On Sun, 2006-08-13 at 18:32 -0700, jdow wrote: > From: "Ric Moore" <wayward4now@xxxxxxxxx> to Patrick W. Barnes > > > Oh yeah, you being a Texan (just a stone's throw from being an Okie, but > > I won't dare call you that!), you forgot cilantro in your chili recipe! > > Gotta have a pinch, according to my perspectives. I lived in Odessa and > > Houston for about 10 years. To me and my tastes, that is the secret! > > Give it a try. See if your eyes don't light up and your tummy say > > "HOWDY!" or as one of my less-than-couth friends from Odessa would say > > with his West Texas Drawl, "It taste's so good, it'll make your tongue > > hard." <grins> Ric > > Ric, you and I might agree with that. But I understand there are a > fair number of men for whom cilantro is intolerably bitter. For them > the recipe without cilantro would be a good thing. Maybe Patrick is > one of these unfortunates. He tells me that he hates going to Mexican > restaraunts because of that. His wife loves it. So he simply has a > plain old hamburger to escape the cilantro. (He is of Mexican heritage, > too. Pity him!) God, I am aghast! Cilantro has recently been found to prevent botulism, which way down south in the scorching heat is a good thing. Like I said, just a teeny tiny pinch. I would agree that any more than that would over power the dish and the palate as well. Just enough to season and kill the micro-organisms. Certainly he could have the Pollo Loco instead of a hamburger? Maybe we should hear from the condemned? 60 miles north of where he is, in Oklahoma chili is eaten without cilantro. 'nuff said. <chuckles> Ric (former Texan) -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ...the Sin of Ignorance, and ...the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net ================================================
