My new favorite thing

Putting mint 

in my salad.

Just roll up those leaves (you remember how to do that from college, right? The long way.) and slice them across really thin.  Sprinkle them in, and every once in a while you get a lovely little surprise of fresh!  Tiny leaves of basil work well, too.  Yum!

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Summer Cocktail

My friend Stephanie made a comment on Twitter a few weeks ago that she had made "Freshie Ice."  I was fascinated and asked her about it.  Turns out it's just her cute way of saying that she cleared out the ice maker and that all the ice would be fresh for cocktails.  Well, it inspired me.  

I put a fresh, peeled cucumber in a food processor and pushed it through a sieve.  Then poured the juice into my cute little candy-making mold.  I filled some of the other hearts with lime juice.  I froze them.

After they were hard, I put two cucumber cubes and one lime cube in a pretty glass.

Then added two ounces of shaken gin*.  And I named it after its Muse. The ice melts and flavors the gin so loverly. 

 Ladies and gentlemen, I give you

  The Freshie Tart.

*I recommend you use Hendrick's, but I'm slumming it with Tanquery.