Simple sweet vinegar sauce — amazu — is three ingredients with an outsized job: rice vinegar, vegetarian dashi, and sugar warmed together into the bright, gentle-sweet dressing behind Japanese sunomono. Fifteen minutes, and it keeps, quietly improving everything from...
Perfect Seasoned Brown Rice for Sushi & Bowls
Perfectly seasoned brown sushi rice makes whole-grain sushi a real thing: long-grain brown rice cooked tender, then glossed with the classic vinegar, honey, and salt seasoning while it's still warm. The grains are chewier and nuttier than white sushi rice, which...
Perfect Quinoa Sushi Rice Recipe
Protein-packed quinoa sushi rice applies the same vinegar-sweet seasoning to quinoa that sushi rice gets, and the result is nori rolls with a nutty, complete-protein filling that holds together surprisingly well. Cook the quinoa plain, season it warm, roll as usual....
The Ultimate Guide to Perfect Sushi Rice
Perfect vegetarian sushi rice comes down to two unglamorous things: the right short-grain rice and slightly less water than you'd normally use — 2½ cups minus 3 tablespoons (45 ml / 1.5 fl oz), exactly. Then the vinegar dressing, folded in while the rice is warm....
Easy Homemade Sushi Vinegar Dressing
The secret to perfect sushi rice dressing is that there's barely anything to it: rice vinegar, fine unrefined sugar, and salt, warmed together until they dissolve, then folded gently through warm rice. That gentleness is the actual secret — sushi rice is...
Easy Whole Wheat Pizza Dough Recipe
Simple whole wheat pizza dough asks for fifteen minutes of hands-on time and six pantry ingredients, and the water temperature is the one place to be precise — around 115°F (46°C) wakes the yeast without scalding it. The rest is rising and waiting. Friday pizza night...
Easy Homemade Vegetarian Tomato Sauce Recipe
Easy homemade vegetarian tomato sauce in 35 minutes tastes like it simmered all afternoon, and the reason is technique, not time: fry the tomato paste until it darkens and the whole pot deepens. Two cans of no-salt tomatoes put you in charge of seasoning. Double it,...
Easy Homemade Greek Yogurt (Strained Yogurt)
The creamiest homemade Greek-style yogurt is one ingredient and half a day of waiting: plain low-fat yogurt strained until it's thick enough to stand a spoon in. There's no cooking, no culture wrangling, no thermometers. The whey that drains off is a bonus,...
The Best Healthy Vegetarian Pumpkin Pie Recipe
Wholesome pumpkin pie with whole-wheat crust sweetens its filling only with maple syrup and still slices like the classic — the coconut oil crust shatters, and the filling sets clean thanks to eggs and arrowroot. The Yogurt Cheese in the filling plays the tangy role...
Easy Streusel-Stuffed Baked Apples
The coziest baked apple recipe with pecan currant streusel starts with whole baking apples set in a bath of apple cider that steams into them while they roast. The streusel — oats, pecans, maple, cinnamon — crisps on top as the apples go tender. Sixty-five minutes,...
Creamy Vegan Pumpkin Nog (Dairy-Free!)
Rich and creamy vegan pumpkin nog coats the spoon the way eggnog should — arrowroot and pumpkin puree handle the body, maple syrup and warm spices handle the rest. It cooks in three minutes on the stove and then it's yours, warm or chilled. Optional rum for the...
Sparkling Raspberry Kombucha Mocktail Recipe
This sparkling raspberry kombucha mocktail is my zero-proof party trick: tart raspberry juice, lemon, a couple dashes of bitters, and kombucha topped with sparkling water. Frozen raspberries float in as edible ice cubes that blush the drink as they thaw. Ten minutes,...












