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  • vogonpoetbythelake
    vogonpoetbythelake Posts: 2,146
    Volunteers are ...so hard...to find 'round these parts...
  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,404
    rgambs said:
    I use cilantro lol
    Just not very much.

    I used to like it more and then I grew some and it bolted and ruined me on it.
    When it bolts to seed the flavor intensifies, in a bad way, and it grows like a weed.  I had coriander volunteers coming up in earnest for 2 seasons and I still find it coming up in the yard and the woodline 4 years later!
    Cilantro I have come to accept is a grow it, harvest it and replant it type of herb.  Same thing with lettuce.  They don't last long.
  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    Fuck cilantro!

    My mom planted watercress and mint in the backyard of my first childhood home.  Beautiful, and grew wildly, abundantly.  And much enjoyed.
  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,404
    hedonist said:
    Fuck cilantro!

    My mom planted watercress and mint in the backyard of my first childhood home.  Beautiful, and grew wildly, abundantly.  And much enjoyed.
    Mint is a damn weed!  Tomatoes seem to thrive with them around though!
  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,681
    edited November 2017
    Lizard said:
    you CANNOT have a good salsa WITHOUT cilantro
    just saying
    Agreed. If I get a house-made salsa at a restaurant, there better be cilantro in it!
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  • mcgruff10
    mcgruff10 New Jersey Posts: 29,125
    Home made vodka sauce and penne. 

    I'll ride the wave where it takes me......
  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,815
    You had me at Vodka

    Made burgers tonight.  Grass fed.  Simple salting and cook in a cast iron pan.
    Lettuce
    Tomatoes
    Pickles
    Heinz
    And..... breaking from traditional approach I put mustard on.
    Beer mustard, inspired by our recent posts on the subject of mustard.

    Bangin'

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  • mcgruff10
    mcgruff10 New Jersey Posts: 29,125
    F Me In The Brain said:
    You had me at Vodka

    Made burgers tonight.  Grass fed.  Simple salting and cook in a cast iron pan.
    Lettuce
    Tomatoes
    Pickles
    Heinz
    And..... breaking from traditional approach I put mustard on.
    Beer mustard, inspired by our recent posts on the subject of mustard.

    Bangin'

    nice!
    I'll ride the wave where it takes me......
  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    Classic tuna noodle for us tonight, the taste of my childhood.
    Elbow macaroni
    Cream of mushroom
    Tuna
    Onion
    Sharp Cheddar
    Peas on the side
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  • dankind
    dankind Posts: 20,841
    rgambs said:
    Classic tuna noodle for us tonight, the taste of my childhood.
    Elbow macaroni
    Cream of mushroom
    Tuna
    Onion
    Sharp Cheddar
    Peas on the side
    The tuna pasta recipe from an early Deep issue is a good deviation from the childhood standard from time to time. 
    I SAW PEARL JAM
  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    Can't think of a tuna noodle I've met that I didn't enjoy!
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  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    That sounds fantastic, gambo (although I'd put the peas right in there vs. the side).
  • mcgruff10
    mcgruff10 New Jersey Posts: 29,125
    F Me In The Brain said:
    You had me at Vodka

    Made burgers tonight.  Grass fed.  Simple salting and cook in a cast iron pan.
    Lettuce
    Tomatoes
    Pickles
    Heinz
    And..... breaking from traditional approach I put mustard on.
    Beer mustard, inspired by our recent posts on the subject of mustard.

    Bangin'

    Did someone mention vodka?  Ok just one!!

    I'll ride the wave where it takes me......
  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    I use Le Sueur canned peas and they can tend to get mashed up if mixed in, so I warm them on the side and add them to my bowl.
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  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,815
    There is a thread just for that!
    (Tequila and beer tonight while I read a book and have the game on in the background)

    Neil Gamby introdces a good topic though....
    Vegetables.  If not fresh.....
    Frozen
    Or
    Canned

    How do you roll?

    I'm a Frozen guy, all the way.
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  • dankind
    dankind Posts: 20,841
    Growing up, everything was fresh or frozen except for peas, which were canned Le Sueur. Is that an Ohio thing? Asking because my family is a bunch of Hicks—literally, surname Hicks!—from the Buckeye State. 

    Now, I haven’t had a canned vegetable in at least 25 years. 
    I SAW PEARL JAM
  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,815
    I grew up eating mostly canned.  Canned green beans?  Omfg, horrid.  Frozen?  Much better.  Obviously, fresh is preferred


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  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    Several years ago I procured Green Giant's canned "asparagus".  That shit was MUSH.  I'm not one to send angry letters but I came *this* close to doing so.  Their quality was much better way back.  Assholes.

    Yes to frozen - corn and peas, particularly.

    (fine to go with canned French-cut beans for GBC though!  Just sayin', Senor F Me)

    DK, is your Hicks family related to Bill?  .....because that would make a whole lotta sense =)
  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    Le Sueur are just the best I guess.

    It really depends on the veggie and the way you are eating it.
    I would never prepare frozen corn as a side dish, it is chewy and loses all the corn flavor.  Yuck, there is no objective basis for claiming it's better than canned, do yourself a favour and taste test them side by side.  Then again, it goes better in soups and casseroles. 
    Green beans, broccoli, carrots, frozen.
    Peas, canned all the way.
    Maybe if they froze decent peas I would eat them, but they only seem to freeze large starchy peas, which are good in soups and casseroles, but not fit for a quickly prepared side dish.  Let Sueur early young sweet peas are tiny and tender and super sweet, there is no frozen equivalent.

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  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,815
    Peas and corn....I see a taste test in the near future!

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