Going bananas with peanut butter and two slices of bread! by Jenn McKinlay

 First, Happy Father's Day to all who celebrate. Yay, Dads!!! 

Second, congratulations to Bibliophile (Diana) the winner of Mimi Lee Cracks the Code the book giveaway by Jennifer J Chow. Email your address to me at: jennmck at yahoo dot com and I'll forward it to Jennifer. Congrats!!!

And now, today's adventure begins with a postcard. Way back when I was a part-time librarian, working for the city of Phoenix, single, and broke ass poor, I used to make myself peanut butter and banana sandwiches to eat for lunch at work. My dear friend and co-worker Sheila remembered this (either because she hadn't seen anyone eat this since childhood or she'd never seen anyone eat this concoction at all) and when she recently went to Graceland, she felt compelled to mail me this postcard 😀: 

Now, being a lover of Elvis, I knew he was a PB and banana sandwich guy. In fact, when I was laboring to bring Hooligan 2 into the world, it was the 25th anniversary of Elvis's passing and H2 came very close to being named Elvis -- coincidentally Sheila is also H2's godmother. Fear not, Hub made sure that didn't happen. 

Still, on TV all during my labor were, you guessed it, a million recipes for Elvis's PB and banana sandwich. I never felt motivated to try those recipes as I liked my untoasted two slices of bread, spread with peanut butter, and filled with sliced bananas. But when I got this postcard, I thought it was time to give the Elvis Special a try. 

Ingredients: Bread, butter, peanut butter, and bananas!

Cooking: Most important part mashing the bananas and 

peanut butter together! Radical!

Final result: Toasty goodness!

Verdict: Much more filling than my non-cooked PB and banana sandwich and the toasted bread adds a nice crunch and the butter a bit of salt to the sweet. More work than my recipe, which means you actually have to use a pan. Will I make it again? Probably not, unless I become poor because this really is a full belly (and potentially a heart attack) on the cheap. 

All right, foodies, what odd celebrity recipes have you tried? How did it turn out?