cilantro

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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.

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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

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

Cilantro and I have turned a corner in our relationship