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.
Tunafish.
Tuna Salad for sure.
The compost.
A distraction! You need to watch the McGrover movie on Nezflik. Celery is important but you must remember to chamfer the stalk part.
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
Cream cheese. Hot sauce. Even just salt
Those are hummus shovels in this house.
Feta cheese
Blue cheese or ranch dressing.
Boil with Ramen noodles, serve with stir fry
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.
What is the celery like after unfreezing?
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.
Thanks!
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.
A light bit of salt. Buffalo sauce mixed with Bleu cheese or ranch. Put some food dye in a cup and watch it grow up the stalk.
Peanut butter and raisins.
Ants on a log!
Peanut butter
and raisins.So close!
How tf you gonna make bumps on a log without the bumps?!
If the bumps tasted like peanut butter I’d be fine with it!
So just peanuts?
crunchy peanut butter
Choccy chips.
Who the hell still eats raisins?! I thought society at large had decided we were done with them.
Raisins is nasty.
Are you 10?
Are you 70?
You know what’s another great improvement? Toss the celery in the trash.
I mean I don’t agree but who can argue with just having peanut butter? It’s great!
I’m with you. Raisins aren’t bad but totally overboard in this context.
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.
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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.