honey
So I was looking up recipes to bake muffins today. There is a surprising diversity as to what ingredients go into a muffin. Some use butter, others shortening, others vegetable oil or even buttermilk. Since I don't have any butter in the fridge right now, I found a recipe with oil. But then there was another ingredient- "liquid sweetener."
WTF, I thought. I know white sugar is bad for you, but I do have brown sugar and I didn't really feel like taking another trip to Publix to buy pure maple syrup or one of those other alternative sweeteners favored by vegans and hippies. I want my food to be good for me, but I also don't want to spend $10 on ingredients for freaking muffins. So I finally found out (thanks, Google) how to substitute honey for brown sugar when baking. And then I found this article, which I thought was great.
Honey Article
All the way at the bottom, it explains what creamy honey is. I always kind of wondered what was in it. I thought it was magic crystals from the honey elves or something. Whatever, creamy honey was my favorite spreadable (whatever you can put on a baguette is what I'll eat for breakfast, that was my motto) when I was in France. The only time I have seen it in the U.S. was that time when Taylor and I found it at the farmer's market in Raleigh. That was a happy day. I only hope that creamy honey becomes more available in the U.S. as people realize how delicious it is.
(By the way, yes I just wrote a whole entry on muffins and honey. I am a food nerd, so anyone who has a problem with that needs to deal with it. Very good then.)
WTF, I thought. I know white sugar is bad for you, but I do have brown sugar and I didn't really feel like taking another trip to Publix to buy pure maple syrup or one of those other alternative sweeteners favored by vegans and hippies. I want my food to be good for me, but I also don't want to spend $10 on ingredients for freaking muffins. So I finally found out (thanks, Google) how to substitute honey for brown sugar when baking. And then I found this article, which I thought was great.
Honey Article
All the way at the bottom, it explains what creamy honey is. I always kind of wondered what was in it. I thought it was magic crystals from the honey elves or something. Whatever, creamy honey was my favorite spreadable (whatever you can put on a baguette is what I'll eat for breakfast, that was my motto) when I was in France. The only time I have seen it in the U.S. was that time when Taylor and I found it at the farmer's market in Raleigh. That was a happy day. I only hope that creamy honey becomes more available in the U.S. as people realize how delicious it is.
(By the way, yes I just wrote a whole entry on muffins and honey. I am a food nerd, so anyone who has a problem with that needs to deal with it. Very good then.)