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Posts 21 to 30, from veggie mains to kitchen notes. Be sure to sign up for email updates to receive all our new posts, right in your inbox.

Five vegetarian desserts on a dark wooden table: a slice of two-layer carrot cake under off-white frosting, a glass of dark chocolate mousse topped with raspberries, a wedge of pale yellow key lime pie on a dark crumb crust, a pecan pie bar, and mango with sticky rice.

August 28, 2026Roundup · 15 recipes

15 Vegetarian Desserts

Fifteen desserts that earn their place on what they are rather than on what they leave out, from a five-ingredient mousse to a fried Indian sweet.

August 28, 2026

Vegan Mapo Tofu

The meat in the original was only ever a seasoning, which is why this version does not need anything standing in for it.

August 27, 2026

Pani Puri

The water and the filling are easy; the whole dish stands or falls on whether fifty little discs of dough blow themselves hollow in hot oil.

August 26, 2026

Vegetarian Bun Rieu

Most vegetarian versions steam the riêu into a block and slice it, because loose tofu curds fall apart in the pot, and egg is what fixes that.

A Mexican chile relleno in a shallow green bowl, a whole poblano in puffed golden egg batter sitting in thin red tomato caldillo.

August 25, 2026

Charred poblanos stuffed with stringy Oaxaca cheese and wrapped in an egg batter that puffs like a soufflé, served the way Puebla serves them, sitting in a thin tomato broth rather than crisp on a plate.

Three gulab jamun in a deep teal bowl, round reddish brown milk dumplings half submerged in thin golden cardamom and rose syrup, scattered with slivered pistachios and dried rose petals.

August 24, 2026

Soft Gulab Jamun

The syrup is the part nobody explains properly: cook it to one-string consistency and these will glaze instead of soak.

August 23, 2026

Mango Sticky Rice

Two coconut sauces, not one: the sweet one soaks into the rice and the salted one goes over the top, and that contrast is the whole reason Thailand calls this its national dessert.

A wide bowl of butternut squash soup swirled with cream and scattered with pumpkin seeds and parsley, with bowls of black bean soup and tomato soup and torn crusty bread on the dark wooden table behind it.

August 22, 2026Roundup · 20 recipes

20 Easy Veggie Soup Recipes

Twenty soups from the archive, ordered so the first three are the ones to cook first, each with the one thing that goes wrong in it.

August 22, 2026

Agedashi Tofu

Crisp potato starch outside, custard soft inside, sitting in a kombu and shiitake broth that Japanese temple kitchens were making long before restaurants started putting fish flakes on top.

August 21, 2026

Thai Noodle Salad

Almost every Thai noodle salad written in English is dressed in peanut butter; the one Thailand actually eats is dressed in lime, and it tastes like a different dish.