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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Will have to try your recipe. I had “fried” (flaming) bananas when I was in Puerto Rico. They were good. I eaten most everything that has been mentioned in this discussion at one time or another. One of my favorites was mayo on white bread with rings of pineapple and potato chips. Peanut butter, mayo and banana sandwiches are great too. Christy, it’s not the Southerners who are weird, we “do it right”…it’s ABOVE the Mason-Dixon that everything is weird! LOL!
Hi again,
I just thought of another “weird” thing we used to do. My momma would give us Ketchup sandwiches as a snack and we would fight over them, always asking for more. (She said she never could fill us up, but that’s cause we were always outside playing, burning up energy, not watching TV, playing video games, etc. We had a real old fashioned childhood. That’s what’s missing in kids’ lives today.)
Another thing my aunt used to do was take mayo, a little mustard, sugar, and pepper and mix it all up, put it in the microwave or on the stovetop and heat it up. We used it to dip anything fried in, and she used it in her coleslaw recipe a lot too.
Maria
Hi,
When I was growing up, we ate ONION sandwiches. Slab a little mayo on the bread and add the sliced onion and some pepper. Mmmm, those were the days. A close second would be tomato sandwiches. I love a tomato sandwich with slightly toasted bread, mayo, tomato, salt, and pepper. Oh, I think I need one right now!
Maria Petty in North Carolina
…and what about fried egg sandwiches, with the egg fried soft so the yolk would run down your chin when you bit in…….
What about the all time southern favorite fried peanut butter and banana sandwich? And if you didn’t have a hot pan, just a glob of pb with banana on bread. While I have seen, but never tried, some folks add mayo to their sandwich.
And I thought pineapples with grated cheddar cheese with mayonaise added was a real treat growing up. My wonderful wife still fixes this for me. I am a lucky guy.
Now I’m all about the peanut butter and banana sandwiches myself. We used to think Daddy was so cool because he would put the banana on a plate, glob it over with peanut butter, then smash it with a fork until it was this ooey gooey goodness. It was his special dish that he made for us – an come to think of it, it was the only dish he ever made for us!
Unless you count those black cookies he made one night… ~shudders~
I still have these from time to time. 🙂
Gratefully,
Christy 🙂
If we made sliced banana sandwiches, we put mayo on one side and peanut butter on the other. But my favorite was mashed up banana, sprinkle sugar over and then add mayo. Of course, it oozes out the sides.
My favorite “coke” story- As a cheerleader coach, we were having a fundraiser. I went to the Pepsi office and asked if he would donate some cokes. Embarrassment!!! But he donated. Whew!!
Ok, for weird…my family always was “fixing to” do this or that. Such as, “I’m fixing to go down to the store.” And probably to buy some vienna sausages. Also they say, “I’m gonna get me some of that” – the me is understood, but they have to put it in there.
I’m hungry now, so I’m fixing to get me a snack.
Later y’all!
Oh yeah, I almost forgot. My Mama and Daddy always (and still do) put “may-naise” on hamburgers and hotdogs.
Btw, I’m excited about the grilled nanners. I’m going to use that as a suggestion for the creamy caramel sauce that I sell at parties. I’m gonna try it tonight for dessert! Thanks Christy! You are the best girl!
I am from south Louisiana and we eat mayo on our red beans and rice. Of course, it has to be Hellmann’s. There are squirt bottles of mayo and mustard at the red beans and rice food booths at the fairs. My husband–from Missouri–thought I was strange the first time he saw me put mayo on my beans and rice–now after almost 26 years of marriage–he still does it too.
Newsflash folks, its coz we used to be hungry and we’re still a partyin’ over being able to walk into the Piggly Wiggly and leave with the makings of a Thanksgiving dinner in the middle of August.
Christy,
I am still giggling over this! Love it!