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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Hi you all from Texas! I love your blog! I used to love to eat mayo and onion and mayo and pickle sandwiches. Oh my goodness that was when I was pregnant with my youngest son, I have not craved those combinations since then! LOL
It seems Pimento Cheese spread (Minner-cheese) is also a “Southern Thang”. I was in Wisconsin and I assumed that their’s would be amazing. Could not find it anywhere. I was a little heartbroken.
Plus it ties into the Mayo theme quite well.
You should have just made a little for them so they would KNOW how good it is!! I never buy pimiento cheese when I can make my own – and put wierd things in it!!
And, speaking of weird, my Mom fed us pork and bean sandwiches – which I STILL love. I introduced my hubby to them and he likes tem almost as much as I do!!
Pimento cheese and peanut butter oh yum!
Can’t find it make your own
shredd sharp cheddar
a jar of diced pimentos
mayo to mix.
I made these a long time ago in girl scouts but wrapped ’em up in tin foil and put them in the campfire until they were good and mushy. We used chocolate squares and marshmallows and crushed graham crackers and they were called “banana boats.”
Sooo, I am told that I am “weird” for eating good ‘ol Dukes on my collard greens. Yep, that’s right!! Don’t knock it til ya try it!!
Yummy!
Just last week I was reading a Q&A page in one of my favorite cooking magazines. A reader actually had to ask for suggestions on how to use up a quart jar of mayo before it went bad!! Can you even imagine such a thing?!?
If you’re not allergic to nuts add about 1/2 cup chopped walnuts or pecans to the brown sugar/butter mixture before stuffing the banana! YUM YUM
I’m with Lindsay, I want that custard recipe soon! 🙂
These grilled bananas look scrumpdilious!
Southern weirdness: You have commented about this- every story has food at the very least mentioned, many times it is a focal point. Our love of mayo. A deep fryer is our friend. Everything is better with either butter or bacon- however, I think this is becoming universal! lol 🙂
My aunt got me hooked on peanut butter & bacon sandwiches! Yum, pork fat rules!!!!
Another good one we had a lot when we were little was sugar & butter sandwiches. I never thought it was strange, just what we had at the time!!
Get those crinkle cuts (or even better – home cut) fries outta that deep fryer, salt em and season salt em, then add some paprika, suqeeze a dab of lemon juice and dip em in some Hellman’s!!! oooh-whatchyou talkin about!! My son, like me, has a glob of mayo on his plate right beside the glob of Heinz ketchup. We alternate our fries in each one. My hubby doesn’t enjoy the mayo on fries, but he does like a mayo, peanut butter, nanner and bologny san’wich!!
BTW, obesity is more prominent in the South cause we’re just better cooks!!!
Heck I say throw some chocolate and marshmallows in there to melt…now that is SINFUL hehe