Tonight I noticed that we had three bananas that were almost to the point of being over ripe. I thought that a banana pudding would be good. Growing up my Nanny made at least one a week for my Papaw, it was his favorite desert. I didnt have her recipe so I looked online and found a Paula Deen recipe so I decided to go for it. It was not a hard recipe to follow you just have to take your time and not rush through. After standing and stirring the pudding mix for 15+ min. I have a new appreciation for what my Nannay did for us growing up and am thankful I paid attention to her and others in my family when it comes to cooking. Here is the recipe that I used.
3/4 cup sugar
2 Tbs corn starch
3 cups of milk
4 egg yolks (use whites for merainge if you are making one)
1tsp of vanilla
2 ounces or 1/2 stick butter (I used margerine, its what I had)
3 bananas sliced into discs
1 box vanilla wafers

Combine sugar and cornstarch in a sauce pan. Over low/med heat slowly add in the milk stirring continually. You can use a double boiler to reduce the risk of burning the mixture. All I had was a regular sauce pan so I had to watch it closely and continualy stir the mixture. Add in the vanilla. I had true Madagascar vanilla which is the best vanilla out there but it was $10 for a very small bottle. Enough about the vanilla. Cook the mixture until it thickens. Once thickened whisk in a small amount of the mixture to the egg yolks to temper them (bring them up to temperature of the mixture but not cooking them into scrambled eggs. Add the tempered egg yolks to the mixture and cook for another two min stirring constantly.

In a 9x9 (8x11 is what I had) casserole dish put some of the mix in the bottom of the dish and then a layer of bananas and wafers. Add more pudding mix alternating pudding and bananas/wafers. Top off with last of pudding mix. Cover and let cool to finish thickening. Pure awsomness.