Roasted Garlic Honey Butter

This recipe has been in the back of my mind for a year. The first time I mentioned it, my impossibly healthy brother sighed loudly out of disapproval. He had heard the word honey. Honey is sugar. And my brother avoids sugar 99% of the time. When you are living sugar free, you feel that others would like to do the same, but that they just don't know it yet. Having said all that, it is sweet, and that does mean sugar, so avoid this recipe if you are abstaining. This is not a homeade butter recipe.

What you will need: 4 raw heads of garlic, EVOO, 1 stick unsalted butter softened, honey to taste, let's say, or 3-4 tbs.

What you will need to do: 1. Roast your garlic in evoo. Martha explains it here. After you've pulled it out of the oven, you'll want to pop those little dudes out of their little holes using your hand and the tip of a knife. They will be hot, so if you want to let them cool, that's fine. I prefer to burn my hands. Plop them into a food processor.

2. Add 3/4 of your stick of butter to the food processor, then pour your honey on top. Blend for two minutes. Check the food processor, take a small taste, add more of the butter, or more of the honey depending on the taste and texture you prefer.

3. Now, you can put this in a mixing bowl and get out your hand held mixer and whip it smooth, but I skipped this step since the recipe does not make that much. If I were doubling or tripling the recipe, then I would go that route. This was a type of experiment for me.

4. Spoon all of your mix into a ball or if tripling the recipe, a log shape, and place in the middle of a square of plastic wrap. Cover with the wrap, and then place this in your refrdigerator, in that handy butter shelf. It needs a while to harden.

I would tell you this can last in the fridge for a week, but I don't know if that's true. I dreamed this up and didn't measure things closely, because why do that when you only have three ingredients to deal with. I don't expect mine to last long, but I wouldn't keep it for more than 5 days or so.