Tonight's dessert

[pegkerr]

Tonight's culinary experiment: One of my favorite desserts for a long time has been to take a banana, slice it into a bowl, sprinkle it with chocolate chips, and microwave it. Then I sprinkle it with pecans and ice cream, and if I'm feeling particularly decadent, I add a tablespoon of Bailey's Irish cream.

Tonight, I mixed unsweetened cocoa powder with apple butter, and put that over the banana and microwaved that instead. And yeah, it really worked. Actually, this experimentation in the kitchen, trying to find a way around the "I want to find ways to eat that satisfy my cravings without using refined sugar" is kinda fun. Somehow it reminds me of trying to find loopholes in Asimov's 3 laws of robotics.

Workout today: FIRM: Cardio Sculpt

Comments

[fileg.livejournal.com]

have you tried Splenda?

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

No, I haven't. Someone else recommended it to me, too.

I may do it, too, but my emphasis this month is partly to retrain myself to be satisfied with less sweetness in the first place.

MMMnnnnmmm

[jemyl.livejournal.com]

Wow that sounds good! I will have to try that one. I am a diabetic who absolutely LOVES chocolate. It has to be a special treat and that might work really well. Thank you for sharing the receipe!

Re: MMMnnnnmmm

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

If you try it, let me know what you think. It makes a great substitute for chocolate sauce, I think. I am quite smug at the brain wave that made me think of it.

[tinymich.livejournal.com]

In Barcelona earlier this year, we bought a few jams from a chocolate specialty shop - have only opened one so far, the chocolate raspberry, and the texture is so much like apple butter (as opposed to a gelatinous jam containing pectin). It's not too sweet either. I suspect it's probably very similar to your concoction, which would make it very yummy indeed. =)