From a week or so ago:
The closest thing I could find to Nilla Wafers were these tiny, nickel-sized "egg cookies." Overall, the banana cream pie was awesome, but the hard, grainy turbinado (this was a cinnamon/sugar mix) was a mistake because of the gritty textural clash with the soft, smooth pie. I should have melted the turbinado into a syrup as if I were making Bananas Foster... in which case, I should've just used brown sugar.
But overall, the result was great. I had recaptured the taste and mouthfeel of a pie given to us by a congregation member when Mom was sick. I remember that pie being amazingly addictive, fluffy as a cloud, and even though I'm usually a chocolate guy, that pie was so good that I completely forgot about chocolate and didn't miss it at all. My pie wasn't quite up to that mythical level, but it was pretty damn good. At the office, it was gone in two days.
Oh, yeah: the reason the bananas are on top of the pie is that I, like an idiot, forgot to put the bananas into the pie as I was making it. I did add banana extract to the vanilla pudding, though, so the whole thing was infused with banana flavor. All we were missing were the tarantulas that hide in banana trees—the banana spiders.
I want!
ReplyDeleteIf I remember correctly, the Pie Hole has a banoffee pie. Not quite the same thing, but in the ballpark.
ReplyDeleteThe banoffee pie seems more sophisticated (in terms of both complexity and aesthetics) than the humble banana cream pie, which only barely qualifies as a pie. Recipes vary, but for most banana cream pies, you don't crumble your Nilla Wafers.
ReplyDeleteThe first time I ever saw the phrase "banoffee pie," it was written as a single word, maybe as somebody's screen name: "banoffeepie." I had no context to help me, so I had no idea how to pronounce what I was seeing. In my head, I said "bannuh-feepee." Sounded like nonsense to me. A few years later on, I saw the phrase written as two words, so I finally got curious and looked the thing up.