Cooking during the summertime can sometimes be a pain. The heat makes you lethargic, so you want to cook something that's not too tedious or time-consuming, as well as something that won't make your kitchen feel like a sauna. Here are four great recipes to cook for Shabbat in the summertime.

GAZPACHO

My family loves soup. Thick and creamy, hearty or light, cold or piping hot – we're just into soups. I was raised on it as a main dish, as a side course, as dessert. So I figured it would be a snap to prepare. After all, it's mostly water, isn't it?

It should come as no surprise that I cook soup year-round, and my whole family clamors for it. My father and grandfather shared a totally unscientific theory: Eat

hot soup in the summer because it cools you off! First you eat, then you sweat an

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