throw some leaves in with hot chocolate- instant chocolate mint. I also have a mad lusting for chocolate mint black tea which I satisfy by brewing a pot of breakfast tea with mint and then stirring in some bittersweet chocolate bit til they melt. Yumm.

Mint jelly ( sugar water, boiled and muddled mint leaves and some pectin as necessary) would make a lovely easy home made christmas gift. Also if you like a traditional standing rib roast/roast beef which is our traditional Christmas Day dinner, equal parts heavy cream, pure horseradish (not horseradish sauce) and muccled mint make a bar none excellent sauce for the beef and potatoes.

Mint is a good soporific (sleep inducer) excellent for digestion and cleansing of breath, learn to graze on it.

if you ever plant mint in the ground, do so inside a clay pot with the lip sticking out about an inch to contain the runners and then prune it to a pencil stub on a regular basis.