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My husband is awesome.

I have been feeling like shit because of this cold, and I am *still* feeling like shit, thus we are going to stay home tonight (Scotty, if we'd decided this more than 45 minutes before the game started, I'd have called you about coming to get our tickets), but anyway. Yesterday, Brett mentioned that, since I was feeling like crap, he was going to make something special for me for our free day.

See, he's been watching this guy Alton Brown's show on the Food Network--and while I'll sit here and roll my eyes a lot, because it seems like he's gone a little bit fanboy on me, I'll also say that what he made today was really freaking cool, and really freaking delicious.

The recipe is here: Banana Splitsville

It's sort of like bananas foster, if you know what that is--which I don't, but that's what the guy on the show said. First, it involves melting sugar into caramel, stopping at 320 degrees to make 'doodads,' which really have to be seen to be understood. Imagine, though, an amber colored swirl of hard candy that's made solely of sugar.

So, you make these doodad things, then you heat the sugar up a bit more, add some cream, stir and let boil a bit, then take it off the heat, and voila, homemade caramel. (Which I hope to have some more of tonight, over ice cream, yummy.)

But that's not all, oh no.

Quarter a banana, peel on, heavily coat the exposed part of the banana in sugar, remove the peel, then use a small kitchen torch to essentially do the creme brulee thing on the top of the bananas.

Chill a plate, swirl the caramel over the bottom of it, stack four banana pieces lincoln log style, add a scoop of ice cream to the top, and put a doodad on *that*, and there you have it.

I have no qualms about saying that the caramel was the best part, but the whole thing was really damn delicious.

See? Awesome. :)

Posted by Liz at November 22, 2003 07:12 PM