{"id":377,"date":"2014-07-30T11:25:16","date_gmt":"2014-07-30T18:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/musingsandmosaics.wordpress.com\/?p=377"},"modified":"2024-10-01T16:30:06","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T23:30:06","slug":"honey-al-fresco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musingsandmosaics.ca\/?p=377","title":{"rendered":"Honey Al Fresco"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

To bring home a taste of the local terroir, <\/em>some people like to buy wine on their travels. I choose honey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This morning I sat on the patio in the precious warmth of a Victoria summer munching on toast drizzled with chestnut flower honey from Siena. Tuscan sunshine and flowers in a jar. I was daring enough to crack my latest treasure the other day after I had scraped the last drops from a pot of macadamia nut honey from Hawaii. No point hoarding it and letting it crystallize.<\/p>\n\n\n

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I’m not sure when I started this honey habit but it makes the sweetest souvenir. Every time I savoured the creamed lavender honey I bought at the market in the hill town of Gordes I was transported back to the heat of Provence and the lavender fields.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Me and the hill town of Gordes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Strangely today the honey makes me think of Provence again, not Tuscany. I was trying to imagine exotic dishes for the menu of my sister’s and my shared birthday picnic this coming weekend and I thought of the honey swirled in fresh cheese with pine nuts that I had at the restaurant in the Roman town of Glanum near St. Remy.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Fresh Cheese with Honey and Pine Nuts<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The Taberna Romana<\/em> served dishes based on ancient Roman recipes. I had Pullus<\/em> chicken in a honey mustard sauce, mashed chickpeas with cumin, a rustic salad and red wine flavoured with myrtles.<\/p>\n\n\n

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After a morning of exploring the site’s ruins, it was heavenly sitting in the shade dining on delicious flavours of the past al fresco.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Taberna Romana at Glanum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Sometimes memories get sweeter with each remembrance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So it makes me sad to hear that the world’s honey bees are dying. What are we doing to these miraculous little artisans? I hope that we can save them because the world would be a bitter place without honey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now here it is, your moment of mosaic. Not Roman this time but Canadian. I have started to make mosaics and this is my second attempt. Hummingbirds and flowers in case you can’t quite discern this. I’m hoping to improve with experience and will try a Roman design next.<\/p>\n\n\n

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