Monday, April 28, 2003

 
Sunday night's dinner was probably my favorite so far in our "new diet" phase. We had Chicken Tikka Masala, Green Beans w/ Black Mustard Seeds, and Daal (lentil soup) w/ chard. For dessert I made Sticky Sesame Bananas w/ frozen yogurt. I'll have to get the recipes for the dinner, but the dessert was super-easy to make, low fat and tasted great.

First, I cut up some bananas into two-inch pieces (3 large bananas makes about 15 pieces), poured a little lemon juice on them and then placed them on some parchment on a cookie sheet. Then I made up a little caramel sauce with 4.5 oz superfine sugar and 4 tablespoons of water. I added just a tablespoon of half & half at the end, hoping that it wouldn't get so rock hard when it cooled, but it didn't work. Oh well. Meanwhile, Leah toasted some sesame seeds. I had to drizzle the caramel onto the banana pieces before the caramel totally hardened (it happens FAST, so watch out!) and then sprinked on the sesame seeds. I served it by arranging 5 banana pieces around a scoop of non-fat vanilla frozen yogurt in each bowl, Yummy! The toasted sesame seeds were great with the caramel, which was was kind of like peanut brittle, and the frozen yogurt tasted just as good as ice-cream.


Jacki 4/28/2003