Woo-hoo!  I have a functioning kitchen again. It’s small (we live in a travel trailer) but the refrigerator now works after weeks and weeks of waiting for a replacement part.  We have been able to reconnect the propane so the stove and oven work, too.  Maybe I’ll get back to recipes again.  No promises — because I’m a dreadful cook. If a recipe can be mangled, I’ll do it.  But here is one for today.

 Fresh Fruit Parfait

•  1 cup part-skim milk ricotta cheese
• 1/2 tsp. almond extract
• Stevia, or other sugar substitute to equal 1 tsp. sugar
• 1 TB skin milk
• 1 cup sliced oranges
• 1 cup seedless red grapes
• 1 medium apple
• 2 bananas

Blend ricotta cheese and other non-fruit ingredients in a blender.  Cover and refrigerate. Peel, cut and dice the apples, slice the bananas, and mix with the sliced oranges and the grapes.

Prepare six parfait glasses. (In my case, borrow them back from my daughter to whom I gave them when we moved to our trailer).  Place a tablespoon of cheese mixture in the bottom of each glass.  Add a layer of fruit mixture to each glass.  Top with another tablespoon of cheese and keep layering.

It looks pretty and tastes good.  The glycemic index is just 46 and there are about 145 calories per serving.  You also don’t have to heat up your oven for this dessert — which is something to consider when the temperatures keep soaring above 100 degrees like they have been this summer here in Oklahoma!

You can also change up the fruit. Blueberries or peaches, for example, make it different, but still low glycemic and tasty.

Eating to live and living for Christ,
Susan Jordan Brown