Why do bees hold each others feet when they sleep?
Why do bees hold each others feet when they sleep?
....the answer, a recipe, and more on honey....
Why do bees hold each others feet when they sleep? I am told to stop them from falling off the flower or off the honeycomb.
Is this the cutest picture you have ever seen???? Love.
And I love honey. Honey is everywhere around my village in France, at all the farmers’ markets, and all locally harvested. The French are wild about their honey. My favorite place to buy it is just down the road or at the open air market in St. Tropez because the farmers from way inland come to the market with the few jars that they harvest and they are all different depending on the wild flowers grown around their hives.
Here in the Hamptons, we are blessed to have delicious local honey from Bonac Bees and raw and unfiltered from Sag Harbor Honey. Bonac Bees honey can be shipped free from Montauk to Southampton if you can’t easily find it in stores, and Sag Harbor Honey is usually found at our farmers’ markets and stores.
To give you an advance peek at my new cookbook (all about making condiments at home) coming out in the Fall (Sauce up your Boards), here is a recipe from the cookbook for Hot Honey. I drizzle it on almost everything, stir a bit into sauces and dressings, and rub it over a chicken before roasting.
Easy Homemade Hot Honey
Makes 1 cup
Ingredients:
1 fresh red Fresno chili pepper
1 cup honey
1/8 teaspoon fine sea salt
Directions:
Use rubber or disposable gloves to slice the pepper into strips, keeping the seeds, and transfer all to a medium saucepan.
Wipe out a mesuring cup with oil to make it easier to dispense the honey, then pour honey into the measuring cup. Pour the honey into the saucepan with the peppers and salt and stir over medium high heat while pressing down on the peppers to release their juice and seeds into the honey. When it just barely comes to a simmer, immediately take off the heat and allow to infuse for 30 minutes.
Taste and if to “hot” for you, drizzle in more honey until it reaches your desired level of heat. If you want more heat, add a dash of cayenne pepper. Add more salt if you wish. Pour into a clean jar or squeeze bottle and enjoy. You can strain out the chilis and red pepper strips, but I keep them in my honey.
I also drizzle hot honey over the following recipe for crispy fried eggplant. To die for.
Spanish Crispy Fried Eggplant with Honey (berenjenas con miel) recipe adapted from spanishsabores.com
Savory and sweet, these crispy eggplant batons are popular tapas in the Andalusia region of Spain. Sometimes drizzled with molasses, or golden honey, I like to drizzle mine with hot honey or a dark strong buckwheat honey.
Ingredients:
2-3 small eggplants, cut into batons about 1/4 inch thick
milk to cover
1 tablespoon salt
2 teaspoons pepper
flour to coat, seasoned with salt and pepper
olive oil for frying, about 2 inches
sea salt flakes for garnishing
honey to drizzle on top
Directions:
In a large bowl, whisk together the milk, salt and pepper then drop in the eggplant batons and soak them for an hour.
Put enough flour to coat the batons in a large plate. Drain the eggplant then dredge them in the flour.
Heat the oil until very hot, then fry the eggplant batons. Remove when golden and drain on paper towels. Transfer to a serving plate, liberally sprinkle with sea salt flakes, then drizzle with honey and serve.
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