Want to eat more veggies? Meet your new favorite cookbook.
Start with a Vegetable is Jess Smith’s debut cookbook. This beautiful cookbook has 100 brand new weeknight-friendly recipes, each of them with a photograph taken by Jess.
This book’s flexitarian approach to dinner takes whatever vegetable you have on hand and gives you a variety of ways to turn that vegetable into dinner. The recipes include meat and fish, but each recipe also offers a simple vegetarian variation making it ideal for anyone looking to easily add more veggies to their meals.
If you love the approach that Jess takes to making healthy, colorful dinners throughout the pages of this website and on her popular Instagram account, Start with a Vegetable is for you.
In addition to 100 new recipes with photos, what you’ll find inside is:
- expert guidance on meal planning
- vegetable storage tips
- TONS of tips and variations on every recipe
- meal plans for every season (including QR codes to printable grocery lists!)
Transform corn and zucchini into crispy tostadas, spinach into Pesto Pasta, cucumbers into No-Roll Sushi Bowls, and tomatoes into Farro Caprese, and even add more veggies to pizza night. Recipes appear by cook and prep times so you can whip up something fast or enjoy more hands-on dishes for every kind of eater: omnivores, vegetarians, and vegans. All you have to do is start with a vegetable.
“I love that each chapter focuses on a different vegetable, making it easy to use whatever you have on hand.”
– Katie Trant, MSc Nutr, founder of Hey Nutrition Lady
“Who better to [help us to plan and execute vegetable-centered meals] than a professional menu planner who, at the end of a long day, just wants to get something healthy and wonderful on the table.”
– Becky Selengut, author of Misunderstood Vegetables”
“The [recipes] feel familiar and approachable while offering new ingredient combinations and lots of flavoring tips to make vegetables something we crave.”
-Jess Dang, founder of Cook Smarts
