Chill! 23 cold recipes to cool you off on a hot day

Recipe: Iced somen noodles and fried eggplant with soy-mirin dipping sauce  (Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times)

Recipe: Chilled corn soup  (Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles Times)

Recipe: Gazpacho with avocado  (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)

Recipe: Gazpacho  (Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles Times)

Recipe: Shrimp ceviche from Sweet Butter in Sherman Oaks  (Glenn Koenig / Los Angeles Times)

Recipe: White gazpacho with grapes (Ajo blanco con uvas)  (Glenn Koenig / Los Angeles Times)

Recipe: Soba-tsuyu (dipping sauce for cold soba noodles)  (Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times)

Recipe: Homemade soba noodles  (Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times)

Recipe: White gazpacho with pine nuts  (Glenn Koenig / Los Angeles Times)

Recipe: Baja baby scallops ceviche  (Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times)

Recipe: Chilled sweet pea bisque with Dungeness crab and mint  (Carlos Chavez / Los Angeles Times)

Recipe: White gazpacho from Sweet Life Cafe  (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)

Recipe: Seafood naeng myun  (Glenn Koenig / LAT)

Recipe: Andalusian garden gazpacho  (Glenn Koenig / Los Angeles Times)

Recipe: Cold noodles in beef broth (Mul naeng myun)  (Glenn Koenig / LAT)

Recipe: Cucumber vichyssoise  (Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles Times)

Recipe: Chilled pea soup with fines herbes  (Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles Times)

Recipe: Chilled yellow squash soup with fresh dill  (Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times)

Recipe: Iced somen noodles with chicken and vegetables with spicy ginger sesame sauce  (Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times)

Recipe: Chilled avocado and watercress soup with shrimp  (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)

Recipe: Cucumber granita  (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

Recipe: Heirloom melon gazpacho  (Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times)