It's even worse than it looks. The ham is pineapple glazed, painted with mustard, and then wrapped around the bananas mustard-side in. They suggest garnishing with candied cherries and parsley.
What? The 70s, that's what (http://www.candyboots.com/wwcards.html).
Seriously, look through any 1970s cookbook, and you'll find at least two or three "avant-garde" recipes that sound equally inedible. It's like the entire food writer population took brown acid at Woodstock and had horrific flashbacks for the next decade, which they attempted to express in recipe form.
wait... aren't you from the country that thought that putting bacon, bananas and maple syryp together was a good idea? Thin ice, my friend, thin ice....
What on earth is this bacon-banana-maple dish? I have never heard of such a thing and am horrified by the idea. Maybe if it was banana pancakes with maple syrup and the bacon was on the side, but then that's just a bog standard breakfast.
Maple-syrup bacon works great. Bacon in-and-amongst your pancakes or waffles (swimming in maple-syrup) works great. Putting bananas in or on your pancakes or waffles works great. The inevitable consequence of having all of this on your plate at the same time before you've finished three or four cups of coffee and thus have your brains working is bacon in and amongst your pancakes or waffles with bananas.
And it works great.
Our host is apparently an isolated freak or something.
I was given fresh bananas, I don't know if there was some sort of translation issue that dropped the fried bit... but as it was a breakfast thing, I'd find fried bananas for breakfast a bit odd (even amidst the oddness of this combination) - fried bananas and icecream is a desser thing.
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Date: 2013-02-25 06:30 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2013-02-25 06:48 pm (UTC)And of course on its own pineapple ham is quite good, it's just the "in with the ham and the mustard and the hollandaise and WHAT?" part.
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Date: 2013-02-25 07:28 pm (UTC)Cover me! going in...
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Date: 2013-02-25 07:47 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2013-02-27 07:34 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2013-02-25 08:32 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2013-02-25 08:55 pm (UTC)Seriously, look through any 1970s cookbook, and you'll find at least two or three "avant-garde" recipes that sound equally inedible.
It's like the entire food writer population took brown acid at Woodstock and had horrific flashbacks for the next decade, which they attempted to express in recipe form.
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Date: 2013-02-25 10:33 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2013-02-25 08:55 pm (UTC)That's very...
contemporary.
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Date: 2013-02-26 12:17 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2013-02-26 12:21 am (UTC)As a data point.
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Date: 2013-02-26 12:25 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2013-02-26 01:56 pm (UTC)And it works great.
Our host is apparently an isolated freak or something.
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Date: 2013-02-26 03:02 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-01-06 08:46 pm (UTC)I have to say, bananas with my pancakes is even better than strawberries. Mm.
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Date: 2013-02-27 09:15 pm (UTC)Bacon, at that point, would just be one of those things that happens.
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Date: 2013-02-27 09:31 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2013-02-25 11:09 pm (UTC)I think my Mom may've had those recipe cards. :-P
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Date: 2013-02-26 02:17 am (UTC)Also, I collect insane old cookbooks.
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Date: 2013-02-27 04:25 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2013-03-03 07:07 pm (UTC)I like ham.
I like hollandaise.
I will never, ever, ever combine these things into a dish as shown above.
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