Hot Rosemary Apple Yogurt Parfaits

I haven't taken photos of my recipes yet, so this cup of coffee and cookie will have to do :)

I created this recipe several years ago, and wrote in goofy little descriptions like "cut apple into eyeball size pieces", and "add a pile of sesame seeds"! I'll put in the 'normal' version here :)

This is a warm apple dessert, with still-crunchy apples, lovely melty bananas, crunchy seeds, layered with yogurt (the yogurt starts off cool but warms up a little in the layers). It's very herby, and you can cut that down if you're not a huge fan of rosemary. And some of the ingredients that I use can be left out or substituted with whatever you prefer - pears, ice cream, thyme, etc.! But here is my version...

dried rosemary, crushed a little (with your fingers or a mortar and pestle), I use 2 TBSP
1 apple, cubed
1 banana, sliced
sesame seeds (I use about 1 TBSP)
pine nuts (maybe 1 - 2 TBSP), toasted (I do this in a dry pan, then use the pan)
cinnamon
nutmeg (freshly grated!)
honey
1 tsp butter, 1 tsp olive oil
plain yogurt for layers

Melt butter (with oil) in a pan with the rosemary and sesame seeds. When heated and popping a little, add the apple. Sprinkle with cinnamon, pour honey over to taste (about 1 tbsp or less). When apples are hot (still crunchy!), spoon them out into 2 parfait cups. Replace with banana slices in the pan. These will cook in the apple juices and look very nice when coated with leftover sesame seeds!

In fact, if you'd like to change it up a bit for presentation, leave the sesame seeds out until you're done with the apples, then put in the seeds and toast them in the leftover butter/oil, and then add the bananas which will be nicely coated with the seeds.

Spoon some yogurt on the apples, then add the bananas once heated through. Put a dollop of yougurt on top of the bananas, then the rest of the cooking juices and top with pine nuts!

Serves 2, and is quite tasty and healthy! You can leave out the honey for even less sugar. Sometimes I add some rose water to the yogurt - stirring it in - and sometimes some cardamom for a bit of flavor.