Honey Recipes

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Yes we are a little crazy, but really how crazy is it to make the move away from processed sugars? We started thinking harder about our sugar consumption after reading Michael Pollan's book 'In Defense of Food'. Without entirely just consuming the same amount of sugar as honey we did want to move to more natural and unrefined sources of sweetness. Shawn woke up on Monday and decided that this was the week stop eating refined sugar.  So I pulled out an old 1970's booklet on cooking with honey to see what we could do for some sweetness. My father was a beekeeper in the late 70's and 80's, his hives were destroyed by mites and he gave up the hobby. At one point in my childhood we had a wooden sign hanging from a pole in front of our house that said "Honey for Sale", and a huge store of honey in the basement along with all the tools for extraction, which as you can image was my favorite part. I made the Honey Butter cookies form page 3 in the PDF and this morning we made Honey Cornmeal Muffins on page 7 of the PDF. Both are super tasty, which I believe will help this change stick. Here is a link to the PDF Cookbook "My Favorite Honey Recipes"
At this point we are still going over what we will allow for sugar/sweeteners and when and why. We are also keeping in mind that we should not just replace the sugar with honey, maple syrup, or any other sweeteners, but also reduce the amount of sweetness we consume in general. Since we have been working on different levels of this since January it is surprising to see what actually has sugar in it and just how sweet some things you assume are savory have in them. That's not even mentioning the fact that almost all packaged products have high fructose corn syrup, including Saltine crackers, which actually caught me off guard, and this is not even taking in consideration they also contain hydrogenated oils! 
So why not try to eat more honey and less sugar and maybe even less sweet stuff? We will see how it goes. 
 
 

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