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On Thursday, April 11, 2019 at 12:44:27 PM UTC-5, Sheldon wrote:
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> On Wed, 10 Apr 2019 18:52:06 -0700 (PDT), "
> > wrote:
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> >Boy, howdy! Cilantro may be green but it certainly doesn't taste anything
> >like parsley. Nasty stuff to me; as Ina Garten says about cilantro "not
> >now, not ever."

>
> To me cilantro tastes like soap.
> But I love parsely and much prefer the curly leaf variety; goes very
> well in egg salad and omelets, can't make chicken stock without it.
> I grow my own parsley, two plants just outside the back door, just
> steps from the kitchen, two plants produce plenty, a constant supply
> all summer. I add a fistful of leaves to tossed salads, the stems get
> ground into meat loaf.
>

I was never impressed all the much with parsley until last year when I did a
pork roast. It needed 'something' so I put in a heaping tablespoon of dried
parsley and to my surprise, it really perked up the flavor.