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Banoffee Revisited

Three things have prompted me to give readers a bit of an update on the banoffee pie saga I wrote about here a little more than a month ago. First, I’ve noticed that about thirty percent of the traffic that came to this site since I’ve posted that ‘informative’ anecdote has been as a result of people searching for “banoffee pie” in Google. Second, I made a very successful banoffee pie over the holidays — on the 24th of December to be precise — and the family enjoyed it that evening, and; Third, I’ve finally (as in just this past weekend) posted the pictures from the holiday season and thus now have a photograph of the aforementioned banoffee pie for everyone to see (and presumably [...]

Banoffee Pie

December 9 Have you ever tried it? I’d give it about a one in twenty chance that you have. I have. And I want another taste. Way back in 2007 or so, my Brilliant Wife — no, really, she is — who otherwise proudly sports her relatively poor knowledge of popular culture with a disturbing pride, managed to scrape together a hankering to try this very-Londoner dessert. She decided this based on a very obscure and minor movie reference from about 2004. As such, when we visited London a couple years back she (in fact) sourced us a small bit to taste and (maybe only due to the whole wanting-the-unobtainable thing) I’ve been craving banoffee pie ever since. It is difficult to find in Canada. [...]