Another week of One Local Summer! Still a little behind, but this was honestly cooked and consumed during week 7, I’m just a lazyass blogger. Oops. So anyway, we’re beekeepers, and this past week I robbed the hives and extracted about 30 lbs of honey from one hive which is pretty damn awesome for our first actual honey ‘harvest’ from the hives! I was trying to figure out a way to incorporate that into the meal since honey from the beehives in your backyard is about as local as it can get when I stumbled across some recipes for honey ginger chicken. Ginger falls under the allowable-spice-exemption clause to One Local Summer since it was used sparingly and isn’t a main feature of the meal. The chicken was cooked with garlic scapes and set next to some roasted broccoli. Then there’s a well overfilled bowl of salad greens, splashed with a little olive oil and balsamic vinegar. Not bad! I think next time, instead of cooking the chicken in a pan, I may toss that in the oven whole, then coat with the sauce and set under the broiler for a few minutes to allow the honey to caramelize a little. The flavor didn’t come out quite as much as I had hoped, but it was still delicious!
Ingredients:
Garlic Scapes North Star Orchard
Broccoli – North Star Orchard
Chicken – Deep Roots Valley Farm
Lettuce – Charlestown Farm
Honey – Our Beehives
Non Local – Salt, Pepper, Ginger, Olive oil, Balsamic vinegar