Re: There are some drink recipes in Eating for IBS...
06/24/04 01:55 AM
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My mom, whose background is Lebanese, grows and uses mint like it's going out of style. It has taken over our back yard (this stuff needs not help to grow). Sometimes she hangs it to dry it, but more often she lays the bunches of it in a roasting pan or casserole and just stores it in the oven until it dries out. This way you don't get little bits of mint all over the place, as you can when you hang it. Just REMEMBER to check the oven before you preheat it to cook anything. Burnt mint smells okay, but only the first 30 or so times ...
When it's dry, we smush it up by putting some in our palms and rolling our hands back and forth. When we put it in a jar, dried like that, it's called "nana" in Arabic. We put it on yogurt all the time. Try it on soy yogurt (my favorite brand for plain is Wildwood) with some garlic, salt, and thinly sliced cucumbers. Mmmm nothing better in the summer.
We also use nana on top of any hot lamb dish that includes yogurt, of which there are many. Too bad I can't eat any of them anymore! 
As for the fresh mint ...
Have you ever had a Mojito? It's my absolute most favorite drink ever. It's made with fresh mint, sugar, light rum, and fresh lime juice. It's sooo good. Mmmm.
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Amanda
I live in the Big Apple, but I don't eat the skin
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