cilantro consolation prize

[eub]

When your cilantro bolts too early, as it will do, sniggering visibly -- eat the flowers. They taste not very much like cilantro, but aromatic, and also sweet.

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[mh75.livejournal.com]

heh. don't know if i've eaten the flowers. In parsely they are not as tasty.

Do you think if you were disciplined and actually cut back your cilantro frequently it would not flower so early? My cilantro always flowers, but i'm not disciplined. The basil is somewhat more tolerant, and trimming it can keep it from flowering too early.

[eub.livejournal.com]

I don't know. I started chopping it off as soon as it showed ferny flower-stalk leaves, but maybe that was too late.