Grilled Bananas – Best Kept Secret
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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Southern Weirdness…Here in Texas you do not need to call a friend to visit. Just show up and also you can just let yourself in if the door is unlocked. Also Fried Bolonge???spelling ssndwiches are great.
My spelling is awful but what the heck that is also a Southern Weirdness.
I have to sing the song in my head to spell is.
My bologna has a first name…..
Doesn’t seem so weird to me! It reminds me of fried plantains which are a staple of Latin American cooking! I never heard about cooking ordinary bananas, though.
Weird…? Not at all! Try GENIUS!!! These look so good, I have to try them tonight. My kids and husband will want to thank you, I’m sure. Love your recipes!
Thank you SO MUCH, Jacci!!!!
I know I’m awful, but I absolutely thrive on your comments! Y’all talking back to me is what keeps me going!!!!
LOVE you READING My recipes!!!!!
Gratefully,
Christy 🙂
I have many memories from childhood of sitting under a big old shade tree in the summer with some friends and shaking peanuts into our cokes.
And after reading some other post, I also remember eating cheese and mayo sandwiches and also peanut butter and mayo sandwiches. It have been years since I ate a peanut butter and mayo sandwichs.
You know, I’ve always heard a lot of “weird sandwich”stories. I reckon they come from simple lack of anything better to put on it “back in the day”. I used to eat potato chip sandwiches all the time.
In fact…still do.:)
Gratefully,
Christy 🙂
(holding a screaming baby as i type…) i always went to summer camp with a baloney/kraft mayo/yellow mustard sandwich and put my fritos on it. HEAVENLY. good ole days.
Oh, I also remember eating Slaw and mayo sandwiches. That even grossed out my brother! Mission achieved!
Hope
My husband loves to eat peanut butter and bologna sandwiches. I know of another man that eats this too.
I used to eat chip sandwiches too!!
Oh my goodness!! You know how to make a girl cry….and salivate heavily!
You are too good to me! lol
Not that I want to make you cry but…
Yum yum yum. I love bananas when they’re cooked. In fact I have some bananas I have taken to work with me this week, the intention was to eat them during the day as a snack while I work. But the days have passed and I think I’m gonna let them get over ripe in my office drawers so that I can batter them up and deep fry them. This happens a lot. My colleague always say it smells like banana when I open my desk drawers.
LOL!
My husband used to keep a jar of peanut butter and a jar of jelly along with a loaf of bread in his desk drawer. That is how he ate as a single guy. You’d think he’d appreciate me more! lol
Anniversary is in three days so I guess we’ll see…..
Gratefully,
Christy 🙂
P.S.So excited about October!
You’re telling me! It’s exactly 50 days until I fly away!
I will let you know all the details once I have it all sorted out.
I bet this would be good with southern churned homemade ice cream. I was invited to a party last week and was told to bring my own homemade ice cream. I thought, “I’m from the north— I have NO CLUE how to do that!” So I brought some toppings instead and watched about 15 true Alabamians bring their homemade ice cream concoctions. It’s 2nd nature to them!
LOL!
We always had peach homemade ice cream at summer gatherings. It was so good! I don’t think we were ever able to wait until it was really done before digging in!
When I used to work at a credit union in Huntsville we used to make this ice cream in the kitchen there that had strawberry coke in it. my goodness that was good!
Yeah, we weren’t really work oriented…
hehe
CJ
One more thing–my sis-in-law makes the best Grapico Ice Cream. Bet you find that North of the Mason Dixion!!
Hope
My mother’s baby brother always wanted home made biscuits with home meade Ice Cream. The first biscuits I every made was for him. I used up 5 pounds of flour making those biscuts before I got them right. Uncle Charles is gone now, but I still get the urge to make him some now and again. He was a true southerner as I and my whole family are.