It sounds strange, but you can make something very similar to honey with no bees required, and while clearing out a huge patch of dandelions at the same time. Here we've got all 600 dandelion heads (washed first of course) in a large pot with several sliced lemons, four cups of water, and two cups of sugar. If you want, you can also cut a whole vanilla bean in half and toss it in as well. A few hours of simmering later and then some time to cool and you've got a delicious honey alternative.
Although this is great in tea or oatmeal or whatever else you'd normally put honey in, we wanted to try it out for a dinner recipe. For this baked chicken drumstick meal we've got the honey (in the tub at the right side of the picture below), plain yogurt, a lime, and a handful of fresh mint sprigs picked from our indoor herb garden.
First we'll put together a sauce for basting the chicken consisting of heated honey, squeezed lime juice, and roughly chopped mint. Mix it all together like so:
Then it gets spread over the chicken and marinates for about 20 minutes before hitting the oven.
Along with the marinade, we're also making a sauce to drizzle over the chicken after it finishes cooking. The sauce is made from lime zest (grate the skin off the lime), lime juice, and more of the chopped mint.
Here's our chicken fresh out of the oven ready to hit a plate:
Of course we're putting together a side salad to also go with our delicious mint chicken.
Here's Megan's plate, sauce on the side, with a salad covered in fresh strawberries, cucumber slices, and avocado.
And here's mine:
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