Ohio State Beekeepers Association http://www.ohiostatebeekeepers.org Wed, 22 May 2013 17:26:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Toss-It Together Broccoli Salad http://www.ohiostatebeekeepers.org/2013/recipes/toss-it-together-broccoli-salad/ http://www.ohiostatebeekeepers.org/2013/recipes/toss-it-together-broccoli-salad/#comments Wed, 22 May 2013 17:26:18 +0000 webmaster http://www.ohiostatebeekeepers.org/?p=2123 more »]]>
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Toss-It Together Broccoli Salad
Recipe type: Salad
 
Ingredients
  • 5 slices cooked bacon, crumbled
  • 1 head broccoli
  • ½ c. raisins
  • ½ c. shredded carrots
  • 3 T. cider vinegar
  • ¼ c. honey
  • ⅓ c. mayo
Instructions
  1. Cut the head of broccoli into small florets.
  2. Cut up the stems into ¼ inch slices.
  3. Place in a lidded bowl along with the crumbled bacon, raisins and carrots.
  4. Mix together cider vinegar, honey and mayo.
  5. Pour over salad. Mix.
  6. Cover and put in fridge until ready to eat (although its really tasty straight from the bowl!)
Notes
You could also add a bit of blue cheese or feta for a bit more protein.

 

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Honey Rice Bars
Recipe type: Dessert
 
Ingredients
  • 6 oz. semi-sweet chocolate chips (I sometimes mix in milk chocolate chips)
  • ⅓ c. honey
  • 1 T. water
  • 1 t. vanilla
  • 3 cups rice cereal (the crispie kind…I like Erewhorn)
Instructions
  1. Place cereal in a large mixing bowl.
  2. Lightly coat an 8x8x2 pan with cooking spray.
  3. Combine chips, honey, water and vanilla and over low heat in a saucepan. Stir until chips are melted and mix is smooth.
  4. Pour honey mixture over cereal. Mix.
  5. Press into prepared pan.
  6. Cool.
  7. Cut into squares.
Notes
A variation of the rice crispy treat using honey instead of marsh mallows.

 

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Buzzy Shrimp
Cook time: 
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Ingredients
  • ¼ c. HONEY
  • 3 T. olive oil
  • 1½ T. apricot jam (or pineapple)
  • ½ t. sriracha sauce ( or any hot sauce)…more if you lika hotta
  • 1 clove garlic, minced
  • 2 T. cider vinegar
  • 1 T. lemon juice
  • 2 apples, cored and cut into 8 slices (I like Granny Smith)
  • 1 red bell pepper, cut into 8 slices (you could also use green or yellow pepper for even more color)
  • 1 pound shrimp (21-26 size), peeled and deveined (I use the easy-peel deveined shrimp)
Instructions
  1. Mix honey, oil, jam, hot sauce, garlic, vinegar and lemon juice in a bowl.
  2. Place shrimp, apples and bell pepper in the marinade. Mix.
  3. Cover and refrigerate for at least 1 hour.
  4. Thread shrimp, apples and red bell pepper on metal skewers.
  5. Heat outdoor grill.
  6. Cook shrimp until opaque..depending on your grill, its about 5 minutes per side.
Notes
Excess marinade should be discarded.

 

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Honey Oatmeal Butterscotch Chocolate Chip Cookies
Recipe type: Dessert
Cook time: 
Total time: 
Serves: 20
 
Ingredients
  • 1 cake mix (Spice, my fave…or you could use Golden Butter)
  • 2 eggs
  • ⅓ c. honey
  • ⅓ c. oil
  • ¼ c. flour
  • ¾ c. oatmeal
  • ½ c. butterscotch chips
  • ½ c. chocolate chips
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350F.
  2. Grease a 9×13 pan
  3. Mix together eggs, honey and oil in a bowl.
  4. In a separate bowl stir together cake mix, flour and oatmeal.
  5. Add dry mix to honey mix. Blend.
  6. Add in chips (you could also throw in a handful of raisins).
  7. Spread mixture into prepared pan
  8. Bake for about 20 minutes, or until a cake tester comes out clean.
  9. Let cool.
  10. Cut into squares.
Notes
I usually don’t use mixes, just because. However, they do come in handy when there aren’t enough hours in the day, and the club needs people to bring refreshments. So this bar cookie was created, using lots of stuff from the pantry….and guess what….the plate was empty before the end of the refreshment break!

 

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Fast Honey Banana Bread
Recipe type: Bread
Cook time: 
Total time: 
 
Ingredients
  • 1 box Spice Cake Mix (you can use any flavor,but I used spice)
  • ½ c. oil
  • ½ c. HONEY
  • 3 eggs
  • ½ c. Half & Half
  • 1½ c. mashed bananas
Instructions
  1. Heat over to 350 F.
  2. Coat 2 loaf pans (8×4 )with cooking spray.
  3. Beat liquid ingredients together, then add cake mix. Make sure everything is well mixed.
  4. Pour into loaf pans.
  5. Bake for about 50-55 minutes, or until a cake tester comes out clean.
  6. Cool for 15 minutes.
  7. Remove from pans and let cool completely before eating the whole loaf!
Notes
Its fast, easy, uses up leftover fruit, and can be easily varied…aside from the fact that its delicious!

 

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Many Ohio beekeepers took the opportunity to open their hives during the warm weather on March 10th.  What some found seems to indicate that risk of loss is not yet over.  We’re hearing reports and chatter of very little or even no brood rearing in some colonies.  Speculation is that the drought of 2012, combined with a slow start to maple and willow bloom this year has led colonies to slow down or delay brood rearing.  The silver maples are finally starting to bloom (at least a few of them) but a quick check  of the ten day weather forecast for west central Ohio would seem to provide only one day, Friday, March 15th, for pollen foraging.

Colonies that slow brood rearing and are starved for protein and pollen in the spring are at high risk of collapse from spring dwindling.  The winter bees that have overwintered in cluster could expire before enough young bees can be raised to ensure replacement.  The colony passes the tipping point on bee population and falls away to nothing during the time a beekeeper would expect it to be exploding after having survived winter.  Even colonies that survive may exhibit delayed population growth this spring leading to problems with beekeepers that want to make splits or Nucs in late spring and summer.

Strategies to counter this year’s challenges are limited but straightforward.  Feed protein.  The bees need protein and need it fast.  The weather forecast might be wrong, but as it stands today the bees are going to have limited opportunities to forage on the maple and willow in March.  If you are fortunate enough to have frames of pollen in storage, you can add those frames now.  Protein / pollen substitute patties are another option.  Place them on the top bars where the bees can feed readily.  Protein flour placed in feeders near the bee yard work well on warm days, but if the weather has the bees clustered in the hive, it won’t get where it needs to be.  If they can’t get to the maples, they probably won’t get to your feeders.

Bottom line…  If you have access to supplemental protein, now might be an ideal time to feed.

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Butter Honey Cookies
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Recipe type: Dessert
 
A European style butter cookie, based on a cookie from a now-extinct bakery in NYC
Ingredients
  • 1 c butter
  • ½ c honey
  • 2 hardboiled egg yolks, crumbled
  • 2 raw egg yolks
  • 2½ c. flour
  • Juice and rind of ½ lemon
  • ¼ t. salt
  • 1 t. almond extract.
Instructions
  1. Cream butter.
  2. Blend in honey and yolks.
  3. Add lemon juice, rind and extract. Mix together salt and flour.
  4. Mix flour into butter mix.
  5. Chill for 2 hours.
  6. Roll out to ½ inch thickness.
  7. Cut out (I use a round cookie cutter).
  8. Place on ungreased cookie sheets. You can give it an egg-wash, or not.
  9. Bake at 375 for about 12 minutes. They should be lightly golden.
  10. Cool on rack.
Notes
Now, this is my favorite type of “cookie”…not too sweet, good for dunking, and quite addictive. Its a european style butter cookie, based on a cookie from a now-extinct bakery in NYC. My mom used to make these with sugar, but commented that the original recipe called for…..Honey! Amaze your friends with just how much honey can add to a recipe….. Make two batches–each with a different type of honey (sourwood vs. orange blossom), and check out the results

 

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