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.

  • boydster@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    3 days ago

    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.

    • blargh513@sh.itjust.works
      8·
      3 days ago

      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.

    • Crackhappy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 days ago

      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.

  • GooberEar@lemmy.wtfEnglish
    21·
    3 days ago

    Any of the “salads”: Tuna salad, chicken salad, egg salad, potato salad benefit from a little added celery, both as an added flavor component as well as for a little texture and crunch.

    While I use celery in a lot of cooking, I tend not to be able to use an entire bunch of it before it goes bad. So, whenever I buy it, I use what I can, and then I chop the rest up and freeze it. Then I can pull out what I need for cooking purposes at my leisure, and I don’t end up wasting much celery.

    All the options you mentioned for eating the celery raw are great. I’d also add cream cheese to that list.

    • Drusas@fedia.io
      3·
      3 days ago

      If you don’t like celery uncooked, this is a great way to ruin a salad. It sounds like that probably doesn’t apply to OP, though.

      • GooberEar@lemmy.wtfEnglish
        5·
        3 days ago

        Tastes just the same.

        It loses some of its crispness, so you wouldn’t necessarily substitute frozen / thawed celery in a recipe that calls for raw / uncooked celery. Though, I have used the thawed stuff for things like potato salad and chicken salad before, which are things that typically use raw celery, and it still added enough texture and crunch to make it worthwhile.

        But for things that involve cooking celery, like in soups, stir fries, and things along those lines, frozen works just fine for me. I don’t find any difference in taste or texture in the finished product, assuming that the frozen celery didn’t get freezer burned or go through multiple freeze/thaw cycles.

        Most grocery stores in my part of the world sell frozen celery or at least frozen veggie mixes that include celery, so I’d say it’s a fairly common practice.

  • breecher@sh.itjust.works
    11·
    3 days ago

    Finely diced celery, carrots and onion is the foundation of basically all great stews and ragouts (including ragu alla bolognese).

  • JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world
    19·
    3 days ago

    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.

  • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
    7·
    3 days ago

    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!)

    • Drusas@fedia.io
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      3 days ago

      Also known as mirepoix.

      Not any soup, but many European-style soups. I don’t like celery on its own, so that’s what I would do with it: chop it up and freeze it. Use it for soup as needed.