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Looking for delicious vegan recipes for the summer?

Discover flavourful mains, like grilled pizza portobellos, grilled tofu and pineapple skewers, and grilled sweet potatoes with lime tahini. For refreshing dishes that require minimal or no heat, try these raw vegan tacos, this citrus miso slaw, or this summer picnic salad.

Looking to keep cool? Try my chamomile iced latte, this minty cucumber limeade, and my iced peach green tea.

For more summer and seasonal recipes, check out The First Mess Cookbook.

An overhead image shows a bowl of a creamy, beige vegan dill pickle dip that's swirled with olive oil on the top and garnished with fresh dill and finely chopped pickles. The dip is served with crackers and cut vegetables. A hand is seen dragging a cracker through the dip.

Vegan Dill Pickle Dip

An overhead shot of a sauté pan filled with blackberry glazed tofu cubes. The glaze is deep fuchsia and the dish is garnished with fresh sage and thyme leaves.

Blackberry Glazed Tofu with Black Pepper & Chili

An overhead shot shows a creamy vegan red pepper pasta in a stainless steel pan. The short-shaped pasta is garnished with fresh basil leaves, strips of roasted red pepper, charred corn kernels, dried chili flakes, and freshly ground pepper.

Vegan Red Pepper Pasta with Charred Corn & Basil

An up close, overhead shot of a cabbage, kale, and carrot slaw with creamy mustard dressing. The slaw is in a wide ceramic dish with a black rim.

Creamy Mustard Slaw

An overhead shot of grilled cabbage and fennel in direct sunlight. The vegetables are covered in a creamy mustard seed sauce and garnished with fennel fronds.

Grilled Cabbage and Fennel with Maple Mustard Cream

An overhead shot of a creamy green-sauced pasta with broccoli florets and drizzles of deep red chili oil. The 30 minute broccoli basil pasta is shown in a large stainless steel sauté pan.

30 Minute Broccoli Basil Pasta

An overhead shot of a pickle panzanella salad with crispy bits of bread, chopped cucumbers, pickles and red onion, plus shaved fennel and fresh dill. Photographed in a wide, white bowl with wood serving tongs. All set on a worn wood background.

Pickle Panzanella Salad

An overhead shot shows a light blue platter topped with cooked french lentils and grilled whole carrots, all topped with a creamy chive-flecked sauce. Extra chives and sesame seeds garnish the dish.

Grilled Carrots with Lentils & Roasted Garlic Chive Yogurt Sauce

An up close overhead shot of a rice noodle salad in a large bowl with lots of small-diced fresh spring vegetables. The salad is topped with chili and maple syrup roasted peanuts that have been chopped.

Spring Rice Noodle Salad with Chili Maple Peanuts, Celery & Peas

An up close shot of a split open sandwich being held by a hand. In between marble rye there are layers of sprouts, butter lettuce, a creamy sauce, mustard, tomatoes, sauerkraut, onion, and pepperoncini peppers.

My Ultimate Veggie Crunch Sandwich

A grid shows 4 vegan tofu recipes: coconut tofu lettuce wraps, golden coconut broth bowls with tofu and vegetables, a veg noodle salad with seared tofu, and grilled tofu and pineapple skewers

20+ Vegan Tofu Recipes

An overhead image shows a pair of hands splitting a jumbo double chocolate cookie drizzled with peanut butter in half.

Jumbo Double Chocolate Cookie with Peanut Butter

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