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Old 20-03-2008, 09:28 PM
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I read a while back that wild herbs have evolved to develop flavours that would be unpalletable to the beasties that might eat them. But....

Humans they like to use them to add 'Improve' the taste of their food

I can agree on most herbs, but two in particular send me running to the sink....

Tarragon - the dirty French Bas**rds.
Coriander - I blame Delia. Even my Thai mates think its crap

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Old 20-03-2008, 09:48 PM
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Coriander?! It's gorgeous! If you're talking spawn of the devil you should have goji berries way up there. Gak!
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Old 20-03-2008, 09:56 PM
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i love coriander - have a few leaves with lettuce on my sandwich for lunch most days! couldn't live without it!
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Old 20-03-2008, 10:07 PM
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French Tarragon is grand, Russian is pants.

As for corriander, it is indeed the food of the devil and even disguises itself to look a bit like flat leaf parsley to catch out the unwary. Its cack.
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Old 20-03-2008, 10:22 PM
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Coriander is loverly. Used as garnish in curries works a treat and taste fab in Oriental style clear soup or noodle soup. My DH hates them, insist they taste too soapy which I agree but don't care.
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Old 21-03-2008, 12:33 AM
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i love corriander just with a bit of cheese and ham in a sarnie, tarragon i only use sparingly
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Old 21-03-2008, 05:11 AM
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Coriander?! It's gorgeous! If you're talking spawn of the devil you should have goji berries way up there. Gak!
Shirls wanted a sub to GYO which I sorted for her yesterday. Included is a free gift of 3 Goji trees or berries...
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Tarragon - the dirty French Bas**rds.

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Ignorant git!!! End of discussion.
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Old 21-03-2008, 09:20 AM
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Coriander leaves to me have a sickly smell and taste yet I will keep growing it for the seeds which I really like!
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Old 21-03-2008, 09:26 AM
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Ignorant git!!! End of discussion.

How rude (and very to type )

Perhaps you should try the Accroissez Votre Propre Forum
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Old 21-03-2008, 09:31 AM
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Love tarragon, loathe coriander, even the smell of it growing is something akin to a wet grizzly bear and things just get worse once you've picked it.

They're starting to grow cilantro coriander on a vast scale in the southern US, I've an awful feeling that in order to sell that amount it will have to become the next 'superfood'. (if you look at the list, green tea excepted, everything on it just happens to have the US as a major, or the major, exporter. I've always been suspicious of that)
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How rude (and very to type )

Perhaps you should try the Accroissez Votre Propre Forum
And my type is what, especially if you have the audacity to type 'the dirty French b@st@rds' with or without asterisks?
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Old 21-03-2008, 01:09 PM
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Another coriander fan here - love the stuff! (especially in butternut squash soup)

The title of the thread reminded me of the flat-leaved parsley in my salad bed, currently known as The Parsley That Would Not Die Each time we've had a hard frost it has wilted, only to spring back up bigger and greener than before! Maybe it's the chicken manure I spread on the bed after I cleared up all the tatty remains of the old salad leaves...
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Old 21-03-2008, 01:51 PM
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coriander leaves - blergh, gives me terrible stomach ache, deffo the herb of the devil
However, corriander seeds - lovely in curries, how can they come from the same plant?!
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And my type is what, especially if you have the audacity to type 'the dirty French b@st@rds' with or without asterisks?
I think it was meant as a joke. The phrase is featured on The Catherine Tate Show, by a couple of Little Englanders who hate anything "foriegn" in food.
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Old 21-03-2008, 07:21 PM
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I love coriander (both leaf and seeds). I grow coriander each year for kitchen and for companion planting. I also grow russian terragon. Terragon is one of the best herbs for cooking mussel..hmmm yum yum.
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Old 21-03-2008, 07:45 PM
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I think it was meant as a joke. The phrase is featured on The Catherine Tate Show, by a couple of Little Englanders who hate anything "foriegn" in food.
Which phrase? I suppose that I would see, but you need to know that before you see the 'joke', know who Katherine Tate is and then it assumes that everybody thinks it's funny and appropriate. Dirty etc isn't necessarily funny.
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I'm with you Tony I didn't think it was appropriate.
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Old 21-03-2008, 08:28 PM
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Ordinary coriander ? How passe. Darlings, everyone who's anyone is using Vietnamese coriander ; )
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