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Mint Julep Ice Cream
Simple Peas and Onions

There are 2 new posts in "Simply Recipes"

Mint Julep Ice Cream

Please welcome guest author Garrett McCord of Vanilla Garlic as we gear up for Derby Day with mint julep ice cream. Garrett and I made this the other day and my dad is still getting all misty eyed thinking about how good it was. ~Elise

I have a great love of bourbon, which, I think, grew out of my love for Kentucky where my family and I spent many summers visiting my godmother. I was too young to drink bourbon then, but a tall glass of dark sweet tea with handfuls of mint muddled at the bottom was always at hand. It was a refreshing way to stave off smothering humidity and it made the fun times more enjoyable.

Mint juleps - a drink relying of mint, sugar, water, and good 'ol Kentucky bourbon - have that same sweet-n-minty cooling quality. They take me back to those shady, easygoing vacations. It's a cocktail that seems to roll the sweetness of breezy Bluegrass country and the excitement of the Kentucky Derby all into one.

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Simple Peas and Onions

I wasn't always a lover of peas. When I was a kid, on the days peas were being served for dinner, my siblings and I would jockey for a particular seat at the dining room table. This spot had a secret drawer in the table. (Well maybe not so secret, but good enough to not catch the notice of our unsuspecting parents.) The trick was to take a spoonful of peas, cover your mouth as if you were wiping something away, extricate the peas from your mouth into your hand (or as dad would say, "one of your grubby little paws"), slyly open the drawer, and place the peas in the drawer. Yes! Mission accomplished! "See mom and dad, I finished my peas!" I think they finally caught on one day when cleaning the table they came across some shriveled up old peas, but the ruse was good while it lasted.

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