Comments | giftederic: Mint

giftederic

Mint

May 14, 2009 12:59

When I was growing up, my parents grew mint in the garden. This was used occasionally for making mint sauce for lamb and such like. Then down in the sweet shop there were Polo mints and XXX mints etc, and these tasted very different to what we refered to as 'mint' in the garden. There were also 'spearmint' varites of Polo mints and other sweet mint ( Read more... )

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giftederic May 14 2009, 14:41:44 UTC

They are hardly secret...

And they are not 'my' stashes, they are gifts for everyone to use... Feel free to enjoy a nice cup of Moroccan Mint tea...

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giftederic May 14 2009, 15:16:45 UTC

Eric would never let me keep using this LJ if I endorsed the use of nanobots... They give him the heebee jeebees...

kaleandwine May 14 2009, 16:32:59 UTC

It was interesting... thanks for that! I've had Moroccan Mint tea before, and you're right - it's perhaps the best mint flavor I've found. At least in tea form. Must look for it again.

Spearmint seems to be the variety most commonly found in gardens and foods - I've bought fresh peppermint before, but it's too strong for most culinary applications, methinks. I'm curious to try others. Hmm.

giftederic May 14 2009, 16:41:05 UTC

Numis Morrocan Mint Tea should be available in your area as Numi is a california based company. RRP is $6.99 for 18 teabags (which is admittedly ludicrous). You can buy 100teabags for $29.99 on their website... http://www.worldpantry.com/cgi-bin/ncommerce3/ExecMacro/numitea/home.d2w/report

Yes! ext_100439 May 14 2009, 22:25:38 UTC

Way more interesting than months of silence! When I was in Morocco about 5 years ago we bought mint tea and other stuff, the guy did postal sales, probably does net sales now. It was pretty cheap and the real deal.

Seems about time for another lunch or something, give G&G and poke tomorrow. I'm oncall tomorrow though so not that soon.