honey...

Yesterday I showed you my new houseguests and asked you your favorite way to eat honey.  I did not, however, reveal our favorite way to eat honey.  I know you were filled with curiosity.  Did you lie awake last night pondering "what is Jeanette's favorite way to eat honey"?  "Why didn't she tell us"?  "Why are the hot air hand dryers in public restrooms placed so high that you have to reach up to dry your hands, causing the water to run down your arms"?  Oh, sorry, that's something I lay awake and ponder.   Seriously though, right?  Am I the only person who this bugs?  Okay, back to the the honey.

Sleep is an important part of good health and I want you to be healthy, so to save you from another restless night, I'm going to reveal the big mystery.  You will sleep well tonight knowing this... 

That image is it for me.  I like to drizzle it on my yogurt.  That wasn't very exciting was it?  Don't know why you lost so much sleep over it in the first place.

Andrew Henry, now he's exciting, and so is his favorite way to eat honey.  Do you know the joy of eating a Baked Apple Pancake?  The link to the recipe is very close to the one I make but I pour honey on the apples and around the edge of the pan before I pour the batter in - gives it a sweet cripsy crust.  I have made it with buckwheat flour (gluten-free for me), and while it doesn't rise to it's usually glorious mountain of airy goodness, it was nice.  I know there are probably gluten-free recipes that will get you close to the original, I'm just too lazy to look into it so I make this for AH and I eat a scrambled egg.  Truth hurts.

I made the pancake for AH's breakfast on Sunday - he always loves it...

You start with these...

progress to this...

  

  

and end up with this...

 

Delish no?  It could easily serve 4-6 people, or one Andrew Henry.

While I was making said pancake, I noticed my countertop.  I have a 16 foot counter in my kitchen and only about 1 foot of surface area to work on.  Do you know why?  I make and sell jewelry that's why.  I pick up bits and bobs everywhere and spread it out, let it "speak" to me.  I piece together things when I'm designing and I'm often in my kitchen - it has the biggest work area.  I cook around the jewelry...

 

See the vintage jacks?  Andrew Henry told me he HAS NEVER PLAYED JACKS!  I couldn't believe it.  So, after breakfast, I taught him how to play. 

There wasn't any room left on the counter, so we played on the floor.

Did you play jacks as a child?

the bees knees...

This photo is not here to give evidence of how our hard Phoenix water stains my poor fountain.  No, it is not.  This photo is a snapshot of our newest pets.  We have bees. 

For weeks now, there have been bands of bees drinking from our fountain.  Look at them over there.  That's just one little snippet of them.  Can you have a "snippet" of bees? 

From whence they come I do not know.  I watch them fly away out of my backyard, each one takes the exact same path, and then comes back again.  ALL. DAY. LONG.

In my infinite guessing wisdom, I've decided they must be building a hive somewhere and this obviously requires copious amounts of water.  I have never built a beehive so I don't know for sure, but when Andrew Henry was building this house, he required lots of water so it's a logical conclusion no?  It's also very hot in Phoenix, so there's that.

There are always, at the very least, 30-40 bees swarming and drinking and flying to and fro, every single day.  My dog, Jake, goes out and drinks from this fountain daily.  Yes, he has fresh clean water inside, but he prefers the fountain.  I do not understand all of the things of the dog.  The bees don't mind sharing with him and he doesn't seem bothererd with them either.

We're kind of obsessed with it.  We just stand here watching them in awe.  Bees are good and we feel our little fountain is helping our bee population somehow.  We need bees.  Bees are the bees knees.  Bees give us honey and flowers and Burt's Bees give us great lip balm, wait, that's not right....

"Bees work for man, and yet they never bruise Their Master's flower, but leave it having done, As fair as ever and as fit to use; So both the flower doth stay and honey run. " - George Herbert

Here's my question - what's you favorite way to eat honey?