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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I can’t ever remember having a banana sandwich lol, but potted meat yep, vienna sausages, pickled bologna etc. I salt watermelon and apples and can’t wait to salt and pepper cantelope next time I get some , if nothing else to see my hubbys face when I do lol.
My mamaw used to eat green bean sandwiches, I have had a few of them myself.
What about that nasty old “potted meat” stuff we would spread on our sandwiches when I was little! I can’t even think about it! Or those little sausages in a can? oh gross. or sardines?
now on to the good stuff…..peanut butter and banana sandwiches! (with or without mayo) and also fried bologna on your biscuits and also plain chips on your barbeque sandwich.
Ha!
Hey, All! I thought we were the only ones putting salt on our watermelon. But, seriously, what’s not to love about mayonnaise and, well, everything?!? Thanks for the opportunity, Christy, to brag on our Southern Specialties!
I grew up eating most of the sandwiches mentioned here and never thought they were strange! Scrambled egg. Check. Baloney. Check. Banana & mayonnaise. Check. About the only thing I never ate was peanut butter and jelly. I was an adult before I discovered the joys of that sandwich! 🙂
The strangest sandwich I ever heard of was collard greens and mayonnaise. I think it was in the White Trash Cooking cookbook. They recommended you eat it standing over the kitchen sink!
Love reading about all the different sandwiches. We ate a scrambled egg sandwich with Mayo on it. And I love salt on all of my fruits. Yet I don’t eat salt on my salads. Peanut butter,butter and banana sandwiches are a staple at my house. Good for breakfast. lol
Please let the readers post their strange sandwiches from childhood or that they still like to eat.
Oh forgot, a fresh tomato and Mayo sandwich with salt and pepper can’t be beat.
Speaking of Southern weirdness – my husband was completely baffled to find when we were newly married that I saved bacon grease in an old jar in the refrigerator. Seriously! Did he expect me to throw it away!?
Ok ya’ll first off I was born & raised in Missouri,I have a southern name and spellin, I am named after the movie “Gone with the wind” No not Scarlet,:)
but Mellany. But many believe that in a past life I was southern. Now I love sweet tea. Fried green onion sandwiches.
Tomato’s fresh out of the garden sliced up with hot bacon grease poured over the top with salt & pepper. I et yup I say et instead of ate ketchup sandwiches as a kid cornbread with cracklins(chunks of pork fat)I went to Birmingham AL a few years back and they said I fit in fine but folks up here say I talk funny; by the way Jim & Nicks BBQ in AL, best sweet tea I ever drank! A loaf of bread and sliced onion at every meal. Pickled green tomato’s the small one’s to small to fry. A pinch of salt into anything sweet and a pinch of sugar into anything savory Salt and sugar on my grapefruit. Bacon and grape jelly sandwiches. Corn bread and white syurp or brown if thats what ya have. Cottage cheese with lots of black pepper. Butter,sugar and cinnimon sandwiches. Oh and one last thing my Momma as a child et in her lunch congealed gravy sandwiches from the nights before meal her Momma would put it in a loaf pan an in the icebox and slice it the next mornin and put it on bread. I LOVE gravy,but have never et it this way. Gotta go now I’m hungry. 🙂
My aunt and her kids and grandchildren love Jim and Nick’s. Next time I’m in Trussville I plan on having lunch there. They have not steered us wrong about a restaurant yet.