What's your favorite way to use honey?
September is National Honey Month. Recently, I bought Savannah brand tupelo & black sage--both mild tasting & neither crystalize. Honey appears in many recipes for dipping sauces, glazes, sweetened beverages, snax mixes & my favorite, drizzled on hot baked goods or mixed with peanut butter. Honey even soothes a throat tickle! How do you use this sweet liquid?
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21 Comments:
mixed in a cup of warm milk when I can't sleep
NanaJoie at 6:44PM on 09/02/07
I like it on plain yogurt or oatmeal. For more unorthodox uses, it's a great face scrub when mixed with a little bit of olive oil and some granulated sugar.
www.hundredthings.com at 6:52PM on 09/02/07
There's nothing like honey and butter slathered on fresh, hot biscuits. Also, I love to drizzle honey on fried chicken...so good!
By the way, my new favorite kind is avocado honey -- it's dark and full of flavor. I found it unpasteurized at Whole Foods.
Dominic
the zen kitchen
dvchurch at 8:08PM on 09/02/07
Dominic---I'm with ya on the honey butter & sometimes I mix in a little cinnamon. Avocado honey sounds interesting---how are you using it?
JEP at 8:46PM on 09/02/07
Honey and butter on biscuits is so soothing and wonderful. Great pick! I'm a big fan of peanut butter and honey sandwiches on wheat bread. I also have a recipe for peanut butter cookies made with honey—you then stuff a little chocolate candy like a Rolo or fun size Butterfinger inside. The honey makes the cookies soft and chewy. Glooorious.
kmnola at 10:58PM on 09/02/07
I've heard that local honey helps prevent allergies - somehow if you ingest the pollen you're allergic to in bee-collected form, you get less sick from it. Makes sense.
So I eat plenty of upstate NY honey (from Tivoli) straight up on bread or in tea. I see no point diluting or masking it since it's so good on its own, but I have used it as a sweetener in cakes and muffins to excellent results.
butterface at 11:00PM on 09/02/07
Nigella's honey and pine nut semi freddo.
NicholasRidiculous at 3:18AM on 09/03/07
JEP -- I use the avocado honey like any other honey. Its strong flavor is great when you want honey to play a starring rather than backup role -- honey-glazed pork roast, honey-garlic chicken, or any baked good that calls for honey.
I usually keep two honeys in my pantry: one dark and one light. The light one (usually orange blossom) is great for sweetening things with a more subtle honey flavor, so I might finish a dish with it or use it in a vinaigrette. Honestly, it just depends on my mood...I'm a big fan of all kinds of honey!
One of my best memories of Seattle was going to the Pike Place Market and having an opportunity to taste about twenty local honeys side-by-side, with colors ranging from almost clear to molasses-black and flavors that varied in intensity from sugary-sweet to bitter. It was amazing how the taste of the flower that the bees pollinated could come through in each of them. Some of the available honeys I remember were fireweed, wildflower, wild blackberry, clover, Japanese knotweed, wild mountain raspberry, thistle and buckwheat. Good memories!
dvchurch at 4:11AM on 09/03/07
Dominic---the Pike Place honey tasting--what a great way to learn & appreciate the diffferent flavors. Seems like I've read where honey flavor varies from time to time due to pollination that has occured during that period of time yet still be called for ex. fireweed. Thanks for sharing your experience!
JEP at 6:46AM on 09/03/07
I have two full cases i hidden in my cupboards of sweet Ontario clover honey with a few bottles I was able to hide in there of buckwheat. And I have a bottle or two of fireweed honey. IMy other halfs' family are bee keepers. So, the question for me would be...
What do you like to have WITH honey?
Lilartist at 9:07AM on 09/03/07
With Rosh Hashanah coming up soon, I'm reminded of another favorite. Apples and honey and fresh (or even better, leftover toasted) Challah and honey. Oh, its so good, I always think that I'll eat it year round, but end up saving it for the holiday.
hreisig at 1:03PM on 09/03/07
I have dipped bananas in honey, rolled in walnuts & frozen. Drizzled on brie. Does anyone buy or eat honeycomb?
JEP at 3:05PM on 09/03/07
I have bought honeycomb. I'm not a fan of it however. It's the wax, I find it difficult to deal with once you have consumed the honey.
Lilartist at 9:06PM on 09/03/07
Definitely drizzled over greek yogurt! I actually don't really eat honey in any other form, but I'd love to branch out a bit (and try to convince the rest of my family that its worth trying!!)
ChristineB at 10:48PM on 09/03/07
When I'm nauseous, honey and butter on toast and/or biscuits almost always works, as does straight honey for sore throats. Also a fan of the honey and peanut butter sandwich, with or without bananas.
I must say as much as I personally love honey, I probably use it most for homemade dog treats though!
I am quite intrigued by the theory of local honey lessening allergies, and sure wish I'd heard this before the farmer's market on Saturday, but will definitely be buying some next weekend! Thanks for that tip, hope it works a little bit, as these last few weeks have been rough.
bobcatsteph3 at 7:10AM on 09/04/07
Since I've experienced the most god-awful sore throat EVER, my fav way to use honey is mixed with apple cider vinegar, citrus juice, warm water. It definitely kicks antibiotics ass..
winny at 10:36AM on 09/04/07
Does anyone still buy the Sue Bee honey squeeze bottle bear? Always seemed more fun to squeeze a food from a nostalgic container.
JEP at 12:05PM on 09/04/07
I love the plastic squeezable honey bears... we keep our dish soap in one. I prefer local honey to any supermarket honey, though. I love honey in hot toddys, and on cheerios--growing up I put honey on my cereal, not sugar.
becca at 12:36PM on 09/04/07
I don't have any creative uses for honey, just the good old-fashioned ones mentioned here-- as a topping for oatmeal, pancakes, waffles, toast, and also as a component in a delicious peanut butter, banana, and honey sandwich. My great uncle keeps bees in the Richmond area, so lately I've been using a jar of his honey. It's sharp and very sweet.
Christina at 1:35PM on 09/04/07
A small squeeze of the honey bear in my coffee each morning.
Colorado Jim at 2:42PM on 09/04/07
With butter on biscuits!! I also love it in tea & hot toddy's.
gwenpentland at 3:39PM on 09/04/07