Mint

[JAS_OH1]

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This challenge is out of my scope of everything except for making mint jelly as the condiment...

(It grows all over the side of the house!)

I'd take some mint with my iced tea but I am not fond of mint with meat...

 

[Barriehie]

I'd take some mint with my iced tea but I am not fond of mint with meat...

We had to clear the plate or no dessert so at this point my sister and I will eat just about anything; but you knew that.

 

[JAS_OH1]

We had to clear the plate or no dessert so at this point my sister and I will eat just about anything; but you knew that.

I can't tell you how many times I went without dessert! I'd fallen asleep on a plate of liver twice (then mom gave up trying to make me eat it).

 

[badjak]

I'd take some mint with my iced tea but I am not fond of mint with meat...

It depends...
I dislike the English mint sauce, but I do like mint in Vietnamese food

 

[JAS_OH1]

This challenge is out of my scope of everything except for making mint jelly as the condiment...

(It grows all over the side of the house!)

Do you like mint jelly? I'm not a fan. I like mint in iced tea, though.

 

[Morning Glory]

Do you like mint jelly? I'm not a fan. I like mint in iced tea, though.

I think mint jelly in the US is far sweeter than mint sauce in the UK. The latter is really quite acidic.

 

[Herbaceous]

I love mint, but I’m not a fan of mint jelly - I sometimes have texture issues with gelatinous foods. Mint sauce is awesome though.

Pro tip for anyone who might be considering growing mint: it is very easy to grow, so easy that it’s borderline invasive. Keep it in a pot if you don’t want it in your entire garden.

 

[TastyReuben]

Much like banana and strawberry, with mint, I much prefer the lab-grown fake flavoring added to foods. Natural mint has a certain earthy undertone that I don’t like - sort of like seeing a slice of sweet, sweet cheesecake with chocolate sauce poured over, but when you take a bite, you find out the chocolate sauce is actually brown gravy.

I’d planted mint several years ago, and it tried to conquer everything around it. It took me a good three years of constant vigilance and merciless weeding to finally destroy it.

 

[karadekoolaid]

Mint doesn't like growing in my garden, probably because of the heat. However, in my dad's garden in the UK, he'd use an old paint container ( the 4 or 5 gallon ones) to grow mint.
I use a lot of mint, especially in Indian and Middle-Eastern cuisine. This recipe Chicken Rizzala ( Green Chicken Korma) , which I posted a few years ago, is absolutely delicious. There's also a delicious Bengali fish dish, where the fish is slathered in a mint-coriander paste then enclosed in banana leaves, and grilled. I always use mint in tabbouleh, as well.

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[medtran49]

Pro tip for anyone who might be considering growing mint: it is very easy to grow, so easy that it’s borderline invasive. Keep it in a pot if you don’t want it in your entire garden.

And keep your pot on something hard, not simply on the ground. The roots will go through the drain holes in the pot and into the ground. Discovered this when we were putting pots inside for a hurricane. I couldn't pull the pot from the ground so left it. It was still there after the hurricane came and went...