Laura Stec is a personal chef, chef instructor, green cuisine consultant, and communications professional living in the San Francisco Bay area. She focuses on cooking with high quality, organic products, and loves to highlight local, seasonal produce, and sustainably-raised meat and dairy. Her recent cookbook Cool Cuisine: Taking the bite out of global warming features many local ingredients.

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0 | Posted on May 26, 2011
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“Honey syrup makes for a truly satisfying, unique soda, and it is a perfect substitute for high fructose corn syrup in drinks.  Since honey is made in all fifty states, search out your local brands.  Makes 4 glasses.”

INGREDIENTS

1/2-cup honey

1 (32 ounce) bottle sparkling water

Honey Syrup: Heat honey in a small saucepan over medium heat for about 1 minute.  Remove from heat.  It shouldn’t be that hot; you should be able to put your finger in it.  Add 2 tablespoons sparkling water and stir.  Put syrup in a glass container and chill for at least 15 minutes.

Pour 1-2 tablespoons of honey syrup into a glass. Cover with sparkling water.  Stir.  For best results, chill glasses in the freezer for at least 15 minutes.

Variation:  The honey becomes effervescent when the sparkling water is added – think honey latte.  It is delicious drizzled over ice cream or yogurt.

You can purchase Cool Cuisine: Taking the bite out of global warming on Amazon.com.

Photo by: Christine Krieg

Posted on May 26, 2011
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