Hearty mushroom barley soup is winter armor: cremini mushrooms browned in butter, pearl barley simmered in the broth until chewy and just short of starchy. An hour and a quarter, mostly unattended, and it eats like a stew. There's nothing quite like a bowl of hearty,...
Creamy Vegan Peanut & Spinach Stew
Creamy vegan peanut & spinach stew is thirty minutes and one skillet: peanut butter and tomato paste melted into a deeply savory sauce that turns a pile of greens into dinner. It has permanently entered my weeknight rotation. Craving a meal that's bursting with...
Hearty Vegetarian Cabbage and Mushroom Pie
Cabbage, mushroom, and egg pot pie is humble on paper and astonishing on the fork: buttery cabbage and mushrooms baked with hard-boiled eggs under a double crust, scented with basil, marjoram, and tarragon. An hour later it slices like a dream and feeds eight. When...
Easy Baked Vegetarian Chiles Rellenos
Easy baked chiles rellenos skip the deep fryer without losing the payoff: roasted poblanos stuffed with Monterey Jack, snuggled under a fluffy baked egg blanket. Forty-five minutes, no splattering oil, and all the molten cheese you came for. If you love the smoky,...
Easy Kidney Bean & Potato Sabji (Aloo Rajma Recipe)
Simple aloo rajma sabji, a potato and kidney bean curry, is weeknight comfort at its most dependable: potatoes and beans in a warmly spiced tomato-onion masala. One pan, about 55 minutes, and dinner is a pot of something deeply spoonable. There's nothing quite like...
Easy Spicy Tomato Cheddar Soup Recipe
Spicy tomato cheddar soup is the fifteen-minute bowl that rescues cold evenings: condensed tomato and Cheddar soups loosened with spicy tomato juice and a pinch of dried basil. It tastes like it simmered all afternoon. There's nothing quite like a warm bowl of tomato...
Easy Homemade Mall-Style Soft Pretzels (Vegan!)
That irresistible mall pretzel, made at home, is closer than it looks: a soft bread-flour dough, a quick baking-soda bath, and a brush of melted vegan butter. The whole project runs just under two hours, and most of it is the dough resting. That Irresistible Mall...
Easy Vegetarian Crescent Roll Pinwheels Appetizer
Cheesy crescent roll pinwheels are the potluck appetizer people request by name: cream cheese, vegetarian bacon bits, and Parmesan rolled into crescent dough, sliced, and baked in fifteen minutes. Warm, salty, and gone in five. Looking for a crowd-pleasing appetizer...
The Best Cinnamon Sugar Candied Pecans
Joy's cinnamon candied pecans make the whole house smell like a holiday market: pecan halves rolled in whipped egg white and cinnamon sugar, then baked low and slow to a crackly shell. The hour is almost entirely hands-off. Some recipes are more than just food;...
Bright & Zesty Lemon Fruit Dip Recipe
Tutti frutti dip — easy 5-minute lemon fruit dip — is lemon curd and sweetened condensed milk whisked smooth with half-and-half, finished with lemon zest. It looks like you tried much harder than you did. Ready to transform your everyday fruit platter into a...
5-Minute Peppercorn Ranch Dip Recipe
The easiest, most addictive peppercorn ranch party dip is five ingredients and five minutes: cream cheese and butter whipped with ranch mix, Parmesan, and coarsely cracked rainbow peppercorns. Pretzels were invented for this, whether they know it or not. The Easiest,...
5-Minute Cheesy Mexicorn Dip Recipe
The easiest, most addictive party dip you'll ever make comes out of two cans of Mexicorn and five minutes of stirring. Sour cream, mayo, pickled jalapenos, and shredded Cheddar-Jack do the rest during a short chill. It serves a crowd and still runs out. The...
