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Step 15Mint.
Real mint is so much better than any mint candy you've ever had. It's fresher, stronger, and just as sweet. It also comes in many flavors - some taste like lemon, some are warmer, spicier.
I much prefer fresh mint over dried - dried lacks much of the flavor that fresh possesses. Plus, mint is amazingly easy to grow. It spreads like wildfire and needs very little care.
Mint can be used in a variety of ways - in hummus, with chocolate, in teas, in alcoholic drinks (such as mint juleps or mojitos), mixed into a fruit salad, with meats, peas, etc.
It will typically overpower other flavors in a dish, though, so be careful!
I much prefer fresh mint over dried - dried lacks much of the flavor that fresh possesses. Plus, mint is amazingly easy to grow. It spreads like wildfire and needs very little care.
Mint can be used in a variety of ways - in hummus, with chocolate, in teas, in alcoholic drinks (such as mint juleps or mojitos), mixed into a fruit salad, with meats, peas, etc.
It will typically overpower other flavors in a dish, though, so be careful!
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Jun 15, 2009. 10:39 AMthepelton
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Plants of the Mint family (Mint, Peppermint, Spearmint, Catnip) have square stems. This can help to identify them in the wild.
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Jun 18, 2009. 11:52 AMthepelton
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Wild Onions can be identified by their flower heads. The poisonous Camas has a spike of flowers, the onion and relatives (chives, leek, garlic) have a ball of flowers, and the ball shape of the flower bases remains after the flowers are gone.
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Jun 19, 2009. 11:26 AMthepelton
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Most wild onion bulbs are about pea size (1cm), but are far more intense in flavor than the domestic ones, and would spice up a dinner while out camping.
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Jun 20, 2009. 3:10 PMthepelton
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Check out this book: "Best Tasting Edible Plants of the Rocky Mountains" by Seebeck.
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