Summer of mint

[flambeau]

For reasons that do not need exploring at this juncture, I acquired two mint plants back in May. (Okay, full disclosure, they were left over at the end of a bartending gig.) I took them home and repotted them and figured they were cheap supermarket herbs-inna-pot and would die on me in a week or so

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[jillsjourney]

A lot of yummy Thai food has mint in it - http://www.realthairecipes.com/

[flambeau]

I'll have to look into that! The food on this site looks very tasty, whether there's mint involved or not.

[nopseud]

I don't really like mint as a flavour all that much myself, so I don't have any recipes. But if you're looking to use up a lot, then probably mint jelly is the way to go. And/or mint sauce for lamb, if you eat meat.

[flambeau]

*thoughtful* What exactly does one do with mint jelly? I confess I'm not a big fan of jelly-like items. I might try some kind of mint and lamb combo, though, there was lamb on sale at the grocery store. :)

[nopseud]

What exactly does one do with mint jelly?

It's usually eaten with meat, and I suspect it might also go quite well with cheese -- as a sauce for savoury things, anyway.

Although I just did a search, and found someone who'd put it on waffles O.o

[flambeau]

Okay, that's a no on the waffles. But lamb, definitely. :)

[seperis]

Mint is--like that. I planted four small baby plants once on teh side of teh garden and forgot them for like, ever. Then one day I realized that there were no other plants alive over there and mint roots had stealthily started taking over the world. Or at least three bushes and some narcissus. And prying them off as they were growing up the trunk of the bushes.

I mean, I kill cactus and ivy by existing near them, so how the mint survived, I do not know. I still think of those mint and shiver.

Recipes: if you drink ice tea, it's hard to use too much mint. It's also fantastic in cookies after drying and crushing very, very thoroughly, and in sweet potato and pumpkin pie. You can also use it to make air freshener or scent if you need it; that I don't have a recipe on hand for, but it was with an oil base and used the--thingie they had at Bath and Bodyworks? Simmering tray, whatever.

Watch the mint. You turn your back, it will totally colonize everything.

[flambeau]

It's well on its way. Mint may be our new evil overlord. At least it's in its own little pots... for now. *sinister music*

Not a big fan of tea, but I'll have to try that thing with the cookies; reducing the level of live mint by killing and drying some of it sounds like an excellent idea.

[reginagiraffe]

Your mint better never meet our daylilies or we'll have a new set of alien overlords.

[burntcopper]

kebab marinades - tomatoes, mint, lemons, pepper.

also, look up middle eastern stuff - I know there's a coriander + turmeric + mint + something else marinade for chicken out there...

[flambeau]

Ooh, tomatoes and mint. And lemon. That sounds like my kind of taste combination, I'll have to try that out. Thanks!

[ratcreature]

I'm not a big mint fan, but maybe you can use it for tea or something? Or you could give one of the plants someone unsuspecting as a gift, halving your problem. Clearly one mint plant would still produce all the mint you could possibly need.

[flambeau]

I like mint, but I don't like tea. *g* I'd make mojitos, except I don't drink, much.

If I give one of them away the other one might get lonely and sad! But I do have some friends with large gardens...

[ratcreature]

Considering the other responses here, maybe they could use the mint to kill off weeds... *G*

[proserpina_kore]

When I was in Amsterdam, they serve large handsfull of mint in boiling water - not so much 'tea' as hot mint drink. They also serve it with sugarcubes, so that you can drop them in and watch them dissolve. It's just delicious. You actually put the stem and the leaves in, so that the stems stick out of the glass (not served in a cup). I don't know if it's just being in a foreign country and trying this, but I just loved it...