Friday Foodie Fix- Honey

Friday Foodie Fix

Friday Foodie Fix

Today’s Secret Ingredient for Friday Foodie Fix is Honey!  Sweet sticky liquid gold.  A wonderful gift to us from bees.  I like honey in my tea, in my muffins, salad dressings, glazes and sauces.  The best honey I’ve tasted came from fellow blogger Shirley from gluten free easily.  Tastes amazing.  I’m not sure what types of flowers her bees hang out with but I like it.

This honey has also been showing up in my hot tea for the past week while I’m fighting off this nagging cold that won’t seem to bug off.  The honey does make my throat feel much better.

After reading Gluten-Free Girl and The Chef’s new cookbook, I’m looking for White Truffle Honey.  They use it in one of their recipes and it sounds amazing.  I have honey and I have white truffle oil.  I’m not sure if I can make my own or not.  I’m hoping to find some so I can taste the real thing.  I have lavender honey and creamed honey but that is the extent of my honey collection.

What types of honey do you have?  How do you use honey?  Share your stories and recipes.  I can’t wait to hear about different types of honey.  Feel free to share as many recipes as you like.  I’d love to see our totals hit an all time high.

Next week’s Secret Ingredient is ……. tomatillos!

schedule:

October  8- Thyme

October 15- Grapes

October 22- Balsamic Vinegar

October 29- Pepitas

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33 Responses to Friday Foodie Fix- Honey

  1. Jenn September 24, 2010 at 1:54 am #

    Oh I am so ignorant about the world of honey, I usually just have a generic brand of stuff from no specific region/flowers in general… but I love the stuff! Currently it's been helping my husband's sore throat in a cup of mint tea… Today I decided to share a granola recipe I love that combines maple syrup and honey together 🙂

  2. Angie September 24, 2010 at 11:55 am #

    Mmmm… I love using honey as a sweetener! I posted 2 of my favorites! Thanks for hosting.

  3. Ashlie September 24, 2010 at 12:24 pm #

    Honey is my sweetner of choice – as you can tell from my many recipe links (I have many more on my blog!). I usually purchase raw local honey at my farmer's market – in addition to tasting great, it seems the easiest sweetner on my tummy and local raw honey is supposed to have a wide range of health benefits – especially at combatting allergies. Trader joe's mesquite honey is also a good choice for a mild taste, and a very reasonable price! My most frequent use of honey is in salad dressing. Though I haven't tried it, I read an interesting article a few weeks ago that suggested honey is a great treatment for wounds – a lot of hospitals are using these days! So maybe it belongs in our medicine cabinets as well as out kitchen cupboards :).

  4. Shirley @ gfe September 24, 2010 at 5:27 pm #

    You now have most of my blog on this Friday Foodie Fix! And, no, these are not all my honey recipes. I know you said to link up as many as possible, but I'm feeling a little obnoxious after adding all those links. 😉 I'm hoping that as the resident beekeeper blogger, I'll be forgiven by others! I could wax poetic about honey and its benefits for days. I'm also including the post where I showed step-by-step photos of us taking the honey from our bees and talk about what flowers they like to "work." 🙂 Thanks so much for the honey love, Diane! We think it's the best, but we are pretty biased! 😉

    Shirley

  5. Celiacs in the House September 24, 2010 at 9:34 pm #

    I was inspired by a bottle of mead. You never know where a Friday Foodie Fix will take you.

  6. Alisa September 25, 2010 at 12:15 pm #

    I love honey! It was hard to choose just a couple recipes to add.

  7. GlutenFreeHomemaker September 26, 2010 at 10:38 am #

    I knew Shirley would have a lot of entries for this one! I'm adding my honeyed beets recipe. I don't cook with honey much, but I like to use raw honey in tea. Like you, I'm interested in finding white truffle honey.

  8. Anonymous September 27, 2010 at 8:05 pm #

    Thank you Linda for sharing. If you find that truffle honey let me know.

  9. Anonymous September 27, 2010 at 8:06 pm #

    Alisa- thank you for sharing. Feel free to add in as many as you like.

  10. Anonymous September 27, 2010 at 8:07 pm #

    Wendy- OK, are you using me as an excuse to drink? 🙂 Glad you were inspired to play in the kitchen. Hope we get to play in San Fran!

  11. Anonymous September 27, 2010 at 8:08 pm #

    Shirley- I'm so glad you shared so many creative ways to use honey. That is great! Also linking the post about getting that honey. Can't wait to check that out. I do love that honey your bees make. It's the best.

  12. Anonymous September 27, 2010 at 8:10 pm #

    Angie- Thank you for sharing!

  13. Anonymous September 27, 2010 at 8:10 pm #

    Ashlie- thank you for sharing recipes and great information. I've not tried mesquite honey but that sounds great. I'll have to go find some of that!

  14. Anonymous September 27, 2010 at 8:11 pm #

    Jenn- Thank you for sharing. I do love granola. I'm working my way down a list of recipes so I"ll add yours.

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