Paula's Bananas Foster

Ingredients

• 1 stick butter
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 4 bananas peeled and halved, cut lengthwise
• 1/4 cup dark rum

Directions

Melt butter in a large skillet. Add brown sugar and stir together. Add the bananas and cook until caramelized over medium-high heat. Pour in the rum and catch a flame off of the gas stove or a BBQ lighter. Stand back when ignited and flambe. Be careful; a flame will shoot up above the pan. Let flame die down. Serve over vanilla ice cream and/or a slice of pound cake.