Grab the last tomatoes of the season and make tomato sorbet. If you’re a fan of gazpacho and/or Bloody Marys, you’ll love this recipe.

Tomato sorbet is a savory sorbet—no sweetener. It’s very refreshing. Flavored with herbs, it’s very healthy and low in calories.

When do you eat it?

• With cocktails, served in miniature cones. Yohay makes mini cones in garlic, salt, and tomato basil flavors.
• As a first course or palate cleanser, garnished with a fresh basil leaf.
• With a chilled or room temperature vegetable soup. Serve the soup in a shallow bowl and place a scoop of tomato sorbet in the center of the dish. Garnish with chopped fresh herbs.
• Freestyle—how would you use it?

See the recipe.

Tomato sorbet photo and recipe courtesy Canard Inc.

Extra egg yolks? It’s easy to keep them
fresh. Photo by Michael Lorenzo | SXC.

To freeze egg yolks, you need to keep them from drying out by adding the equivalent of a teaspoon of salt per pint or a tablespoon of sugar or honey.

Another freezing tip: Place one yolk in each compartment of an ice cube tray. (After they freeze, move them to freezer bags.)

What can you do with egg yolks?

Make hollandaise sauce, aïoli or other sauces. You can use yolks to enrich sauces that don’t call for yolks. On the sweet side, there’s crème brûlée, French-style ice cream, mousse and zabaglione.

• Find egg recipes in our Eggs Section.
• Egg nutrition, facts and more tips.

Do you like oatmeal but wish the instant kind were more like stovetop-cooked?

Do you want an easy way to get your daily 48g of whole grain?

Do you want more fiber, cancer-fighting foods, the ability to lower bad cholesterol?

Malt-O-Meal, a company that makes only cereal products, has hit a home run with its new Better Oats line. It has a toothy, not mushy, consistency. No one would know it’s instant oatmeal. We don’t know all of the secrets, but one of them is the inclusion of flaxseed, which adds crunch plus Omega-3 fatty acids.

The variety of choices—classic, brown sugar, chai-spiced, cinnamon, maple, multigrain blend and even a tasty chocolate oatmeal—offer a different flavor for every day of the week. Unlike most instant oatmeal, they aren’t stripped of fiber and nutrients.

Enjoy a better bowl of instant oatmeal.
Photo by Katharine Pollak | THE NIBBLE.

• Read the full review and buy Better Oats—you’ll be pleasantly surprised.
• The health benefits of oatmeal.
• Why you need whole grain foods daily.

A chocolate-lover’s dessert fantasy:
milk and dark chocolate cups filled with
chocolate mousse.Chocolate cups from Godiva.

For an easy and elegant dessert at the end of a sumptuous dinner, simply place a scoop of ice cream into a molded chocolate cup. Garnish with a berry and a mint sprig, and you’ve got an impressive crowd-pleaser.

• Think beyond vanilla and chocolate ice cream to coffee, strawberry, mint and other flavors that pair easily with chocolate.
• For something really rich, fill the cups with mousse. Here’s Julia Child’s chocolate mousse recipe.
• We also like a filling of custard topped with fruit.

You can find chocolate cups at specialty food stores and baking supply stores. Or, get the Godiva chocolate cups in the photo. If you’re shopping online, make sure you purchase chocolate cups and not dessert cups.

• Find more of our favorite dessert recipes and product reviews in our Desserts Section.

Baked in individual ramekins, this squash soufflé recipe is a lighter alternative to pumpkin pie. You can use butternut squash or any of your favorite winter squash.