Josh Malcolm
Chief Editor, Recipe Researcher & Meal Kit Reviewer
I run The Quick Dish from an editor’s seat, not a celebrity chef’s. My job is to find reliable recipes, verify they actually work, and write them up clearly so busy people can get a good meal on the table without the guesswork.
The Quick Dish started with a problem I kept running into at home: how do you put good food on the table when life is busy? My first answer was meal kits, so I dug into the Canadian market and tested the major services hands-on, week after week. From there the site grew into what it is today, a curated collection of reliable recipes for people who want dinner sorted without the fuss.
How I approach the recipes
I want to be straight with you about what I do and don’t do here. I’m an editor and researcher, not a test-kitchen chef. I don’t claim to have personally cooked every recipe on this site. What I do is source recipes from established collections, verify them for accuracy and practicality, rewrite them for clarity, and organize them into clean, easy-to-follow steps, so you get instructions you can actually rely on instead of a wall of contradictory blog posts.
When a recipe includes notes from cooking it myself, I say so explicitly. When it’s curated and verified through research rather than personally tested, that’s the standard you can assume. I’d rather be clear about how a recipe got here than pretend to an authority I don’t have.
Why the meal kit background matters
Before The Quick Dish became a recipe site, it was a hands-on review project. I’m Canadian, so I focused on the services available here, subscribing to and cooking through the major players including Fresh Prep, Chefs Plate, HelloFresh Canada, GoodFood, and truLOCAL. I cooked the boxes, compared ingredients and pricing, and wrote honest reviews of what actually worked for real households.
That experience shapes how I evaluate a recipe now. I’m asking the same practical questions a meal kit has to answer: Are the ingredients accessible? Do the steps make sense for a normal weeknight? Is the result worth the effort? The meal kit reviews are still part of the site, and more are on the way.
Background
Outside of The Quick Dish, I’m the founder of Marksman Digital Media, the company that owns and publishes this site. I bring the same data-driven, document-your-sources mindset to everything here: source it, verify it, make it genuinely useful. That’s the standard the recipes are held to.
If a recommendation on this site earns a commission through an affiliate link, that never changes the substance of what I write. The research comes first; the links come after.