Inventive Late Night Snacking

  This dish tastes better than it looks.
  It was cold, dark, and rainy.  I was in the middle of homework.  I wanted monkey bread.  Gooey, molten caramel over warm, soft bread with a touch of cinnamon!  It needed to be in my belly.  Trouble was it was cold, dark, rainy, and I was in the middle of doing homework.  Also, monkey bread is not a health food and I am trying sooo hard to shift my diet towards healthy.  But it sounded sooooo gooooood!
   First, I tried drinking gratuitous amounts of peppermint tea.  No relief from monkey bread fever.  Just needed to use the bathroom a lot.  Next tried healthy popcorn.  Tasty, but not what I want.  I got desperate.
   I grabbed a mug from the cupboard and dumped in a few teaspoons of brown sugar, a small pat of butter, a splash of milk, a splash of vanilla, a dash of salt, and finally a few chocolate chips.  I could settle without monkey bread but desperately needed caramel goodness.  I microwaved it for 20 second intervals stirring in between until a smooth creamy chocolate caramel sauce formed.
   I could not justify eating caramel sauce by itself with a spoon.  That is not very adult-like.  Also, felt kind of guilty for eating caramel sauce to begin with and wanted to "make it healthy."  So I ended up slicing up a banana and drizzling the sauce on top and sprinkling it with chopped walnuts.  Good.  Make it better?  Yes!  Add natural applesauce of course!
   I am full of good ideas.
   The resulting dish was...all right.  I probably should have stopped at the walnuts and forgot all about the applesauce (which, although natural, was super sweet).  But, dash it all, it was smooth, caramel-y, had a touch of chocolate, and the bananas provided a very nice creaminess.  Late night craving satisfied and possibly have an easy, relatively healthy snack recipe if I work out a few kinks.
  Later, I noticed that I had a bottle of butterscotch sauce in the fridge.  Will possibly just consider drizzling a little bit of that over bananas next time.  Faster, easier, and probably a lot healthier if just using a little bit.
*Note:  I recently visited the warm, sunny, full of flowers city of San Antonio, Texas.  Ate lots of tasty food, met lots of nice people, and will blog about it when I have time enough to devote to a possibly lengthy blog.