In which your heroine confesses an unnatural love

[secritcrush]

I was talking to Deb the other day about my Fakesgiving dinner and mentioned I was having cooked celery and Deb was underwhelmed with that choice of veg. I mentioned that celery water makes the best gravy (it's true!) but on any given big dinner I'd take celery above pretty much any other green veg. Now, I must go eat my soup (with celery!) and

Comments

[chickenfeet2003]

I'm not a massive celery fan but I don't hate it. I'll use it in soups, salads and casseroles. I can't think of any situation in which I'd prefer it as a cooked side dish to fennel which, generally speaking, I like rather more.

[fjm]

can't bear it cooked.

[lamentables]

I use celery in stir-fries and casseroles and soups and everything. Om nom nom.

[barbarienne]

Cooked celery by itself is evil. In a mirepoix it's great. If it's in my chicken soup and can't be avoided, I live with it. Ditto in Chinese food.

While I would never bring celery into my house (there are a million things I would choose first), I will eat raw celery if it is (a) the only available crudite, and (b) either simply salted or has peanut butter on it.

[carl_allery]

I'll eat it pretty much any way. Not that I can't live without it, but I like it well enough. Never had it as a cooked veg on its own, but given how I like with other stuff I must try it. Hmmm, my standby for veg is zapped or sautéed in butter. *wonders*