I drizzle honey on _____
I don't use honey all that often but I do like the Savannah Bee Company tupelo & black sage varieties. A heafty drizzle on corn bread & biscuits every now & then. I make peanut butter & honey sandwiches & then griil until they ooze:) What are your sweet & savory uses for the world's oldest sweetner? Brand loyal? Anyone have a Sue Bee honey bear bottle?
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30 Comments:
Blue cheese. Seriously.
nickb at 8:24AM on 02/01/08
I use alot of honey, and I use all different brands and types. I use it in yogurt, on baked brie, in sauces, in baking, in salad dressings, in fruit salad, on Ice cream, etc. I have used Sue Bee, but right now I have a container of Nature's Best (from Fresh Direct) which is a bear, but the opening is on the bottom, for easier use.
Mich23 at 8:34AM on 02/01/08
I put honey on/in anything: tea, cereal, toast, pancakes, marinate chicken, ham, french toast, crepes, yams, etc, and on add days my finger and lick it off.:) :) :)
mommyme at 8:35AM on 02/01/08
A slice of whole wheat bread onto which has been smeared natural peanut butter. There is no sugar in natural peanut butter and if you get organic honey, it's a good sweetener.
And what's so weird about honey on bleu cheese? :D
Honey is one of those things I really have to be in the mood for. It's as though if my body is not craving it, I wouldn't touch it. Strange...
chiff0nade at 8:42AM on 02/01/08
honey is too strong tasting for me, somehow. i use it as an ingredient in a chicken wing marinade, but that's about all.
cybercita at 9:12AM on 02/01/08
Occasionally some of the uses above, but often on toast and in tea with lemon when I have a cold or the flu.
I have had the bears, but find them too hard to get the honey out. I prefer local honey from the apiary which closed recently. Don't know where I'll get it now!
My daughters tell me that local honey boosts the immune system.
PerkyMac at 9:25AM on 02/01/08
my boyfriends family are beekeepers and make their own honey, so obviously I am partial to their honey, it's fairly well known in upper Ontario. We put honey on everything, and I use it as much as I can in replace of sugar. I only have one jar of buckwheat honey left, and we are getting out of making the honey - I don't know what I'll do when its gone!
Lilartist at 9:37AM on 02/01/08
when i moved south i had terrible problems with allergies untill a Dr friend suggested i try a cup of hot tea with local honey every morning. It dosent work for everyone, but it helped my allergies immensely! still use it in the occasional cup of hot chai or even a little in my coffee.
huney_bumper at 10:19AM on 02/01/08
Bread, tea, oatmeal, cottage cheese. When I have a sore throat I take it by the spoonful or, if it's in a squeeze bottle, squeeze it right into my mouth.
Honey is a natural antibiotic. You can use it topically on wounds.
@huney_bumper: Was it a homeopathic effect? It sounds like you may have dosed yourself with bits of allergen.
CanadianFoodieGirl at 11:16AM on 02/01/08
fried chicken. seriously.
and ditto on the peanut butter sandwich.
protest at 11:26AM on 02/01/08
I use it daily in my tea. Also sometimes drizzled on Fage 0%. Yum! I always buy local honey- it's pretty easy to find in upstate NY. I have a few different jars open right now. A dark liquid type and a lighter crystallized wildflower variety. I don't know if it really does anything for my immune system, but I like to think it does.
Kerosena at 11:29AM on 02/01/08
I have a cold right now, so I take a hefty spoonful in my morning coffee and think good thoughts. Otherwise I love to bake almost anything with honey, and drizzle on any starch and occasionally roasted vegetables. I have a relative who keeps bees, and he always presses a big bottle on us before we leave.
Christina at 11:38AM on 02/01/08
Love it on Greek yogurt!
Dominic
the zen kitchen
dvchurch at 12:25PM on 02/01/08
On my face, mixed with crushed aspirin...it makes a great facial and leaves your skin flawless.
FoodieCutie at 12:53PM on 02/01/08
Not a huge fan, partly because I'm not big a sweet stuff, but I do sometimes add it to peppermint, chamomile or orange spice tea. And I like it on hot cereal every once in a while. Very rarely, I'll drizzle some on biscuits or cornbread.
For years, I've taken a spoonful to soothe a cough. Recently proven quite effective in a study, which made me very happy!
When I do eat honey, it must be raw honey. Much more flavorful. And I'm more inclined to the darker, more exotic ones that usually come from strongly flavored flowers. One of the best I ever had along these lines was a local Eucalyptus honey. It was amazing.
My dad is obsessed with honey. For as long as I can remember, his morning routine has, without fail, consisted of coffee and three or four slices of whole-wheat toast loaded with honey. (Usually consumed standing in front of the coffee maker and toaster, whilst reading the morning paper.) This routine is so important to him that he actually carries his own bread and honey with him when he travels. No joke. He always has an assortment of exotic honeys in the house, and they're always really tasty.
LoCo at 1:05PM on 02/01/08
I use it occasionally in cooking, but usually forget about it.
Salad dressings that have gotten a little too tart on me...
I loved good vanilla ice cream drizzled with honey and salted peanuts as a child...they honey gets all chewy and is great with the peanuts...we may have to try this again soon...
My grandfather loved to stir a spoonful in to a gloass of cold milk...
Cary at 1:24PM on 02/01/08
I sometimes spread a thin layer of it under Nutella (best if it is a very distinctly flavoured one, e.g. sage, chestnut-flower, orange blossom). Yes, I know, barbaric...
mongoose at 2:18PM on 02/01/08
yes. fried chicken... and it goes surprisingly well with some rich cheese, like humboldt fog.
DaveFaris at 2:37PM on 02/01/08
In my tea! And on apples! And peanut butter banana sandwiches! :)
Hillary
Chew on That
Chew on That at 3:18PM on 02/01/08
Love it on fried chicken. I didn't realize how many others of us there were. Hi guys!
I love drizzling honey on really cold things, so that it hardens up a bit. Atop Fage yogurt is awesome. Also, I'll peel, section and then thouroughly de-membrane ruby or pink grapefruit (I much prefer that method over cutting supremes because I think the texture is leaps and bounds better), lay it out attractively on a plate, drizzle on a good honey and stick it in the fridge for about half an hour. The slight chewiness of the honey with the bursting juciness of the grapefruit is just wonderful.
Pear, blue cheese, walnut, honey.
chisai at 3:28PM on 02/01/08
Love to add a squirt to a vinaigrette to tame down thet acidity.
My grandma was a big honey lover and I learned from her many years ago when you have a cold with a cough or congestion, the best remedy is hot tea with honey and brandy. It's also pretty good as a comfort drink anytime. Gran also loved her Southern Comfort in her tea, but that's another story...
My husband and I are about to become bee parents in the spring and we are now educating ourselves to become beekeepers. It sounds like we will also be learning infinite numbers of things to do with honey. This has been a very informative post. Thanks!
frederika at 3:48PM on 02/01/08
Wow---I learned some new ways to sweeten my life wuth honey--thanks for all the comments!
Anyone make baklava?
Do you ever buy a honeycomb?
JEP at 4:09PM on 02/01/08
Greek yogurt, oatmeal, tea, PB-banana sandwich...........biscuits!
dettling05 at 7:59PM on 02/01/08
In my jasmine tea, sugar just won't do at all. If we don't have honey in the house, I'll drink my tea unsweetened.
Sometimes on apples, always on my yogurt.
When I'm feeling under the weather, the only medication I ever take is some lemon slices muddled with honey in hot water. Works like a charm for me (maybe its all in the mind), but I prefer that vastly over chemicals!
Hmm, Chisai, I forgot all about the grapefruit/honey combo. I used to do that when I was younger, but none of my family shared my love for grapefruit, so we stopped getting them. I can only eat so many grapefruit on my own...
fuuchan at 9:50PM on 02/01/08
FoodieCutie, I'm intrigued! What proportions do you use for the facial, and what sorts of skin problems does it help with? (Also, how'd you hear about this?)
tacroy80 at 10:30PM on 02/01/08
I like to drizzle it over sweet onions when I'm carmalizing them to mix into something else. Garlic, worchester sauce, and honey, fried in [originally butter but now canola oil].
Nursie at 3:52PM on 02/02/08
JEP, never made it, but just love a really good homemade baklava... the best is a little easy on the honey. There are actually a number of similar honey-based sweets from the Mediterranean region. The sell at least 10 different things at my local mid-East market, but I haven't gotten around to trying them all just yet. I'll have to make a run over there and get some. I'll let you know!
I used to love honey on my Cheerios... drizzled on after the cold milk so it would make hard little clumps.
Honey seems to have a special affinity for citrus of all kinds, as the mention of grapefruit made me remember. Try it with kumquats! MMMmmmm...
What about mead? Has anybody ever had it? Made their own? I've always been so curious about that...
LoCo at 9:51PM on 02/02/08
@foodiegirl yes the doctor told me that ingesting the alergens in that way allows the body to start building up a resistence. whyever it worked all i know is it did.
huney_bumper at 9:57AM on 02/03/08
LoCo, we have been homebrewers for quite a few years and our brewing club had made so many kinds of beer and mead I can't count. I've had phenomenal mead and some not so good. Spices can also be added somewhat like a spiced wine. I really like it now, but I think it's somewhat of an acquired taste. I've never actually purchased any; we have just been lucky enough to acquire it from cohorts. We have a bottle of Chaucer's that was a gift so I know it is a brand that is still available. It's not terribly expensive if you can find some to try. My issue is that I don't exactly know what food to pair with mead. Any ideas out there in the blogosphere? What about bleu or sharp cheeses?
If you can brew beer or make wine from a kit that you can get at your local homebrewing store, you can make mead. (a kit would definitely be the easy way to start) We moved last year and haven't brewed since then but I'm thinking it would be a good idea to brush up on our skills and clean up our equipment. We're going to get bees this spring so we need to build our honey recipe repetoire.
frederika at 10:50PM on 02/03/08
Apples! Also, in tea, always with lemon, otherwise it's too sweet for me. When I was little, I loved it on my buttered toast. I might still like it now, but I haven't eaten this combo in about 15 years:-). I also use it to glaze a chicken when roasting it, and as an ingredient in some marinades and glazes.
brooke29 at 11:25PM on 02/03/08