My five year old has been very interested in plants and how they grow lately so we started a little planting experiment. We planted some watercress since it’s easy and fast to grow. In fact, its’ too easy and I have a huge amount of these yummy little plants sitting in a pot on my kitchen counter.

I like to sprinkle some fresh watercress on my salad, but other than that I honestly don’t know what to do with these. Any ideas or recipes that call for watercress? Please post them as a comment below.

I was craving a Mojito the other day and thought how much fun it would be to grow mint leaves so I could make one for guests. Of course, my husband says “What else can you make with mint?” and I said “… uhhh….”

So, here I am again. Other than Mojitos what can I make with fresh mint leaves? Do you have a recipes or idea for us?

Oh, and here’s one recipe for Mojitos in case you were curious…

1 part rum
3 parts club soda
12 fresh mint leaves
1/2 fresh lime (not one of those plastic ones)
sugar

Place the mint leaves, lime, and sugar in a glass. Crush them with a pestle.

Add rum, and top off with the club soda. Stir well.

You can garnish this drink with a mint sprig and lime wedge.

Optional: Try different kinds of rum. Lemon, Orange, Melon, Raspberry, Apple, ect.

It seems that everyone uses dip mix. I’ve managed to accumulate quite the collection of dip mixes. (Ranch, jalapeno, Mexican, etc.) Finally I figured out some uses — and I’ll post them below.

What do you do with dip packets other than make DIP?

I have splurged once and bought some saffron. It was like $13 for a few little threads. What was I thinking? Now I have this stuff and don’t know what to do with it.

It looks just like yellow threads and I know it came from the center of some exotic flower. But, what the heck can I make with SAFFRON?

Sage is one of those spices in this house that goes stale before it’s even had a chance to season our foods. It smells heavenly, but … I just have no idea what to do with it.

Help! What can I make with SAGE?