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Post by bixaorellana on May 3, 2009 0:00:40 GMT
Love it? Hate it? I'm in the "love" category. I'd knock over a little kid for the black jelly beans in his Easter basket, and love how much Mexican food incorporates avocado or hoja santa leaves in savory foods. HW, didn't you mention a plant related to hoja santa in one of your posts about Cambodian food? Is it anisey also? |
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2009 5:11:29 GMT
Yes, I love licorice, too. It is a flavor about which nobody seems to be neutral. The love or hate always seems to date from childhood.
However, quite a few visitors to France and Greece who arrive in the 'don't like anise' category end up learning to appreciate pastis or ouzo. Same thing for raki in Turkey or Lebanon.
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Post by bazfaz on May 3, 2009 11:33:28 GMT
Pastis seems ideal in hot climates. It is my apero of choice here, even if the weather is cool. When we are in Greece I buy a bottle of ouzo so I can have one on our balcony/in the garden/by a bedroom wndow before we go out for dinner. However for Mrs Faz I have to buy a bottle of wine.
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2009 11:54:40 GMT
I too love licorice flavor. I had a friend who used to get me to bring back to N.O. from N.Y. a particular brand of licorice flavored cough drops. I would wipe out the local pharmacy of all they had in stock at the time.
There is also a brand of licorice candy that I only have seen at JFK airport and I always get a few boxes.
Biting into an anise seed is truly sublime.
The cough drops I now remember were Smith Bros.
I do remember hearing that licorice was not good for the liver or maybe just people with liver problems.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 3, 2009 14:26:10 GMT
And there's Herbsaint, a safer alternative to absinthe. (In recent years, there have been attempts to rehabilitate absinthe's reputation. It's now legal to buy it in the US.) Much licorice candy contains no licorice, the flavor coming from anise instead. According to this article, licorice is used in the treatment of liver problems. Read to the end, though, where there are other caveats. |
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Post by auntieannie on May 3, 2009 14:47:53 GMT
Yes, I do like these tastes. I like my mom's "cretes de coq" anise biscuits for christmas, among other things.
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Post by rikita on May 3, 2009 21:20:48 GMT
i like licorice, had a phase during which i really loved sambuca, like raki too, pastis and ouzo are okay too...
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Post by komsomol on May 4, 2009 7:29:17 GMT
People with high blood pressure are advised only to eat artificially flavoured licorice. Natural licorice increases blood pressure significantly.
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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2009 11:59:48 GMT
There's an Indian restaurant that we fancy here and they have a bowl of this stuff that looks like potpourri near the door when leaving. It is actually some kind of candy that has a very intense anise flavor. I have to ask next time what it's called. Maybe it is potpourri and I'm eating it!
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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2009 12:09:36 GMT
That stuff also has betel nut fragments in it (the little red pieces).
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Post by auntieannie on May 4, 2009 15:38:20 GMT
casimira, I should think that amongst other things there are cumin and fennel seeds, sugar-coated. this is to help digestion.
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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2009 16:43:56 GMT
My deceased Pakistani colleague always said it was also to get rid of curry breath.
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Post by auntieannie on May 4, 2009 16:51:21 GMT
certainly, certainly!  |
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Post by gyro on May 4, 2009 19:11:27 GMT
I'm not a massive fan of licorice, but today I had venison with prunes and licorice, accompanied by herb scones. Although, towards the end, I could taste the licorice a little too much it was still very tasty.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 4, 2009 19:53:51 GMT
How interesting! Was the licorice in its root form? Also, is this a dish from a particular country?
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Post by BigIain on May 4, 2009 21:02:07 GMT
I was in Indian resturant in Edinburgh the other week and they had a wee bowl of what looked like "hundreds and thousands". These were actually licorice flavoured. We had great fun flicking them around the room using spoons.
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Post by rikita on May 4, 2009 21:21:07 GMT
what are hundreds and thousands?
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Post by gyro on May 5, 2009 5:19:32 GMT
Little toppings that you sprinkle on iced cakes and buns etc. Smaller than rice grains.
Biscuit, I guess it was using the root, but I didn't notice eating any of it. Oh, and yeah, I was in England.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 5, 2009 5:22:53 GMT
Oh, and yeah, I was in England. From ~~ was the recipe from a particular country?  |
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Post by gyro on May 5, 2009 5:23:34 GMT
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Post by gyro on May 5, 2009 5:24:53 GMT
Go to Pigs Menu, it's at the bottom of the 'Hungry' courses. And they spell liquourice correctly too .....
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Post by bixaorellana on May 5, 2009 5:29:32 GMT
I suppose you think they spell "olde" correctly, as well?
I could feel an artery clogging as I read the menu, but it does look really good.
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Post by gyro on May 5, 2009 5:33:35 GMT
It's a good think ALL other food across the world is so healthy then, isn't it ?
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Post by Jazz on May 5, 2009 5:34:00 GMT
Licorice/anise flavour doesn't do much for me one way or the other. It certainly doesn't depend on the climate. Every now and then I love it...on ice.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 5, 2009 5:34:30 GMT
Personally, I live on bowls of steam and the occasional lettuce leaf.
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Post by gyro on May 5, 2009 5:44:24 GMT
Oh, and is there some pathetic smiley on my post at #19 ?
I typed a ':' and then a '-' , so I'm guessing this stoopit site automatically transformed that into some 'funny and heart warming' smiling cunt ?
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2009 6:47:52 GMT
Actually, your smiley looks quite distressed as though he knows you're going to beat the shit out of him.
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Post by gyro on May 5, 2009 6:58:33 GMT
If only, you punctuation pervert fascists ....
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2009 12:57:14 GMT
 Anise Hyssop,AKA Licorice sage:Many medicinal uses,CULINARY:Flowers in salad. Add to game(rub on skin),rabbit pie,kidney and lamb stews,rich pates, and vegetable soup. Serve with cranberries in fruit salads. Note: Do Not take hyssop when pregnant. |
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Post by Don Cuevas on May 5, 2009 15:06:55 GMT
I love lickeris. I bought 3 pounds of Switzer's Twizzlers at the local Walgreen's Drugs, to take home to Mexico.
I also saw some very tempting Australian Liquorice whilst at Trader Joe's. But I resisted, especially the very cute Scottie Dogs liquorice (may not have been the Aussie ones) at $4 USD a pound.
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