Last weekend we discovered chocolate mint growing in someone's herb garden. It's a green minty looking plant with browny-red colour running through the leaves and - truth - it smells and tastes just like chocolate mint icecream. No kidding.
Today we've taken the kids to a local play area which is in the middle of a forest. While hunting for tadpoles my 6 year-old daughter discover what smells and looks just like the chocolate mint we saw growing in the garden.
I'm not brave enough to taste it.
It might be the same thing, it might not. It might kill me.
(I'm happy picking wild stuff - we use a lot of wild garlic in the spring, for instance, and I'm looking forward to when the wild blackberries and raspberries ripen. But I know what they are and I know they're safe.)
So ... Have you got any advice or experience with wild chocolate mint?
Please share!
Thanks Clarke Clarke Ching - www.clarkeching.com +44(0)7920114893 - Author of Rocks Into Gold - www.RocksIntoGold.com - and, coming soon, Rolling Rocks Downhill, a business novel.
