Mints
mint with butter for boiled new potatoes (or with parsley or dill).
* Freeze whole mint leaves in ice cubes for tea or lemonade.
*Use mint leaves in a salad of oranges and red onions.
*Toss whole mint leaves in cooked rice before serving.
*Chop spearmint or apple mint and mix with butter. Spread on lamb chops. Grill or broil chops.
*Make salad dressing with mint, lemon juice, vinegar and a light oil.
*Chop spearmint and mix with olive oil and use as a marinade for fresh tuna. Marinate 30 minutes, grill.
*To give minty flavor to chocolate, simmer chopped mint with cream, strain and use to prepare puddings.
*Add to the poaching liquid when making poached pears or other poached fruits.
*Put mint in water used to steam vegetables.
*Sauté zucchini. Add a little Parmesan cheese and chopped mint. Place mint in boiling water and allow to steep.
*Spearmint, peppermint and apple mint sprigs can be added to drinks and fruit dishes as a garnish. It also makes a refreshing tea.
*Peppermint makes an excellent flavoring for ice cream, chocolates, and other deserts.
*Make fresh brewed old-fashioned iced tea made with your favorite tea and big bundles of fresh mint stalks and leaves and with lots of lemon.
*Spearmint leaves can be placed in drawers to repel moths.
*Use dried mint leaves in potpourri
*Fresh lemon balm leaves are used in salads, marinades for vegetables, chicken salad, and poultry stuffings.
*Use catnip salads and tea. Fresh leaves can be rubbed on raw meat as a tenderizer or mixed with olive oil and seasonings for a marinade. The dried leaves are used in cat toys. My cat eats it fresh!
*Apple mint can be used to make flavored vinegars.
Medicinal Uses
Peppermint is the mint of choice for medicinal purposes. Its many uses include relief of indigestion, flavoring for toothpaste, liver tonic, pain relief and sedative. Mints are frequently used to settle the stomach and stimulate digestion, and also assist in reducing infection and inflammation. Oils of both spearmint and peppermint are used in aromatherapy to assist with mental fatigue, headache, colds, coughs, asthma, and bronchitis.
Other uses
Pennyroyal, which is toxic when taken internally, has many other uses around the house. Rub pennyroyal on the skin as an insect repellant. Since it has been known to irritate sensitive skin, test on a small patch of skin first. Rub pennyroyal on your dog's coat to deter fleas. Try placing a few leaves
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