One of my favorite afternoon snacks is lowfat yogurt with a teasponful of homemade jam and a few crumbled walnuts halves. Although strawberry jam is probably best, I've used up the jam that I made last June. However, a few days ago I found a new treat: chocolate, orange and banana jam. It is quite heavenly. The chocolate I used comes from Jacques Torres shop in Manhattan, and the recipe is from Mes Confitures by Christine Ferber. For this jam, sliced bananas are soaked in fresh orange juice. In addition, a few thinly sliced oranges are poached in sugar and water until they become transparent. The two mixtures are combined, the juice of 1 lemon is added, and the entire mixture is then brought to a simmer. Grated 68% chocolate is added and the mixture is allowed to sit in the refrigerator overnight. On the following day the entire mixture is boiled for 10 minutes and then transfered to preserving jars. The smell at each step in the preparation was marvelous, and the final taste is spectacular.
I much prefer a teaspoonful of a homemade jam like this plus 1/2 cup of low fat yogurt to any ice cream, and it has fewer calories. The photos show two steps in the preparation of the jam and a dish of the yogurt with jam and walnuts.
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