Ideas on how to use mint?

[PeepsInc]

Mint & garlic R 2 things that rats and mice dont like. Put some where you keep your feed supplies as a deterrrent.

 

[KatyTheChickenLady]

mojitos and tabouleh!

 

[chicks4kids]

I make mint jelly with it and it's wonderful on lamb, however, it's good on pork chops too. It definitely gives the meat a different taste than from the normal.

 

[saddina]

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/green-peas-with-cheese-and-herbs-recipe/index.html

My favorite pea salad uses it.

I have a recipie for lemon mint honey wine, that uses it.

You can add mint to lemonaide.

 

[sangel4you]

I too have three diff kinds of mint plant but I dried it so far this year and only use it for tea. The baking recipes and the mojito sound good tho! Mojito recipe anyone? My question is this ) I thnk I'm killing my mint) this is my first year with it and I dont know should I JUST be snipping off the leaves, or should I snip the whole vine down to the ground? I had one plant of each and more seem to keep popping up so I thought it was ok to trim it that way by cutting the whole stem off. Am I killing my mint? What's the proper way to do it?

 

[saddina]

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Nothing short of dumping round up on it will kill a mint plant that's established.

Mojito recipe
Alcohol Content 0.44


Parfait Glass

1.25 oz Captain Morgan

Original spiced rum
12 mint leaves
1 tbsp sugar
0.5 oz lime juice
2 oz soda



Place mint leaves in bottom of glass. Add crushed ice, Captain Morgan Original Spiced Rum, sugar, and lime juice, and muddle. Add soda water and garnish with mint leaves.

 

[KatyTheChickenLady]

i was thinking of using choclate mint in my cherry jam this year . . . what do you think?

 

[saddina]

I think you should send me a jar to try it out.

 

[KatyTheChickenLady]

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will do!

 

[KatyTheChickenLady]

we also use mint in our rasberry lemonade. We just use the cheapest frozen cans of yellow lemonade add crushed fresh raspberries and mint sprigs.