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Space Mint Carrot Salad
21.08.2023 - 11:51 / theunconventionalgardener.com / Emma Doughty
Ryan’s dad likes mint sauce on pretty much anything. I grew up in a “mint sauce with roast lamb” household, so I found this slightly odd. In truth I have never cottoned on to the delights of mint sauce, so we don’t keep a jar in the house. It wasn’t until very recently that I discovered that Ryan really likes mint sauce, too.
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The earth-shattering discovery coincided with a need to trim the Space Mint. Space Mint is a spearmint plant I grew from a cutting in my space garden. I took the cutting on 17th September, and by 29th October Space Mint was growing strongly and hogging the LED light. A few fragrant snips later and Space Mint was back under control, and I had 29g of mint to play with. I decided to try making (for the first time) mint sauce. I settled on a recipe for ‘Easy Real British Mint Sauce‘, which looked simple but didn’t precisely match the finely-chopped mint sauces I have seen in the past.
So I made it and offered it up to Ryan with some trepidation since clearly he and his dad are experts and I am a novice in the art of making mint sauce. I needn’t have worried; Ryan confessed his dad ‘makes’ his sauce by adding more vinegar to a shop-bought one. [His dad later confirmed that although he grows his own mint, he only uses it for new potatoes, and doesn’t make his own mint sauce.]
My first effort was really quite roughly chopped because I was in a hurry. I served it with sausages, and Ryan proclaimed it quite wonderful. There was plenty left over, and as we also had some leftover steamed carrots, I combined the two. Chilled in the fridge, this gave us a lovely minted carrot salad for lunch the next day. It’s very much like a
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