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Minty Impatience (Some Non-Vegan Recipes/Ingredients)

Received some mint. I used it in a tabbouleh, made for a gathering. Not really a plant I have been able to acquire a taste for but I am sure I can come up with some new recipes for the fresh mint that was gifted! Some thoughts aside from making it into tea of parsley/mint or rooibos/mint, good for digestion: Mix it with a jelly and give something a glorious oven coating like a ham or large vegetables.  Perhaps bread them, they are so firm, then fry or bake the suckers. Mix it into a mexican crema or a sour cream and put on top of a crepe filled with sauteed peaches. Infuse a milk or water with the mint then make a pudding or jello. Mint and apple cider vinaigrette for a fruit salad like apple, banana, grape, quinoa... Mix it into a sour cream or whipped cream, dip pears, strawberries and apples in it. Let it flavour a broth then make a very interesting stuffing. Dip the leaves in chocolate sauce and decorate ice cream, maybe even just make a mint/pistachio ice cream. Dip the