Smoked Honey

Smoked honey is ridiculous good, with a deep grilled sticky sweet flavor that is perfect to use to glaze a ham or salmon, as an ingredient to pump up your smoky barbecue sauce (mmm ribs!), in a sweet and smoky vinaigrette or as a condiment, drizzled over fried chicken, pears or even ice cream. Endlessly useful, use it whenever you would use honey but want a little touch of outdoor smokeiness. If you have a smoker, you can probably smoke the honey that way, or if you are feel like a shortcut, you can probably just mix in some liquid smoke to any honey but I’m not a fan of liquid smoke. It comes across as chemically tasting to me (though perhaps I just haven’t tasted the right brand). Since I don’t have a smoker, I opted to tea smoke the honey, like I did with my tea-smoked shrimp, using rice, black tea and brown sugar. Just make sure you have your windows open or the hood over your stove is turned on when you make this. Otherwise you’re fire alarm is liable to go off!