Any easy recipes with honey?

Easy and good. I had to learn to cook late in life. I used to ask shoppers in grocery stores for recipes. This one came from a lady who was browsing the meat counter next to me. I picked up a couple of pork blade steaks and asked her how she would cook them. This is what she said--it was so easy I didn't have to write it down:

Put the oven at 275* to 350*

Rinse the steaks and put them in a roasting pan with a cover. Mix a half cup of mustard and enough honey to make it gooey-- a couple of tablespoons. Smear the steaks with the honey mustard mixture. Slice a white onion into rings over the steaks. Add pepper and a bay leaf. Cover and bake until the pork is fall apart tender. Serve as sandwiches on big crusty rolls. This is so good that I once had to step between my son in law and oldest grandson because they were arguing over the last sandwich. Like Solomon, I sliced it in two--s6--s6

Salmon Glazed with Honey and Mustard
(I usually don't bother with the dill)

It doesn't use a great deal of honey...but it's good.

Friendly Frog said:

I've got a jar of honey for my birthday. Generally I only ever use honey in tea when the cold-season rears its ugly head but since this is a nice big jar, I think it's time for something more substantial. Except... I'm not much of a cook.

So does anyone have some dead-easy recipes for honey cookies or cakes, or anything else with honey?

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Oh, honey cake. A staple Rosh Hashana staple. This is a good recipe and really quite simple and forgiving. I'm only saying because you say you don't cook so much - the coffee is meant to be liquid, cold, black coffee, not grounds (I know someone made that error) and you can sub more coffee for the juice or booze or vice versa.

Tangy Pork Chops

3 to 4 pork chops
1/2 cup honey
1/4 cup Worcestershire sauce
1/4 cup ketchup

1. Preheat oven to 325. While oven is preheating, brown the chops.
2. Mix the honey, Worcestershire sauce and ketchup together until fully combined. Lay pork chops evenly in a baking dish and pour the honey mixture over them.
3. Cover and bake for 20 minutes. Remove cover and continue baking for 15 more minutes.
4. Serve, spooning extra sauce from the dish over the pork chops and enjoy!

A staple recipe at our house that everyone we've shared it with loves.

Whiskey. Honey to taste. Maybe a squeeze of lemon. Good cough syrup.

Unimportant said:

Thanks, cornflake! I do cook a lot but am suddenly on the hunt for honey recipes as well, since someone just gave me two kgs of honey!

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Holy bee poo, Batman!

You can also do stuff like honey-glazed spicy veg like carrots and/or sweet potatoes/parsnips/turnips/onions, etc. You boil cubed or sliced or whatevered pieces of said root veg, until nearly done (if you use pearl onions, boil - if you have a regular onion, just slice and skip the boiling part and put the slices in with the drained veg and proceed), then drain well and toss in a marinade of a bit of olive oil, some honey, and spices like cinnamon, clove, salt, little ground pepper, and roast in a hot oven, tossing once or twice OR toss the drained veg in a big frying pan with some butter, drizzle on some honey, sprinkle in the spices and toss around over a medium flame until they caramelize.

Winter squash, such as butternut or acorn, halved, seeds scooped out, cavity filled with honey, a bit of butter, and cinnamon. Baked or microwaved, both work very well. Baking at ~350, in a covered glass bowl, will take about 30 minutes, depending on size of squash. Microwaved, in covered glass bowl, about 10 minutes. Put a little water in the bowl, just to keep things a bit moist.

You can also use honey and cinnamon in a similar way with sweet potatoes, which I fix by cubing and steaming, but also can be microwaved.

caw

Kansans have been known to drizzle a little honey over a piece of crispy fried chicken. I don't, because I don't like fried food but people swear it is delicious--s6

shakeysix said:

Kansans have been known to drizzle a little honey over a piece of crispy fried chicken. I don't, because I don't like fried food but people swear it is delicious--s6

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I've used that with an Asian chicken recipe (which I mostly forget, except for the chicken, the honey, the soy sauce and the sesame seeds). I mean, just consider. Honey's a sweetener. It's a great replacement for sugar or *gag* high fructose corn syrup in pretty much any recipe.

As an aside, honey is also nature's best antiseptic. Use it on abrasions, minor burns, minor cuts, insect stings, plant contact irritation, etc. If you ever camp out, or hike in wild areas, carry some honey with you.

caw

My favorite recipe for good honey: Take a spoon, dip it in the honey. Done!

On a more serious note, search for honeycake recipes. There are lots of different varieties, but I've not yet found one that I don't like. Also, you can use honey in corn or barley bread, and it really accents the flavor.

I happened to go to Sam's Club the other day and bought some vanilla. On the back of the label was a recipe for a Vanilla Honey Ham glaze that sounded awesome.

2 pork tenderloins (about 1 pound each)
1/4 cup honey
2 tablespoons vinegar
1 teaspoon McCormick® Pure Vanilla Extract
1/2 teaspoon McCormick® Paprika
1/4 teaspoon McCormick® Mustard, Ground
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon McCormick® Black Pepper, Ground

good on apple slices

Nigella Lawson's Honeybee cake is amazing and uses a lot of honey. It's the single, most delicious, decadent chocolate you will ever have and it's actually really easy to make.

Her website doesn't tell you this but it does usually sink in the middle after baking It's still the ultimate chocolate cake. Oh my... I need to make it now.

A friend of mine used to brew mead with our local honey. One time he accidentally substituted champagne yeast for brandy yeast, and the resulting concoction was dubbed Thundermead by the SCA folks who drank it. Very smooth and deceptively strong. Brandy yeast makes something much gentler.

Ooh, I never thought about grilling 'em. Glad you liked it!

You can always make your own homemade dijon mustard, mix the honey in, and then you have hundreds of new ways to go with your honey use. Also, where is the honey from? If it is locally collected then you can use a teaspoon a day for pharmaceutical reasons to gain a better immunity from pollens in the air.