A Light and Delicious Dessert

I have to watch the sugar with my Type 2 diabetes, but I will occasionally indulge in a little bit of something lightly sweet. I invented a little light dessert that the whole family really loved. I served it at the conclusion of a meal of chicken piccata, vegetable ragout, and rosemary-sage roasted potatoes served with a Bordeaux Blanc. Try this.

Ingredients:

Compressed fig almond cake (any good cheese shop will have these)
Fresh chevre (goat cheese)
Parmigiano-Reggiano
Medium-coarse sea salt
Tupelo honey
Blood (Moro) orange
Zest of a Meyer lemon

Cut fig cake into 1/8" thick slices, and cut each slice into one inch segments. Arrange about ten of these segments in the center of a dessert plate and microwave for 10 seconds.

Fluff the chevre with a fork, and sprinkle a layer of the chevre on top of the fig cake segments.

Sprinkle a touch of sea salt on the chevre to give it flavor and contrast with the sweetness (and to activate your taste buds).

Shave a few paper thin slices of parmigiano-Reggiano on top of the chevre.

Carefully cut the peel from the blood orange, then cut out the segments from their membranes. Cut each segment into three pieces.

Arrange four pieces of blood orange segment around each plate, and place one or two additional segment pieces on top of the parmigiano-Reggiano.

Dust with Meyer lemon zest.

Drizzle a very fine thread of Tupelo honey all over the mound of cheeses and fig. Should be less than a teaspoon for each dessert (maybe even half a teaspoon).

Enjoy!

This is a beautiful dessert, and I'm going to serve it at our next dinner party. I hope you like it, too.

Note: The real joy of this dessert is the manner in which all these ultra-fine ingredients complement each other. You cannot get the same result with lesser ingredients, so unless you can get real Meyer lemons, real parmigiano-Reggiano, real blood oranges, and real Tupelo honey, don't waste your time. Trying to make this with regular lemon zest, domestic parmesan, navel oranges, and a squeeze bottle of Sue Bee honey would be a disasterous disappointment, to say the least.