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"This recipes comes from a fellow Israeli foodie, Gabi Shahar. I tried it out recently (am on a quinoa kick these days) and it's very good. A good alternative to tabbouli or couscous as a cool summer grain salad."

Ingredients: pepper, fresh lemon rind...

"Whipped this up tonight since we have been a bit vegetable deficient lately. I LOVE hummus, as does my fiancé, so I thought this would be perfect. It turned out really well. This is based on my Lebanese friend's recipe for hummus--she is religious about hummus and tabbouleh, so I know I have the basic recipe down pat!! :-) Be sure to adjust..."

Ingredients: garbanzo beans, edamame...

"A wonderfully refreshing bean salad, great served alongside BBQ meats.
Every now and again I'll add in a chopped tomato or two."

Ingredients: ground cumin, butter beans...

"This is a refreshing, crunchy and healthy salad with one of my favorites: chickpeas! It's a good main-dish vegetarian salad, uses ingredients typically "on-hand" - and is delicious with pita chips! As you can imagine, it's awesome with garden-fresh veggies in the summer! Add black olives if desired."

Ingredients: pepper, bermuda onions...

"I think it is best the next day! Adapted from the original Moosewood cookbook"

Ingredients: pepper, bulgur wheat...

"This is a traditional fruit salad that we always serve in the summer. It is traditionally served on the holiday of Tu Be'Shvat, but we love to eat it all summer long."

Ingredients: coconut, pitted dates...

Ingredients: ground cumin, dried garbanzo beans...

"This is a easy basic recipe for couscous making it light and fluffy, not gummy.
Be sure to allow the couscous to absorb the water.
It's a tiny pasta made of ground semolina flour. Add spices, fruits, nuts, and vegetables you like. You can use a flavored broth to also kick it up.
This can be used for a breakfast, side, salad, stuffing........."

Ingredients: couscous, olive oil, salt...

"From turkishcooking.com. The website indicates this sauce is used for a condiment on shish kebabs but I served it as a salsa with slices of toasted French bread. Be sure the tomatoes you use are top quality! If you cannot find good quality tomatoes, go ahead and used diced canned. Try different chili peppers such as Thai, habanero, etc. DO NOT omit..."

Ingredients: extra virgin olive oil, red jalapeno chiles...

"Very Moroccan, very yummy, and not just for summer. Prep time includes time spent in the fridge."

Ingredients: couscous, currants...

"This Spanish-Mediterranean vegetable salad is healthy, light, and great for the summer months."

Ingredients: extra virgin olive oil, fresh parsley...

"This is great for a picnic or barbecue. Use the indigo lentils that they sell in bulk containers at Wild Oats, Whole Foods type markets if you can find them. Recipe was originally in the Boston Globe many years ago but I've changed it a bit over the years."

Ingredients: couscous, extra virgin olive oil...

"Not so much a "recipe" but I make this at least once a week in the summer-if not more often. (I don't even bother peeling the melons or orange.) One of my favorite ways to serve fresh fruit! Recently discovered Temptation melon is really good in this recipe! If I have any raspberries, marionberries, blueberries, blackberries available,..."

Ingredients: honeydew melon, cantaloupe...

"Oh, yum, yum...I bought a big bottle of whole cloves at Sam's a while ago and found this recipe to use them. It is fantastic. I pretty much followed it exactly, except for the garlic change. I also added two diced Roma tomatoes. It is very healthy--low fat, with only 2 tsp olive oil!!--and authentic-tasting."

Ingredients: cloves, ground cumin...