The bunch of bananas. Jeremy wanted banana flower pictures. Which lead to the last photo and many more and 70 bananas! I have about 2 dozen left.
Mini Banana Cream Pies for Mother's Day.
Beautiful banana flower.
Today was laid back compared to most days. I decided to skip the Bicentennial Independence Day Celebration in O’Leary to transplant my fast growing vegetable seedlings. (One celebration was enough. More on that later). A stormed moved in around 9:30am, but not before I spread the lettuce and beets to new beds. I also picked up the last of the passion fruit and a few plump lima beans. I gifted this to my Paraguayan grandparents. They had given me milk and fresh cheese that morning after grandfather Eligio and I shared anis infused mate.
The real reason I am writing today is because I wanted to make your mouth water for mini banana cream pies. A few weeks ago, Kai Eligio gifted me an entire bunch of bananas (over 70 bananas! I counted.). Right now they are in their peak ripeness and besides eating them just as they are I have been experimenting too. While baking a cake with my neighbor across the street, Ña Kike, I got the idea to make the little pies. Tomorrow is Mother’s Day and I will give them to the hardworking señoras who have blessed my life and without them Paraguay wouldn’t mean what it does to me.
The crust is a toasted peanut crust. I baked it first and then layered slices of bananas. Next I spooned in a creamy layer of homemade vanilla custard. To finish I topped it with hand whipped meringue and baked it until the peaks were toasty.
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