sf wrote in rec.food.cooking:

> On Fri, 8 Jul 2011 19:40:13 -0700 (PDT), monkeywintest
> > wrote:
>
> > On Jul 7, 8:44*pm, "critters & me in azusa, ca"
> > > wrote:
> > > On Jul 7, 9:42*am, Bryan > wrote:
> > >
> > > > I'd tend toward leaving out the cilantro.
> > >
> > > > http://www.redsalsagreensalsa.com/
> > >
> > > > --Bryan
> > >
> > > I agree with you. *Tastes like soap to me.
> > >
> > > Harriet & critters
> >
> > Tasting like soap is one thing, but it overpowers everything to top
> > it off.
>
> You are an unknown, so I won't consider you a complainer. I do
> understand that you think cilantro overwhelms other flavors, because
> it's quite assertive - but it's something that does find its place in
> the medley as your taste buds mature and become accustomed to it.

Depends. A few of us have the 'wrong genes' for cilantro and it tastes
like soap. I'm one of them. People have tried to describe to me how
it's supposed to taste and it sounds like it would be very good.

I got it a few times when I was first married as Don likes it but he
kept forgetting and putting it in my food too. Charlotte inherited my
genes for this as well. She's an adventurous eater like all of us
(raised that way) so she tried it when she was 7 and spit it out in a
napkin right away. 'Tastes like soap Mom!' I didnt even tell her that
it tastes like that to me, just that 'Daddy likes it, Mom thinks food
is better without it'.

I do have several recipes that use it, but they are for Don and i make
a separate batch for me and Charlotte when doing those. Don just goes
'tsk tsk tsk, you don't know what you are missing'.

BTW, for those of us where it is 'soap weed', it's not something you
grow out of as you mature. It will be the same when I am 90 if I live
that long.

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