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Hi Shaney....Thanks for keeping in touch. Hope you and family are all o.k.( Carnivores and the herbivore.!)
You must have had a really good shot of brandy with the cream and perhaps more than a single liqueur coffee. The meal does sound like one to remember.
We sometimes serve a supposed speciality sweet to friends....'Banana Flambe'.(Ron's original recipe.)
Gently heat at least an oz of butter in a heavy duty frypan. Cut into halves a few bananas and slice them down their centres. Place into melted butter and sprinkle each with a tsp of demerara sugar and 'baste' with the butter. Pour over a sherryglass full of orange juice, another of med or sweet sherry and a further glass of cointreau. Turn up the heat, keep 'basting' so the bananas soften and and the syrup reduces a bit. Finally, heat a ladle in the centre of the pan, pour into it a good quanity of brandy (ladleful is great), strike a match and set it alight; pour over the bubbling bananas..Serve with fresh cream.
It's difficult to be exact about the actual ingredients, but it is important to make sure that your home is insured for fire damage. We invite guests into the kitchen to see the spectacle of the flames which burn off the butter oil.
Everyone seems to enjoy the dessert, except Ron; whom you may have thought was a sweet chap!
You can do a similar thing with peach halves.
Go on..Fire away....lol..V & R.