Little critters I caught on camera last year when I visited an apiary.

These micro-recipes I penned were originally published on GoodEater.org (which has since undergone a facelift).

They’re the kind of recipes that are most useful for kitchen-retarded, time-strapped people like me – minimal equipment, dining-hall-able ingredients – more conceptual starting points than formulas.

If you’re a Bostonian looking for a local variety of honey to try, I highly recommend Mike Graney’s Eat Local Honey. I went through an entire jar in a week. Once you taste this stuff, it’s like the difference between Megan Fox on a magazine page and Megan Fox across the dinner table.

On second thought, maybe keep her on the magazine page.

Sweet deal - Mike Graney's Eat Local Honey

Local honey boasts flavors unique to the region it was produced in. Complexity like this deserves the simplest of treatments. Here are a few options.

1.      Stir into yogurt. Add granola. Inhale.

2.      Peanut butter and banana, on toast. Drizzle with honey. Sprinkle with sea salt.

3.      From the bottom up: bread, sliced apples, paper-thin sweet potato, aged cheddar, drizzle of honey, bread. Put in sandwich press. Consume.

4.      Alternatively: bread, sliced pear, toasted pine nut, gorgonzola dolce, drizzle of honey, bread. Press.

5.      Or: bread, cream cheese, toasted walnut, sliced apple, drizzle of honey. Press.

6.      Stir a teaspoon into two tablespoons of good, softened butter. Spread on toast. Or muffin. Or pancakes.

7.      Thick slice of gruyere on crusty sourdough, under the broiler until melted. Drizzle with honey. Eat with napkins

8.      Straight up, with cut fruit and croutons.

9.      Mix with equal parts water and a good squeeze of lemon juice, freeze into ice cubes. Suck.

10.  Gratuitously on top of breakfast cereal.

11.  Equal parts with dijon mustard. Serve with everything grilled. Or fried.

12.  In your tea and lemonade (or margaritas).

13.  Sesame honey dressing: one part cider vinegar, one part honey, sesame seeds, slowly whisk in three parts oil. Add a touch of some sesame oil. Serve with spring greens.

What do you like to do with your honey?

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