fireside dessert

camping. the word conjures visions of fires, tents, sleeping bags, streams in which you brush your teeth & wash your dishes (dishes at a different place in the stream, please), walks through the woods, & starry nights if you're lucky. unless you kick it RV-style & then i can't tell you what's in the mind's eye cause it's not a realm i've ventured into. this post isn't about camping in general, though. it's about a very specific moment on the last camping trip i went on. best dessert around a fire ever. s'mores are aight...

but this banana ridiculousness was life-changing. friend who planned our trip said she heard about it from a friend; i wanta send this person a very large, generous gift. she has brought heaven to me in the form of bananas, melted chocolate & marshmallows.

this heavenly package should be wrapped in tin foil. place banana in the foil. cut banana (still in the peel) down the middle, leaving the back side of peel uncut. stuff marshmallows in the middle of banana, and chocolate bar pieces around banana & marshmallows. tuck them in wherever they'll fit, really. no exact amount on the chocolate, & placement isn't crucial. it's not crucial because you wrap it up & put the banana in foil somewhere near your campfire coals, then it all melts into something ridiculously messy & glorious.

it helps that i love bananas. but even the campers among us who aren't as crazy about bananas were saying how delightful it was.

it also didn't hurt that we had a small, GREAT group of women. something about being around a fire... definitely tends toward laying the soul bare. next time you're camping, enjoy the soul-baring & banana-boating. and you can thank my friend's friend. and the Giver of all good gifts!