The greatest defeat in life is to miss riding on a train. One day we will have to quit this life filled with music, laughter, leaves turning golden in the fall, the touch of a loved one’s hand. Never having had the joy of riding on a train falls somewhere in between.
While preparing the dressing for the Shrimp Salad whose recipe I have included here, my mind wandered from the food I was preparing to another type of food.
Biting into this banoffee (ban- o- fee) pie is actually ‘falling in love’ all over again; this time it is with a banana concoction poured over a layer of caramel sauce in a graham cracker crust and topped with billowy whipped cream. Soo delicious, that when biting into this pie for the first time, you moan with words such as yum, ahhh, oh my, or this is the most delicious pie I have ever eaten. I promise you, from the guest who really doesn’t care for bananas to the ones who love bananas, they will ALL love this pie.
It was Easter oh so many years ago when my son Kim was 8 years old that he discovered yet another one of life’s reality lessons, ‘there is no cure for the facts of life.’