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Jamaica or Hibiscus and a simple honey syrup recipe

Honey is a must-have in every pantry. It is a versatile sweetener that can add depth and new dimensions to your cooking. From baking to grilling, from cocktails to hot and cold beverages, honey is a perfect addition. My brother used to receive allergy shots when he was younger. As an adult, he realized that his diet could affect his allergies. He decided to replace refined sugar with honey, which inspired me to work with honey as a sweetener. One of the benefits of honey is i

Commercial cheesecakes tend to be full of sugar

I wanted to share a fun Valentine’s Day recipe with you. I personally love fondue, any kind, but for this special day, it has got to be chocolate! If you want to save time, you can use our Sonoran Desert Spicy Chocolate or Plain Drinking Chocolate mix. The following recipe is without a fondue pot. If you have an instapot or fondue pot even better, but not needed. Untamed Chocolate Fondue Ingredients 1 cup organic heavy cream 2 Tablespoons Tequila or your alcohol of choice

We started our business using honey as our only sweetener in hopes we could support beekeepers to continue the really hard task of raising honey bees and the reward was a naturally sweetened product that is right out of the Sonaron Desert! Not only do we enjoy the honey the bees share with us, but also the pollination. Honey bees perform about 80 percent of all pollination worldwide. A single bee colony can pollinate 300 million flowers each day. Fruits, nuts, and vegetables

Our decision to use Sonoran Desert Honey as our only sweetener was based on supporting local business, it’s high quality, and our love of this golden nectar. The honey we use in all of our tasty confections is Sonoran Desert, raw and unfiltered, poly-floral honey derived from a variety of desert wildflowers, such as cactus, mesquite, cat claw, palo verde & other flowering plants in the Sonoran Desert. As you can imagine, we have been asked many questions over the years regar

I have to let you in on my NEW secret obsession! Well you guessed it, it involves honey. But not just any honey, Sonoran Desert Wildflower Honey with infused herbs, spices or both. I am a true believer in letting your imagination run wild on this. Infused Honey - Spices & Fresh Herbs The most important thing to remember when making honey with fresh herbs is to dry them first to reduce water content. If you grow your own herbs pick them in mid-morning when the essential

What a great way to start your day!

Gluten-Free Strawberry Pound Cake Who is ready to bake the perfect gluten-free strawberry pound cake? This is my favorite kind of cake to eat with a large cup of tea or coffee; perfect for a Sunday brunch snack. The best part of this cake is that we are going to use our Sonoran Desert Honey and fresh strawberries to sweeten it! Natural ingredients, gluten-free, easy to bake, and certainly delicious. If you want to add some extra flavor I recommend incorporating pieces of our

A great Valentines day treat. Anyone can make this, it is delicious and your loved one will LOVE you for it as well as your friends and family! This rich, silky dessert boasts the wonderful flavors of coconut, caramel, chocolate and vanilla. It is a luxurious dessert which can be served after any type of main course. If you love chocolate and you are also crazy about coconut, you are going to love this delicious mousse. Although the coconut milk needs to be chilled for a few

Though, before we share this refreshing cleansing smoothie, we want to share information on how to reduce plastic pollution. Every day we look to minimizing waste in the production of our confections. We believe in Reduce, Refuse and Reuse. We do focus on sustainability, we are not perfect, but we look every day to reduce our waste and how to be a positive influence on our environment. Citrus Green Smoothie Smoothies cool, delicious and nutritious. A great way to start and

First in the Series: How to create a bee friendly environment: Bird Bath Everyone! One of the questions we hear often is, how are the bees doing? Well we don't know all the answers to that, though we are concerned and we know there are a lot of organizations and universities conducting studies like the ARS, Agricultural Research Service, a division of USDA, who is currently doing research on the decline of the honeybee. Tucson, AZ, as well as other areas throughout the Unit

Now that summer is nearing

<h3><span style="font-size:16px">February has brought childhood memories of my mother's brownies baking and the sweet chocolaty smell filling the house. The first bite of a freshly made brownie with the icing dripping oh my...love them! </span></h3>

We just finished a batch of our Orange Sunup Honey Caramel.I love the fragrance of fresh c itrus in our kitchen.

At least once during the year I bake my family recipe yam casserole, one of my favorite family comfort foods that my mother brought to the table during the holidays.

We have been waiting all year for Pomegranate Season...fresh Pomegranates are arriving from our local producers.

It is that time of year, Valentine's Day is right around the corner and flowers and chocolate come to mind.