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

Find and refine your cooking style through 110 approachable and innovative plant-forward recipes from popular blogger and social media storyteller Justine Doiron.

Justine Doiron 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.

“I can feel my blood pressure go down every time one of Justine Doiron’s videos comes up on my For You page. I get so focused on cooking better, smarter, and faster that I forget to cook thoughtfully, and absorbing a Justine Cooks video is the culinary version of touching grass. Flipping through her cookbook has the same effect, and I suspect this book will long live next to my stove as a reminder to bring care back into my kitchen.”—Simply Recipes

“As much as Doiron’s recipes are inspired by fresh produce, she relies heavily on repeated pantry ingredients and advocates for humble staples like canned legumes. Her recipes are streamlined and unshowy; Doiron wants them to be foundational, not flashes in the pan.”—Eater

“This cookbook quite literally set my brain whirring and my mouth watering and basically left me unfit for anything other than cooking my way through it immediately, I do not exaggerate. Dates are torn. Harissa eggplant is drippy. Poached eggs are kimchi crusted. The green beans are frizzled, the shallots are sticky, and the tomato beans are hotties (and they know it).”—Daphne Oz, bestselling cookbook author and Emmy award-winning television host

Justine Doiron is the recipe developer and food creator behind Justine_Snacks. Known for her simple, inventive recipes across Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube, 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. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.