Fried Peanut Butter and Banana Sandwiches

The patch that came out alongside of Showtime provided the Fried Peanut Batter and Banana recipe book to all players, so sims were able to learn it but no one was able to prepare it unless they also had the Showtime EP since bananas were a required ingredient. Custom bananas won't work.

Is it possible you at one time had icarus' Cook With Any Ingredient mod? Seems like that should have allowed your sims to prepare the dish once they learned the recipe, but using different ingredients including possibly custom bananas.

I just looked up icarus's mod. I'm pretty sure I never had that one. I know I've had other gardening/recipe mods in the past. I've never had a banana plant until now. I do have Baker's Basket Plants, Ingredients and Recipes but I added that after I lost the ability to fry up PB&Bs.

I just saved my current game, then saved it again as "Banana Test" then quit. I'm moving the overhaul mod out of play and will restart. I'll let you know what happens.

I just looked up icarus's mod. I'm pretty sure I never had that one. I know I've had other gardening/recipe mods in the past. I've never had a banana plant until now. I do have Baker's Basket Plants, Ingredients and Recipes but I added that after I lost the ability to fry up PB&Bs.

I just saved my current game, then saved it again as "Banana Test" then quit. I'm moving the overhaul mod out of play and will restart. I'll let you know what happens.

Update:
I had to wait hours and keep a cook home from work til she could make lunch, but she did make Fried Peanut Butter & Banana Sandwiches. Interestingly, my gardener, can still plant links and turkeys. The dragon fruit, cantaloupe, zucchini ARE missing from the fridge.

This is not solved. Removing the mod brings back the Fried Peanut Butter & Banana Sandwiches,but I want the mod for other things. Why is the mod killing the sandwiches?

I don't know what's going on with the mod, so I can't help you there, sorry. But I do know my sims have been able to make Fried Peanut Butter and Banana sandwiches since the patch that introduced it, despite my never actually having played with Showtime installed. I didn't even own it until relatively recently. It's a lunch-only recipe that uses... nothing, I think. The ingredient space in the recipe list is blank, and I'm pretty sure my sims have never used a different ingredient instead of the bananas they don't have.

I always thought it was funny that a master chef could make a perfect version of this recipe too, since the recipe itself isn't amazing quality and they can't use perfect produce to boost the quality.