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French Kitchen: Banana Tips and Making Simple Banana Desserts

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Today, we are offering kitchen tips and ideas on how to make a few quick and simple banana desserts.  Bananas make for great, healthy desserts and there are quite a few easy variations to spice things up. Children love a “Banane au Sucre” (Sugar Banana) as an afternoon snack and for a delicious quick warm dessert, “Bananes au Four” (Baked Bananas) are always a big success.  Check out our Art of the Home tips and quick recipes below.

Art of the Home Tips:

  1. How to chose a banana: if you want to eat the banana the same day, choose one with a few dark spots or lines.  If the bananas have a pale yellow color with green extremities, you can wait a few days depending on how firm you prefer your bananas.  If you need to speed up the ripening process, simply wrap the banana in some newspaper.
  2. How to preserve a banana: bananas need to be kept at room temperature.  They should not be put in the fridge where they would blacken.
  3. When to prepare them: banana will brown very quickly because of air oxidation so always prepare your banana at the last minute.

Art of the Home Suggestions:

  1. Banane au Sucre (Sugar Banana): cut the banana into small rounds on a dessert plate.  Sprinkle with 1 teaspoon of sugar.  Serve with a dessert fork (and if they were good, you may want to add a sugar cookie too!)
  2. Sandwitch à la Banane (Banana Sandwitch): imagine a banana hot dog!  Butter up 2 slices of baguette and put your banana inside.  A favorite of students during exams!
  3. Bananes au Four (Baked Bananas): preheat oven to 350°F.  Place the banana with the skin an oven-proof dish for about 15 min (until the banana skin is completely black).  To serve, tear off a top strip of the banana skin by pulling the stem all the way to the bottom of the banana — leaving what amounts to a banana boat/canoe. It is delicious as is but you can also sprinkle sugar, cinnamon powder, or even chocolate fudge on top on it.  Cut in slices or simply savor with a spoon.
  4. Banane Nature: and of course a simple banana.  Great as a on-the-go snack or after a lighter lunch. Peel it…and voilà!