Simple Fruit Salad with Strawberry-Lime Yogurt Sauce – vegetarian recipe

Vibrant Fruit Salad with Strawberry Yogurt Sauce

This simple fruit salad with strawberry-lime yogurt sauce dresses up the season's best fruit in fifteen minutes of work. Strawberries blended with honey, lime, and yogurt become a pink, pourable sauce for blueberries, melon, mango, and banana. Light, bright, and...

Orange and Cinnamon French Toast – vegetarian recipe

The Best Orange Cinnamon French Toast

Orange and cinnamon French toast makes weekend breakfast feel like an occasion: thick day-old French bread soaked in an orange-zested, cinnamon-scented custard with a splash of brandy (or vanilla), fried in butter until golden. Serve it with warm maple syrup....

Elegant Scrambled Egg Croustades with Bell Peppers – vegetarian recipe

Scrambled Egg Croustades: A Brunch-Worthy Breakfast

Elegant scrambled egg croustades with bell peppers look like catering and eat like comfort food: thick slices of sturdy bread toasted golden in butter, filled with soft scrambled eggs and sweet peppers. The eggs cook low and slow with milk and oregano — creamy, never...

Bakery-Style Whole Wheat Blueberry Muffins – vegetarian recipe

Jumbo Whole Wheat Blueberry Muffins

These bakery-style whole wheat blueberry muffins are everything the title promises: tall domes, tender crumb from whole wheat pastry flour, and berries in every bite. Melted — slightly cooled — butter keeps them moist, and a sugar sprinkle gives the bakery top....

Rich and Buttery Tart Crust (A Giant Cookie!) – vegetarian recipe

The Perfect Buttery & Flaky Tart Crust Recipe

This rich and buttery tart crust really is a giant cookie, as the recipe promises: flour, sugar, very cold butter, an egg yolk, and just enough ice water to bring it together. Fifteen minutes of work, then a long chill before rolling and baking. Master this and tarts...

The Perfect Flaky All-Butter Pie Crust – vegetarian recipe

The Perfect All-Butter Vegetarian Pie Crust

Every great pie begins with a phenomenal crust, and let me tell you, this is *the one*. For years, this has been my secret weapon for creating pies with a crust so flaky, buttery, and flavorful, it could be a dessert all on its own. It’s sturdy enough to hold any...

10-Minute Buttery Streusel Crumble Topping – vegetarian recipe

The Ultimate Crumble Topping Recipe (Easy Streusel)

This 10-minute buttery streusel crumble topping is the make-ahead shortcut every fruit dessert wants: brown sugar, flour, cinnamon, chopped walnuts or pecans, and a squeeze of fresh lemon juice to cut the sweetness. Keep the butter cold, keep the crumbs irregular,...

Easy 2-Ingredient Simple Syrup – vegetarian recipe

Easy Simple Syrup Recipe & Flavor Variations

Easy 2-ingredient simple syrup is the smallest recipe with the biggest reach: granulated sugar and water, always in a 1:1 ratio, simmered about five minutes until clear. Stir it into drinks, brush it onto cake layers, or steep it with cinnamon. Ten minutes, one jar,...

Golden Saffron & Orange Olive Oil Cookies – vegetarian recipe

Elegant Saffron Olive Oil Cookies

Golden saffron and orange olive oil cookies are the elegant little thing your cookie tray is missing: a small pinch of saffron, plenty of orange zest, and fruity olive oil doing the work butter usually does. Grand Marnier — or orange juice — rounds out the dough. They...

Incredibly Light & Creamy Ricotta Cheesecake – vegetarian recipe

The Best Light & Creamy Ricotta Cheesecake

This incredibly light and creamy ricotta cheesecake is everything dense New York-style is not: fresh ricotta whipped with eggs, turbinado sugar, and lemon zest into something nearly cloudlike, baked in a crumb crust. There is a fuss-free route to a crack-free top...

Rosemary Plum Upside-Down Cake – vegetarian recipe

Stunning Rosemary Plum Upside-Down Cake

This rosemary plum upside-down cake starts the way all good upside-down cakes do: melted butter and dark brown sugar in the pan, ripe plums fanned over, and a buttermilk batter poured on top. The rosemary is unexpected and exactly right — savory against all that...

Slow-Baked Rustic Pineapple Tart – vegetarian recipe

Slow-Baked Pineapple Tart with a Rich Syrup

This slow-baked rustic pineapple tart is a commitment in the best way: a whole pineapple, peeled and cut, with turbinado sugar, baked long and low in a sweet tart crust until everything turns golden and jammy. Three hours start to finish, eight servings, and a dessert...