FNCCC - Week 13 - Dave Lieberman

This week's featured chef is Dave Lieberman. I changed my mind about which recipe I was making about 18,000 times. There were so many to choose from. I started out making the Cranberry, Apple, Ginger Chutney which morphed into something entirely different. Same thing with the Hearty Chicken Stew. I think the only thing I used were the main ingredients and the recipe's title. So we did a "kids in the kitchen" with his Creamy Banana Pops....and only changed it a little bit.

Peeling the mushy bananas. Not a job for the squeamish.

Creamy Banana Pops
Recipe courtesy Dave Lieberman

Ingredients
2 medium bananas, very ripe (we used 3)
1/2 cup heavy cream
2 cups whole milk (used a little bit more cream and 2% milk, and some leftover whole milk plain yogurt)
1/3 cup superfine sugar (regular granulated sugar)
Special equipment: 5-ounce paper cups
Wooden ice cream sticks

Directions
In a large bowl, mash the bananas very well with a potato masher or a sturdy whisk until almost lump free. You should have about 1 cup mashed. Whisk in remaining ingredients until fully incorporated. (I put everything in the blender and blended until the sugar was dissolved - 4 minutes, just to be sure)

Protecting the blender. Can you spot the button pushing villain?

Pour mixture evenly into paper cups, and freeze 1 hour so the pop is firm but not frozen through. Remove from freezer and insert a wooden stick in the center of each pop. Return pops to freezer and freeze until solid, about 2 to 3 hours. To serve, peel paper cups away and eat immediately. (In stead of all of this we put the mixture in the ice cream machine and had a very tasty banana soft serve. Everybody loved it. I like it after it's been in the freezer awhile and it's harder.)

Bad picture. Good Eats.

If this is any indication if we will make it again.....everyone wanted seconds :)

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