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The Wonderful World of Honey
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Today we want to welcome you to the Wonderful World of Honey. It really is Mother Nature’s golden gift to us. It sweetens our food, has a variety of culinary uses, and even has medicinal properties. For thousands of years, people have enjoyed this natural super food, Honey is sweet and healthy, which is a perfect combination. Join us today and discover lots of new ideas to sweeten up your life.
How to Substitute Liquid Sweeteners in Baking
Some Important Facts About Honey
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Caramelized Honey Chocolate Chip Cookies
With rich golden honey flavor and crunchy pecans
Caramelized Honey Chocolate Chip Cookies
About the Recipe: Cookies are shaped like little chocolate chip puffs that are topped with rich caramelized honey and chunky pecans. The orange blossom honey creates a delightful flavor that is perfect as a sweet snack or to serve with your favorite warm beverage.
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Honey Bee Bake Chicken Casserole
Think chili spiked chicken & BBQ beans topped with honey butter
Honey Bee Baked Chicken Casserole
About the Recipe: Barbecue flavored beans with chunks of chili-spiced chicken and some kitchen cut green beans burst with flavor. Encircled with easy-to-make cornbread topping, covered with melting honey butter. Oh Yum! It’s so delicious and easy to make too.
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Honey Drizzled Bruschetta
Perfect for Party Appetizers
Honey Drizzled Bruschetta
About this Classic Appetizer:
One of the most popular appetizers is the classic pick, crispy bite-sized crostini. In Italian, they are known as little toasts. It is easy to see why everyone loves them with their endless flavor possibilities, drink pairing, and easy preparation. Simply start with toasted seasoned baguette slices and then choose a few of these topping combinations for sips and bites that are sure to impress.
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Bee Keeper at The Farm at Prophetstown
Bee Keeping at The Farm at Prophetstown
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Bees Doing Their Work Entering a Hive at the Farm
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Dave Sattler – Bee Keeper Lecturing Interested Participants at the Farm
Dave Sattler – Bee Keeper Extraordinaire – Interview
Dave Sattler – Retired Cartoonist from Journal & Courier Newspaper – Lafayette, Indiana
Honey Filled Hive Frame on Display for Tasting
Bee at Work in the Wild Doing its thing.
How many kinds of honey are there?
There are more than 300 varietals, each with defining characteristics of the flower from which it was harvested. Thus, honey is native to different parts of the country, as are the plants from which it’s created.
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Honey Coconut Panna Cotta Cream
Gorgeous to serve with fresh fruit and comb honey bits
Honey Coconut Panna Cotta Cream
About the Recipe: This dessert, a creamy cousin of panna cotta, features a delicious caramel honey and vanilla bean flavor that tastes a little like a sweet toasted marshmallow. Adding the fresh berries with cream is always something special but the comb honey pieces adds an elegant touch.
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Orange Blossom Honey Pecan Chicken Salad
With Burnt Honey Vinaigrette
Orange Blossom Honey Pecan Chicken Salad
About the Recipe: Baby spring greens are tossed with garden fresh beet microgreens and enhanced with chopped red onion and juicy orange segments. A caramelized orange honey vinaigrette, covering the salad greens and drizzled over the honey pecan chicken slices, adds a new sweet-tart flavor to this summer salad.
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Spicy Tomato Honey Bread
Quick one-rise vegetable sandwich bread
Spicy Tomato Honey Bread
About the Recipe: This recipe is a great sandwich bread with a sweet tomato flavor and is lightly spiced. It’s dotted with cilantro, bacon pieces, and onions. The bread is so easy to make in a mixer and needs only one rising. The golden bread is topped with sunflower seeds and perfect to use for those picnic lunches.
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Sweet and Sour Coleslaw
Covered with a delightful tahini honey dressing
Sweet & Sour Coleslaw
About the Recipe: This tahini honey dressing coats the slaw and eliminates the usual drips of soupy slaw dressings. The hot spiciness is controlled by using a mild or hot pepper relish. It can be used as a side dish or added to your favorite sandwich.
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Red Hot Black Bean Burger Dogs
Add all the trimmings- like mustard, tomatoes, lettuce, pickles.
Red Hot Black Bean Burger Dogs
About the Recipe: It’s a healthy way to have hot dogs. Full of flavor black beans are mixed with sautéed onions, mushrooms, and enhanced with the most nutritious additions. Placed on whole wheat hot dog buns covered with crisp lettuce, the “dogs” are smothered with a simple red pepper relish sauce and garnished with mustard, pickles, and even tomatoes. What a great way to stay healthy!
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Sweet & Hot Marinated Mushrooms
Asian flavored mushrooms make a perfect salad or side dish
Sweet & Hot Marinated Mushrooms
About the Recipe: White button or Bella mushrooms are perfect to use with this Asian flavored sweet/sour sauce, which has a touch of peppery heat. Serve these tasty mushrooms as a side dish, salad, or tuck them into your favorite sandwiches.
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Rainbow Ribbon Carrot Salad
Crisp Carrot Strips with a Touch of Honey
Rainbow Ribbon Carrot Salad
About the Recipe: Fresh young carrots ablaze in a rainbow of colors easily create an attractive salad to serve for lunch or dinner. Use fresh carrot leaves to flavor and garnish the finished salad. The longer carrot strips are perfect to add to sandwiches while a quick snip with scissors creates smaller ribbons for easier eating.
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Umami Savory Snack Crackers
Meet a new healthy food friend, Nutritional Yeast.
Umami Savory Snack Crackers
About the Recipe: It you want a cracker that has a light cheesy flavor, these are for you. They use nutritional yeast, which provides the flavor and umami taste. Watch out because they might become addictive!
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Farm Fresh Beet Salad with Honey Mustard Dressing
Mixed with healthy fresh beet microgreens
Farm Fresh Beet Salad with Honey Mustard Dressing
About the Recipe: The combination of fresh garden beets, crunchy spiced pecans, creamy cheese crumbles, and beet microgreens are delicious coated with an orange blossom honey mustard dressing. The beautiful shades of red, pink, and green almost seem iridescent as they blend together in this attractive summer salad.
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Italian Honey Raisin Anise Bread
Easy to mix old fashioned bread
Italian Honey Raisin Anise Bread
About the Recipe: This artisan Italian inspired anise bread is sweetened with raisins and topped with an attractive delicious honey glaze with sliced almonds. It’s easy to make and delicious as a snack or breakfast bread.
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Sweet Almond Sticky Honey Cake
Drenched in orange blossom honey & topped with salted smoked almonds
Sweet Almond Sticky Honey Cake
About the Recipe: Be prepared for one of the sweetest cakes, filled with lots of honey. We added some citrus notes and salted smoked almonds as a contrast to the sweet flavors. Serve in small slices with some fresh berries and yogurt or whipped cream. It’s Bee Sweet!
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