Coriander

[Detroit City]

I like it as a seasoning for dhall, and finely chopped with chickpeas or in a Moroccan-style dish, but not as a leafy addition to salad, and there's never any fucking way it should ever be in a cheese sandwich.

exactly....and how could someone even make salsa without coriander?

 

[ScallyWag II]

I like it with certain foods, not a cheese butty though, that sounds wrong

 

[gentlegreen]

it also goes to seed at the drop of a fucking hat.

There was a chap on an allotment programme who said the secret was not to over-water ... which seemed counter-intuitive.

 

[mozzy]

I love corriander myself and proberbly wouldn't mind it in a cheese sarnie either! I put it loads of dishes like curries, chilli's etc. I love the smell too.

 

[Looby]

It's lovely in chilli and stuff but a bit wrong in a cheese sarnie. Are you sure it was coriander?

 

[Looby]

I love the smell too.

Me too, my larder stinks of it at the moment so it's a good job I do.

 

[sojourner]

exactly....and how could someone even make salsa without coriander?

like you make salsa *snorts*

 

[SpookyFrank]

I like it as a seasoning for dhall, and finely chopped with chickpeas or in a Moroccan-style dish, but not as a leafy addition to salad, and there's never any fucking way it should ever be in a cheese sandwich.

^This. It's way too strong tasting to have in a salad, but its great in spicy dishes with lots of other flavours going on.

 

[rioted]

Carrot and coriander soup without the coriander?

 

[onemonkey]

great in curries, great in thai food, great in stir-frys, great in scrambled eggs

 

[mr steev]

Coriander is lush.
Vital in most curries and chillis.

 

[rioted]

Just scored a 45p deal! Bit wilted but 'tis the end of the day. Together with the garlic and chilies it came to 71p. Going into a pot with a kilo of mixed lamb (£4) and a few pounds of onions and a long, slow oven. Served with rice and yoghurt, what could be finer?

 

[Detroit City]

Served with rice and yoghurt, what could be finer?

nothing i can think of right now

 

[weepiper]

To me it adds diesel. That's the only way I can discribe it. It's metallic, too. But overwhelmingly like a dirty, heavy petrochemical taste.

Vile stuff. To me it tastes soapy, like washing up liquid. Definitely tastes poisonous and like my body doesn't want it, it makes me gag and there's not many 'foodstuffs' that do that.

 

[danny la rouge]

great in scrambled eggs

What kind of madness is this? Scrambled eggs doesn't have herbs in.

As to felafel, I use parsley, as nature intended. And for salsa, I use basil.

 

[KellyDJ]

I love coriander but I wouldn't have in a cheese sandwich though

 

[KellyDJ]

What kind of madness is this? Scrambled eggs doesn't have herbs in.

Fresh chives are nice in scrambled egg

 

[ymu]

Vile stuff. To me it tastes soapy, like washing up liquid. Definitely tastes poisonous and like my body doesn't want it, it makes me gag and there's not many 'foodstuffs' that do that.

The Boy says exactly this - tastes like washing-up liquid. If I buy bagged salad without consulting him, he gets suspicious and inspects it very carefully before eating.

I think it's probably a genetic thing - some people do find it absolutely foul tasting, but others adore it. I caught a friend of mine in tears in his kitchen once - he was sniffing a bunch of coriander and getting emotional at the sheer wonder of something so wonderful existing on this earth.

I would eat it in a cheese sandwich, but only if there wasn't any other salad to go in it - purely because I find plain cheese sandwiches a bit sickly without something green/red/fresh in them. It's definitely not a sensible combo.

 

[Sir Belchalot]

I used to live with someone who reckoned it tastes like the smell of armpits! Could never understand her cross-senses thing.
Love the stuff myself.

 

[danny la rouge]

Carrot and coriander soup without the coriander?

I don't like carrot and coriander soup: it has coriander in it.

 

[danny la rouge]

Fresh chives are nice in scrambled egg

That's a more sensible option, but still not something I'd do. Scrambled eggs, well made, are perfect the way they are.

 

[Spymaster]

I use parsley, as nature intended

Then you should be arrested.

The taste is reminiscent of the smell of cats piss, should be banned. Bastard of a weed.

 

[danny la rouge]

Then you should be arrested.

The taste is reminiscent of the smell of cats piss, should be banned. Bastard of a weed.

You are clearly confused. You are thinking of coriander.

 

[Spymaster]

You are thinking of coriander.

Wonderful stuff.

 

[danny la rouge]

Wonderful stuff.

You're wrong. You've been watching too many trendy cookery programmes and long for the lifestyle.

Or you're a smoker and your tastebuds are shot.

 

[Spymaster]

You are quite clearly a pervert.

 

[danny la rouge]

:d :d :d !

 

[krystal]

great in scrambled eggs

With onion, tomatoes and green chillies.

 

[ben foggle2]

Coriander or any of its umbellifer cousins had better not turn up in any salad on my plate.

I like falafels though ... as I do celery when cooked in a nut roast, but there's a reason do be suspicious of this plant family :-

coriandrum sativum

Hemlock

They dont look at all a like in the real world.
Something most western chefs don't do is use the stalks,use the stalks!

 

[danny la rouge]

With onion, tomatoes and green chillies.

That's not scrambled eggs, that's egg curry!