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I love this stuff, and have taught my kids how to make it, so I can now just sit and enjoy it!!.. wise Chef, am I .

Banana's Foster, Flambe'
This dish is flamed to burn off the alcohol, but not the flavor!
Serves: 8

4 tablespoons butter
1 orange or 4oz juice
1/2 lemon or 1 ts real lemon
1/4 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup granulated sugar
1/4 cup light rum (1oz of 151 proof if flaming)
1 Jigger (1oz) Triple Sec
1 Jigger (1oz) Banana Liqueur
1 teaspoon cinnamon
Dash of nutmeg
4 bananas, sliced lengthwise, then 1" bite sized

Melt butter in a wide skillet.
Add brown sugar and stir to dissolve. Squeeze orange, and lemon add to mixture and reduce. Add white sugar, and carefully add all liquors and cinnamon, simmer and stir constantly for 10 minutes. Add bananas; stir to coat and heat 2 to 3 minutes.
Serve with whipped cream or vanilla cream over ice cream or on top of pancakes.
Note: If flaming remember the liquor will flare up so please beware.
Simmering will release most of the alcohol from the rum, but if you would rather - use 1 teaspoon rum extract and a cup of apple juice in place of rum.

I love this stuff,(bananas foster) and have taught my kids how to make it, so I can now just sit and enjoy it!!.. wise Chef, am I .

Good job! Many foods are simple to prepare. This really is a good recipe to give kids an idea of how important technique is to cooking, Of course the flambe part requires supervision. But then again its no more dangerous than smores ;^)

wise Chef, am I .

Very wise!!!!

It wasn't until I was a teenager that I found any interest in cooking, probably because dinner in my house was always boring...........but once I started spending my summers with my grandmother, I had a whole new world openned for me!!!

My 5yo loves to "cook" dinner with me and is very good at reading recipes for me. It's a great learning experience for her because she is practicing her reading and learning fractions!!! And she can brag that she "cooked" dinner.