Grilled Bananas – Best Kept Secret
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Grilled Bananas Recipe
My first thoughts when getting ready to write this post on grilled bananas were “They’re gonna think I am weird”.
But honestly, if you are just now figuring that out about me, we got us one Jim Dandy of a learning curve here. Just about all Southerners are weird (the good ones at least). Where else do folks call every carbonated beverage a “coke” or “co-cola” despite flavor, brand, or location?
Now outside of the south, folks might call our weird behavior “eccentric” but everybody knows eccentric is just weirdness puttin’ on airs and Southerners don’t put on no airs.
Now you know I’m not going to bring you something unless I absolutely love it. This grilled bananas recipe wins bonus points with me also because it uses up food that might otherwise have gone bad or wasted and that’s another tender spot of mine.
People that come from my kind of people don’t like to waste food.
This is a great last minute dessert to have while you’re grilling out or cooking in.
Just put them on when you put your hamburgers on and wait til they turn good and black.
Don’t you just love it when you make food that is SUPPOSED to turn black? Me too.
Ingredients for Grilled Bananas
- You’re gonna need:
- Bananas
- Butter
- Brown Sugar Use light or dark brown sugar, whatever you have on hand is fine.
- Cinnamon We also found that a little cinnamon is DIVINE mixed in as well.
Smoosh up your margarine and brown sugar really good.
You will have a nice pasty mixture like this.
If you don’t get you a pinch of that I’m going to be very disappointed in you.
Anytime you are making something with brown sugar, it’s very bad luck not to taste it 😉
Lay your banana on its side and cut a slit in it but don’t go through the bottom of the peel.
Stuff it with your brown sugar mixture.
Set it on the grill or in a pan. It doesn’t have to be any special temperature, just whatever you have it set on for what you are cooking is fine.
Watch it ….
Your banana is cooking to ooey gooey goodness.
Almost done but not quite. Lets let it get nice and black.
NOW we’re talkin’!
This is delicious served alongside ice cream. You can eat it out of the peel or…
Take it out and chop it up a bit to use as a topping for your ice cream.
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~Les Giblin
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Love your recipes! I’m going to make those bananas soon! Of course I will put some pecans in the mixture too. Everything’s better with pecans!
A dollop of real mayo, cottage cheese, lots of pepper – mix and eat – delicious! (My first boyfriend’s mother taught me this one.)
As children we had mashed potatoes and canned peaches (Mom always had to have something sweet with our main meal!) for every supper or at least it seemed like it, probably because both were cheap and there were seven of us to feed. One of us, no one remembers who, started eating our peaches dipped in the mashed potatoes. Ok, quit saying “Yuck!” Don’t knock it until you’ve tried it, although my husband thinks it’s weird when I eat this! I try not to do it in public….LOL
Salt on apples, watermelon or cantaloupe – wouldn’t eat them without it!
All my brothers and sisters (5 in total) still remember the fried boloney sandwiches we used to eat – just fried meat, mayo and Mrs. Baird’s soft white bread; sometimes the boys would add raw onions.
Our favorite staple, however, was fried potatoes. My Daddy would buy potatoes in a 100 pound burlap bag and by the end of the month, they would be all eaten – we loved fried potatoes with ketcup and real butter – mix ketcup and butter together to make a sauce. French sauce “Texas” style.
Another treat was homemade cornbread (crackers in a pinch) and homemade buttermilk – crumble cornbread in a large glass, pour on the cold buttermilk – yummy.
Last night I made your banana pudding, Christy. Was it good! Loved the sauce so much that I will double the recipe next time.
Re the grilled bananas, I’ve been making these for years. In the winter time when you don’t want to light up the grill, I make these in the microwave – split the bananas, add brown sugar, etc. – put in some mini marshmallows and some semi-sweet chocolate chips – gently close the banana and nuke them until banana is soft and other ingredients are melted – watch them closely re timing. Taste as good as Banana Fosters served in Brennan’s – New Orleans and much cheaper. If you have any leftover, try these over pancakes the next morning (remove goodies from peel, of course). Love this forum subject matter – sweet southern memories.
Some other weird southern things:
-I carry a pocket book, not a purse.
-I eat breakfast, dinner and supper.
-I sit on a sofa, not a couch.
-I love fried bologna sandwiches with cheese, mustard and mayo.
-I also still eat fried SPAM! You heard me. SPAM! Smells great when you fry it and tastes great when you eat a fried SPAM sandwich with cheese and mustard.
-I would love a coke, what kind of coke, diet Dr. Pepper.
-Vidalia Onions!!! Casserole, (YUM!), sandwich with mayo AND peanut butter (Daddy eats that), grilled and baked, they are so sweet, they are like candy!
-“Hey” is a greeting not something you feed a horse.
-Sitting on the front porch and watch traffic while shelling peas. What a way to spend a Sunday afternoon!
I think that is all of the southern weirdness I can think of.
BTW, I will start working on a recipe for YooHoo ice cream if you keep saying wonderful things about my Mama Dove.
TTFN, Tina 🙂
I forgot grits!!! They are yummy for breakfast, dinner, and supper!!
Does anyone eat cheddar cheese with their apple pie? How about “gravy bites” (gravy over plain bread)?
Southern children mind their manners when they call adults “Miss Emily” or “Mr. John” — as though using a title makes using the first name OK.
In addition to waving (when behind the wheel), one can simply nod. Failure to do something is really rude, especially in rural areas.
I will never forget one time when I traveled up north, we stopped and ate at an Outback. When I ordered sweet tea to drink, I was told they did not serve “flavored” tea. I remember thinking, sweet tea is not flavored tea, raspberry tea is flavored tea. I knew right then that I would never be able to make it up north.
I remember in the mid-90s many restaurants around here stopped serving sweet tea for a while, forcing you to sweeten it yourself. They must’ve figured, “It works up north, we’ll make these Southerners do it, too!” Nope. Didn’t last. Southerners don’t want to have to dump their own sugar into cold tea and wait for it to slowly dissolve. We know better! 🙂
Yeah, Yankees have their own weird food habits, too. My husband is half-Yankee on his father’s side and he puts ketchup on *everything*! If it’s fried, it definitely gets doused with ketchup!
My Great-grandmother (who arrived in what is now Oklahoma in a covered wagon in 1892) used to love a dish we called lime-green jello salad. Every holiday, somebody made it and brought it. It is lime jello with pieces of pineapple and cream cheese blended into it. I think there was some special way you had to prepare the pineapple so it wouldn’t prevent the jello from setting, too. The best way to make this is so that the cream cheese is still in small chunks, floating in the clear green jello. If you mix it too much, it turns an opaque light green.
I have that recipe passed down by my Grandmother and I make it every Thanksgiving by tradition !!
The special way to use pineapple is to use canned. Cooking the pineapple kills the enzyme that keeps the gelatin from gelatin-ing.;^)
My Tanner family calls this dessert “The Green Stuff.” It always shows up at big family dinners. =^..^=
Oh Christy…southerns aren’t weird, we’re just beyond ordinary comprehension! However, some of the “intense genius” in my family involves a peanutbutter-banana-mayo-sweetpickle sandwich (what are you thinking, mom?) and a grilled cheese with scrambled egg-bacon-tomato-mayo (breakfast, lunch AND dinner on one plate!) Our southern rule seems to be: just keep adding tastes until it’s larapin’ good!