Essential Tofu Burgers with Easy Quick Pickles

This week I shared a new recipe for tofu burgers on Food52. Back when I wrote Veggie Burgers Every Which Way I wasn't as enthusiastic about tofu as I am now, now that I've spent a lot more time enjoying it on its own and in the myriad of delicious ways that it appears in …

Vegan Kimchi Veggie Burgers

[Apologies for the lapse here. I hope you didn’t miss Martha Rose Shulmans’ great column a few weeks ago in the New York Times that focuses on veggie burgers.] This burger has been in the works for a little while. The seeds were planted sometime two years ago, when I started making my own kimchi. I first …

Vegetarian Tonight: Mushroom Burgers with Barley

Here’s a new video I made (with the help of film pros Andrew Gauthier and Valerie Temple, and again featuring the music of Sleeping States) in the Vegetarian Tonight series. This time it's a vegan veggie burger, one of my favorites from Veggie Burgers Every Which Way. The recipe has been written up in a few different places, including the …

Walnut-Crusted Risotto “Burgers”

I’ll be the first to admit that some veggie burgers can stretch the limits of category—as in, you’re calling that a veggie burger? Latkes and fritters: sure, you can call them veggie burgers. Same thing with some big vegetable dumplings. Rice cakes? I'll hear you state your case. One might nitpick, but to me, this …

Thanksgiving Leftover Veggie Burger Loaf Sandwich

Here's my final offering. If that photo doesn't get you excited for Thanksgiving's leftovers parade—whether you start repurposing all those odds and ends later on Thursday eve, or can manage to wait until lunch on Friday—then I give up. When I had my "friendsgiving" with my tostone-expert friend Lesley last night, we ate this incredibly …