Crispy Recipes for When Dinner’s in a Crunch

“Crispy” is one of the most appealing adjectives in food, right up there with “crunchy” and “creamy,” not to mention “sizzled,” “smashed” and “seared.” It conjures pleasure before you’ve even cooked or purchased the food in question, let alone taken a bite. What is it? The delicate shattering sensation? The immense satisfaction of that sound?…

A Vegetarian Meal Plan for Lunch

Before the pandemic, I went into an office five days a week and, supposedly, ate five lunches, most of them schlepped from home. I say supposedly because what those meals actually looked like is lost to lockdown-induced amnesia, replaced in my mind by a cacophony of trending TikTok sounds and a jumble of sourdough discard…

This Baked Tofu Recipe Actually Turns Crispy

As my quest for baked crispy tofu perfection continues, it’s led me down an untrodden path — one paved with Parmesan. Of course, I’ve seen the recipes for tofu parmigiana, typically topped with mozzarella and tomato sauce, and baked until melty. And plenty of vegan-Parmesan-crusted tofu recipes exist around the web. But it only occurred…