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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~Les Giblin
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I just got back from a few days at the lake with our sons and their families. I grabbed a snack and sat down to catch up on email. I had to laugh when I started reading the posts today. I was eating a banana/mayo sandwich. I like mine best with Lay’s Potato Chips and a big glass of COLD milk. I also love those pineapple slice/mayo sandwiches. When I was a kid and we could barely afford groceries at all, we got one slice of pineapple per sandwich. Now I put another slice, breaking it up to fill all the extra spaces around the first slice.
Sure love your site and recipes. The posts are fun to read, too.
Aunt Charley
Aunt Charley,
Can I officially adopt you? I just love your name and I really think I need to have an Aunt Charley.
Your hopeful new niece,
Christy 🙂
I would love to adopt you. We can get your kids and my grandkids together and cook up a storm. My granddaughters helped me bake Chocolate Chip Scones and Strawberry Bread last week for a tea party. Would have loved to have had you and those precious kiddos over for it. Now that we are officially related, we’ll work on that.
I think all those bananas need now is a drizzle of Hershey’s syrup or maybe just a sprinkle of chocolate chips while the “naners” are warm enough to melt them.
One thing I found strange hen I first moved to Florida was the place of honor that macaroni and cheese has on the menu. I went to my first Thanksgiving dinner there in 1999 and was simply shocked to see macaroni and cheese on the table. I always considered that dish to be a budget stretcher towards nearing payday when I had no meat to serve. Like the low end of the totem pole. It is not that I don’t like it but in no way would I consider it a company dish much less a Thanksgiving treat. I later found out it makes every church dinner, block party, or potluck. At that same Thanksgiving I also noticed there were no homemade noodles. Noodles are essential to Thanksgiving and we always ate them over the mashed potatoes making a well so you could pile more on. I know it has been on the post before but I had never heard of the stove ‘eyes” and I never called jello salad “congealed”. I never heard the term peckish to mean hungry. I first heard that one in Virginia. We called all carbonated beverages pop in my area which is SE Ohio. I had an awful time converting to the word soda because that meant an ice cream concoction to me. Now I have moved back to SE Ohio an when I say soda I get the odd looks. I think I could name more but this a very long post. Sorry-I get carried away.
When I was a kid my mom made a sandwich that her dad used to make for her as a kid. Peanut butter on one side, mayonnaise on the other side and bologna in the middle all on white bread. I swear, it is just too good! You must try it!
My grill pooped out. I wonder if these will be good in the oven?
Oh mercy. daddy grew up on a cotton farm in Texas and mamma in Tennessee so we have a number of southern “regionalisms”, shall we say. Putting coleslaw on pork bbq- Memphis thang. We have actually had chicken-fried salt pork. Mama ate pineapple and mayo on light bread, and she would eat a cold baked potato with mayo on it. Us kids like PB and bacon, or bacon bits if we were too lazy to fry up the real thing.
And as far as the sayings…one of mama’s friends was really slim. Mama used to say she ate so much it made her poor to carry it. and a boy she went to school with was so homely that if you threw him in a pond you’d be skimming ugly for a month. and that’s just the tip of the iceberg…maybe i’ll write a book one day. i’m afraid southerners would be the only ones that believed it!
Goodness gracious! I’m late! You’ll get tired before reaching my post! ;-(
What? You folks have never heard of pineapple or banana sandwiches? Of course made with mayo and that does NOT mean Miracle Whip!
To the poster who couldn’t find pimiento cheese in un-Southern Yankee land: So easy to make! A small jar of chopped pimiento, one cup extra sharp cheddar cheese shredded, a couple of large dollops of mayo–NOT Miracle Whip–and sometimes I add a small chopped Vidalia onion. Mmmmm–good!
Another Southern tradition: When someone passes–that’s “dies” to you Yankees–we always bring food to the home of the family. Now, you can run to the grocery and buy something from the deli, or you can make it yourself. Trust me, if you don’t make it yourself, someone’s going to talk about you!
And what’s wrong with calling every soft drink a “coke”? Sounds a lot tastier than “soda” or “pop”. My mom used soda for upset tummies and I had a very good pop who paid the bills and taught me how to drive.
A Mississippi girl in Texas … who is married to a man from Buffalo, NY. Honey, if you think WE are weird, just head north! (Have you ever heard of “fried macaroni?” Neither had I)
Banana sandwiches are still my mother’s favorite – just bananas and mayo on white bread. And tomato sandwiches … nothing better! No one else in my family likes tomatoes, which is fine with me. I don’t have to share them that way. My mother grew up with all the “rules” – couldn’t hang men’s and ladies’ underclothes on the same line, no mixed bathing, that sort of thing.
I don’t think I’ve seen anyone mention boiled peanuts yet. Even my husband has crossed over to the southern side for boiled peanuts!