I was given a quart of wild honey harvested from Drip Rock a weekend or two ago. I swear it's the best honey I've ever eaten...tastes like golden rod, apple blossoms and clover...smells like the lazy-sounding drone of busy bees... runs golden like humid summer mornings.
In the back of my mind, I've been wondering how to combine those flavors. In a fruit salad, perhaps?
This morning inspiration came from out of the blue, and I decided to make pancakes.
I mixed some self-rising flour, a big tablespoon full of cold leftover oatmeal from another breakfast, a bit of yellow cornmeal, some baking powder and salt, an egg and some milk. I chopped about half a ripe pear and stirred that in, then I coated a griddle with coconut oil.
I spooned the batter out to fry, then sprinkled chopped black walnuts on the pancakes before I flipped them.
Ummm, they were good. And I didn't have to wonder anymore how the combination of pear, black walnut and honey would taste.
The flavors were sweetly earthy, grown from the same dirt I came from, and very satisfying.
I'm always fascinated (and impressed) by the abundance of produce that comes in at harvest time in the States. The places I've lived are not places where you see the where the food comes from. My parents apparently how have their own beehives and are collecting a lot of honey. I'm looking forward to visiting them soon (on the other side of the world)!
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