Blueberry Peach Sundaes

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While it's not technically summer then, I usually look at Memorial Day as the start of the summer season. The kids are wrapping up the school year, the pools are starting to open, and grill scents fill the air almost daily. People seem to be a bit happier once summer hits, and that's probably because it's the season where people are more inclined to get together for sun and fun and not because another holiday is rolling around silently forcing families into obligatory gatherings. The seasonal depression is lifting, we're getting more Vitamin D, and who doesn't love a little sun-kissed glow from more time spent outdoors? Since I know a lot of people will be kicking the season off this weekend with their loved ones, I really wanted to share a grilling recipe to coincide with the extended weekend. Alas, it has been too windy and cold here for outdoor cooking. However, the cold didn't stop me shifting gears from the grill to the freezer because you'll hardly ever see me turning down an ice creamy treat no matter the forecast. I was going to share these Blueberry Peach Sundaes (a Golden Blossom Honey recipe) with you around Independence Day, but the fruit and ice cream sales this week were too good to pass up, so we moved them up a bit. Which is okay in my book because it just gives you more time to enjoy this delicious dessert this summer. 

 

One of the best things about summer are the treats! This sundae incorporates 2 of my favorite fruits, blueberries and peaches, into the sauce and I must say that it is divine! A perfect fruit pairing if there ever was one. My daughter and I are guilty of making late night fast food runs for ice cream, but the last few times we've grabbed sundaes, we've noticed the portions are so much smaller than they used to be, but the prices are double. Needless to say, we decided we'd cut way back on our late night sweet treat excursions and have stocked the freezer with tubs of ice cream to make our own sundaes like these for a fraction of the cost. That way we can still indulge in tasty summer treats and have money leftover for other summer outings. Which for me means fruit picking, that then turns into coming home and turning my bounty into desserts like this sundae. It's a vicious cycle, but oh what a sweet one it is. 

 

Ingredients

1 cup orange juice

4 Tablespoons Grand Mariner

4 Tablespoons GOLDEN BLOSSOM HONEY

5 Tablespoons butter or margarine

3 peaches peeled and sliced

1 cup blueberries, fresh or frozen (if frozen, drain well)

1 pint frozen vanilla yogurt or ice cream

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What are your favorite sundae toppings or mix-ins?? 

Zucchini with Tomatoes

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I had to repot my aloe plant a few weeks ago because it was getting too big for its old container. I didn't have any soil on hand at the time, so I bought a cheap bag from the hardware store so I could hurry up and get the job done. Fast forward a few weeks... I went to water said aloe plant and noticed a weird, leggy looking stem growing in the pot along side it. I immediately get agitated, telling myself that's what I get for buying the cheap bag of soil, and pull the stem from the pot. I mean, who has time to weed indoor plants? Then, the scent hits me and I'm like "I recognize this scent. This is a tomato plant!" Just to confirm though, I pull up my plant identifying app and indeed, it said it was a tomato plant. What kind though is anybody's guess. Will it be little cherry tomatoes, beefsteak, roma? I don't know, but I planted it out in my garden with the other tomatoes and will keep an eye on it to see if it thrives and produces any fruit in a few weeks. The suspense will kill me before then, surely. I honestly feel like this is more of a post for the Dull Men's Club Facebook group, getting excited over the possibility of a free tomato plant! Almost like the suspense of getting a prize inside of the Crack Jack Box. Y'all, if this doesn't confirm that I have no life, I'm not sure what would LOL. With having tomatoes on the brain and in anticipation of my freebie plant blooming, I decided to lean towards this Zucchini with Tomatoes recipe from Golden Blossom Honey for this week's honey post share.  

This is a recipe that makes for a great summertime side dish, but it's also one that I would eat as a full meal on its own. It highlights some of summer's best produce- juicy tomatoes, zucchini, and basil plucked fresh from the garden. It's perfect for picnics, potlucks, or for a warm day lunch option when you need something light and refreshing to eat. My garden always produces more tomatoes and zucchini than I know what to do with, so if yours is the same, this is going to be the recipe you're going to want to turn to time and again for the next several months. And if you're also like me and share your excess bounty, print it out and include it with any gift baskets so your recipients can enjoy this dish as well. 

Ingredients

2 tablespoons olive oil

1 medium onion, thinly sliced

1/2 cup celery, sliced

1 large clove garlic, thinly sliced

3 medium zucchini, sliced 1/4-inch thick

5 large plum tomatoes, coarsely chopped

2 tablespoons GOLDEN BLOSSOM HONEY

1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar

2 tablespoons fresh basil, thinly sliced

salt and pepper to taste

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Have you ever found a surprise plant in your yard or planters? 

Grilled Chicken Sandwiches with Fresh Peach Relish

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The closer we inch towards June, the more excited I become for my favorite fruits to come into season. I love how you can use them in everything, from appetizers all the way through to dessert, so naturally we always have a fridge full of a variety of fruits in the house from May through September. I've been craving peach smoothies a lot these past few weeks, so I bought an abundance. The problem I ran into though, is I grew tired of peach smoothies, yet still had a few to use up before they were beyond saving. I thought about making peach muffins, but now that Jason's home full time for the summer, I decided I'd use my extras in this Grilled Chicken Sandwiches with Fresh Peach Relish recipe from Golden Blossom Honey for him for lunch this week.  

Now that we're about to kick off grilling season, this recipe is the perfect one to keep in your arsenal of summertime lunch and dinner ideas. It has a great mix of savory and sweet, with a bit of a peppery bite added in, and it is so simple to prepare, this could quickly become a summertime favorite recipe you'll turn to time and again for the next several months. My daughter is in her sandwich era, pretty much eating sandwiches daily lately. A self described Dash-Whore, if the girl could have Chick-Fil-A Door Dashed daily, I'm pretty sure she would. Alas, she's learning that adulting is a scam and is quite expensive, especially when you're a broke college girl on a budget. Now she has to find alternative chicken sandwich options that she can make at home, and save those restaurant options for special treats when she wants to splurge on herself. Since she's not keen on using the grill at home, the chicken in this recipe can be put in the broiler, so she can make this all on her own anytime the chicken sandwich craving hits. It's so much cheaper and healthier than those fast food chicken sandwiches, and is gourmet enough to pass as restaurant quality, and that makes makes this whole recipe just peachy in my book.

Ingredients

Relish:

1 tablespoon olive oil

2 large onions (about 2 cups), peeled, halved and sliced

1/4 cup GOLDEN BLOSSOM HONEY

2 fresh peaches, peeled and chopped

1/3 cup apple cider vinegar

1/3 cup dry sherry

1/4 teaspoon coarse ground black pepper

salt to taste

Chicken:

2 whole chicken breasts, halved, skinned and boned

2 teaspoons olive oil

salt and pepper to taste

4 crusty rolls cut in half

romaine lettuce leaves

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Have you fired up your grill yet this year? 

Spinach Salad with Creamy Bacon Dressing

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It's been one of those weeks that if it could break, it most certainly did. The refrigerator was the last in a long string of broken things around here and it was a mad rush to salvage what we could. We just purchased a carton of eggs and with the cost of them these days, there was no way I was going to toss them without a fight. Thankfully, because I had planned on having salads for lunch this week with the warmer weather hitting us, I had also purchased a bag of fresh spinach and a pack of bacon on my last grocery run. So after a quick, panicky scroll through Golden Blossom Honey, because time was of the essence here, I was relieved to find this Spinach Salad with Creamy Bacon Dressing to make good use of the produce that was otherwise going to head straight to the trash.

 

This simple salad may be light on the ingredients, but it's heavy on the flavor! I've always been a big fan of homemade dressings over store bought, or even just using a little balsamic vinegar or even a squirt of lemon over my greens, so it was fun finding a new way to prepare dressing. While this one is a little heavier than what I'm used to because of the mayo, my husband loved it. He's never been a big salad fan, so anything that keeps him from complaining about the greens on his plate deserves praise in my book! This recipe will be good to keep on hand throughout the summer months. Toss in some of your own home grown produce once those gardens start blooming with fresh veggies too. I am so looking forward to slicing up my cucumbers and tomatoes in a few months to add to recipes like this. The dressing will pair well with so many other veggies, you could change out your produce daily and still feel like you're having a fresh recipe every time.

Ingredients

Dressing:

1/2 cup mayonnaise, regular or light

2 tablespoons GOLDEN BLOSSOM HONEY

2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar

4 bacon slices, cooked crisp and crumbled

Salad:

1 (9-ounce) package baby spinach leaves

1/4 cup red onion, thinly sliced

4 eggs, hard-boiled and sliced

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Have you also had costly repairs around the house lately? 

Pancake Puff with Fresh Berries

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It is finally starting to feel like spring in the Midwest, hurrah! All of the flowering trees in my neighborhood decided to bloom seemingly overnight and the world is back in color. When the tulips, daffodils, and hyacinths pop up, I make a mental note that I need to hurry up and hit our local nursery before Mother's Day rolls around and all of the good flats of flowers and hanging baskets have been scooped up. I always get both of our moms a few hanging baskets of flowers for Mother's Day, but for myself I always preferred when the family would bring me breakfast in bed over other tangible gifts.  For someone who made all of the meals and had to deal with kitchen cleanup daily, it was always nice to have the tables turned. So as I was scrolling through Golden Blossom Honey's recipes recently, I came upon this Pancake Puff with Fresh Berries recipe that I thought would make for a really lovely surprise for mom on her special day. 

This is a one-pan recipe that is super easy to prepare, so with minimal help, even the littles can pitch in to bake up this special breakfast for mom. While it does say pancake in the title, this does not have the same texture as your traditional pancake. It's a lot more dense and chewy, which I absolutely loved since I'm not an overly huge fan of pancakes that always seem too bready. Served with sweet berries and a dollop of whipped cream, and a cup of her favorite tea or coffee, this is a breakfast truly worthy of honoring mom for all of the sacrifices she makes for her family every day. 

Ingredients

Pancake:

2 tablespoons butter

6 eggs

3 ounces cream cheese, softened

1 cup milk

3 tablespoons GOLDEN BLOSSOM HONEY

1 cup flour

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon baking powder

Berries:

2 cups fresh berries (sliced strawberries, blueberries or raspberries)

2 tablespoons GOLDEN BLOSSOM HONEY

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When do you usually make your first trip of the season to the local greenhouse? 

Toasted Oatmeal Carrot Cookies

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I posted a lovely recipe last week for Passover, but I couldn't let the month go by without sharing something sweet for Easter as well. I usually take my own version of Reese's Peanut Butter Eggs to the family dinner, but ever since I stuffed peanut butter balls with  brussel sprouts for an April Fool's prank a few years back when Easter fell on April 1, the family hasn't been too keen on my peanut butter desserts. Hilarious at the time, but now I'm left searching for new recipes every year to pop on the dessert table. (Truth be told, I'd do it all over again because I still giggle thinking about how mad they were at the prank lol). I can never go wrong with my soft batch chocolate chip cookies because that's my #1 most requested dessert (you can find that recipe in the search bar to the right), but I just made those for my mil's birthday and wanted to contribute something more suited for the Easter/spring season and ultimately decided that I'll be taking Toasted Oatmeal Carrot Cookies, a Golden Blossom Honey recipe, this year. 

While I'll never turn away any cookie, I am more prone to reach for a soft baked cookie over a crisp one, so these immediately piqued my interest. I love a good carrot cake, but have never had carrot cookies before, so I was eager to give these a try. They had a perfect blend of sweet and warm flavors and indeed baked up soft and chewy, moving them to the top of my favorite springtime cookie recipes. I wouldn't go as far as calling them healthy, because a cookie is still a cookie after all, but with the oats, raisins, and carrots, we could call this a breakfast cookie, and since breakfast is the most important meal of the day, that makes these cookies a great way to start the day, no? Don't rain on my parade and answer that. Just let me live my life, one breakfast cookie at a time. 

Ingredients

1 1/2 cups dry oats (not instant)

3/4 cup raisins

1 1/2 cups flour

1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 egg

1 egg white

2/3 cup brown sugar

1/2 cup GOLDEN BLOSSOM HONEY

1/3 cup vegetable oil

1/4 cup prune pie filling

2 tablespoons vanilla

1 cup grated carrot

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Do you prefer crispy or chewy cookies?