Great for the company get together.

This is an old family favorite that has graced many a family reunion and Christmas. It's yummier than Terri Hatcher fake nudie pics. (Yeah, like you've never downloaded them...)

The ingredients are critical:

• A bunch of bananas.
• Vanilla pudding. This is critical: do NOT use instant pudding. Either cook it yourself or buy cans of professionally cooked non-instant pudding.
• A box of graham cracker crumbs, or a box of graham crackers and a hammer
• A couple cans of Spanish peanuts. This is also critical. Do not use plain peanuts.

Your supplies:

• This is a pretty elaborate one. You need a food grinder to grind up the Spanish peanuts. I don't know where you get them or if there's a modern equivalent. We always use the same one with a hand crank and a suction lever to stick it on top of the counter top.
• A knife to cut the bananas.
• A large bowl to take with you to the picnic.

The ingredients pretty much make up the recipe. Here's all you do.

Put a layer of the vanilla pudding in the bottom of the large serving bowl. Next sprinkle a thin layer of graham cracker crumbs over the pudding. Peel and cut a banana so you get little circles and put these on top of the graham cracker crumbs.

Now cover the bananas with another layer of pudding. For the second layer, use the ground up Spanish peanuts instead of the graham cracker crumbs. Then put in another layer of bananas, then repeat: pudding, graham crackers, bananas, pudding, Spanish peanuts, bananas, ...

Keep going until you fill up your bowl.

Eat the left over pudding and you're done. Don't forget the last step. It's an integral part of the procedure.

Suggested beverage: banana milkshake.

Chow.