Recipe: Cool rice and cucumber salad
Grilled lobster with shallot butter and cucumber ‘noodles’ (Ken Hively / Los Angeles Times)
Cucumber and yogurt soup with barley (Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles Times)
Persian cucumber salad with walnuts and golden raisins (Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times)
Recipe: Cucumber vichyssoise
Seared tuna steaks with cucumber and grapefruit salsa (Gina Ferazzi/Los Angeles Times)