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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If you’re not using your smile, you’re like someone with a million dollars in the bank and no check book.
~Les Giblin
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This is not about the nanners, but I just had to let you know, I have passed your Grilled Chicken Tenderloins around, after trying them, and EVERYONE says they are great!!! Me included. One gal didn’t have lime juice and substitued margarhetti (sp) mix and said it was wonderful!!
Bet Elvis would have loved this. A true southern woman knows the difference between a hissie fit and a conniption fit and when to use them 🙂
I love it!! There is a difference between the two. I drive a Honda Fit and I had my father-in-law cut me some stickers that say “Hissy”. So now I am the only person in the world to drive a “Hissy Fit” 🙂
LOL!!! that’s southern clever!!
I have never tried this but it looks delicious! Can’t wait until we get moved and a new grill.
Bananas never go to waste in my house…just look in my freezer. When my kids were little they ate them like popcicles. I use frozen bananas to make banana bread or banana cake with.
This is something close to what we do when camping. We call them banana boats. You peel the top half of the peel up and scoop out a little of the banana. Then you add chocolate chips, nut, raisins…anything your heart desires! Place the top peel back on and wrap in foil. Cook for about 20 – 35 minutes on or near the coals! Yummy! Pure heaven and oh so easy. Wow, now I want to make one now!!! I will try your version too, as it looks yummo!
Thanks,
Gal you know I love this idea! Those look delicious!!
I make some fried in a pan with butter, brown sugar and coconut I think you’ll like too. Try ’em sometime!
WOW! “Those nanners” sound yummy! How much fun I’ve had reading everyone’s replies. This made me smile. I’m a country girl at heart. Growing up I used to have “baloney” sandwiches with mustard and a “pop” with peanuts dumped into it! Nothing better. I don’t think I could touch any of that today, but I do have fond memories of it growin’ up! Thanks for the walk down memory lane. Your blog is great!
Southern weirdness? How about fried squirrel smothered in gravy, and served over buttermilk biscuits for breakfast. I could count on waking up to that every Saturday morning during the late fall and winter as a child. Not because my parents couldn’t afford “regular” breakfast food, but because it was what my Daddy had ate as child. To him, it was a special memory that he was passing along to his kids. My sheltered children still can’t believe that their Mama (who now spends a small fortune feeding birds and squirrels each month) used to eat the little critters.