I really like the chocolate sorbet by Double Rainbow ice cream (a San Francisco company, by the way), but as I was hovering over the freezer case at Trader Joe’s, I thought to myself–I can make this at home. I had a chocolate sorbet recipe that came with my ice cream machine that I liked, but it was only good, not great, so I went hunting for a new one. Ans then I cam across this one in David Lebovitz’s The Perfect Scoop. It uses both chopped chocolate and cocoa …

This is a light, Asian influenced salad dressing. It works equally well spilled onto a simple bed of lettuce leaves, or a more compex salad. Salad lettuces are especially fresh and abundant in the summer –thus the name.

A very simple, very German salad. Great with spicy foods.