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[Hillbilly]

Kudos to the panel!!

that was a good photo Azabache....and I continue to learn...

I wonder why PIB did not chime in?? Is Mr. PIB in town??

HB

 

[azabache]

Kudos to the panel!!

that was a good photo Azabache....and I continue to learn...


HB

Thanks HB, but I sure wish I knew how to post a photo without going thru a hoster like tinypic. I want to be able to post the photo where it can be seen by the viewer without him having to click a link (like some of the users here are able to do).

 

[M.A.R.]

Thank you

See!! This is one of the reasons why I love this Forum!!

I host foreigner students here in L.A. and last night I made a Sancocho. My guess is Japanise and loved the way the sancocho smelled. He pulled one of the leaves out and asked me the name of it. To be honest, I didn't know the name in English and told him that we call it Cilantro Ancho back home. To my surprise you guys were discussing the name today!! Thanks everybody for making peoples life easier!! No matter what the question is, you guys always help!

Love you all! M.A.R, Hilbilly, AnnaC, Miguel, Princess, Momita, etc.. just to mention a few, there's too many!!! uuufffff

M.A.R. You are the bomb!! Long Coriander it is!!!

Perlanegra!

that's so sweet of you, and you are welcome. you call it "long coriander", I'll still call it "cilantro sabanero" like my mommy taught me .

btw: I wanted to say that these herbs for cooking are called, Hierbas Aromaticas, or Hierbas de Olor.

 

[perlanegra]

that's so sweet of you, and you are welcome. you call it "long coriander", I'll still call it "cilantro sabanero" like my mommy taught me .

btw: I wanted to say that these herbs for cooking are called, Hierbas Aromaticas, or Hierbas de Olor.

I grew up in Manzanillo, Pepillo Salcedo and the lady who used to cook at my house called it by both names: Cilantro Sabanero o Cilantro Ancho. I knew the name in Spanish; I just couldn't figure it out in English!!

I grow this in pots in my back yard; and yes in Los Angeles! My friend brought back some seeds and now I have lots of it!!

I love it! This herb is not only good for cooking soups but also for stomach pain (homeophatic). The same lady used to boil it and put a pinch of salt in it when I my belly hurt. Believe or not, pain was gone in minutes. If it didn't go away; then my mother will take me to the doctor.

2 more cents!

Perlanegra

 

[pi?acolada]

Different areas and different names. Could be cilantro, culantro, even culantrancho.

 

[azabache]

More on culantro...

In Caribbean cooking culantro really gives an special, unforgetable flavor to habichuelas (pinto beans for example) My dominicana wife makes a culantro salsa seasoning at home but somehow it doesn't taste the same as the salsa that I became accustomed to in Puerto Rico years ago. When I on occasion get a notion to cook for myself I buy the sauce already made. It can be found in most hispanic grocery stores. The sauce in called reca?to and is made by the Goya company. Add this salsa to beans as they are cooking and Wow!.......what a taste delight.

more on culantro: http://www.dollarman.com/puertorico/culantro.html

 

[M.A.R.]

Sometimes I do my own sofrito, bell peppers, onions, garlic, cilantro, salt, black pepper, some lime and a little olive oil, blend and refrigerate, to use for beans and meats. It would probably taste much better with some cilantro sabanero or cilantro ancho, mmmm. Daisy Martinez, a Puertorican cook who has a cooking show on tv adds bonnet peppers, (ajies gustosos) but only a couple 'cause the're hot.

 

[tiguerita]

Thanks to everyone who took the time to ask around

Cilantro Ancho or Sabanera in spanish, so I guess in english... the "other" cilantro or culantro? :cheeky: sure makes things tasty anyway...

Tig

I have found it (here in Canada) in West Indian groceries under the name : Shadow Benny and also in Chinese groceries, what they call it in Chinese though I don't know.

 

[Bronxboy]

I have found it (here in Canada) in West Indian groceries under the name : Shadow Benny and also in Chinese groceries, what they call it in Chinese though I don't know.

Thread is over 5 years old.

 

[tiguerita]

Thread is over 5 years old.

Does that make the topic irrelevant? Have they stopped eating habicuelas in the DR and do people abroad no longer look for the illusive secret ingredient?

 

[RGVgal]

I have found it (here in Canada) in West Indian groceries under the name : Shadow Benny and also in Chinese groceries, what they call it in Chinese though I don't know.

Thanks for sharing. I was trying to make Sancocho last week and was looking for cilantro ancho, but didn't know a name for it in English. I haven't seen it in U.S. supermarkets yet.

 

[Criss Colon]

I paid 20 pesos a "bunch" for "Cilantrico", and "Cilantro Ancho" in SD last week!!!
If you have a spotto plant them, DO!
Just dig up your dirt, then mix in some "Tierra Negra", ant stick the roots in the ground.
Now for the "Hard Part" don't harvest them, let them go to "seed", let the seeds dry on the stems, and fall to the ground and re seed themselves.Keep the dirt loose, and water the seeds. you will have all you want for ever!
That Said", I have never been able to use the "Self Seeding" method here in the DR. When dominicanas want some , they take some, until there is none left!
I have been able to plant Cilantro seeds, and get a good harvest.
They don't get very big, for the same reason listed above!
I waited 8 years to get the first 2 avocados off the tree I planted from a seed!
Dominicans can't think that far in advance.
If they all just planted a few avocado, or mango seeds they could all get them for free.
Papaya/lechosa seeds only have to be "Spit" onto loose soil to give you dozens of fruits.
I plant anything, and everything I can.
Love harvesting my own crops.
"Yo Ho Ho", CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC Giant

 

[Chirimoya]

Cilantro ancho (Eryngium foetidum) is not as well known outside the region. In English and other Spanish-speaking countries it is often called culantro. Although botanically unrelated, its taste is like a more pungent version of cilantro/coriander. Its names in the English-speaking Caribbean are all variations on the Hindi bandhania, a name brought over by East Indian migrants to the Caribbean islands (although the herb itself is native to the Americas). In Puerto Rico it?s called recao, which goes some way to explain why cilantro/coriander is sometimes called recaito in the DR). Its other names include long, wild or Mexican coriander, fitweed, spiritweed, duck-tongue herb, sawtooth or sawleaf herb and sawtooth coriander.

Herbs used in Dominican Cooking ? Dominican Cooking

 

[pollogringo]

Thanks for sharing. I was trying to make Sancocho last week and was looking for cilantro ancho, but didn't know a name for it in English. I haven't seen it in U.S. supermarkets yet.

Anywhere there's a concentration of Puerto Ricans you'll find it as culantro.

 

[bronzeallspice]

Anywhere there's a concentration of Puerto Ricans you'll find it as culantro.

That's the name for it also in the DR.I've always known it as culantro.

 

[tiguerita]

I paid 20 pesos a "bunch" for "Cilantrico", and "Cilantro Ancho" in SD last week!!!
If you have a spotto plant them, DO!
Just dig up your dirt, then mix in some "Tierra Negra", ant stick the roots in the ground.
Now for the "Hard Part" don't harvest them, let them go to "seed", let the seeds dry on the stems, and fall to the ground and re seed themselves.Keep the dirt loose, and water the seeds. you will have all you want for ever!
That Said", I have never been able to use the "Self Seeding" method here in the DR. When dominicanas want some , they take some, until there is none left!
I have been able to plant Cilantro seeds, and get a good harvest.
They don't get very big, for the same reason listed above!
I waited 8 years to get the first 2 avocados off the tree I planted from a seed!
Dominicans can't think that far in advance.
If they all just planted a few avocado, or mango seeds they could all get them for free.
Papaya/lechosa seeds only have to be "Spit" onto loose soil to give you dozens of fruits.
I plant anything, and everything I can.
Love harvesting my own crops.
"Yo Ho Ho", CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC Giant

Sounds great! I would love to try planting all of it!!! Can't wait to have my own little piece of land.

 

[Criss Colon]

"Cilantro" is also known as Coriander.
buy the seeds in the US.
I planted coreander seeds used as spices, bought from super here, and they didn't sprout.
"Treated????"
I bring lots of seeds from the USA.
They Grow just fine.
I also plant seeds I take from fruits and "veggies" here as well.
Sometimes you get a surprise.
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