Danny has been with TxDot for over a year....when he first started, they had a luncheon. He asked me to make banana pudding, so I made a triple recipe. The only thing he brought home was the spoon. This started requests from his co-workers, every time they have a spread, that I make banana pudding. So, tonight he and I are mixing the pudding and chopping bananas, for what seems like the 10th time in a little over a year.... The famous TxDot Recipe by PK (taken from an Eagle Brand Milk can at least 15 or 16 years ago) is as follows:
6-7 ripe bananas
Box of vanilla wafers
Couple of tablespoons of lemon juice
4 serving box of vanilla pudding
1 can of eagle brand milk
1 1/2 cups of COLD water
Small tub of cool whip
Slice bananas thinly (um...peal them first) and put lemon juice all over them, coating completely. This keeps the bananas from turning brown. Do not add anymore lemon juice....it will make them tart!
Take a hammer, rolling pin, mallet or what ever you have and crush the wafers in the bag they come in
Mix eagle brand milk and water in a bowl. Once mixed well, add pudding and stir together with a whisk. Place this mixture in the frig for 10 or so minutes, until it thickens
Once thickened, stir in cool whip, with a whisk, until mixed well
Take a large bowl and start layering....pudding on the bottom, crushed wafers, bananas. Pudding, crushed wafers, bananas. You want to end with pudding on top, sprinkle a few wafer crumbs around the edge of the bowl and add a couple of banana slices in the middle. Cover and refrigerate. Not sure how long it will keep in the frig, because it never lasts more than two days at our house.
