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| PearlBlueSoul |
on Sun 15 Jan 12, 7:56 PM to PearlBlueSoul's blog.
I've been trying to make friends with celery, because, well, foods that stick around have a habit of having some worthwhile qualities. The opposite of modern celebrity. Poor celery, it's one of those boring diet foods for sadsacks and fanatics, never gets invited to parties or snuggled up next to a heart-kicking kebab.
Trouble is, only times I've had celery in the past is when some idiot hands a raw chunk to me, accompanied by cookbook-porn dirty talk like 'nutty' and 'peppery'. I'd taste it, and it was like a bunch of really great things delivered on the worst platform ever. Ick.
So, I chopped it up, and put it with some apple and walnuts, because I had an inkling that this combo was swell. I was right! And I'd accidentally recalled Waldorf Salad, whoop whoop.
Then I saw a thing on Mad Men, where some housewives were pottering in the kitchen (while smoking), doing something with celery that blew my mind (not smoking it, sadly): take a stick of celery, smooth a bunch of cream cheese into it, maybe pop some capers along the cheese like shirt buttonholes. Blammo! I call this snack THE HAUNTED TOENAIL.
Then I put it in a soup thing with kale and peppers and what not. It wasn't terrible! And didn't make me want to rip my balls off and bury them in the garden, hoping that the resulting tree would produce something tastier.
A celery cheesecake would probably turn my universe upside down.
| 15 Jan 12, 8:03 PM x_Lia_x 2 yrs |
Urrgh! Celery cheesecake, that's blown my mind now! | |
| 15 Jan 12, 8:04 PM mmutie UK, 7 yrs |
Celery can be great with pasta. No honestly! | |
| 15 Jan 12, 8:19 PM PearlBlueSoul UK(EC), 2 yrs |
Really? Hmm. Shall give it a whirl. Putting things with pasta always seems like doing 'voluntary conservation work' in an exotic holiday location - no-one believes you're doing it for the right reasons! | |
| 15 Jan 12, 8:25 PM mmutie UK, 7 yrs |
Just chop the celery fairly small (you'll need a whole head of it), saute it gently with onion or shallots and sliced garlic for 20-25 mins. Season, add to cooked pasta, then add lots of grated parmesan and stir till it melts a bit. You could add some chopped parsley as well if you fancy it. | |
| 15 Jan 12, 8:34 PM misunderstoodslave UK(OL), 2 yrs |
If you cook it fine. Raw, it is the devil's food and just wrong, wrong, wrong. Total hard limit. Well, I could eat it but I'd just vomit it straight back. Yuk. | |
| 15 Jan 12, 8:35 PM shit_sub UK(W), 5 yrs |
add it to almost any slow cooked savoury sauce and it will improve it. you can fish it out before serving if you're being posh. it's quite nice braised, too. my favourite way of eating it is with strong cheese. mmm, crunchy.
oh, ETA. strong cheese is a second favourite. absolute best is a bloody mary Edited 15 Jan 12, 8:36 PM by shit_sub | |
| 15 Jan 12, 9:05 PM Ama_Sidero UK(GU), 7 yrs       |
celery filled with either.....cream cheese (not my first choice), peanut butter, or pate. Very nice.  celery sticks with houmous.In soup it is very good. Very unhealthy but potato soup - 1/2 pot potaotos, 1/4 pot onions, 1/4 pot celery in a big pot with 1 ltr milk and a bar of butter. Let it cook all day on simmer (DONT boil) and thicken if need be with instant mash. (generally cutting the potato into bigger & smaller bits will melt them into thicker soup). Lots of pepper while cooking & a bit of salt. Lush. If you don't like the "strings", you can take a knife and pull most of them out... @Play_Space - Next party is Friday, February 3, 2012 and the first Friday of every month! Edited 15 Jan 12, 9:08 PM by Ama_Sidero | |
| 15 Jan 12, 9:08 PM SisterSpring  6 mths |
I love soup. I really love celery soup. I like celery dipped into homemade custard and lime jelly. Or steamed, mashed into cream cheese and honey and used as a topping on a Beetroot and Chocolate cake. | |
| 15 Jan 12, 10:16 PM Ama_Sidero UK(GU), 7 yrs |
That sounds like such a bizarre combination. Really incredibly healthy but just....strange. Could I have the recipe please? LOL @Play_Space - Next party is Friday, February 3, 2012 and the first Friday of every month! | |
| 15 Jan 12, 10:30 PM PearlBlueSoul UK(EC), 2 yrs |
She can hand it you when you get together to make me a celery cheesecake. |
