I have no formal culinary training but some flavor combos just seem wrong to me, like tofu and cheese. Wonder where such instincts come from
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if you want tofu and cheese, just eat paneer, right?
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tofu can sub paneer in some indian dishes, but not vice versa (paneer in chinese stir fry=yuck). And both together = bad.
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sure, but you can't stir fry cheese, either, so I figure whatever tofu/ cheese mix could be paneer instead
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actually you can. Just needs stronger spices to go with it. East asian spices get overwhelmed.
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what sort of spices do you use for cheese? Lay on the cumin & onion powder?
actual onions. Peppers go well, as do ginger, garlic, coriander, cilantro, lime (not too much)
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could be genetic... a small % of people have a genetic aversion to cilantro and coriander
I’ve heard cilantro thing as “it’ll taste like soap”, and to me it does alone, but I love it as an accent
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is it just cilantro the herb or extends to coriander the seed as well?
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although there are reports of people with that aversion discovering it's suddenly gone

