Turtle how all do you use your honey?
I have to admit I am not above dipping a spoon into honey and eating it as is.
That right there is how I eat it most of the time. Not every day, but 2 or 3 times a week I'll stick a teaspoon down in there and just eat it. Not a lot of calories, doesn't really affect my blood sugar because it's not very much (I'm diabetic) and it has loads of antioxidants. At least once a year I'll buy the comb honey and cut off a bite-size piece with a fork and just chew on it like gum. Sometimes, tho it's a rather rare treat, I'll eat it (or molasses) with homemade biscuits and lots of butter. That's the decadent treat, but it's pure Southern.
I cook with it in glazing a ham, of course, but it's also great to glaze a pan-fried pork chop, chicken breast, chicken kabobs, glazed carrots, ribs. I make this grilled peach and mozzarella salad once in a while that gets drizzled with a little honey on the peaches before putting them on the grill. If I were a hot tea drinker I'd use it in that, but I don't do hot drinks, generally speaking.
My new goal is to quit eating sugar and quit eating chocolate until I can get my cravings under control.
Keep in mind that the sugar in honey is exactly the same sugar as in sugar. If you want to quit eating sugar, then you need to quit eating honey, as well. But if you're going to eat sugar, you can use honey instead, and you'll at least get the healthy benefits of the honey.
I don't do a lot of baking or use much added external sugar on things. A 5 pound bag of sugar would last me several years. A pint jar of honey will last me more than 6 months, so I'm not a real big user of it. But it's perfect for drizzling on certain dishes. Being diabetic I just have to be careful with it.
Thanks for the link to order honey.
I started with them in ordering beeswax. I melt some beeswax in a jar of mineral oil and once it cools I use the soft paste to coat my cutting board. I first coat the cutting board with just mineral oil, as many times as it'll keep soaking it all in. Then I'll use the mixture, and what happens is the oil from the mixture gets soaked in and what's left on top of the board (and sides and bottom) is a thin layer of beeswax, that gets wiped and polished, so the cutting board becomes virtually waterproof and won't absorb water, dry and crack. Then every few weeks I apply a new beeswax coat. By the time you're done waxing a cutting board your hands feel and smell terrific.
They reason I ordered from them is they have really good beeswax, 100% pure and not mixed with other waxes. They filter it twice so it's clean and ready to go out of the box for candles, lotions, balms, and cutting boards. A one-pound slab of beeswax, if used exclusively for cutting board use, will probably be enough to last a lifetime. It only takes an once or two to a cup of mineral oil to make a really lot of cutting board paste.
There are I'm sure lots of places to order honey and beeswax online, but that place is highly recommended by chefs and woodworkers for the beeswax, and by honey aficionados for the high quality of their raw honey. I've never been disappointed. They're just beekeepers in Ashland, they don't even have a retail storefront, they only sell the stuff online. He works the hives and she works the Website and mails stuff out. They're in a connected group of private beekeepers who have the same high standards of how they treat the honey and the hives. There's a local beekeeper here out in the county who I'd buy from, but he's a really small keeper and doesn't have much of a harvest each year. By the time you hear that he's harvested, it's all gone.
I've given
several of these as gifts and it's always a hit.
