Dumpling tomato salad season won’t last forever
A delicious dish to celebrate a wonderful new cookbook.
Cooking
September 15, 2026

Calling all vegetable lovers: Today marks the publication of “Veg Everything,” the latest cookbook from New York Times Cooking, edited by Tanya Sichynsky.

As the writer of The Veggie newsletter, Tanya knows the meatless recipes on our site better than anyone. She has collected 101 of the best of them for this cookbook, from beloved recipe developers including Hetty Lui McKinnon, Yewande Komolafe, Ali Slagle, Eric Kim, Rick Martínez and Alexa Weibel. All these recipes are garnished with reader cooking notes, ingredient and cooking tips, and essays geared to making vegetable-forward meals easier and — since it’s Tanya — a heck of a lot more fun.

One thing to know is that these recipes aren’t just for vegetarians and vegans. They’re for anyone looking to up the vegetable quotient of their diet, myself included. As Tanya writes, “The decision to eat more vegetables does not confine you to a life of side dishes.”

A few white bowls hold a salad studded with dumplings, tomatoes and herbs.
Hetty Lui McKinnon’s dumpling tomato salad with chile crisp vinaigrette. Christopher Testani for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Simon Andrews.

Last call on dumpling tomato salad

Case in point: Hetty’s utterly wonderful dumpling tomato salad with chile crisp vinaigrette. This satisfying 20-minute meal is perfect for showing off the last good tomatoes of the season, and seasoning them ahead with salt, grated garlic and basil gives them a chance to really absorb those flavors while the dumplings cook.

It’s exactly the kind of dish that everyone loves. And there are 100 others just as alluring. Congratulations, Tanya!

View this recipe: Dumpling tomato salad with chile crisp vinaigrette

Recipes for your week

Let’s keep the vegetable goodness going with five more stars from “Veg Everything,” including Andy Baraghani’s extra-green pasta salad (the cover girl!) and a deeply savory stew from Eric Kim.

Extra-green pasta salad is piled onto a white oval serving platter with a silver spoon.

Johnny Miller for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Samantha Seneviratne.

Extra-Green Pasta Salad

By Andy Baraghani

Filled StarFilled StarFilled StarFilled StarFilled Star

3,175

30 minutes

Makes 4 to 6 servings 

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Christopher Simpson for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Simon Andrews.

Cauliflower Shawarma With Spicy Tahini

By Melissa Clark

Filled StarFilled StarFilled StarFilled StarFilled Star

9,230

45 minutes

Makes 2 servings

A Dutch oven holds gochujang potato stew with two servings in bowls; the servings also have white rice and sour cream.

James Ransom for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Barrett Washburne.

Gochujang Potato Stew

By Eric Kim

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7,718

1 hour

Makes 4 servings

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Nico Schinco for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Barrett Washburne.

Borani Banjan (Afghan-style Eggplant in Yogurt)

By Zainab Shah

Filled StarFilled StarFilled StarFilled StarFilled Star

1,122

35 minutes 

Makes 4 servings  

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Joel Goldberg for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Hadas Smirnoff.

Make-Ahead Egg, Spinach and Feta Wraps

By Naz Deravian

Filled StarFilled StarFilled StarFilled StarFilled Star

1,638

55 minutes

Makes 5 wraps

For a limited time, you can enjoy free access to the recipes in this newsletter in our app. Download it on your iOS or Android device and create a free account to get started.

And before you go

Over in our sister newsletter “Bake Time,” Yossy Arefi took the Bake Time questionnaire, and she calls out that this shoulder season between summer and fall is a wonderful time to bake. “There are late-season berries for a berries and cream cake, stone fruit for a peach and ricotta cake, early apples for apple cake and pumpkins for all of your pumpkin cake needs.” Who says you can’t have it all?

See you Thursday.

Armando Rafael for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Yossy Arefi.

Apple Cake

By Yossy Arefi

Filled StarFilled StarFilled StarFilled StarFilled Star

1,005

About 1 hour 10 minutes, plus cooling

Makes 1 (9-by-13-inch) cake

Melissa Clark has been writing about food for The New York Times since 1997 and is the author of 46 cookbooks. Her latest is “The Big Book of Dinner,” coming in November. You can reach her at hellomelissa@nytimes.com.

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