The narrator and his wife Marcia find a 1970s cookbook called "70s Cooking Party" and are shocked by the bizarre recipes. They decide to try one, "Banana-Ham-Hollandaise," which involves wrapping bananas in ham slices, spreading with mustard, and topping with a homemade hollandaise sauce. The narrator struggles to make the sauce and finds it to be disgusting. After cooking the bananas, he serves them with the sauce and is surprised to find that the dish is not as bad as he expected. The mustard and ham flavors complement the banana, and the narrator even enjoys it. However, he decides that the recipe is still cursed and decides to give it away to anyone who wants it, asking for serious explanations of why they want to try the dish.
Here are the key facts extracted from the text:
1. The speaker and their wife, Marcia, found a cookbook called "70s Cooking Party" at a bookstore.
2. The speaker is making a recipe from the book called "Banana Ham" with hollandaise sauce.
3. The original recipe is from "Contemporary Cooking Macau's Great American Recipe".
4. The speaker preheated the oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit.
5. The speaker made their own hollandaise sauce using a recipe that claimed to be "easy no fail".
6. The speaker used egg yolks, butter, and lemon juice to make the hollandaise sauce.
7. The speaker failed to make the hollandaise sauce correctly and it turned out to be a disaster.
8. The speaker peeled bananas and sprayed them with lemon juice to prevent browning.
9. The speaker wrapped each banana in a slice of ham and spread mustard on the ham.
10. The speaker cooked the bananas in the oven for 10 minutes.
11. The speaker broke their mixer while trying to thicken the hollandaise sauce.
12. The speaker whisked the sauce to try and thicken it, but it didn't work.
13. The speaker poured the hollandaise sauce over the cooked bananas and ham.
14. The speaker tasted the dish and was surprised that it wasn't as bad as they thought it would be.
Note: I excluded opinions and subjective comments from the text, focusing on objective facts and events.