OK I realize that this is summer in the Great White North (koo-oo-koo-koo-koo-oo-koo-koo! Done with Doug McKenzie accent) and everyone is making maximum usage of the fleeting warm weather to GET OUT THERE AND ENJOY cruising and car shows and sunning (you do get sun in summer, no?) and all ...
But I do want to introduce you to something you may not even have thought about ...
And I do want to offer additional enticements for y'all to come visit in the depths of *shudder* Winter (a.k.a. snow and cold and more snow and even more cold and ice and EVEN MORE COLD) so ...
This is not your ordinary every day banana creme pie, this is a real honest to goodnest banana pie, just like a cherry pie or an apple pie, but with bananas.
So here we go from start to finish:
1. Budding on the tree:
2. Ready to pick off the tree, but they might need a little time to get fully ripe (put them in the garage on a 5 gallon bucket, eh?):
3. Oooh yeah doesn't that look good, I mean the bananas not my lovely wife, OK I really mean both
4. And these beauties are small but gooooooooooood:
5. And then INTO THE PIE SHELL
6. and the final result,
looks just like an Apple Pie or whatever but OOOOOOOOOH BABY tastes so good!
So if you come visit in the depths of winter maybe you will be lucky and our banana trees will have produced and we can have fresh Banana Pie
Dave
-- Edited by davelacourse on Monday 27th of July 2009 05:37:22 PM
-- Edited by davelacourse on Monday 27th of July 2009 06:20:12 PM
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I'll get a chance to experience fresh bananas in December when Connie and I head to the Caymans. We are staying with friends who live down there and they have banana trees in their yard too. That pie looks pretty good Dave!
Hi Dave. There has to be more ingredients than you've mentioned in that banana pie. Give us all the ingredients so we can try it. EH. Leo
Not much, just like apple pie, mostly fruit. However, since you asked:
We first tasted banana pie on Oahu at the Likelike Drive-In. When we moved back to Florida, we got the recipe from them:
----------------------------------------------------------------- BANANA PIE (Hawaiian, from Likelike Drive-In)
Ingredients:
6 cups sliced bananas 3/4 cup pineapple juice pastry for 2 crust pie 3/4 cup sugar 1 tablespoon flour 1-1/2 teaspoons cinnamon 1 tablespoon butter or margarine
Procedure:
Soak bananas in pineapple juice for 20 minutes. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Line a 9 inch pie plate with pastry. Drain bananas, saving 3 tablespoons of the juice. Place bananas in pie shell. Combine sugar, flour and cinnamon; sprinkle over bananas. Sprinkle with the 3 tablespoons of pineapple juice. Dot with butter, cover with top crust. Bake for 30 to 45 minutes or until crust is browned. Makes 8 servings. -------------------------------------------------------------
Enjoy!
Dave
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OK, so when exactly are your bananas scheduled to ripen?
They ripened fully yesterday, we had fresh baked pie last night, yum! Today bananas on cereal, tonight more banana pie, later on banana bread, happy tummy!
If you want a piece of pie you had better fly down right now or I will have eaten it all
Dave
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1956 Pontiac Pathfinder 2dr sedan, 496 - dyno'd 545 hp, stick shift, 4.11 posi - Hot Rod
I'll get a chance to experience fresh bananas in December when Connie and I head to the Caymans. We are staying with friends who live down there and they have banana trees in their yard too. That pie looks pretty good Dave!
Sounds like a great winter getaway, even bettah on the islands. Please ask if they have other recipes for fresh banana stuff - when they come in, they come in like tomatoes, too many all at once - we have about 50 on this bunch, can only eat so many on breakfast cereal eh?
Dave
Dave
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Maybe see you this winter as we may take the kiddies to Disney, it'll be an adventure in the motorhome!
Cool! What age kids? Will you be towing a drive-around car, or just the motorhome? Keep me posted!
Dave
kids are going to be 7 & 5, probably trailer down a .......( alright a minivan!)
Oh yeah that is a great age for kids in DW, they will LOVE it and you will have fun being with them
And I am of the opinion that MVs are way practical for young kids, always schlepping them and their buddies to soccer or hockey or whatever, its just like the Vistacruisers I had a generatiion before, so do not feel abashed about that ...
So lemme know your dates and we'll plan some extra fun (over and above DW) including boating (my grandkids are a tad older than your kids but they REALLY like being able to drive the boat [of course I'll have yours do that too] and go to a deserted island for lunch and TUBING!!!)
But I have to warn you I might make you go for a ride (assuming it is fully functional by then) in my 56
Dave
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Take those same bananas as sliced and serve with a sauce made from sweetend condensed milk! Rencia also makes a mean banana cake! Bananas are plentiful here in SA and sell for about $1.00 for 2 kilo's. Going to make that pie!
Take those same bananas as sliced and serve with a sauce made from sweetend condensed milk! Rencia also makes a mean banana cake! Bananas are plentiful here in SA and sell for about $1.00 for 2 kilo's. Going to make that pie!
If you like that pie send me the cake recipe
Our bananas are "apple bananas" a variety that is small, very thin skin, and does in fact have a hint of apple flavor in them. Makes extra special pie!
I think I am going to sneak a piece of pie out of the fridge right now
Dave
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The small variety is much sweeter than the Large variety. Yet it is not the big commercial seller! People's perception!
Will let you know (With Pictures) when we bake the pie!
I suspect the smaller sweeter banana is simply not sold to large supermarkets in the US & Canada, because the thin skin makes it harder to transport without bruising. Even in Hawaii they were not common, because the high cost of wages there (think of harvesting by hand) made importation of the larger thick-skin variety from South America cheaper.
Do you have some plants of your own, Johann?
Dave
Oh, one piece of pie left here, saving it for lunch today
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Johann65 wrote:Hullo Dave, The small variety is much sweeter than the Large variety. Yet it is not the big commercial seller! People's perception! Will let you know (With Pictures) when we bake the pie! I suspect the smaller sweeter banana is simply not sold to large supermarkets in the US & Canada, because the thin skin makes it harder to transport without bruising. Even in Hawaii they were not common, because the high cost of wages there (think of harvesting by hand) made importation of the larger thick-skin variety from South America cheaper.
Do you have some plants of your own, Johann? Dave Oh, one piece of pie left here, saving it for lunch today
Hullo Dave, No banana trees, too cold here! Running at -3 degrees in the morning. Had some peach trees but the worms took over!
1956 Pontiac Pathfinder 2dr sedan, 496 - dyno'd 545 hp, stick shift, 4.11 posi - Hot Rod
