Cilantro: good or bad?

[Kat Kanning]

http://ihatecilantro.com/

[KBCraig]

http://ihatecilantro.com/

You and Mary both.

I can tolerate cilantro in fresh salsa or pico de gallo, so long as it's not dominant. It's like sage in dressing: you've got to have some, but one dash too much ruins the whole thing.

Mary and I both agree that the most obnoxious food substance is bell peppers. They have no spice, they overpower everything with that dry bitter aroma, and they generally taste like crap.

The red and orange ones are pretty, though. I just don't want them in my food.

Edit: boy, this went off topic quick!

[Kat Kanning]

http://ihatecilantro.com/

You and Mary both.

I can tolerate cilantro in fresh salsa or pico de gallo, so long as it's not dominant. It's like sage in dressing: you've got to have some, but one dash too much ruins the whole thing.

Mary and I both agree that the most obnoxious food substance is bell peppers. They have no spice, they overpower everything with that dry bitter aroma, and they generally taste like crap.

The red and orange ones are pretty, though. I just don't want them in my food.

Edit: boy, this went off topic quick!

Oh no, I adore cilantro.  I was just being 'funny' posting the link.  I had half a bunch of cilantro in my fruit smoothie yesterday.  It was a cilantro wonderland!

I love bell peppers too, but not the green ones.

[dalebert]

I love bell peppers too, but not the green ones.

Same here! I think the green ones are overpowering. The red and yellow ones, it's almost impossible to have too much of those. Yum!

[Russell Kanning]

and .... they can be used as currency in the Shire Hours system

[Pat K]

[Raineyrocks]

My favorite way to eat green peppers is to put organic cream cheese on them and some salt, they are really good this way.

[K. Darien Freeheart]

I hate cilantro.

So does Dr. Kawashima, the inventor of the "Brain Age" series of Nintendo games. On the title screen, if you say "Cilantro" three times, his virtual face cringes.

It seems passionate cilantro haters really ARE passionate!

[Friday]

I love cilantro!  I'm surprised I've never been thrown out of a grocery store for snorting it in the produce section.   

[Raineyrocks]

I love cilantro!  I'm surprised I've never been thrown out of a grocery store for snorting it in the produce section.   

[Bill St. Clair]

I used to eat at a Burmese restaurant in Boston. They used lots of cilantro in their dishes, calling it "fresh coriander". I think of coriander as the seed of the plant whose leaves are called cilantro. On their menu, it said, "If you think our food tastes like soap, you are allergic to fresh coriander." No wonder some people hate it.

[Kat Kanning]

Someone hates cilantro so bad he/she had to split the discussion off on its own!

[Friday]

Speaking of vegetables that smell great, I chopped some fennel and fresh basil a little while ago.  Mmmmmmmm.   

[Lloyd Danforth]

For a while in the 90's all the TV cooks were putting Cilantro in everything, salsa, where it belongs, caseroles, cookies.  Drove my mother nuts!

[Kat Kanning]

Hey, do you happen to have that cilantro cookie recipe?