It’s time to vote for your favorite recipe for the firs month of the Clean Your Plate Challenge hosted here at Nourished Kitchen.   We have some lovely entries for the first month of the challenge, and I definitely found a few kinks to work out as we progress to next month’s challenge.   The goal of the Clean Your Plate Challenge is to encourage creativity in the kitchen – incorporating wholesome, natural foods while highlighting one special ingredient each month.   This month, our special ingredient was honey – delicious, sweet and natural honey.

So, I challenged Nourished Kitchen readers to come up with a wholesome recipe that best highlights real honey.   And you guys came up with some fantastic recipes!   We’ll start the voting today – and encourage your friends and readers to stop by and give your recipe the thumbs up.   The reader who earns the most votes for their wholesome honey recipe wins a 22-oz har of my favorite wildflower honey.

So, on to June’s Clean Your Plate Challenge entries:

• Honey Molasses Cookies by A Mountain Mama (posted in the comments on the Clean Your Plate Announcement)
• Rabbit Fricassé by Edible Aria
• Homemade Granola by Kitchen Stewardship
• Honey-sweetened Strawberry Preserves at Sarah’s Musings
• Grain-free Hazelnut Shortcake at Organic & Thrifty

So check out the beautiful, natural, wholesome recipes and choose your pick.   Who best exhibited honey while keeping his or her plate clean?   Voting will continue through June 30th, and we’ll announce the winner along with next month’s secret ingredient on July 1st.

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Fresh cream is in season (don’t think of cream as a seasonal food? check out this post For the Love of Fresh Cream), and we’re making a lot of ice cream in our home.   It’s so simple to make, plus it helps me to get all those good fat soluble vitamins into my toddler’s body.   The ice cream we make is very much a raw food: raw milk, raw cream, raw egg yolks and raw honey comprise the basis for all the ice creams we make and each of those foods can be powerfully nourishing.   Indeed eggs are one of my Top 10 Nutritional Powerhouses.

This ice cream should be made from the freshest cream you can find and, preferably, raw.   Pastuerized cream tastes … well … cooked.   I like to serve this ice cream with wild apricot sauce which accompanies the cinnamon particularly well.

To make Cinnamon Honey Ice Cream, you’ll need:

• 1 Quart Fresh Cream
• 2 Cups Fresh Whole Milk
• 4 Raw Egg Yolks
• ½ Cup Raw Honey
• 1 Tablespoon Ground Cinnamon

Instructions:

1. Whisk together cream, milk, egg yolks and honey until the honey thoroughly incorporated into the cream and eggs.
2. Stir in the cinnamon.
3. Proceed according to your ice cream maker’s instructions.

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