What To Do With All This Mint?!?

[tennisfan]

We have mint growing in a pot & the plant has been sprouting for years! we use it when cooking new potatos

 

[texasthumper]

This is from Southern Living. Yummy!

Minted Pea Salad

½ cup mayonnaise
¼ cup sour cream
¼ cup minced fresh mint
¾ t salt
¼ t Dijon mustard (I omit this)
dash white pepper
3 cups frozen peas, thawed (I just use a regular size bag of Petite Peas)
1 or 2 green onions, snipped into small pieces

Combine first 6 ingredients and mix with peas and onions. Chill.

 

[ZephyrHawk]

Can I just interject a complaint that the mint I planted last year started getting sickly (probably because of the cold weather) right around the time of the Kentucky Derby!!!! And now it's growing like crazy.

So now I missed out on my one reason all year for growing the stupid plant and have basically no use for it over the summer.

 

[lovesmurfs]

Here's a great salad with a mint vinaigrette dressing:

Peach Chicken Salad

Ingredients

3 medium fresh peaches, peeled and cubed
2 cups cubed cooked chicken breast
1 medium cucumber, seeded and chopped
3 tablespoons finely chopped red onion

MINT VINAIGRETTE:
1/4 cup white wine vinegar
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1/3 cup sugar
1/4 cup minced fresh mint
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon pepper
4 lettuce leaves

Directions

In a large bowl, combine the peaches, chicken, cucumber and onion; set aside. In a blender, combine the vinegar, lemon juice, sugar, mint, salt and pepper; cover and process until smooth. Drizzle over chicken mixture; toss to coat. Cover and refrigerate until chilled. Use a slotted spoon to serve on lettuce-lined plates.

 

[Michelle67]

I'm just gonna jump on the "kill it or contain it" bandwagon here. The former owners of our house planted mint inside three tires on the far outside of a series of raised beds. It has now taken over and killed everything in the beds (including a lovely asparagus bed...what a shame) and is currently working on its evil plot to take over the rest of the universe.

 

[Michelle67]

OH, and let me just add; whatever you do don't try to kill it by rototilling it under. You're only helping it; every little chopped up piece will root and become a new plant (yeah...my husband found this out the hard way).

 

[castmemberb4]

Okay I have to say I stopped reading when people were saying you should rip it out. I've been in my house 14 years when we first moved in I planted an herb garden, after a few years I got tired of weeding it and took it out.
We put in a little wooden patio with gravel around the edge, laid landscape
fabric, sand and gravel. I planned to plant mint in a long narrow planter that I was going to sit on the gravel, as it was the only herb I ever used.
Turns out I didn't have too, that mint pushed up through all of that !
I can't imagine a Southern House without mint, the house I grew up in that
was originally my Grandmother's had a mint garden. Both of my sisters have mint too.

As for recipes
Mint Julep is #1 for us
Mojitos
Electric Lemonade
Mint tea
Or hot Mint Tea
yes they are different, mint tea is iced tea made with regular
tea bags and fresh mint added in. YUM!
Hot mint tea is tea made from dried mint leaves used just like
loose tea.
mint or mint chocolate chip ice cream if you have a freezer
sashets
my cats like chewing on the stems
and I've heard it keeps ants out of your house, not sure how to
use it for that though