If you are new here, you may not know that one of our Savorists, Monica King, is a third generation bee keeper. If you have been following us for a while, then you know that two of us Savorists put together a book about using honey – in new and savory ways! (keep reading)
Not Our First Post on Using Honey
There are numerous ways to savor this wonderful work of the bees in cooking and meal preparation, not to mention creating alcoholic beverages, like mead (honey wine).
Here are some of our posts on the topic (blue is on this site, red is on our YouTube channel)
One Minute Muffins (OMM) – which use flour from mesquite beans.
Red Rind Steak – a smoked delight by Uncle Smokey
Lavender Infused Honey – on our website
Desert Lavender Infused Honey – on our YouTube
Roots & Fruits Salad using tasty, crunchy jicama and other local produce.
Savory Honey Marinade – from Uncle Smokey
Chia Honey Pudding – from beekeeper Monica King
Apples and Honey Salad – for Rosh HaShanah, and great tor traditional Thanksgiving too!
Dulsis Coccora – a centuries old treat made modern
and a History of Honey that goes back 8000 years
Make Alegría – a treat for Day of the Dead
Croatian Honey Plum Pie – to celebrate the plum harvest
Meet the Savorists in Person
Autumn is approaching! This means both Monica and Jacqueline will be making more public appearances – Monica at Farmers Markets, and Jacqueline returns to Pima County Libraries with a number of free lectures, and several in the Greater Phoenix area.
TOG Fall Festival
Both Monica and Jacqueline will bee at the Tucson Organic Gardeners (TOG) Fall Festival on Saturday 3 November 2024. (8:30 – 2:00 = new longer hours!). Jacqueline will be selling her books, honey, and some honey bee products. Monica will be talking about bees, beekeeping, and the Southern Arizona Beekeepers. Be sure to stop by! Monica plans to have a glassed in hive so you can see honey bees at work. Jacqueline will once again share seeds of plants grown in her garden – like the unique devils claw.
Where Else and When?
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The Honey Cookbook
We have this great little cookbook (IMHO) for sale when we are out there making our public appearances. Since there is already Christmas things in some stores – I will add this – our little cookbook is priced low enough to make a nice stocking stuffer! If you go to the book sale site and want to order more than one copy – just click on the “Special Orders” tab.
Using Honey in New and Savory Ways offers 36 pages of tips for using honey in your cooking, as well as in all manner of dishes.
We hope you will help support some local Southwest folks!
From the review:
“Honey is for more than desserts – and this book can help! Using honey in cooking savory dishes helps engage all your taste buds and adds a layer of added flavor to everyday dishes – plus holiday fare.”
Beekeeper? We offer volume discounts – because if you sell in local markets you might want to offer some of these books as well.
Celebrate September
Even if you never eat honey, you should celebrate National Honey Month because you reap the rewards of the bees hard work. USDA reports that roughly one third of our daily diet relies on honey bees. If you are a “meat-atarian,” you still benefit – the bees pollinate the crops that meat animals eat.
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