Celery

I've had a very strange month so far. I've hardly eaten anything green. I had a little swiss chard and green food coloring on Thursday, but I doubt those hardly count.

I was working at the PB garden yesterday evening and I ended up chit chatting with the sweetest lady. You could tell she had some hippie in her and she has one of those bubbling personalities (very well aged like mid 30yr old champagne) that you just want to be next to.

She also happened to growing the best looking celery plants (a green variety and a red variety) I've ever seen. I always thought it was near impossible to grow those things without it producing a lot of leafy tops, but hers were really nice with some nice stalks. As she left for the day she gave me a handful of celery stalks.

I couldn't remember the last time I even had celery! (Maybe Thanksgiving?) I knew I could grow it, so I havn't been buying it. But since I havn't been growing it, I've been going without it. I hadn't had celery in so long I actually had to look up a recipe to figure out how to cook it.

First hit, "Celery Soup"... DUHHH. I started chopping up the celery stalks and wow it smelled amazing! It was almost sweet and savory and very aromatic. It tasted a bit pungent raw, but still had a wonderful flavor.

I sauteed some onions in butter with the celery, added a can of chicken broth and couple scoops of left over calcannon. In 30 minutes I had an amazing bowl of Celery and Potato soup with a slice of caraway soda bread.


I almost want to go buy celery in stores, but I think Sherry ruined it for me. I'm growing celery in the fall!