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The quality of the ingredients you use to prepare each dish will ultimately impact their flavor. Knowing how to cook a dish is not all that goes into making great food. Choosing the right ingredients is just as important.

Mint

7/8/2014

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Mint or spearmint is frequently used in Greek cuisine. Aside from the great flavor it imparts, mint is a powerful antioxidant with a variety of health benefits.  We often think of mint as an herb used for sweet dishes, however it is wonderful in savory foods as well. In fact, when combining mint with tomatoes and onion, you obtain a unique flavor profile that you may not immediately connect back to mint. A non-culinary analogy I like to use, is the way the colors red and blue combine to create purple, a color we might not otherwise identify as being a mixture of the former, if it weren't for the fact that primary color combinations are one of the first things we learn in school.
Most grocers carry packets of fresh mint and it is easy to grow your own. One frustrating aspect of buying fresh mint from the store, is that you typically only need a portion of the mint in the container and by the time you are ready to use the rest, it has gone bad. As a result, I usually store the packet of fresh mint in the freezer.  The same can be done with mint from the garden. You can either store it in the freezer in a zip lock bag or freeze it using water and ice cube trays. 

In addition to fresh and/or frozen mint, it is always good to have some dried mint on hand. I have personally found dried mint to be scarce at grocery stores and make a point of cutting and drying some from the garden during the summer months. There are several approaches to drying mint. Once dry, you can store it in a leftover jar.
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4/24/2017 10:17:08 am

Mint is often used as a flavor in those candies that we buy in those stores. They have those strong flavor that makes it chilling in the mouth. They are also used as a flavor enhancers in the foods and this is a research that I am doing right now. There is more than meets the eye and this is an asset that we have and we need to use it. There are mysteries that are not yet answered.

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