Hey, I think there’s enough Midwestern (general) and Chicago (specific) bashing on this thread now. Let’s pick another region to trash, shall we? /fuming Midwesterner-from-Chicago
And you can pry my jar of mayonnaise out of my cold, dead hands. Just Mayo, of course, which paradoxically tastes more like the Hellmann’s mayo I grew up with than Hellmann’s does these days.
FWIW, a spoonful of Marmite in hot water is actually a nice alternative to tea sometimes. Savory, of course, because of all the salt.
That explains a lot.
Calling me out on a joke from three months ago feels a bit like a…
…Cheap Trick.
What’s the 5 neck guitar equivalent of a rim-shot?
I love mayo, but I do have a tendency to gussy it up.
#Artichoke a la Japhroaig
Mash garlic, dill, and mayo till taste good. Cook artichoke. Dip leaves in mayo, and stuff in face.
Bring napkins.
Let’s ask @Donald_Petersen, I’m sure he’ll respond in the next 6 months or so…
this contains no mayonnaise. one demerit, and see me in my office (with some aioli and steamed seafood)
I never could get the hang of dill. It always seems to overpower everything the same way cilantro does, no matter how little I add. Although I love the hell out of kosher dill pickles. Although kosher dills don’t taste like dill at all. They taste like salt. And I love me some briny veggies. Good for preventing hyponatremia and scurvy.
Dill pickles use the seed instead of the green part of the plant.
Ah. That makes more sense now.
yeah, the dill flower and… heh… dill weed are a tad different. i like both, but i have taken to freezing dill flowers so i can use them later.
Higher concentration of aldehydes in the green bits, just like with cilantro as opposed to coriander seeds.
thank fsm i don’t have the ‘soap taste gene’. i enjoy aldehydes and find them pleasurable.
It’s odd. I love dill and cilantro, but every once in a blue moon I can taste a bit of the metallic soapyness. It must not be an entirely binary thing.
I personally can’t stand cilantro. It’s got the metal soap taste for me, and any amount will ruin the whole dish. Like, it won’t be that “I can taste the cilantro”, it’ll be “that tiny pinch of cilantro in the whole cauldron of chili makes the whole thing taste like burning soap, and my mouth has gone numb.”
you have my eternal empathy. for those of us without that… MUTATION… it is a wonderful flavor. but i guess you get to hang out with Professor X.
Kind of like sex and handedness, huh?
Having just visited the questions thread, that took me a couple of seconds to process.
