Many years ago, when we lived in Washington, I had a container garden that I lovingly called my Mojito Garden. It was a mint garden with three varieties from which I harvested mint to make delicious, refreshing mojitos. I used to muddle away, crushing the mint to release the aromatic smell and strong flavor hidden within the leaves.
Then we moved to Arizona and I, being of not green thumb, slowly, one by one, lost my mint plants to the relentless heat. (I also may have forgotten to water them a couple times.) With shame, I resigned my mojito muddler to the Tupperware container in our laundry room where I keep the other rarely used kitchen gadgets I refuse to get rid of.
Tonight I dusted off my muddler, calling it in as backup, to crush pita chips into a course powder that I added to my breadcrumbs to add texture and mystique to the breaded pork chops we will eat for dinner (In reality, I did not have the 1/3 cup of Corn Flakes the recipe called for). As I crushed those dried, colorless pita chips I could not help but feel as though I was letting my muddler down in some way and that perhaps I needed to redouble my efforts to regrow my Mojito Garden.
If not for me, then for my muddler.
Shoes On The Wrong Feet 
I love this! You never know what’s going to come out of a day. (I had no idea before this what a muddler was!) Great to be back here after way too long an absence. Shared you on Facebook!
And I simply find the word “muddler” pleasing to say! Hi there, it has been too long. With moving, teaching, and life my blogging slipped away. I have greatly missed it and hope to be around here and there. It’s great catching up with my blogging peeps, of which you are one. Thanks for the Facebook share.
Muddler is one of those cool words for sure. Like, there should be a minor-league baseball team called the Muddlers.
I’m so glad blogging is back for you and I selfishly wish for more of it from you!
Muddling chips? Sacrilege!
Dip it in rum before it bursts into flames!
LOL! An apt response indeed for my kitchen folly. Will my muddler ever recover from such a horrific violation?
I doubt it. You may have ruined it for life…
Just came across this in another blog. Thought you could use it?? https://backyardsafarico.com/collections/grow-gardens/products/cocktail-garden
Oh my gosh! This is so cute and creative (and useful, too)! I wish we were friends in real life; I bet you give the best presents. 🙂
Thanks for thinking of me and sharing. I promptly texted it to Husband with a reminder that Mother’s Day is coming up.
Haha. Brilliant! He’d best get on it quickly, then. Or, you know, just use his wand to summon it quickly to your house. “Accio seed starter kit!”
That would be neat, but then we might singlehandedly put Amazon out of business if we just ordered by wand all the time.
Well, I suppose you could still pay for your items, but I guess that isn’t the Dark Lord’s way.