Our first making of these involved chocolate mint fresh from the garden.   Lovely and tasty.

(can use any of the mints or lemon herbs, as well as rosemary, or some of the funkier basils)

(Keep a bit in a tin, or 2 months in freezer)

12 T butter

2/3 c sugar

1 egg

1/2 tsp vanilla

2 c flour

2-3 T minced fresh herbs

pinch salt

Preheat oven to 350.

Cream butter and sugar.  Mix egg and vanilla and then beat in.  Gradually mix in flour, then herbs, then salt.  Divide in two, wrap in plastic wrap, chill 1 hour or freeze 20 minutes.  Cut into 1/4 inch rounds.  Bake 10 minutes.