Bananas en Fuego con Chocolate

Posted on October 16th, 2007 in Recipe, Fruit, Not Sober, Bourbon, Desserts by gansie

Bananas en Fuego con Chocolate

I’m sure no one in the ES community thought I could improve upon my delicious Bourbon-caramelized bananas over vanilla ice cream…but, oh, I thought of a new addition.

Some very excited dinner guests and a few glasses of wine into the night, and inspiration hit me—add chocolate shavings over top the already luscious dessert.

Click HERE for starter directions. Then, take your veggie peeler and scrape milk (or dark - what you have) chocolate over the already assembled dessert.

We’ll see what I can find in my pantry next time 80 Proof and I are entertaining…

Bananas en Fuego

Posted on September 26th, 2007 in Recipe, Fruit, Bourbon, Desserts by gansie

on fire

Although the old adage is to only serve dinner guests something you’ve made before, I tend to NEVER follow that advice. For me, entertaining opens up the possibility to try a new dish, a new technique, a new ingredient…anything to keep things interesting. And so for my dinner with recent San Fran transplant, Laura, I decided to light something on fire.

Maybe trying this with a bottle of wine in me wasn’t the best idea, but it worked out wonderfully (to both our surprise, especially since I had her screaming out directions from the other room, clearly acknowledging I had never attempted this before) and was surely a great way to end dinner…and start the rest of the night.