If you love the vibe and flavor of classic cream of mushroom soup, but want to skip the overabundance of heavy cream used in many recipes, you’re in the right spot. This version brings all the nostalgia you love, but uses nuts to deliver the rich, creamy texture. It works beautifully, and the soup is such an all-star. Give it a try!
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Cauliflower dialed all the way up on the spice front like this tastes great. Inspired by a recipe in Reza Mahammad’s cookbook, caramelized onions, cumin, ginger, garlic, sesame seeds and chiles are all in play. They create fragrant magic, turning this cauliflower recipe into an all-star – just read the comments!
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Accented with blueberries, boosted to a hot pink color with beet juice, these vegan oatmeal pancakes are a great way to start the morning.
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This blended vegetable soup is a delicious delivery vehicle for a range of hearty vegetables. If you have onions, potatoes, carrots, and broccoli to use up, this is a great option. A soup that is a unfussy as it gets, easily adaptable as well.
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A palak daal recipe from Kasa’s Anamika Khanna – a hearty pot of spinach, lentils, and spices. Kasa is a favorite Indian restaurant in San Francisco.
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If you haven’t tried grilled fava beans, you must! You can make them on a grill or in a grill pan. Toss them out onto a newspaper where people can dive in and make a bit of a mess with the pods and skins.
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A wonderful kimchi soup inspired by a bowl of fiesty, fiery, brothy cabbage soup I had years ago at Namu Gaji in San Francisco.
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Homemade onion powder is a fantastic way to minimize waste and put the tops of spring onions, leeks, and scallions to good use. You can use it as a simple seasoning or to transform everything from ranch dressing to compound butters. It’s the perfect finishing touch for salads, grain bowls, and so many pastas.
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This one-pot, garganelli pasta is an easy weeknight win. It’s pasta and lentils simmered in crushed tomatoes and finished with lots of chopped kale, saffron, swirls of tahini and chopped almonds.
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Vegetarian or vegan ramen can absolutely be as good as its meat-based counterparts. Here, you introduce your favorite noodles to a rich, miso-scallion nut-milk broth. Add a blitz of seasonal toppings, and spicy turmeric oil to finish. So good!
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The defining detail of this spicy chili crisp is the use of chopped dates and fresh orange zest alongside chili flakes, chili powder, garlic, fried shallots and a dynamic list of spices. Use it to top everything from noodles to a morning scramble and you’ve got something wildly delicious and special on your hands.
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This flatbread is made from white whole wheat flour and packed with seeds – pepitas, sunflower, poppy, and mustard seeds. You can pull the dough out paper thin for flatbread pizza or leave it thick, enjoy it straight, or bake it with toppings. Whatever you like, really!
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These homemade power bars are based on the recipe I published years ago in Super Natural Cooking. The main difference here is I made these savory with toasted walnuts, crumbled kale chips, and oil-cured olives.
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Hearty, healthy, and satisfying – this cabbage soup recipe is super simple to make. Slice a cabbage into thin ribbons and cook it down in a simple pot of sautéed potatoes, onions, beans, garlic and flavorful broth. Finish each bowl with a generous drizzle of great olive oil, a couple dollops of sour cream and a jolt of something spicy.
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If you tend to keep a lot of citrus around the kitchen, this citrus furikake is a great way to use grapefruit, orange, yuzu or lemon peels. It is a homemade seasoning that works on everything from eggs to rice bowls, noodles to salads.
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Citrus peel is a superhero ingredient. It is one of the strongest, most fragrant things you can use to build flavor in your cooking. This post shows you how to dry citrus peel. If you tend to have fresh grapefruit, oranges, or lemons around for juicing, don’t waste the peel.
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The macro bowls featured in Joe Yonan’s Mastering the Art of Plant-Based Cooking – nutty brown rice, a rainbow of vegetables, and a miso-tahini dressing you’ll want to put on everything.
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This favorite meatless red pozole is grounded with cascabel and chipotle chiles and spiked with citrus olive oil.
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This deeply flavorful caponata recipe cleverly trades out traditional eggplant for roasted cauliflower and uses an oven in place of deep-frying. The idea comes from Easy Wins by Anna Jones and has become an absolute favorite.
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Game-changer: I stumbled on new-to-me THIN rice cakes the other day, and have been using them as the perfect, crunchy snack vehicle in the days since. Pictured are a handful of topping ideas.
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A riff on one of my favorite recipes in Andrea Nguyen’s Vietnamese Food Any Day – a caramelized tempeh crumble. The sort of thing that immediately becomes the best component in your rice bowl.
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This sake mushroom recipe was inspired by a stack of papers in my kitchen. There was a note that simply said: big mushrooms, dunk in sake, dredge in rice flour, sauté, salt, dot with miso butter.
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A wonderful farro and roasted butternut squash recipe. Balsamic roasted butternut squash, deeply toasted walnuts, and nutty farro come together in this delicious recipe.
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Wintery spring rolls were the perfect lunch on a recent flight. Self-contained and slathered with a bold ginger-onion paste, filled with brown sugar tofu, mushrooms, lettuce, and herbs. The best kind of BYO plane food.
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A hearty noodle bowl recipe. Whole grain noodles and asparagus are tossed with a creamy, walnut-miso dressing plus a dollop of chile paste.
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