This post is coming a few weeks after I promised it - I have no excuse for myself. This assignment comes from Katie, who asked me to describe the perfect dessert. I'm honestly not too happy with what I came up with, but I didn't want this blog to languish un-updated forever. As always, feedback is greatly appreciated in the comments or emailed to needsmoreglitter@gmail.com!
How to make the perfect dessert
You will taste many amazing desserts in your life; it is inevitable that one of them will be the best. But will you know it when it's in front of you? Will you ever be able to pinpoint which confection was better than the others? If you judge by taste, perfection is impossible to know with any certainty. But taste is not all that matters. The foods you remember are not necessarily the ones that shook up your taste buds, but those you had to earn. The cakes and pies that caused some drama, some pain - those are what you'll still be talking about a year later. The cookies that placated your angry neighbor. The cheesecake you made after driving through an ice storm at 1am to buy more cream cheese. The pie filling recipe that went horribly wrong, but miraculously turned out delicious anyway.
This kind of perfection is impossible to predict or obtain intentionally. However, there are ways to manipulate the circumstances. Following is a recipe guaranteed to be dramatic to prepare and heavenly to eat. Just make sure you're not making it alone - it's too much excitement for one person.
Bananes flambées
Step one: Soak some raisins in dark rum for an hour. Only, you won't want to wait an hour to start cooking, so instead microwave the raisins + rum for a few seconds. You're not sure if this actually makes a difference, but it seems like it might.
Step two: Slice two or three bananas in half lengthwise and cook them in generous amounts of butter, cinnamon, and brown sugar until soft. Turn off the heat.
Step three: Pour rum + raisins over the bananas.
Step four: Ignite the rum. If you're using matches instead of a lighter, you'll be tempted to just toss the lit match into the pan, since you don't want to burn your fingers off. This won't work - risk your fingers! It will be worth it, I promise.
Step five: Watch the pretty fire until it goes out.
Step six: Serve with copious amounts of whipped cream - homemade or Reddi-whip.
Heather! I dig it! This reminds me of when Charlene organized that recipe book for you, she wanted us to write them all out in funny words and stuff, but I didn't because I suck. But I always want my recipes to sound so personal. Also, this sounds delicious. But I don't have rum, do you think tequila would suffice? ;)
ReplyDeleteHmm, I don't see why not! I've only done it with rum, but if I were to pick another liquor it'd definitely be tequila over vodka or something.
ReplyDelete:D As soon as I read the first few lines, I thought of our trip to Safeway that night! MMM I'm certain that microwaving the rum and raisins totally makes a difference, if only mentally. Also, I was going to write to you soon to ask for the recipe for this!
ReplyDeleteClearly, we are still on the same wavelength.
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