Oh Honeycomb

With the eldest gone for the weekend, 'daddy and the girls' went on adventure after adventure.  Saturday entailed three local festivals filled with cardboard swords, enchanted forests, brass bands, food trucks, local brews (of the yeast and root kind), and an evening of crawfish, meatballs, and Bannock with honey butter.  

Sunday was restful....in that we only did some catch up grocery shopping, checked on our two gardens, and went to the farmer's market.  And that brings me to what I want to share--honeycomb.  Ever tried it?  The actual comb. 

First let me say that buying real local honey is amazing.  It's nothing like the kind that you find at generic grocery store X from some generic company Y--that quite possibly imports it from China.  And I have heard that it is better to use honey with children (obviously over the age of 1) that comes from local beekeepers as the bees have been in contact with local vegetation which is something that the young persons body is 'used to'. 

So back to the market. We needed some honey to sweeten the rhubarb that our 6 year old wanted (rhubarb in August you say?  I know, I was skeptical too.) The woman at the honey stand asked if we had ever tried honeycomb.  We had not, and needed some guidance. 

So last night we gave it a whirl.  A water cracker, blue cheese, and a small 'slice' of honeycomb.  My 'dear' was a little iffy, seeing as he is not so big on sweets (for shame) I wasn't surprised. So I made him another one heavier on the blue which he found much more satisfying.  

It is pretty amazing how much honey is actually in there!  It looks so solid, and is very dense and heavy.  And when you slice off just a small piece, the honey just oozes out. Sweet oozing honey.  So good.

He also mentioned that there was no loss in texture when eating honeycomb, which I agree-but enjoy.  We then tried it with goat cheese which was yummy too.  

Then breakfast came and it was placed on peanut butter toast much to my delight.

The little ladies and I even stopped for a donut while out and about and I might have smeared a bit on a plain donut when we got home.

Now I might just have to look up a recipe for bannock because that was really yummy too--and I can use more honey.