It will come as no surprise, but we eat a lot of honey! Here are some of our favorite ways to eat raw organic honey:

In Tea: Our artisanal honey varietals pair beautifully as follows: Lehua with green tea; Wilelaiki with chai, and Macadamia blossom with herbal teas.

With Breakfast: Put honey on pancakes, waffles, cornbread, muffins and toast.

As a fish marinade: Mix with soy sauce and hot spices and marinate for a few minutes.

To baste a Roasted Chicken: Baste a roasting chicken with honey, butter, lemon and soy sauce.

As a dressing: Simply mix any of our raw honeys with vinegar, oil and herbs…and pour over your favorite salad. Or simply drizzle it over a green salad with crumpled blue cheese.

Spooned straight from the jar. There are few things as luscious as artisanal single-floral honey! Be careful…it’s addictive!

On Fruit Salad: Mix organic honey with lime juice and pour over a fruit salad.

For baking: Use honey to replace sugar in most recipes…just slightly reduce other liquids.

To fight a cold: Mix hot water, honey, lemon and/or fresh ginger for a great pick-me-up.

To promote sleep: As a child, Whendi’s mother always served her hot milk and honey to help her sleep. Try it with your family.



Tiffany’s Spicy Fish Rub
(excellent on ahi or salmon)
1 Tablespoon wasabi paste
1 teaspoon freshly grated ginger
¼ cup organic Wilelaiki honey
¾ cup soy sauce

Mix all ingredients. Marinate fish for several minutes. Put fish on grill and baste with remaining marinade while grilling.

Exotic Fruit Salad
1 mango
2 small bananas
8 litchis
2 passionfruit
8 Tablespoons Greek or strained yogurt
4 teaspoons Macadamia nut honey
½ cup chopped roasted macadamia nuts

Peel and slice the mango and bananas. Peel and quarter the litchis. Scoop out flesh from the passionfruit. Mix the fruit together and divide between 4 custard cups. Top the fruit in each cup with a Tablespoon of macadamia nut honey and sprinkle with the chopped nuts. Serve.

Baked Honeyed Squash
1 pound butternut squash
1 oz. salted butter
1 Tablespoon organic Lehua honey (slightly warmed)
½ teaspoon chopped fresh rosemary or ¼ tsp. dried

Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.

Cut the squash in rounds and then cut each round in half to make semi circles. Remove seeds. Place the squash in a bowl with the warmed honey and toss to coat.

Arrange the squash in overlapping rows in a shallow baking dish. Drizzle the squash with the leftover honey. Dot the squash with butter and then sprinkle with rosemary. Bake in the oven for 30 minutes until golden brown and caramelized.

Ambrosia
8 oranges
1 lemon
2 Tablespoons Macadamia Blossom Honey
Grated unsweetened coconut or chopped nuts for garnish

Cut peel from 6 oranges, being careful to remove all the pith. Slice the oranges into a bowl.

Cut the peel off of 6 oranges with a sharp knife being careful to remove all the pith. Remove the orange segments from their casing, and put into a serving bowl with the juice of the remaining oranges and the lemon. Toss gently to mix, and serve garnished with coconut or chopped nuts.

Adding sliced banana or fresh pineapple is delicious too!

Whendi’s Honey Cake
½ cup butter
¾ cup sugar
1 generous cup Macadamia Nut Honey
3 eggs
1 cup dark, strong, warm coffee (Whendi uses Kona)
3 cup flour
3 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 teaspoon cinnamon
2 teaspoon dried ginger
½ teaspoon nutmeg
½ teaspoon cloves
½ teaspoon allspice
½ cup Macadamia nuts, chopped
½ cup candied ginger, diced

Cream butter and sugar together. Add honey and eggs, and mix well. Sift dry ingredients together and add to butter/sugar mixture alternately with coffee. Fold in candied ginger and nuts, and pour into greased 10-inch bundt pan or two greased loaf pans. Bake at 350 for 50-60 minutes.

Honey Nut Tart

Pate Brisee for a 9-inch tart pan.
2 cups macadamia nuts
4 oz. unsalted butter
¼ cup Macadamia Blossom honey
½ cup sugar

Roll out pastry, place in 9-inch pan and chill for 30 minutes. Blind bake pastry shell for 10 minutes at 400 degrees and cool.

In a heavy saucepan, bring honey, sugar and butter to a boil. Remove from heat and stir in nuts. Spoon mixture into chilled tart shell. Bake in preheated 400 degree oven for approximately 20 minutes or until golden brown.

Banana-Macadamia Pancakes

2 cups unbleached all purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
½ teaspoon baking soda
1/3 cup sugar
Pinch of salt
1 teaspoon nutmeg, freshly grated
2 cups buttermilk
2 large eggs, lightly beaten
2 Tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
1 big handful sweetened shredded coconut
1 big handful macadamia nuts
Banana slices
Macadamia Nut Honey

In a large bowl mix together flour, baking powder, baking soda, sugar, salt, and nutmeg. Next, add buttermilk, eggs, butter, coconut, and macadamia nuts and stir until just combined. It’s okay if batter is a bit lumpy. Don’t overmix.

Heat your skillet or pan to medium-high heat and coat it with a bit of butter. If a drop of water dropped into the pan starts to dance, the skillet is hot enough.

Slowly pour about 2/3 cup of the batter onto the skillet. Place about 3 extra-thin slices of banana on top of the pancake batter as it is cooking. Wait until the pancake bottom is deep golden in color then flip with a spatula and cook the other side until golden and cooked through.

Top generously with Big Island Bees Macadamia nut honey and serve.
-from 101 Cookbooks, by Heidi Swanson

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