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.
Mix cottage cheese with paprica or curry powder, and use it as a dip for the celery.
I don’t have a recipe for you, but someone once made me celery and red pepper soup and it was DELICIOUS.
Use your celery as an ingredient to make other things amazing. Mirepoix would be my first suggestion.
Tangentially related: It’s also great to add to a stock, and if you ever get a grocery store rotisserie chicken, you should consider making stock with it after you’ve cleaned off all the meat you want. Skin, bones (broken bones are even better), celery, onions, carrots… Even onion skins and those celery leaves I mentioned, it can all go in, you just strain everything out after you’re done cooking.
Pretty much any time you cook meat, consider incorporating celery into the ingredient list. It’s a friendly companion.
We always use celery when we make stock for our dogs, as we make their food using fish stock or beef stock. We get super cheap bags of salmon meat (like 5 pounds for $5) at the local farmers market and then use all of that to make stock. We get enough stock to last about 6 months per batch.
I too use stock for making food for my dogs. I’ll also make jello treats, it’s cheap, they love it, it’s really good for them.
Fellow dog lovers unite.
This is the correct answer. Celery is an ingredient, not something you eat on its own. You CAN eat raw onion chunks, but most don’t. Better as an ingredient.
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.
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Finely diced celery, carrots and onion is the foundation of basically all great stews and ragouts (including ragu alla bolognese).
Mirepoix
Cream cheese. Hot sauce. Even just salt
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.
In Louisiana we have the holy Trinity: onion, celery, and green bell pepper add the basis for most of our foods.
If you want something easy, maybe mix that with some scrambled eggs and rice. Otherwise, peanut butter? Haha
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!)
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Depends on how loosely you define ‘with celery’ - I like celery in soups, especially with chicken-based soups, but that’s not really something you can just grab a stick of celery and dip into or whatever.
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.
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.
Agreed. Little vodka, some tomato juice or clamato, olives, wustershire sauce, hot sauce… Now I want one.
“I could definitely have a Caesar.”
- Wayne
- Trash can.
- Gin and tomato juice.
Celery is great fight me
