Ummm……..why are there three bananas still on my kitchen counter?

Here’s the back story.

So my friend was coming over for dinner & I needed to whip up a quick dessert that would go with mac & cheese & a variety of vegetable side dishes.  I didn’t want to bake a pie since I’d just made a peach one that the night before for a couple of friends & I wasn’t in the mood to make anything in the form of cake.  Then a light bulb went off in my brain.  Banana pudding!  Quick, easy & tasty!  Why not?  On my way home from work, I stopped off at the store & picked up a box of Vanilla Wafers & 3 bananas.

Home in my kitchen I excitedly broke out a sauce pan as I prepared to stir up a coconut pudding spiked with rum.  In my imagination the coconut & rum flavors would mix well with the wafers & bananas.  The rum smelled absolutely delicious as it steamed up from the bubbling coconut pudding.  Once the pudding thickened, it was time to start layering the ingredients.  Wafers, spiked pudding, wafers, more pudding, crumbled wafers & for presentation a dusting of powdered chocolate to top it all off.  Desert assembly complete, off to the fridge it went to chill.  Now normally I don’t snack on what I’m cooking, but the rum infused pudding smelled so divine I couldn’t resist licking the spoon.  Of course it tasted as wonderful as it smelled.

About an hour later as I was slicing up an eggplant to pair with the mac & cheese my eye caught something bright & yellow colored sitting on the other countertop.   Ummm…….why are there three bananas still on my kitchen counter?????

When I told my dinner guest the story later that evening, he spent about 5 minutes doubled over laughing.  He then decided he would rather have a left over slice of pie from the night before instead of banana pudding sans bananas.  I sure couldn’t blame him.  A person can’t love the idea of banana pudding if it’s missing bananas 🙂