Our Cilantro forrest

[Ed Alvarado]

Hey all,
So here's the story,
A little over a year ago my wife Kim planted her garden as usual and this little cilantro plant gave a little and quickly dried and went to seed. So I pulled it and shook the seeds off and tamped them down a little and forgot about them. Late last year they came up and we enjoyed a boat load of cilantro since and this is what they look like now.
Aye chihuahua!!!
http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l55/ekrockit/IMG_2814.jpg

[Jack Gilvey]

Cilantro is one of the ultimate horrors. Looks nice, though! :)

[Sandy Cheeks]

I thought you were supposed to nip off the flowers to keep it from going to seed.

[Glowing Tubes]

They've all gone to flower.. tough to keep them just leafy and green.. Looks like you will have a bumper crop next year.

[Jahn]

that's awesome! thanks for giving me a gardening idea!

[DWB1960]

When we first moved to SoCal 14 years ago I couldn't get into Cilantro at all. Now I love the stuff!

Nice looking forest!

[EricPeterson]

Well you should fit in nicely in So Cal...

[cvansickle]

Cilantro could be its own food group in my house!

[Ed Alvarado]

I thought you were supposed to nip off the flowers to keep it from going to seed.

Thanks for tip, I didn't know that. 8)

[RockStarNick]

Dude, Cilantro is the best. Love it.

[ford]

Love me some cilantro also

[buddaman71]

awesome. i love cilantro.

[Baxtercat]

Nice sunny wall. Now plant a habanero bush.

[hubberjub]

And if you're out of cilantro you can just throw in a tbs. of dish soap. It tastes the same to me.

[mrmjp]

never ever turn your back on cilantro

[Sandy Cheeks]

And if you're out of cilantro you can just throw in a tbs. of dish soap. It tastes the same to me.

I wonder if this is a generic thing. I've heard other people say it tastes like soap, too. I love it in Indian food.

[Ed Alvarado]

Nice sunny wall. Now plant a habanero bush.

There's a habanero plant about 10 feet to the left.
http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l55/ekrockit/IMG_2816.jpg

[Ed Alvarado]

I wonder if this is a generic thing. I've heard other people say it tastes like soap, too. I love it in Indian food.

Same here, my mother in law in fact.

[hubberjub]

I assume you mean genetic not generic. Yeah, I've read a few articles that tell me I'm not alone. It absolutely tastes like Dawn to me. I can tolerate a little but I can't stand much. My father is the same way.

[smiert spionam]

One of the great mysteries of gardening is how this plant that hates the heat found such a perfect home in pico de gallo and other high summer fresh salsas from Latin America. Here in Austin, the cilantro is is pretty well done by May, unless you have a cool shady spot dedicated to it. It's really a winter/spring crop.

Good stuff, though.

[korby]

My wife likes a little burrito with her Cilantro .

[coldinWI]

Here's a nice cilantro recipie:

BBQ Chicken to crispy

In a sauce pan:
3 green onions, thinly sliced (leaf and bulb)
3 sections garlic minced
4 tblsp vinegar
5 tblsp soy sauce
1/2 cup Peanut butter
1tbsp (or to taste) Red chili/garlic paste
Something sweet - Sugar soda works (like a lemon lime), straight sugar, Jellies are good (like an apricot, strawberry, etc.)
2-3 Tbsp oil

Sautee until onions are cooked

Add sliced or cubed BBQ chicken, Mix

Serve with rice, or rice noodles

and lots of minced CILANTRO as garnish, or mixed in
Chopped peanuts are also good with this dish

Enjoy - John

[slipbeer]

Aren't you supposed to have a disclaimer stating you are affiliated with Alvarado's Cilantro Conglomerate or something?

[Baxtercat]

There's a habanero plant about 10 feet to the left.
http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l55/ekrockit/IMG_2816.jpg
How cool Ed, looks like it's all gonna be there...lil scallions and everything. Post a pic of the pepper plant when the lil dangling bombs are ripe and ready!

[SuperSonic]

That is about to be coriander.

[Bassomatic]

Cilantro is an acquired taste (for some) which soon turns to a crack-like addiction for most. Besides, if Chinese, Indian, and Mexican cuisines all rely upon it, you know it's important stuff.

[R3deemed]

Dude, Cilantro is the best. Love it.
Yum!!!

[Dica3]

And if you're out of cilantro you can just throw in a tbs. of dish soap. It tastes the same to me.

That's the way it has always tasted to me as well

I have really tried with it too.

To the OP, that is a heck of a plant

[axavm]

Mmmmmmm Cilantro. Now that's a good g_ddamn spice right there!

[Sam Evans]

Cilantro could be its own food group in my house!

Same here. I am one of the "genetically predisposed" cilantro lovers.

[Scott Miller]

I think it's interesting that cliantro was unknown in the States for a long time. I first encountered it in Guatemala in 1974. I thought someone had spilled lighter fluid on my steak. The next day, I was in the market and I smelled it, followed my nose, and tracked it down. I like it, now that I know it's not lighter fluid.

[Sandy Cheeks]

I remember making a dish from a Thai cookbook that used:
1. Coriander leaves
2. Coriander seeds, roasted and ground
and
3. Coriander root

[soulohio]

Cilantro is an acquired taste (for some) which soon turns to a crack-like addiction for most. Besides, if Chinese, Indian, and Mexican cuisines all rely upon it, you know it's important stuff.

how true...I am looking for ways to use it in every meal now...

[epluribus]

Oboy, volunteer crops! Can I play?

Sidewalk Chives...

http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/6461/sidewalkchivessmall.jpg

:)

--Ray

[Trout]

Nice crop,

I love the stuff but I still laugh about Julia Child's interview, she hated the stuff.

In a television interview in 2002, Larry King asked Julia Child which foods she hated. She responded: “Cilantro and arugula I don’t like at all. They’re both green herbs, they have kind of a dead taste to me.”

“So you would never order it?” Mr. King asked.

“Never,” she responded. “I would pick it out if I saw it and throw it on the floor.”

Ms. Child had plenty of company for her feelings about cilantro (arugula seems to be less offensive). The authoritative Oxford Companion to Food notes that the word “coriander” is said to derive from the Greek word for bedbug, that cilantro aroma “has been compared with the smell of bug-infested bedclothes” and that “Europeans often have difficulty in overcoming their initial aversion to this smell.”

[grateful.ed]

Cali Rocks! I had a friend in SanDiego with Rosemary that looked like hedges

[DWB1960]

This is one of the best recipes I've tried where cilantro is a real star!

http://www.thecookingguy.com/cookbook/recipe.php?id=369

[Peteyvee]

Here's a nice cilantro recipie:

BBQ Chicken to crispy

In a sauce pan:
3 green onions, thinly sliced (leaf and bulb)
3 sections garlic minced
4 tblsp vinegar
5 tblsp soy sauce
1/2 cup Peanut butter
1tbsp (or to taste) Red chili/garlic paste
Something sweet - Sugar soda works (like a lemon lime), straight sugar, Jellies are good (like an apricot, strawberry, etc.)
2-3 Tbsp oil

Sautee until onions are cooked

Add sliced or cubed BBQ chicken, Mix

Serve with rice, or rice noodles

and lots of minced CILANTRO as garnish, or mixed in
Chopped peanuts are also good with this dish

Enjoy - John

Sounds good, but can you grow cilantro in WI?
BTW: Nice job, Ed! Wanna trade for some rosemary?
PTV

[DWB1960]

Here's a nice cilantro recipie:

BBQ Chicken to crispy

In a sauce pan:
3 green onions, thinly sliced (leaf and bulb)
3 sections garlic minced
4 tblsp vinegar
5 tblsp soy sauce
1/2 cup Peanut butter
1tbsp (or to taste) Red chili/garlic paste
Something sweet - Sugar soda works (like a lemon lime), straight sugar, Jellies are good (like an apricot, strawberry, etc.)
2-3 Tbsp oil

Sautee until onions are cooked

Add sliced or cubed BBQ chicken, Mix

Serve with rice, or rice noodles

and lots of minced CILANTRO as garnish, or mixed in
Chopped peanuts are also good with this dish

Enjoy - John

Tried this yesterday. F-ing awesome! I used lemon/lime soda for the sweet. Also helped to thin out the sauce. Can't wait for leftovers.

[tele_phil]

My wife found this awesome recipe for cilantro beef stew. It's either Peruvian or Chilean...I can't remember which. It is simply awesome. You use a boat load of cilantro. It looks like you have enough for ~4 big pots of stew.

[anoobis]

Been growing and selling Cilantro 'Delfino' this year. Everyone thinks it is carrot. A little milder flavor than the standard cilantro. I like the taste and it's slower to bolt.

http://images.marthastewart.com/images/content/web/martha_edible_garden//cilantro_delfino_coriandum_sativum_xl.jpg

[Doodad]

We love cilantro here. It is on my counter as I type waiting to go into a Korean dinner after last night in our Mexican dinner.

Sadly, it is too hot here for good growing and bolts immediately. Pretty much a spring and fall crop here.

[soulohio]

I was up in the hills today and bought a bunch of campesino chorizo with cilantro as an ingredient...man, it is awesome...

[leofenderbender]

Almost time to harvest the corriander seed.