Bananas Foster

We always order this anytime it is an option in restaurants, and until now I never realized how easy it is to make! I took one bite and immediately I felt as if I was eating at Brennan's in New Orleans! If you ever find yourself in New Orleans, do yourself a favor and make reservations to eat at Brennans. Close your eyes and point to anything on the menu- you can't go wrong because it's all delicious! And please, please, save room for their table side bananas foster...It will change your life!

OK...back to the recipe. I got this from the Pioneer Woman's blog. To see step by step picture instructions from Ree's blog- click here! I call her "Ree" as if she is my close friend...I sure wish she was!! haha. We made this a few times this past weekend- what else are we going to do with a whole bottle of rum? :-) I changed her measurements a little bit because her recipe make a huge skillet full, and you can't eat too much because it's so rich. The following recipe will serve 2-4 people.

Ingredients:
- 1/2 stick of butter
- 1 cup of brown sugar
- 1/2 cup of heavy whipping cream
- 1/4 cup of rum
- 2 bananas, sliced
- 1/4 cup of chopped pecans
- dash of cinnamon

Directions:
1) In a skillet, melt butter over medium high heat.
2) Add brown sugar and pecans and stir together.
3) Add cream and continue cooking.
4) Pour in rum and stir to combine. Use a grill lighter (the wand kind) to ignite the alcohol in the pan. Do not worry because it doesn't make a huge flame- but please be careful! This step is necessary or else the syrup part of the dessert will be really, really strong.
5) When the flame goes out, add the bananas and cook for 30 seconds to a minute. Don't cook too long or the bananas will be mushy.
6) Serve over vanilla ice cream.
7) Voila!

  Get Cookin'!