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.

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

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      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.

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    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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    Essential ingredient in almost every Soup Stock.

    Honestly I hate it on its own but it goes well in every soup I’ve ever made.

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        We used to have a prep bucket that we would fill with all our ends of onion, celery, carrots, sometimes tomatoes and garlic in. It would get put in a bag, dated and frozen. Then we would make stock from it when we had enough. Reduced to a quarter 4 times if I remember right.

        We also used to save all our fish and meat trimmings separately so we could use it in the stock making depending on what kind of soup were going to make.

        I still make turkey stalk with the thanksgiving caucus. Then make turkey soup. My favorite part of thanksgiving/christmas turkey! There is almost no waste when I cook for the holidays.

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    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

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    I use celery is so many things. Stir-fry, salads, chop it up and mix it in ‘egg salad’. Soups, stews, pasta sauce. Fry up a bunch of veggies with it, add some beans or lentils and spices, serve over rice, or noodles.

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      Unpopular opinion… Celery is delicious plain

      (Not the super green stuff, that’s only good for cooking

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    Like others are saying Bloody Marys & mirepoix. If you want to eat it raw with stuff, but you’re not in love with the texture, I’d recommend lightly peeling the celery before cutting into sticks. Removing some of the chewy rind while leaving the crunch makes it much more palatable.

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    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.