Justine Cooks : Recipes (Mostly Plants) for Finding Your Way in the Kitchen

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Find and refine your cooking style through approachable and innovative plant-forward recipes from popular blogger and social media storyteller Justine Doiron.

Justine is known for approachable and inventive cooking that surprises with its unexpected flavor and ingredient pairings, as well as her love of vegetables, beans, bread, and farmers’ markets. She is also known on social media for her funny, inspiring, validating stories about the ways we connect through food. Here she shares 110 plant-forward recipes for salads, snacks, vegetables, seafood, tofu, plus beans, breads (as well as things to eat on or with bread), and dessert.

Recipes include Baked Kale Salad with Chili Quinoa, Breaded Beans with Nutty Skhug, Whitefish Peperonata, and Crispy Rice in Sungold-Miso Broth, plus simple breads like Sweet Potato Focaccia and Ripple Bread. The desserts chapter tempts with recipes like Tiny Salted Tiramisu Cookies and Butternut Squash Cake with Cinnamon Whipped Cream. In sharing tips and techniques as well as kitchen wisdom she’s picked up on her cooking journey, Justine Cooks is a delicious invitation to explore your own cooking style and creativity.

Justine Doiron is a recipe developer and food creator based in Brooklyn, New York. She is known for her simple, creative recipes across both Instagram and TikTok. Justine specializes in comfortable, cookable food with a focus on seasonality and approachable ingredients. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, Bon Appétit, The Washington Post, Good Morning America, The Rachael Ray Show, and more.