The Veggie

Pesto is a summer hitmaker, making heirloom tomato tarts, herby potato salads and super quick weeknight pastas sing.

And more excellent vegetarian sandwiches, like the HLT (halloumi, lettuce and tomato) and Superiority Burger’s crispy fried tofu.

Zucchini salad with bread crumbs! Cold sesame noodles with corn and basil! Tomato! Cheddar! Toasts!

Stir into one-pot rice and beans, tuck into enchiladas, pile up with caramelized plantains and drape over cheese grits.

Build a sauce library — rich peanut sauce, herby cilantro-mint chutney, lemon-caper dressing — and return to it all week for salads, grain bowls and other easy dinners.

Grilled halloumi and zucchini with salsa verde if you’re the cookout grill master, charred bok choy and cannellinis if you’re a salad-toting guest.

Recipes for when you have lots of chickpeas (brown-butter chickpeas, chana masala) or just a little (taverna salad).

Whole dried chiles, crushed chile flakes and spicy pastes get to work in chilaquiles, arrabbiata sauce and gochujang-glazed eggplant.

It’s steakhouse night in America — hold the steak.

Capital-E easy vegetarian dinners: miso-mascarpone pasta, sheet-pan japchae and everyday dal.