On our final trip to the amish farm stand a few weeks ago before they close for winter, I picked out one more jar of monofloral honey: Starthistle. It has an amber color, and a sweet taste but with a very warm, mellow, creamy flavor. I don't know how to describe it at all, but I like it very much. It's my favorite of all the honeys so far.
We also brought home from that trip a batch of mix for making fried green tomatoes and I picked all the final Tomatoes off my plants (which have since been cut down and composted). It was pretty good. I didn't eat mine with honey- it makes the baby puke- but dipped my green tomatoes in ranch dressing. A. tried honey on his and said it was delicious with the Starthistle honey. Next year's end-of-tomatoes I'll give it a try myself.
My daughter was surprised the other day when I brought out all the special honeys for her to put on biscuits. She read all the labels and said "which one is the normal honey we get?" I said clover. She said "but we don't have any! You mean we only have speical honeys right now?"
That's right. And even though I can't eat them, I dip my finger in for just a taste every now and then.
I've never even heard of putting honey on fried green tomatoes!! I'll have to try that :) I'm so with you on honey..I love it so much and I really think it's such an amazing food. I love bees so damn much! I found a really fantastic local honey here in New Orleans from a guy who raises his own bees. It's not processed and it's completely raw…I should totally send you a jar!!
ReplyDeleteThat would be fantastic- except I can't eat much honey until I wean the baby. It makes her tummy sick :( I haven't forgotten I promised to send you some garden seed! Will get to that soon, no fear.
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