I know that some people eat celery with hummus. Or put pimento cheese or peanut butter on it. Are there any other foods that you think go well with celery? I’ve got some celery in my fridge that I’m trying to eat up.
- Trash can.
- Gin and tomato juice.
Celery is great fight me
Feta cheese
They are an excellent addition to any compost bin.
I kid (not a huge fan when celery is out with other things but don’t mind it on its own). Definitely gotta have it in a Bloody Mary / Bloody Caesar though.
Agreed. Little vodka, some tomato juice or clamato, olives, wustershire sauce, hot sauce… Now I want one.
“I could definitely have a Caesar.”
- Wayne
Frankly you can get more or less the same flavor in mirepoix using celery seed. The flavor of the plant, on its own, is that of satans taint sweat.
Blue cheese or ranch dressing.
Essential ingredient in almost every Soup Stock.
Honestly I hate it on its own but it goes well in every soup I’ve ever made.
Mirepoix is in a lot of stuff besides soup as well. Onions, carrots, and Celery base.
We used to have a prep bucket that we would fill with all our ends of onion, celery, carrots, sometimes tomatoes and garlic in. It would get put in a bag, dated and frozen. Then we would make stock from it when we had enough. Reduced to a quarter 4 times if I remember right.
We also used to save all our fish and meat trimmings separately so we could use it in the stock making depending on what kind of soup were going to make.
I still make turkey stalk with the thanksgiving caucus. Then make turkey soup. My favorite part of thanksgiving/christmas turkey! There is almost no waste when I cook for the holidays.
I believe it’s turkey carcass that makes turkey stock for soup.
The Turkey Caucus makes legislation.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Caucus_on_Turkey_and_Turkish_Americans
Correct, long live our turkey overlords!
Also stalk, me alcohol, post bad, spell, good, not!
Add a small amount of chopped celery to a large amount of ground beef, eggs, and breadcrumbs for meatloaf. Use the remaining celery to feed rabbits, then make rabbit stew!
Finely diced celery, carrots and onion is the foundation of basically all great stews and ragouts (including ragu alla bolognese).
Mirepoix
Those are hummus shovels in this house.
Soup, anything else is crazy, fight me on it!
Cut off the base and the tips, rinse it all, cut scoop-sized pieces of the perfect stalks or parts of stalks and pop them in some ice water until you can try the suggestions. Chop all the rest, leaves and too small inner bits and strong-flavored rough outer stalks. Put the chopped pieces in the freezer. Perfect for chicken soup, or in almost anything that starts with “chop an onion.” (Not instead of the onion, in addition to it!)
Mix cottage cheese with paprica or curry powder, and use it as a dip for the celery.
I use a good amount along with carrots when I make split pea soup.
It’s also good in chicken salad alongside grapes and chopped almonds.
Any french/ Italian that calls for the three veg onion, carrot, celery (they have a name for it). I use it in my spaghetti sauce.
I can’t think of any Italian dishes that use celery. French tons, but are you sure Italian commonly uses it? What Italian dishes use celery?
My favorite ragu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolognese_sauce
You right! I couldn’t narrow it down, so tried to recall from the region. Thanks for the correction!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofrito
Soffrito/battuto
Mirepoix! You can also swap the carrot for bell pepper to get the Cajun equivalent
That’s the holy trinity.
Cream cheese. But peanut butter is always best.
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