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[colleena]

Thanks all, I appreciate it so much.  I'm going to try to cook w/it tonight but if that doesn't help I'll harvest & give away.  & isn't it funny but the deer seem to like all the other plants/flowers in the neighborhood but haven't touched the cilantro.  

[cindyNC]

Try looking at The Mediterrean Dish.com  for recipes.  I was following her for a time, but she almost always uses fresh herbs in huge bunches and I don't have access to those quantities. 

[Xivambala]

I can't tolerate any food with cilantro added. It doesn't remind me of soap or any other substance I've had. Even the tiniest portion of a leaf dominates the dish it is in and makes the food inedible to me.

[NYCLatinaMe]

I don't cook much but I grew-up with it in most of my meals and I love it.  Just use a little bit chopped up in little pieces.  My mom would include it in sofrito, a cooking base for many dishes. Her sofrito was a paste that also included mashed garlic and oregano, and was patted onto roasted meat, added to beans, stews, and used to sautee with olive oil meats like pork chops and skirt steak, and arroz con pollo (chicken and rice, a Puerto Rican staple).

Many more elaborate sofrito recipes online.  Don't make the quantities suggested, because like I said, the recipes call for big batches since it was used in most meals.  Most recipes include onions, peppers, tomatoes, but my mom was allergic to onion, and we didn't include these ingredients in our almost daily meal.  Just the mashed garlic.

My mom actually made her mash fresh every day in a very small amount.  A little goes a long way -- think garlic.  Our breath would be fine in the small quantities my mom used.  Just super tasty.  

Again, a little goes a long way.

[On It]

@colleena This seems to be appropriate for your post.

[Kachina624]

It never occurred to me that cilantro tastes like soap.  I just don't like it.  Period.  It dominates any food to which it's added.

[LavernLuvsShoes]

Count me in as a lover of Cilantro! ♥

It's that nasty-tasting Basil (that all the chefs seem to toss in everything) that I can't tolerate. 

[Starpolisher]

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@NYCLatinaMe wrote:

I don't cook much but I grew-up with it in most of my meals and I love it.  Just use a little bit chopped up in little pieces.  My mom would include it in sofrito, a cooking base for many dishes. Her sofrito was a paste that also included mashed garlic and oregano, and was patted onto roasted meat, added to beans, stews, and used to sautee with olive oil meats like pork chops and skirt steak, and arroz con pollo (chicken and rice, a Puerto Rican staple).

Many more elaborate sofrito recipes online.  Don't make the quantities suggested, because like I said, the recipes call for big batches since it was used in most meals.  Most recipes include onions, peppers, tomatoes, but my mom was allergic to onion, and we didn't include these ingredients in our almost daily meal.  Just the mashed garlic.

My mom actually made her mash fresh every day in a very small amount.  A little goes a long way -- think garlic.  Our breath would be fine in the small quantities my mom used.  Just super tasty.  

Again, a little goes a long way.

@NYCLatinaMe

I'm Puertorriqueña! 🇵🇷 I also grew up eating it in many dishes! My mom also makes her Sofrito fresh for each dish. She's 94 and still makes it that way. She uses her pilón. Holidays, especially, Christmas 🎄 just wouldn't be the same without her Arroz con gandules! 😋

Buen provecho 

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[SandySparkles]

I LOVE❤ cilantro, and cannot imagine cooking or eating authentic MEXICAN food or Vietnamese Pho without it!😁

~~~All we need is LOVE💖

[NYCLatinaMe]

You are very lucky @Starpolisher!. My mom is 92, but she stopped cooking years ago.  I miss mami's food!