Mint Tea

Mint

Happy Canada Day to all the Canadians!

I have mint plants growing at the side of my house, spread over from the neighbour's garden.  It inspired me to make some mint tea.  Here is an easy recipe if you want to try it.  It tasted like a teabag as daughter L said.  This made me wonder how I would make peppermint extract to make things like mint chocolate brownies!  The peppermint extract recipe sounds really easy, you steep the mint leaves in vodka for about a month.  The mint chocolate brownies sound so good too!

This led me to the discovery that the peppermint plant is a different plant than the spearmint plant.  So there is peppermint extract versus mint extract which would be a combination of peppermint and spearmint.  There is always something new to learn!  Were you familiar with all this?