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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Yello from Southeast Texas!!!
I have a couple friends, from up North, that thought I was positively out of my mind when I said I liked Coke. When they begin talking about classic Coca-Cola, I stopped them and said, “No, I like Dr. Pepper!”
We are always gettin’ teased about the “Coke” thing.
Also, when it comes to weird, I’ve been told that we are all ‘lazy speakers’. That we leave the “g” off of all our words.
Especially ” ’em ” Like go get ’em.
We didn’t do the wave when driving, you do the one finger up off the steerin’ wheel.
It really is hard to think up more “weird” things about us, but like you said……it’s NORMAL to us.
Oh, and so much of my family does the “yell-oh” when they answer the phone or greet someone! LOL And “helluva”.
One lady in my women’s church group said that when she went to Chicago about 2 months ago, she had people asking she and her husband what their horse’s names were and what does their horse and wagon look like. LOL They seriously thought that in Texas, we still use horse and buggy to get around on an everyday basis. My grandmother did for most of her child and teen life, but still….that’s funny! And they all think we have oil wells in our backyard. Oh, and how big our cowboy hats are! LOL Too funny!
That just makes me think they are out of touch and a little odd, NOT US!
Speaking of sandwiches, just last week I was eating a miracle whip and lettuce sandwich! LOL I used to eat those all the time as a kid. And one of my friends from elem school would eat canned mushrooms on mayo/bread. Hmmm….Don’t know about that one!
We do the same thing with coke.
Can I get you something to drink?
Sure, I’ll take a coke.
What kind?
7 Up, thanks.
Unfortunately I think manners are seen as weird southern things. I called a store in Ohio and said yes ma’am to the lady on the line and she started laughing at me and asked if other people down here really say that. I’m just glad her momma didn’t hear her!
Speaking of the horse and buggy thing…when I was about 10 yrs old, my family went to Michigan where I was competing in a baton twirling competition. I nearly fell out when some girls asked if my twirling shoes were the only pair of shoes I owned and if I had bought them just for the competition!!! They seriously thought that we only got “1 pair of shoes a year”!!!! And the call us weird….
My girls go to a church camp every summer and make these and I live in the Western States. They wrap them in foil and add almost everything but the kitchen sink it seems. Chocolate, carmel, marshmellows, nuts anything that would go on ice cream, then they throw them on the campfire coals till there done. Great for those of you who love to camp and have a sweet tooth.
Janice,
That’s how I make grill bananas. Girl scout camp.. made banana boats. We put marshmellows and chocolate in the banana, wrapped them in foil and throw them on the fire. YUM YUM! Still eat them to this day.
I can remember being a little girl and in the Summertime my Daddy would put a big ol slice of Grainger County (TN) juicy tomato, slice of Vidalia onion, fried bologna, and LOTS of mayo on some fresh Sunbeam bread…it was a favorite of his. In fact, I think it still is!
And I’ll never forget my uncle who used to put Blue Plate mayo in his mashed potatoes!!!
Speaking mayo in the mashed potatoes. It not only goes in all my mashed potatoes but also my cornbread instead of grease. My Daddy taught me that. It comes out so nice and almost cake like–yum yum. Only difference is our mayo is always Bama although I used Blue Plate while living in SC and TX because we couldn’t buy Bama at the store. I usually bought a number of jars while on visits home!
Hope
Gooooooooooooo bananas, go go bananas! Is my little girl the only one who does that cheer? Anyway, these look awesome.
~does her best cheerleader stance and commences with the pacing clap~
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Bananas! Go,go bananas!!!!
You lean to the left, and you lean to the right, and you peel your banana and Unh! Take a bite!
Along the lines of the mayo thread here… That Kraft sandwich spread, bologna (baloney as it’s properly pronounced down here) and white bread. Now that’s good eatin’. Of course it don’t taste quite as good as it did those summers 40 years ago sittin’ on Granny’s back porch eatin’ those with blackberry cobbler and sweet tea. I never could eat the mayo and onion sandwiches my Daddy loved though.
and fry that bologna,too!!! MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
Man, its great to be so easily thrilled. 🙂 I just love us!
Just so happens I”m grilling ribs tonight and just bought bananas so guess I will have to try this! Thanks!
Christy,
In my country baked and fried bananas are a popular thing to eat, although we do it a bit differently. We actually slide the banana, lenghwise or in small circular pieces. If it’s lenghtwise, it just goes directly to fry in some oil or butter (real butter), then remove the excess with some paper towels and serve with cream or ice cream. You can also add some rum to the mix while frying to flambe and it tastes even better. If you cut them in circular chunks, then fry both sides for a bit, just enough to brown the ends a bit and soften the banana, then take the pieces off the oil and flatten them like you would a tortilla, soak them for only a second or two in salty water and return them to the oil to finish frying. Those are called tostones and are so good with cream and refried beans. The best bananas for this are the plantain (platano macho).
My mom used to bake bananas in their peel and eat them with butter and sweet condensed milk (La Lechera).
This brings back memories…