Cilantro and licorice

[nakedfrog]

My partner does not have cilantro, so my feelings on it remain unclear.

 

[ponyo]

I like cilantro now. I used to hate it as it tasted like soap but I kept eating it and built up tolerance. Now it tastes pretty good even though it does still taste like soap on occasion.

I do not like black licorice. I can tolerate it, but I don't like it. But I think if I keep eating it, I can build up tolerance and learn to like it like I did with cilantro.

 

[brianmanahan]

I do not like black licorice. I can tolerate it, but I don't like it. But I think if I keep eating it, I can build up tolerance

i heard that works with iocane powder

 

[DigDog]

just skip cilantro entirely

and put one of these in your food

 

[Scarpozzi]

You shoulda said cilantro and fennel since fennel tastes like that licorice shit you speak of.

Cilantro is not required, but has a place in thai, indian, and vietnamese cuisine. I also use it when making fresh salsa and street tacos at my house. If it isn't fresh, it doesn't taste good and gets bitter. People that I know disliked it in their 20s/30s, grew to like it as their pallettes changed.

 

[Iron Woode]

You shoulda said cilantro and fennel since fennel tastes like that licorice shit you speak of.

Cilantro is not required, but has a place in thai, indian, and vietnamese cuisine. I also use it when making fresh salsa and street tacos at my house. If it isn't fresh, it doesn't taste good and gets bitter. People that I know disliked it in their 20s/30s, grew to like it as their pallettes changed.

I like fennel's sweet taste in Italian sausage.

 

[esquared]

Cilantro is nasty.
Licorice is good but one needs to be selective.
There's a lot of terrible licorice out there like Red Vines (black) and Twizzler, black jelly beans.
Panda from Finland, IIRC, is available at Cost Plus. The brand I buy is Darrell Lea from Australia.
Usually available at Target.

 

[kage69]

Black licorice is dog shit trying to be candy. It's a trap.

Cilantro has it's uses but is overused IMO. I don't hate it but I find coriander more useful.

 

[DigDog]

when you guys say licorice, you mean LICORICE, right? STUFF THAT HAS LICORICE INSIDE IT.
like these here sticks:

and NOT these thing:

 

[lxskllr]

Not sure what you're asking. Allsorts are made with real licorice. I like the root, the extract, and the candy. I also like flavors that are similar, like fennel and anis.

edit:
These are currently my favorite licorice...

 

[Captante]

since it is leftover seed from the cilantro I grow every year

Nice ... you've made it a productive Sunday!

(learned something new!)

 

[DigDog]

the UK is blighted with these horrible candy which they call licorice, but contain 0% licorice.

 

[Captante]

Cilantro is not required, but has a place in thai, indian, and vietnamese cuisine

You forgot Mexican/Tex-Mex!

Interestingly while I've always sorta liked licorice (even the black jelly-beans!), I did not like cilantro at all until my late teens.

 

[Iron Woode]

Not sure what you're asking. Allsorts are made with real licorice. I like the root, the extract, and the candy. I also like flavors that are similar, like fennel and anis.

edit:
These are currently my favorite licorice...

the good stuff is hard to get here in Canada. I have found this:

 

[lxskllr]

This has been at the dollar store pretty regularly...

US made, but it tastes like the Aussie licorice I've had. It's good.

 

[mindless1]

If it isn't fresh, it doesn't taste good and gets bitter. People that I know disliked it in their 20s/30s, grew to like it as their pallettes changed.

The variant I grow doesn't get bitter from (harvested) age or dehydrating, but it does get bitter once it starts to bolt and produce the finer leaves. Those do become less bitter if cooked, but at that point I leave them on to give it energy to make coriander.

 

[Scarpozzi]

You forgot Mexican/Tex-Mex!

Interestingly while I've always sorta liked licorice (even the black jelly-beans!), I did not like cilantro at all until my late teens.

I didn't forget it. I mentioned salsa and street tacos.

I actually use it more for tacos than anything. I have a gas range and toss corn tortillas directly on the flames to char them a bit. For breakfast tacos, I take pork or beef chorizo, maybe 3-4 tablespoons and fry it in a 8" skillet with a lid (to keep the chili/oil from splattering everywhere and turning my stove top red. Chorizo kind of cooks down from a blob into a flat layer of pork/beef with oils around it. You want the chorizo totally cooked...I then crack 3-4 eggs and turn the heat down to medium/low and put the cover back on the lid. This steams the eggs. I like eggs medium with solid yolks, but you can cook them runny if you wish...just makes for a messier taco.

Then I grab the cooked tortilla, queso fresco to crumble over the top, cilantro, and hot sauce.....black coffee to drink. It's legit.

 

[lxskllr]

I used to go to BajaFresh, and I'd get their black bean burrito. Then I'd go to the 'topping bar', and put a little of each hot sauce on it, a little pico de gallo, and a shitton of cilantro. I love the stuff. Sometimes I take black bean dip to work for lunch. It's just black beans mushed up with some chopped garlic and salt, with shredded cheese on top, and a whole bunch of cilantro and hot sauce.

 

[SteveGrabowski]

Love cilantro; tacos, charro beans, menudo, etc doesn't taste right without it. Like licorice but don't love it the way I love say Haribo Gold Bears (especially the German Haribo Goldbaren that are chewier, have more fruit flavor, and are a little less sweet). Though I do really like Haribo's candy coated licorice that they mix in with their variety packs.

 

[SteveGrabowski]

This has been at the dollar store pretty regularly...

US made, but it tastes like the Aussie licorice I've had. It's good.

I picked some of that up on a whim from Dollar Tree to sneak into a movie back when it was safe to go to theaters and thought it was pretty good. Man now I want to go back to Dollar Tree and get some more. Not so much the going into movie theaters part yet though.

 

[MrSquished]

Love cilantro; tacos, charro beans, menudo, etc doesn't taste right without it. Like licorice but don't love it the way I love say Haribo Gold Bears (especially the German Haribo Goldbaren that are chewier, have more fruit flavor, and are a little less sweet). Though I do really like Haribo's candy coated licorice that they mix in with their variety packs.

Agreed. I load up tacos with cilantro. It's a fundamental component. Shit is a gorgeous herb.

 

[Captante]

Then I grab the cooked tortilla, queso fresco to crumble over the top, cilantro, and hot sauce.....black coffee to drink. It's legit.

Awesome .... thought I was the only one who liked coffee with mexican food and/or pretty much anything with hot-sauce!

 

[lxskllr]

Weird. I don't like the way peppers make the coffee taste. I have to wait awhile to have coffee after eating hotsauce.

 

[Scarpozzi]

Awesome .... thought I was the only one who liked coffee with mexican food and/or pretty much anything with hot-sauce!

I cut sugar/cream out of coffee when I was marathon training 5 years ago and never looked back. Not that I plan on going back to cream/sugar, but I wouldn't drink coffee with a breakfast taco if it wasn't black.