I am a self-admitted newbie to cooking and I was wondering how good
the "master" chefs really are...

Check out the difference in amounts of banana liqueur and Rum used for
each recipe for Bananas Foster (both for 4 bananas).... BAMMM!!!....
Maybe some of that rum in Emerils is for drinking???? And newbies
like me end up following these typos and have to learn the hard way...

For instance, I found the list of ingredients for the recipe for
Banana's Foster from Brennan's website to be as follows:

¼ cup (½ stick) butter
1 cup brown sugar
½ teaspoon cinnamon
¼ cup banana liqueur
4 bananas, cut in half
lengthwise, then halved
¼ cup dark rum
4 scoops vanilla ice cream



Then I found this one from Emeril...

8 tablespoons butter, cut into cubes
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
4 ripe bananas, peeled and cut lengthwise into halves
1 cup banana liqueur
1 cup Myers Rum
1 pint vanilla bean ice cream
8 (about 1-inch thick) slices of yellow pound cake
Powdered sugar in a shaker
4 sprigs of fresh mint

Reference:

http://www.brennansneworleans.com/r_bananasfoster.html

http://www.foodtv.com/food/recipes/r...6_4944,00.html