Backlog from last night.
Last night I had a truly epic meal to celebrate my mom’s birthday through Toronto’s Summerlicious festival. God, the main course – coq au vin with mushrooms, bacon, and mascarpone mashed potato – was fucking delicious. I am okay with swearing, it was that tasty.
Anyways, when I got home, I was so full that I figured I needed some mint tea to help calm my stomach down.
Now, I’ve been noticing a problem with my tin of spearmint lately. It smells kind of off, somehow. I think this is because when I first bought the empty tin, I didn’t realize the importance of letting the tin air-dry for a few days after washing it. I just put the spearmint leaf in pretty much directly after towel-drying it. Now the tea smells weird to me, but I can’t tell if it’s actually the tea, or if it’s just my nose. The other people in the house don’t smell anything wrong – but I know from past experience that my sense of smell is more acute than theirs…so, I don’t know.
Thoughts? Should I just dump the whole tin out, wash it, let it air dry again, and then get some new fresh spearmint to put in?
I tend to bake my time a little after I wash them to make sure they’re dry in all their crevices.