Cucumber

Crushing and smashing green beans and cucumbers creates nooks and crannies to soak up as much umami-rich miso sauce as possible. And this is a dressing you'll want a lot of.

Sliced tomato makes a colorful addition to this classic Greek yogurt sauce. It's a refreshing accompaniment to lamb.

While this cooling yogurt sauce recipe is welcome alongside spicy foods, it is also amazing slathered on flatbreads or spooned over basmati rice. This recipe is from Gunpowder, an Indian restaurant in London.

Green mangoes would be ideal, but slightly unripe mangoes are an imperfect but successful substitute.

Toss sweet melon and crisp cukes in a bright coriander-cardamom dressing for a refreshing and delicious summer salad.

Bush’s® grilled summer veggie and bean bowl with harissa vinaigrette

Make a big batch of these spicy herbed meatballs and stash them in your freezer. That way, you’ll always have the building blocks for an easy weeknight dinner on hand.

Three levels of flavor-building means this customizable pork dinner can easily go from simple to next level.

Bright and refreshing green goddess dressing perks up the grains in this delicious bowl that's filled to the brim with all the green veggies.

This psychedelic Mediterranean-inspired salad marries bright, fresh ingredients with sweet, earthy roasted beets and perfectly cooked eggs. It tastes as good as it looks on the plate, and all the ingredients make for good snacks.

Recipe courtesy of Bon Appétit Executive Chef Mary Nolan

Arla's minimal ingredient cream cheese is the perfect, fresh balance for the hearty wheat bagel and fresh, raw vegetables. Beyond their herb and spice variety, I like tokeep the original flavor on hand as well and mix in fresh herbs

You can serve these flatbreads as is or wrapped around a filling.

Ask your butcher for lamb backstraps, an interior cut from the loin that is lean and exceedingly tender.

Wheels of cucumbers and radishes are nice and all, but smashing them into ragged pieces is way more fun.

Mast, which translates to yogurt in Farsi, is a staple side dish on many Persian tables. The yogurt can be mixed with shallots, grated cooked beets, cooked spinach, or, most commonly, with Persian cucumbers, mint, and dried rose.

Often called kosher-style dill pickles, these are quick to make. Use either small whole cucumbers or cut larger ones into quarters. For an additional interesting flavor, tuck a small dried hot red pepper into each jar.