Honey

[littlegreenfairy]

I've ended up with quite a few jars of the runny stuff and need some good recipes to use it all up.

Sweet or savory but no more honey on toast thanks!

Please help!

[AndyAudi]

Mother regularly makes Honey & Whisky Ice Cream
(Usually to use up the egg yolks when making meringues)

I don't know if she has a receipe as it is sometimes good and sometimes not!

I'll ask

[Aranell]

Honey roasted parsnips and carrots are delicious.

Honey and mustard salad dressing is also lovely:
1 tablespoon of honey, 1 tablespoon of (Dijon) mustard, 2 tablespoons of lemon juice and 3/4 tablespoons of oil, along with a pinch of salt. Mix together and pour on your salad

[jmorgan]

Home made BBQ suace. Well, any coating really especially roasting. Mix equal quantities with ketchup. Dollop of olive oil and lemon juice and balsamic vinegar. Loads of herbs, the fresher the better, to taste. Coat the stuff for the BBQ or the oven. Especially good for bagging meat before roasting, ham for example. Place ham in a bag, wallop the stuff in and leave for a day then roast.

[High Octane]

Honey and Mustard Chicken

1 small chicken fillet (around 100g or 4oz)
2 tsp of honey
2 tsp of mustard
3 tsp of soy or tamari sauce

Cut scores through the chicken fillet but do not cut right through.
Mix the honey, mustard and soy sauce together and use to coat the chicken fillet. Set aside for 30 minutes, or up to an hour if possible.
Preheat oven to 220 degrees.
Bake the chicken fillet for 15-20 minutes, depending on thickness, until cooked through and no longer pink in the middle

[biglepton]

littlegreenfairy said:

I've ended up with quite a few jars of the runny stuff and need some good recipes to use it all up.

Relax - honey is the only food that never, ever goes off, so use it at your leisure!

[littlegreenfairy]

Last christmas I was given a kilo jar of the runny stuff complete with a huge comb. Now its my favourite treat but I can only have it when I don't have to be anywhere important as I cannot get the comb out of me teef for love nor money.

Thanks for the ideas. I do love my honey - was possibly pooh bear in a previous life

[WildCat]

Honey Ginger Cake.

250 g plain flour
50 g ground almond.
pinch salt
heap teaspoon ground ginger./
lemon
cloves
125 g brown sugar

1oo g butter

4 tablespoons of honey

2 eggs

2 tablespoon milk


Preheat oven.. 180 degree C. Cut aluminium foil to line cake tin.

Put flour .. ground ginger cloves.. salt. into bowl . Grat lemon zest. Put in bowl. add the brown sugar und butter into saucepan Add the honey. ginger syrup und black treacle ( spoonful) Chop the stem ginger. add to pan. Squeeze out the lemon juice.. add this to pan Stir on low heat till melted together.

Add to flour spice mix.. Stir till thick. Add the eggs . Beat one each into mix with trusty wooden spoon,

Spoon in bi-carb into cup with some milk. stir well. Add to mixture and gradually blend it all.

Pour all this into lined caketin. Leave in oven for 40 mins. Stick skewer in centre. If cooked - it clean. Let this cake cool.

It truly more-ish.

[Gretchen]

Honey and Mustard with a nice Bacon Joint.

[dickymint]

littlegreenfairy said:

I've ended up with quite a few jars of the runny stuff and need some good recipes to use it all up.

Sweet or savory but no more honey on toast thanks!

Please help!

Do you keep your own bees? I'm thinking of getting a hive and starting this, any tips? A friend of mine knows a guy that keeps bees on other peoples land and looks after them (he keeps the majority of the honey), this may be my best route as really what I want them for is pollinating stuff as there was a definite lack of pollinators this year and things suffered as a result.

[littlegreenfairy]

dickymint said:

littlegreenfairy said:

I've ended up with quite a few jars of the runny stuff and need some good recipes to use it all up.

Sweet or savory but no more honey on toast thanks!

Please help!

Do you keep your own bees? I'm thinking of getting a hive and starting this, any tips? A friend of mine knows a guy that keeps bees on other peoples land and looks after them (he keeps the majority of the honey), this may be my best route as really what I want them for is pollinating stuff as there was a definite lack of pollinators this year and things suffered as a result.

They aren't my bees. I seem to have developed a worrying addiction to buying jars of honey/being bought jars of honey.

If you want to keep bees then there is a place near Swindon (Stanton Fitzwarren) that has a bee keeping hut and seem to know their eggs (or bees)and from what I've read they are really into bee conservancy and will probably be able to help you.

ETA

http://www.swindon.gov.uk/textV2/leisuresport/park...

Edited by littlegreenfairy on Saturday 6th October 22:46

[Wadeski]

from saturday night:

chuck a load of chicken pieces (thighs, legs etc) into a baking tray.

drizzle on some honey.
quarter a large orange (would work fine with lemon, too) and put that in as well.
pour over some white wine.
tear up some thyme and put that in.
generously salt and pepper.

bake for 45-50 minutes and its good!

[juice]

Honey, Greek Yoghurt & cinamon Mix together to your taste and splodge on some fresh fruit salad.

[Furyous]

Honey roasted Duck breasts, ala Ramsey.

[Yugguy]

Wadeski said:

from saturday night:

chuck a load of chicken pieces (thighs, legs etc) into a baking tray.

drizzle on some honey.
quarter a large orange (would work fine with lemon, too) and put that in as well.
pour over some white wine.
tear up some thyme and put that in.
generously salt and pepper.

bake for 45-50 minutes and its good!

We do something similar with spring onions and garlic, honey, soy sauce, orange juice and zest. Bloody lovely and dead easy.

[Mark Benson]

Chipolatas in honey and grain mustard - in the oven for 45 mins and served at a party with cocktail sticks.

[Psychobert]

Have been known to make Zabaglione with honey. Must be a recipe online somewhere..