
    Melissa Clark
    I agree with the previous reviewer - more episodes please
  • rubybird74
    Would like more episodes please!!
    Excellent and entertaining podcast! Melissa Clark does a great job bringing you into her kitchen with all the sounds and senses...! Would like to see more episodes!!!
  • nhastingsk
    Where are you?
    Found my new favorite podcast and now there are crickets. Where are you?
  • 1977ajdalo
    Where are new episodes
    After hearin her interview about the podcast, that I love. Where are they. None for a long time. Would appreciate more.
  • foodiebits
    Love this show!
    Easy & interesting recipes
  • Trufflesque
    Love it
    Love Melissa’s pragmatic, enthusiastic approach to cooking. Great ideas...she could just do sheet pan recipes weekly and I would be in heaven!
  • Tomatoes and Basil
    Weeknight Kitchen
    I love cooking Melissa Clark’s weeknight recipes. I keep checking for any new ones since the Thanksgiving potatoes. It’s now Dec 18 and no recent podcasts.
  • PinkyL'Amour
    Love this!
    I love Melissa’s can-do attitude, her sense of fun, and of course, her recipes. She was great on Splendid Table’s Turkey Confidential. Now a devoted listener.
  • Ajyodes
    My new favorite food podcast!
    Entertaining, informative, and practical! It’s so fun to hear Melissa cooking in her own kitchen, and in addition to absolutely delicious and easy recipes, she drops lots of great little hints and tidbits along the way! Definitely a new staple in my podcast rotation.
  • katebaby
    Thank you..
    I appreciate the simple ideas with clear and pleasant delivery...
  • Larsunderz
    I love the podcast ‘bites’
    Only 15-20 min long is a TREAT! I especially love Gail Simmons, so thank you for that. (Can you invite Jessica Seinfeld?)
  • NoMoreNicknamez
    Quick, practical, delicious recipes
    I was excited for this podcast to start, as I have some of Melissa Clark’s cookbooks and enjoy her recipes on NYT. I’m thrilled that this podcast is even more enjoyable to listen to than I’d hoped (she’s a hoot!) and the recipes so far have been fantastic. Great addition to the Splendid Table lineup, and I’m glad they made it its own podcast instead of just a recurring segment. More, please!
  • uglyf15
    Great recipes! Efficient and tasty!
    Love Melissa and her recipes. Easy and tasty. Love the variety and that these are quick to make. Keep it coming!
  • looking fie dinner ideas!
    Not what I thought it would be
    I’m disappointed. As a working mother I was so delighted with this concept, especially after the luscious first recipe, chicken thighs and leeks in a sheet pan. Absolutely delicious! Subsequently there has been a summer salad, scrambled eggs, and an appetizer. The pod is billed as what’s for dinner. Please help Ilya with great tasting dinners. We need that. The other stuff is fluff. (I live your style, by the way) so hope you will adjust. Thanks.
  • JUDYINSB
    Every Recipe Is A Winner
    I love Mellisa’s common sense way of cooking. I can make everything work even tho I work outside the house full time. Of course, it’s important to have a well stocked kitchen. Living in Leelanau County in Michigan we have the freshest foods available, so that helps. I feel confident when using Melissa’s recipes that they will be delicious!
  • jcarlovsky
    I live for Melissa Clark!
    This podcast gives me life and inspiration and joy every Wednesday! Thank you!
  • maria richey
    Little Gems of Knowledge
    I love all the little tips and tricks I’m learning from this podcast! The episode on eggs is the best so far!
  • annwrite460
    Fabulous pod with great recipes BUT pls incl dates!
    I think most of us listen to a lot of podcasts and it’s helpful to know when something was recorded. When I just see an episode number, it means nothing to me. Dates help. Thank you. Content of is wonderful!
  • 13Jim69
    Pure cooking
    If you like cooking shows more like you would see on PBS rather than “Eatertainmenet” game shows this is the podcast for you. Pure unadulterated cooking by someone with skills. I enjoy listening to her as I drive to work.
  • LoveMyBrainCells
    My fave new podcast
    Weeknight Kitchen is fantastic! Not only are the recipes delicious (I’ve cooked the first two, and they were, indeed, delicious), but Melissa Clark is a fabulous podcast host. Her love of cooking comes through, and she has so many good tips she sneaks in while she’s preparing the dish. Love this podcast!
  • boberonicus
    The inside scoop
    You might think: why bother "listening" to a recipe being made? The real power of this podcasts are Ms. Clark's many insights, which are absent from her cookbooks. These are small but fascinating side notes, like the need to stir flour before measuring it, or how stainless steel can remove odors from your hands. And of course, she's fabulous. Sometimes I watch her videos just to cheer myself up.
  • marketlady
    Refreshing new podcast!
    I love the new show Melissa! It has the same conversational tone that your cookbooks do. Helpful ideas sprinkled throughout can also apply to other recipes so I feel that over time listeners will build up an arsenal of weeknight meals.
  • ATG Nguyen
    Serendipitous
    I've always been a fan of Melissa Clark on the NYT Cooking site. I enjoy listening to cooking podcasts while cooking and was about to make Vietnamese caramel salmon for dinner tonight and saw that this podcast was recommended by The Splendid Table. How serendipitous that today's new episode is on Vietnamese caramel salmon!!! I kid you not, my heart exploded a little. <3 I loved her take on what I consider a childhood classic. The unscripted nature feels like having a kitchen buddy and I appreciated using the broiler technique instead of the usual braise. Looking forward to more episodes!
  • srsg98
    I love Melissa Clark!!
    I’ve made so many of the recipes she makes in this podcast before but I love listening because she adds in little tips and tricks! It always makes me hungry
  • nutjob
    Tedious, dull, unappetizing
    This podcast should have *everything* going for it. Melissa Clark has a wonderful tone in her cookbooks and a great voice on her segments on "The Splendid Table". So what is it about "Weeknight Kitchen" that's so awful? I honestly can't decide if it's the editing (there are some interminably long pauses here and there), the real-life sounds (that almost try *too* hard to fit what we already know a kitchen sounds like into a radio format), or the unscripted-but-not-really ethos of the entire production. I honestly wanted to like this. But it's stomach-turningly awful. That's not a good feeling for a food podcast.
  • 💁🏼‍♀️🙋🏼‍♀️
    Great pod!
    Her little tips and tricks are great. Her voice is confident and clear. The kitchen noises are fun! A solid listen!
  • ap5201
    Delightful listen
    The perfect calming cooking podcast for dinner inspiration on the drive home from work!
  • Lulu1298
    I listened and now I’m hungry!
    I enjoyed this podcast! I loved listening to the sounds of the kitchen while Melissa described what she was doing every step of the recipe. I know I could make this recipe with little effort and it sounds delicious!
  • LoneHomeRanger
    Fantastic!
    I bought harissa at Trader Joe’s and have been wondering what to do with it. Love the conversational tone with personal anecdotes (LOLed about who can use the knives and how many sheet pans is the right amount).
  • revolutionchic
    Fun and enlightening
    Best food writer in america now has a podcast!
  • kamurphy7
    Well I tried..
    The amount of distracting noise of whisking and stirring and banging..had to turn it off. Maybe Melissa can figure that out..can’t listen.
  • MOK4029
    Great!
    Went straight out and bought all the ingredients to make harissa sheet pan chicken tonight! Love the podcast!
  • clinton hill mom
    Sheet pan dinner is the best!
    It was nicely simple to make—my 15 year old said she’d make it next time! Keep these recipes coming, please.
  • Jeneba54
    Utterly charming!
    I am vegan, gluten-free, and sugar-free, so most of these recipes will not work for me. But I will still listen to Melissa any time! She never fails to inspire and put a big grin on my face. Thank you!
  • Doug from Chapel Hill
    Melissa is magic...
    I have yet to make a recipe of Melissa’s that isn’t first rate—some are flat out transcendental. Her recipe for “Simple Roast Turkey” is low fuss, low mess and produces what my guests have consistently declared to be the best turkey they have ever tasted.
  • meljlcsw
    Already a five star for me!
    Love Melissa’s NYT recipes and looking forward to the podcast!
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