cilantro

I just like the idea of rabid birds

I know it's a weird story.. Until I was 22 I never knew what it was I must have smelled, I would just taste cilantro in dishes from time to time and be like UGH DO NOT WANT and finally a friend tasted my meal and told me what the problem was. I don't ever order pad thai or Indian food because of cilantro :(

there was supposed to be a sequel to the birds called the cilantro

xpp.s. I was 6! don't hate, Michael White. I don't hate on you, even though you share your name with Toronto's #1 Robert Plant impersonator!

Whoa- I had no idea that coriander seeds and cilantro leaves are from the same plant!

I don't hate on you, even though you share your name with Toronto's #1 Robert Plant impersonator!

OUCH.

No hate at all, finefinemusic, I just lolled at the idea of brids flying around foaming at the beak and acting crazy.

It is a pretty good visual! I have just been waiting for the perfect opportunity to tell you about Michael White & the White. ;)

Does he do Zep covers or just Plant solo covers?

Turns out he is not as local to Toronto as I thought: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_White_&_The_White My friends and I used to go to his concerts, he and his band would play entire albums front to back. Zeppelin definitely, never saw any Robert Plant solo stuff but I wouldnt put it past him.

There's a Mexican restaurant near us now where I actually like the like the cilantro on the tacos -- it's much less intense and soapy. I don't know if there are new varieties being developed, or if my allergy/aversion is fading.

Have any of you cilantro haters had papalo?

I don't know what it is so I'm gonna say "no".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolivian_Coriander

key ingredient in a cemita:
http://www.corazondepuebla.com.mx/images/cemita.jpg

Wasn't too fussed about cilantro when I first tried it. Now I actually get a small 'high' when I eat it. It really is awesome.

There is definitely an optimum amount to put on a dish, though.

infinity?

the bird story. fuck. when i was a kid, i lived in germany and my sister and i had to take two buses to get to our international school. but they weren't timed well, so it left us wandering around in an empty bus parking lot every morning. there was a patch of wild green onion growing there, beside some unused railway tracks. we used to pull it out and mash it up between heavy flat rocks and make a kind of green onion sauce, for no particular reason. our hands were always green and oniony. the smell memory of it is so strong that i'll still think of it when i crunch into a stick of green onion.

love love love love cilantro. it is divine.

http://i7.meishichina.com/Eat/UploadFiles1017/200912/2009122915070465.jpg

pushing the cilantro/other things ratio, cold cilantro salad, 凉拌香菜.

ingredients： cilantro, shelled peanuts, wood ear fungus, mashed up garlic, salt, dried chilis.

1、wash and cut cilantro into pieces；

2、fry peanuts in oil；

3、combine cilantro, peanuts, and all other ingredients together。

oooh, i could basically make that tonight, but w/cashews and shiitake and dried chipotles...

i love cilantro! it is even in the soup i made this week! also: i finally made soup again! it has been a while
also, cilantro is in banh mi sandwiches! and they are the best sandwiches
i wld like to have a cilantro plant

what we should all really be hating on, so-called genetic dispositions or not, is fucking CARAWAY. way to ruin bread there.

mint too

I'm cool with mint

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I like caraway bread (at least, I love the one a local restaurant does, they serve really great freshly-made flavoured bread before every meal), but goulash tends to be a bit too caraway-heavy for me. For me it's not a flavour that goes with meat very well, but obviously plenty of people disagree.

CARAWAY. way to ruin bread there.

one of the most otm statements ever posted.

i read somewhere that cilantro-hate was down to a certain enzyme that some people have?? it doesn't really taste soapy to me, but it tastes... unfood-like. i don't know how to explain it any better. but the taste of it always seems completely foreign and out of place to me. i avoid it like the plague.

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of course it's great ffs

Picked up some fresh culantro (check out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eryngium_foetidum ). Going to teach myself some basic Puerto Rican dishes over the weekend.

Nasty stuff. I'm really sick of picking it out of things when restaurants fail to mention it on the menu.

I didnt know that coriander seed tastes diff to coriander leaf. Hm. I might have to re-taste powdered coriander for my curries. I'd been avoiding it assuming it tasted like the leaves do.

ground coriander seed is kind of cumin-y if I recall...?

Oh ok, see I like cumin :)

You don’t taste cilantro, you smell it. You smell it before it’s in your mouth, and as you put it in, but it isn’t good for much after you start chewing.

Taste and smell are intertwined of course, but I definately taste cilantro. We eat a lot of fresh herbs as vegetables (rather than seasonings/garnishes) however -- dill, cilantro, basil, various types of mint. My partner prepares a lot of traditional Vietnamese and Lao dishes, and cilantro is a staple of that cuisine.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/14/dining/14curious.html

http://i.imgur.com/EKERBvT.jpg

i use so much cilantro in my cooking lately. verdict: cilantro is good

Cilantro and I have turned a corner in our relationship