Oatmeal with Blueberries and Floral Honey

I don't normally hock products since I think a big part of cooking is using what is available in your area. Often, looking for a specific product can get costly and be quite time consuming. However, I recently discovered this line of New Zealand Floral Honeys: Airborne Floral Honey So far I've tried the Rata, Kamahi and the Beech Forest Honeydew. I already love honey, so now I have an excuse to experiment with it more often.


I've started getting in the habit of eating breakfast at breakfast time instead of at 3:00am after the bars close, so this is the first of hopefully, several breakfast related posts. Although, this isn't really a recipe as much as it is a pairing of 3 simple ingredients. Oatmeal, Blueberries and Beech Forest Honeydew Honey.

There's something about the tartness of the blueberries mixing with the rich malty, yet very floral flavor of this honey that make it a great combination when added to oatmeal.

In other news, I have been trying to shed my black thumb and grow SOMETHING! I got this How To Grow Indoor Avocado Trees book at the thrift store a few months back and decided to try my hand at some indoor plant growing. My recently purchased basil plant died and so did my attempt to keep bamboo. However, I'm having amazing luck with the avocado seeds!!!!

Just look at this beast! The stalk has grown another two inches since this photo was taken and I got another three root stalks coming from the bottom.  The book says I have to prune the top stalk or it will grow tall and skinny, instead of outward and full. I guess I don't want a sparse looking house tree so I'm going to follow the instructions, but I'm just so excited that I was able to make something other than mold grow.

I have three other seeds going, so if I can make them all sprout, everyone is getting avocado plants for x-mas. Oh also, I used organic avocado seeds since I've heard that the other kind are sterilized. The tree will likely never produce fruit and if it does it won't be for at least five to seven years, so lets see if I can keep it alive long enough to find out.