Bananas Foster

If you know me well, you know that anything with bananas as a main ingredient, unless it's mashed and baked into some loaf or muffin, isn't going to be on my list of edibles. Angela twisted my arm, even after giving me the ammo that a former love of hers wouldn't eat bananas because of all the seeds. I whined about texture and seeds, but I still ate the dessert. It was good. I watched her make it. It goes something like this:

Melt a stick of butter in a non-stick frying pan. Everything Angela makes begins with this simple ingredient, prepared this way. Or so it seemed.

Dump an unspecified yet copious amount of brown sugar into the melted butter and stir and let the candy cook for a few minutes.

Slice three bananas lengthwise, drop them in the pan and let them cook in the candy for a few minutes.

Pour an unspecified yet copious amount of rum and banana liqueur into the pan. Let it heat, then apply fire and enjoy the flames shooting up toward the bottom of your microwave oven. Panic briefly, then watch flames subside. When they do subside, dust the ashes with an unspecified sprinkling of cinnamon. Angela says "to taste" but we had already dimmed our tastebuds with copious yet unspecified amounts of Boodles gin, so I can't help you here.

Spoon this glorious concoction into three bowls into which unspecified yet copious amounts of premium vanilla ice cream have been dolloped. Stand in the kitchen and try not to burn your mouth on the hot candy. Yummy.