In this recipe, we make a mint-flavored jelly using wild water mint (mentha aquatica) and woodear mushrooms (auricularia auricula-judae) for gelatinization. Water mint is just one of the many kinds of wild mints. As its name suggests can be found close to water. It has purple flowers, which have a ball-like shape. Watermint (mentha aquatica) left and wood ear (auricularia auricula-judae) right Wood ears are amazing mushrooms. They are commonly used in Chinese cuisine in stir-fry dishes or salads. However, they also grow in Europe for most of the year when its not too warm. As the name suggests they
Category: Mint
Blackberries (Rubus ulmifolius) do not need any special introduction. The ones from the wild are similar to those from a supermarket, however, somewhat smaller and they contain more pits. In this recipe, we used blackberries with refreshing apple mint (Mentha x rotundifolia) and nettle (Urtica dioica) and creamy coconut milk. This smoothie is great start of a hot summer day. Nettle can give you nasty stings and there are some preprocessing techniques you can use to neutralize the hairs on the leaves responsible for stinging. First of all its important to use good quality gardening gloves when picking the leaves.