you could make mint oil, add equal amounts of mint leaves and oil into the food processor and chop fine, Use this in your cake recipes, brownies, breads, etc. mix it with other herbs and make a pesto, you can strain it and make it into a bread dipping oil. refrigerate any leftovers, it keeps almost forever. steep mint and other herbs in wine vinegar, do not boil. my favorite is orange mint, orange zest, thai hot peppers, and lemon thyme, with a bit of ginger root. add a bit of sugar, salt, pepper, garlic powder, and concentrated orange juice and use it for a chicken maranade. mint is excellent with lamb. use it in a salad 3 tomatoes chopped 1 med onion chopped 1 bunch or large handfull of mint, chopped 5-8 green onions or scallions, thinly sliced juice of 2 lemons salt put all ingredients in a bowl and chill for an hour, serve with grilled chicken or fish Tomato soup with couscous 2 Tbs olive oil 1 onion chopped 1-2 carrots diced 14 oz can italian chopped tomatoes 6 garlic cloves chopped 6 1/4 cup veggie or chicken stock 1 1/2 cup couscous, or alphabet noodles 2-3 sprigs mint chopped 1/4 tsp ground cumin 1/4 bunch cilantro cayene pepper to taste salt and pepper cook the onion and carrots in oil of about 10 minutes until softened add the tomatoes, half the garlic, stock, couscous, mint, coriander and spices bring to boil add remaining garlic and simmer for 7- 10 minutes until couscous is just tender serve hot Chopped Veggie Salad 1 each red, green, and yellow bell pepper seeded, and diced 1 carrot diced 1 cucumber diced 6 tomatoes, diced, I prefer romas 3 garlic cloves chopped fine 3 green onions or scallions sliced thin 2 Tbs chopped cilantro 2 Tbs each chopped dill, parsley, and mint 1 hot pepper chopped fine 3-4 Tbs olive oil juice of 1 lemon salt and pepper to taste add all ingredients, toss, and serve chilled mint can also be added to any green salad

Was it sort of like taffy? This one has pecans but you could omit them. Here is a link that might be useful: Molasses Toffee

Try this for starters. And if you google it, you might come up with lots more. Bon appetit! Here is a link that might be useful: spinach pea soup

Pea soup is one of my favourite soups! It's a common soup to make in Newfoundloand and we probably make ours a bit different than everyone else. For one, we use salt beef which I don't even think is available anywhere else, or if it is you call it something different. You can also use a ham bone and leftover ham but I prefer mine with salt beef. Here's my tried and true recipe: Pea Soup & Doughboys 2 cups salt beef, diced 2 cups yellow split peas 1 cup chopped onion 1 cup diced turnip 1 cup diced carrot ½ cup chopped celery 2 - 3 potatoes, cut in large chunks salt & pepper to taste Doughboys: 1 ½ cups flour 1 tbsp baking powder ½ tsp salt 3/4 cup water or milk (approx) -Soak peas overnight in cold water. -Place meat in large saucepan. Add 8 cups cold water; bring to a boil. Simmer 30 minutes. -Add drained split peas and chopped onion. Simmer gently for about 1 ½ - 2 hours. Add more water if desired. -Add other vegetables and cook until tender (remember to stir often). Doughboys: -Combine flour, baking powder and salt. Gradually stir in enough water or milk to form a soft dough (it will be sticky). -Drop mixture by tablespoons into hot soup; cover tightly and simmer, without removing the cover, for 15 minutes.