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Cilantro, Love it or Hate it
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It's amazing how I never connected coriander seeds with cilantro bunches. Thanks for the info. With cilantro, I have uses I know of. But with coriander seeds, only my wife has recipes for those.
That may actually work. I think most restaurants take food allergies seriously.
Count me in the "I like it quite a bit, but not to the point of eating handfuls of it raw" group. It's nice as a garnish for Mexican food and essential for salsa; I also use it for Thai, Vietnamese and Indian cuisines (for the last one in both cilantro leaf and ground coriander powder forms).
That said, I wouldn't use it every day or for every cuisine; it has the potential for overuse.
That said, I wouldn't use it every day or for every cuisine; it has the potential for overuse.
When I didn't know cilantro was coriander, I used to tell me wife to "ewww, don't put whatever that is".
Now I can't eat Indian or Mexican food without tons of it.
nom nom nom.
Now I can't eat Indian or Mexican food without tons of it.
nom nom nom.
Some Mexican dishes go great with Cilantro. Yum!
Pretty much every single one =p
mmm i wish i could get some chilaquiles and sprinkle some on top...
Thank you for qualifying that with "pretty much". Cilantro on tostadas de ceviche, sure. On flan or churros ... not so much.
That's BS.
Are you in Toronto? I think I remember that you're Canadian.
If you're in Toronto, go to Pho Hung in Chinatown..... I used to go there all the time, and they would always hold the cilantro.
It's such a divisive herb this one. I love it, my mother hates it with a passion - guess I got Dad's genes there!
It's pretty universally called Coriander here in Oz (leaves & roots) but I'll call it anything you want for some of that southern US mexican food! That's one cuisine that (sadly) hasn't jumped the pacific yet.
It's pretty universally called Coriander here in Oz (leaves & roots) but I'll call it anything you want for some of that southern US mexican food! That's one cuisine that (sadly) hasn't jumped the pacific yet.
I usually take cilantro with rice in my favourite asian restaurant and I love it.
I first hear the word cilantro in Brain Training, the DS game. Dr. Kawasima doesn't like indeed
I first hear the word cilantro in Brain Training, the DS game. Dr. Kawasima doesn't like indeed
Cilantro reminds me of this stuff as well http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malort.
Malort kind of tastes like a cross between dandelions and earwax. Cilantro is like a cross between Malort and horseradish.
Malort kind of tastes like a cross between dandelions and earwax. Cilantro is like a cross between Malort and horseradish.
Probably one of the most widely-used herbs on the planet. Also called Chinese parsley, and is prevalent in Asian and much of the Near- and Middle Eastern cooking. Although some like it specifically for that intensely distinctive flavor, it's too strong for most, it's really intended to be used somewhat sparingly, and is generally overused.
Growing up in a Sonoran household, I can't imagine life without it, but then I also like menudo (for the uninitiated, that's soup made with the lining of a cow's stomach). With cilantro, of course.
Growing up in a Sonoran household, I can't imagine life without it, but then I also like menudo (for the uninitiated, that's soup made with the lining of a cow's stomach). With cilantro, of course.
I think you misunderstood...... I didn't mean that you were BSing..... I believed you.
I meant that it is BS (unfair/crap/ridiculous) that these restaurants won't accommodate you.
Oh, and thank you for the all-star defenseman.