Sweet!

cilantro==:vomit:

Apparently, cilantro is one of those foodstuffs that you either love or hate! There's no happy cilantro medium. ;)

I wouldn't say I love it, but it has it's applications just as any other herb. For instance, I've never put it in salsa because I'm not really fond of the flavour being that strong, but I think Thai food loses a lot of depth without it. I also use it as a general herb when I'm cooking.

I'm sure some people love it, but if we're talking about eating raw herbs, I'd probably go for parsely over cilantro. There's just something about parsely that I love. I put it in almost anything. Especially mashed potatoes. Yum.

Fresh chopped parsley is good there, but smashed garlic is even better. Or minced heated in the butter, and the whole added to the taters.

I love parsley too. In restaurants I will request the parsley from those who don't want it. It's good to eat just straight even.

Garlic and potatoes do go together. I sometimes put a small amount in to flavour them, but when I have dinner with my friends family who are Greek, the potato is always loaded with it, and it's meant to be used more as a sauce for other foods on the plate rather than to eat on its own.

J is making meatloaf and garlic mashed potatoes right now!

Agreed. Living her in New Mexico, many of the "Mexican" restaurants tend to OVERuse cilantro.

It is blech.:vomitblu:

It's like licorice flavored soap, though.

Once attended a church potluck dinner--covered dish, or whatever they're called. All the different serving dishes lined up on mismatched banquet tables, paper plates and plasticware at one end, dessert and soft drinks at the other. There were salads, ninety-nine different kinds of potatoes, meatballs, crockpot surprise, etc. One of the salads looked good, very rich green, all diced up fine, like a cobb salad. I took a big serving spoon of that one, and continued down the line, filling my plate as I went.

I found a place to rest my plate on my knees and I took a big spoonful of that chopped salad.

Big mistake.

It was cilantro all the way down. I think there might have been a red pepper waved over the bowl at some point for color, but there was no challenging the potency of that cilantro. Right there, in that one spoonful, I received my recommended lifetime allowance of cilantro. Yup, I'm good to go--permanently.