[OT} chilli wasRe: For sale

[Mike McCarty]

jdow wrote:
> From: "Ric Moore" <wayward4now at gmail.com> to Patrick W. Barnes
> 
>> Oh yeah, you being a Texan (just a stone's throw from being an Okie, but
>> I won't dare call you that!), you forgot cilantro in your chili recipe!
>> Gotta have a pinch, according to my perspectives. I lived in Odessa and
>> Houston for about 10 years. To me and my tastes, that is the secret!
>> Give it a try. See if your eyes don't light up and your tummy say
>> "HOWDY!" or as one of my less-than-couth friends from Odessa would say
>> with his West Texas Drawl, "It taste's so good, it'll make your tongue
>> hard." <grins> Ric
> 
> 
> Ric, you and I might agree with that. But I understand there are a
> fair number of men for whom cilantro is intolerably bitter. For them
> the recipe without cilantro would be a good thing. Maybe Patrick is

Might be from chopping up the stems. The stems, if chopped pretty
finely, do release a bitter taste. Strip the leaves and barely chop
them, and you won't get that. The seeds also can be somewhat bitter.

> one of these unfortunates. He tells me that he hates going to Mexican
> restaraunts because of that. His wife loves it. So he simply has a
> plain old hamburger to escape the cilantro. (He is of Mexican heritage,
> too. Pity him!)

Indeed. The Indians (Hindu style) call it coriander.

Gotta have lotsa cominos, too (cumin).

Mike
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