Favorite Herb?

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Herbs are quite important. They make otherwise bland foods (such as vegetables) a little bit more edible. Which one is your favorite?

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I like making tomato sauce with parsley and oregano for my pasta dishes. That's as far as my herb knowledge goes lol.
 
I like making tomato sauce with parsley and oregano for my pasta dishes. That's as far as my herb knowledge goes lol.
Add fresh basil off the stem towards the end.
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I love cilantro, I use it almost every day in some way.
You can basically put some finely chopped fresh cilantro on top of any savory dish and it becomes better.

Thank god I'm not one of the people that apparently have some genetic variant that makes it taste like soap to them.
 
Thank god I'm not one of the people that apparently have some genetic variant that makes it taste like soap to them.
Yeah, that must really suck.

I love fresh cilantro for use in my salsas and to top off homemade tacos or nachos.

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I fucking love dill.

Growing up all the good food over the holidays had dill. The local borsht recipe was loaded with dill. Dill cream sauce over pierogi and everything else on the plate.

Bag of Dill Pickle chips after a couple of bowls of that other herb is pretty good too.
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I went with dill for how it handles cucumbers.

But I like a lot of herbs and spices. Cilantro is up there as. Mint is the bottom of the barrel.
 
Yeah, that must really suck.

I love fresh cilantro for use in my salsas and to top off homemade tacos or nachos.

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Yeah it's great with salsas and tacos.
Love it with stuff like Thai curries too.

We also make a lot of "Pebre" which is basically the local version of pico de gallo
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I also like making pasta with a white wine based seafood sauce and lots of fresh tomato and cilantro.
 
I fucking love dill.

Growing up all the good food over the holidays had dill. The local borsht recipe was loaded with dill. Dill cream sauce over pierogi and everything else on the plate.

Bag of Dill Pickle chips after a couple of bowls of that other herb is pretty good too.
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I like dill pickles. That's about the extent of my herbology.


If you can, get Grillo's Dill pickles. They are orders of magnitude better than a typical pickle.
 
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Oregano is my most used dried herb. Parsley is my most used fresh herb, followed by basil. I usually have fresh parsley in things like meatballs, chicken soup, etc. One of my favorite dishes that I currently make is a roasted cherry tomato pasta sauce. Saw it on some Japanese youtube channel but I add a bit of a change at the end. Halve cherry tomatos, top them with salt, oregano, and some sugar, then roast them for about 30-40 minutes. Throw some pasta water (I make spaghetti for this dish) into the roasting vessel to get up any bits of tomato that have cooked into the vessel and set aside for the sauce. Cook some minced or crushed garlic in a decent amount of extra virgin olive oil, as much garlic as you like, then throw in some red pepper flakes, again, as much as you prefer. Toss in the roasted tomatos, some starchy pasta water, and the tomato water you've saved to stop the garlic oil from burning. Cook it for a minute or two then put your slightly undercooked pasta in, finishing the pasta in the sauce.

The kicker is to make a batch of spicy anchovy toasted breadcrumbs to top it. Extra virgin olive oil, render some anchovies in the oil then cook some minced garlic and red pepper flakes in that oil. Toss in your breadcrumbs and cook until toasted brown then turn off your burner. Zest a lemon over the toasted breadcrumb mixture, to taste. Top your pasta with that and some parm. Btw, If you ever just make that toasted breadcrumb mixture, you will put it on so much stuff. Absolutely addicting. Throw it on some cooked veg for added flavor and texture, throw it on top of any quick pasta, whatever. Just look up Bobby Flay's toasted breadcrumb recipe. It's so fucking good.

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Cilantro and coriander are the same thing, no?

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Hard to beat fresh basil.
 
Team basil here. It's solid in so many things but I love some steak with thyme in a sous vide with butter. It's fantastic way to get the flavour in
 
Quinoa: basil + oregano

Chicken or ground meat: I blend rosemary and cumin

I don't fuck with cliantro, it's too medicinal for me. Mint is good in tea though.
 
As a man of culture I'm going to say Herb(ie) Hancock.
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Isn't coriander and cilantro the same thing?
I like each one on your lis
I love some chives on my eggs
But I can eat coriander by the stem.

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Shado mody, Recao, Culantro, a type of coriander that is leaps and bounds better than any of the herbs mentioned on the list. Its a pungent herb that is phenomenal for savory umami dishes, and especially for soups.

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