Bananas for dessert: fruit in disguise, part 1

(alternate women's magazine title: Guilt-free desserts!)

Bananas are a little different than your run-of-the-mill fruits. Take apples for example: sure they taste good, but you look at one and it screams "health!" at you. You know, "an apple a day keeps health insurance companies in business"... Well, sometimes I want something that will taste great as a dessert but not remind me that I'm trying to eat healthy. Bananas, although quite good for you, don't have that image problem apples have. So, eat one as a snack. Or if you want something just a little richer and fancier, try the following recipe:

Sultan's snack
Cut a medium sized, ripe banana into thin, diagonal slices. Drizzle with honey and sprinkle with chopped walnuts.

It tastes great, but it doesn't contain any simple, processed sugars. It's relatively low in calories and you can control the fat content by how much walnut you use. The fat you get from the walnuts is the good kind, the kind that helps you increase your good cholestrol.

Of course, for people who think of dessert as warm fudge brownies toppped with ice cream, this may still look a little too heatlh-foody. No worries, we'll take care of you people in part two.