Entries tagged with 'honey'
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The honey sticks you get when apple picking--only good and homemade and stickier. And you get to pick the flavors.
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This month's Secret Ingredient is gorgeous, sticky, sweet, voluptuous honey. Such a versatile ingredient; we're going from roast pork to honey sticks. This week: roast pork loin.
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Last week on the
Weekend Cook and Tell we were talking honey, and all of its sweet and sticky kitchen applications. We asked all of you to don your beekeeping gear (either that or break out the honey bear) and
share your favorite honey-based recipes with us. Let's take a peek into the hive and see what you came up with.
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My daily breakfast of yogurt and granola is (almost) as important to me as my morning coffee. Baking up a batch every couple of weeks is another nice ritual. It's really easy, and unlike the store-bought alternative, you can create exactly the balance of fruit, nuts, grains, sweetness, and richness you want. This slideshow will show you the basics of granola-making, with some ideas for a classic version, as well as a more decadent closer-to-candy recipe (with chocolate chips!) and a savory twist with fennel seeds.
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Infused vinegars were all the rage at last week's
Fancy Food Show in New York City. But why buy chile-infused products, when it's just as easy to make them at home and control how much heat you want from the chiles? Take the smokiness from anchos, the fire of Thai chiles or the sweetness from red bell peppers. Other spices or seasonings can be added as you please, and the overall price will be considerably less. And why stop with just vinegar? Infuse oil, honey or alcohol too.
Here are the basics for chile infusions.
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"Dark and spicy, with touches of smoke and leather, chestnut honey is complex, mysterious, and nuanced." Previously Fig and Almond Cookies » All Seriously Italian recipes » Autumn in Italy means chestnuts are everywhere, and I do mean everywhere. Chestnut trees observe no regional boundaries in Italy, and at this time of year, outdoor markets are piled high with the local crop and the smell of roasted chestnuts fills the air. And where chestnut trees abound, so does chestnut honey. The gift of chestnut honey arrives a bit earlier than the chestnuts themselves; mid to late summer is the time for chestnut honey to be harvested. But the chill of autumn is always the time that I crave chestnut honey,...
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Never underestimate the creepy powers of a plastic bear-shaped honey tube. [via conky] Related The Great Vegan Honey Debate Does honey go bad? [Talk] The First Annual Beekeepers Ball: A Night for New York Urban Beekeeping...
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Scientists trying to crack the Colony Collapse Syndrome (CCD) mystery that's killed millions of beehives worldwide, may be onto something, according to Scientific American: The growing consensus among researchers is that multiple factors such as poor nutrition and exposure to pesticides can interact to weaken colonies and make them susceptible to a virus-mediated collapse. In the case of our experiments in greenhouses, the stress of being confined to a relatively small space could have been enough to make colonies succumb to IAPV and die with CCD-like symptoms. More recent results from long-term monitoring have identified other unexpected factors for increased colony loss, including the fungicide chlorothalonil. Research is now focused on understanding how these factors relate to colony collapse....
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To make 49 pounds of honey: "The yield filled many, many jars—half-pints, full-pints, and twelve-ounce.... The honey is a delicious and flavorful mix from flowers and fruit and vegetable blossoms from my garden. Come and have a look at this lovely, golden treasure."...
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There are few sensory juxtapositions as important and ubiquitous as the "sweet and sour." From apple pie to wine, it is arguably the most fundamental taste combination in all of food. However, among all the many examples of it in cuisines across the world, there is one that rises above the rest: cheese and honey. To be sure, lots of sweet things go really well with cheese: wine, sake, quince, apples, but there is something special about drizzling a bit of, say, chestnut honey on a wedge of Tumbleweed cheese. Some cheeses and honeys do work better than others--here's what to look for....
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