Cooking Vegetarian: 2,600+ Recipes
Homemade vegetarian crème fraîche is two ingredients and a day of patience: heavy cream stirred with buttermilk and left to thicken into something tangy, spoonable, and far better than the store's. The jar does all the real work while you sleep. Unlock the secret...
A simple press-in almond tart crust is the answer to pastry anxiety: butter, sugar, egg yolk, and ground almonds pressed into the pan with your fingertips — no rolling pin, no chilling gymnastics, no tears. It bakes up like shortbread and tastes like it too. Every...
The secret to the best homemade pesto is restraint: moderately packed fresh basil, good olive oil, garlic, Parmesan, and a spoonful of softened butter for body, blitzed just enough to stay vividly green. Five minutes, one machine, no cooking. The Secret to the Best...
Foolproof blender mayonnaise is the two-minute trick that spoils you for the jar: one room-temperature egg with mustard, salt, and cayenne, emulsified with a slow stream of oil and finished with lemon. Vegetarian, cheaper than store-bought, and better than it has any...
This go-to 30-minute tomato sauce earns its name: garlic in olive oil, a can of tomato purée, a splash of red wine, and dried oregano, basil, and thyme simmered into something that tastes slow. Double it once and you'll never buy jarred again. Every home cook...
Simple zero-waste homemade breadcrumbs are the best kind of kitchen alchemy: stale bread, ends, and heels pulsed into crumbs and toasted to golden in about ten minutes total. Once you've used them in a crispy topping, the store canister never comes home again....
Honey rhubarb cobbler with orange and spice is the first dessert of spring in my house: tart rhubarb bubbling up through a honey-sweetened, cinnamon-and-clove filling under golden biscuits. The orange zest keeps it from tasting like everyone else's rhubarb...
Pear and apricot crisp brings sweet pears and chewy dried apricots together under a crunchy oat, walnut, and whole wheat crumble. It's the quieter cousin of apple crisp, and in my kitchen it never lasts any longer. There's nothing quite like a warm, bubbly fruit...
Warm and crunchy apple crisp is the homey dessert every cook should own: two pounds of apples under a whole-grain, brown-sugar, butter crumble that bakes up genuinely crunchy. It takes 15 minutes to assemble and forgives nearly every shortcut. There's nothing quite...
Red wine poached pears are the dessert equivalent of a magic trick: firm Bosc, Comice, or Anjou pears simmer in red wine, honey, and warm spice until ruby-stained, with raisins plumping alongside. Thirty minutes of hands-off simmering — then a night in the fridge, if...
Double chocolate chip cookies double down where it counts: a full 12 ounces of semisweet chocolate chips in a single batch, in a buttery, soft-centered cookie with sugar-crisped edges. The gram-weighted recipe makes 54 cookies, and every one of them counts. If you're...
The ultimate cowboy cookies are nostalgia in cookie form — oatmeal cookies loaded with brown sugar, vanilla, and chopped walnuts, the kind that came out of home kitchens before bakery counters took over. They bake in 15 minutes and feed a crowd, which was always the...