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I grow a bunch, rinse well and rough chop. I then pack it into a silicon ice tray I have. Pop them out and put them in a large freezer bag. That way I have it all winter. It isn't the same as fresh but you get that bright green flavor still. I have to remember and get some culantro seeds and do the same. I finally found a source for the seeds online. Along with real thyme from Jamaica!
Great suggestion. I buy it from the store, not all that expensive, but use it in a lot of things. I'd like to grow that and spinich this year, since I use both as seasonings.
I grow a bunch, rinse well and rough chop. I then pack it into a silicon ice tray I have. Pop them out and put them in a large freezer bag. That way I have it all winter. It isn't the same as fresh but you get that bright green flavor still. I have to remember and get some culantro seeds and do the same. I finally found a source for the seeds online. Along with real thyme from Jamaica!
If you order culantro seeds I would recommend getting them in some potting mix as soon as possible with a dome for humidity. They lose viability very quickly and need a lot of humidity to germinate. Once you get some established they're pretty easy to overwinter and propagate from cuttings but they're kind of difficult to start from seeds. I've planted 50+ seeds before and had zero germinate, and that was in a domed thermostat-controlled seed starter.
"Jamaican thyme" is plectranthus amboinicus. You don't have a site claiming to sell seeds of that do you? It doesn't grow from seeds only cuttings, if they're claiming to have seeds they're selling you the wrong plant. You can get cuttings shipped from a number of sites where it usually goes by the name Cuban oregano, broadleaf thyme or Spanish thyme. It is ridiculously easy to propagate from cuttings.
You can order both these plants from companionplants.com for ~$4-5 each and then propagate them from cuttings for all eternity.
Can't stand the stuff. Last night our family went to a Mexican restaurant and my (adopted) daughter asked for extra cilantro on her steak tacos. It turned my stomach to even watch her eat that. She said "Well it's obviously we aren't blood relatives."
Can't stand the stuff. Last night our family went to a Mexican restaurant and my (adopted) daughter asked for extra cilantro on her steak tacos. It turned my stomach to even watch her eat that. She said "Well it's obviously we aren't blood relatives."
Lucky for me and everyone in my immediate family we don't have it.
Cilantro lime rice for dinner!
As Bulldogdad pointed out we have had other threads and polls about this before. I have merged this (no kudzu's) thread with a previous thread. A great reminder to do an Advanced Search before posting new threads.
For me it was an acquired taste, but I'm glad I kept with it until I had acquired it. I just love it now. I don't usually buy salad dressing, but recently on a whim I tried Trader Joe's cilantro dressing....best dressing ever.
I have said this before earlier in the original threads, but check out culantro in you want something similar to cilantro but doesn't trigger the soap gene. It looks like dandelion leaves almost and very good. It's what I used mostly growing up.
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Do you hate cilantro? It's in your genes.
