Cooking Vegetarian: 2,600+ Recipes
The easiest, crispiest home fries ever come from waxy potatoes, a hot pan, and the patience not to stir: Yukon Gold or red potatoes, a good soak for extra crispness, and a crust that forms only when you leave it alone. Paprika gives the diner color; diced onions make...
Homemade prune butter — povidla — is a taste of old-world Europe in a jar: plump pitted prunes simmered with orange juice, lemon, a little sugar, and a pinch of salt until dark, thick, and intensely fruity. An hour at the stove, most of it occasional stirring. Spread...
Wholesome whole wheat pancakes with crispy edges follow one rule: butter in the pan, every single time. The batter is whole wheat pastry flour, eggs, milk, and real maple syrup, with melted butter mixed right in. Warm syrup and fresh fruit on top — thirty-five minutes...
The best ever crunchy homemade granola comes down to one technique: press it down before baking and leave it alone, so it bakes into extra-large clusters instead of crumbs. Oil and honey coat rolled oats, coconut, seeds, and walnuts, with raisins and cranberries...
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 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 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...
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....
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...
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,...
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...
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...