Summer solstice recipes (a bit belated) 🌞

My favorite recipes featuring summer's seasonal plants

I had planned to send a summer-themed newsletter today because I thought it was the solstice…but then I realized I missed the solstice yesterday!

So in honor of the SECOND day of the official start of summer, here are my favorite recipes featuring summer’s best plant foods.

🌞 + 🍑,

Kristina
summer plant pioneer

10 recipes for the solstice 🌞

SUMMER RECIPE #6 (perfect for picnics and cookouts)

5 ways to use up summer veg food scraps 👩‍🍳

FOOD SCRAP RECIPE #2 (perfect salad topping)

Recent newsletters, if you missed them 👇

My 10 favorite recipes right now (Wednesday, June 19th)

Comfort food dinners + desserts (Tuesday, June 18th)

Meat-free Monday dinners (Monday, June 17th)

Next week’s meal plan is ready (Saturday, June 15th)

Stop making boring salads (Friday, June 14th)

Today’s menu, with a tofu twist (Thursday, June 13th)

DID YOU KNOW? 🧐

On the solstice, the Sun reaches its northernmost position, reaching the Tropic of Cancer and standing still before reversing direction and starting to move south again. (See illustration above.) In fact, that’s how the Tropic of Cancer got its name. A few thousand years ago, the solstice happened when the Sun was in the constellation of Cancer the Crab. (source)

TODAY’S VIDEO 🎥

What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade.

Gertrude Jekyll

FINALLY MASTER MEAL PLANNING

It took me YEARS to figure out the secret to transitioning to a plant-based diet: meal planning! Yes, planning your meals is key to eating more plants and I’m sharing everything I’ve learned in my 5+ years of plant-based living in Plant Powered Kitchen School. For less than a fancy coffee shop coffee each month, you get my complete plant-based meal planning system, weekly meal plans, and a community of plant eaters who are also cooking up plants each and every day. Come join us!

LET ME KNOW…

What's your WHY?

What's your #1 reason for wanting to eat a more plant-based diet?

Login or Subscribe to participate in polls.

I’M CURIOUS 🧐

I’d love it if you’d be a peach and take 3 minutes to fill out this short survey about your biggest struggles in the kitchen right now. If you do, you’ll receive a FREE meal plan that’s usually just available to my meal plan members. 👇

NEVER LOSE A RECIPE AGAIN!

Introducing your Fork in the Road Recipe Box, a FREE recipe bookmarking tool! Now you can bookmark your favorite recipes and kitchen tips to store in one convenient place so you can access them later.

Here’s how to do it:

  1. Sign up for an account with the Fork in the Road Recipe Box

  2. Tap the heart on every post to bookmark it

  3. Go to your recipe box account to peruse your favorites

Tap the heart on every post to save to your recipe box

Reply

or to participate.