Veg Box man left me 2 full heads of celery...

[Milge]

What the hell am I going to do with them? DH has given up cheese for January, too, so lots of cheese, biscuits and celery are out.

put them in soups?

Soup?

great minds SL!

put them in a casserole?

also great for just munching on if you're on a diet! you use more energy digesting celery than you get from it...!

can you cook celery - wont it just disintergrate, I thought it was 90% water, or something like that.?

stick it in things like bolognaise sauce

get a vat of houmous in

Here you go milge. This looks nice.

Yes - it cooks well - I put it in casseroles too.

yeah it cooks fine! is LOVELY in soups and casseroles

I stick it in loads of pasta dishes, if you put it in with onions and peppers with a bolognaise it's nice and crunchy.
Or you eat it with cheese and biscuits.

I've just put two sticks of into Delia's Minestrone soup. Fantastic!

Nice in a casserole or a pie. DH will only eat celery when it is good generally.

I like it in my salads, chopped into small chunks with lots of other chunky veg/salad.

What about shredding really fine and using it for coleslaw with lemon and mayo, carrot and cabbage?

Or you can slice finely and bake fish on top of it.

Celery and bacon soup is delicious.

Sweat two large onions in butter with some garlic. Add 6-8 rashers of finely chopped bacon (or buy some lardons) add a head of chopped celery. Add some vegetable stock (marigold powder will do - if you use marigol make it up at half strength - otherwise it can be too salty) and simmer for 30mins.

Season to taste (but hte bacon and bullion together can be quite salty so don't add any more unless you need to).

Then blitx with hand held blender or with food processor and serve with fresh crusty bread. If you want to be wicked some croutons and some fried off bits of bacon are lovely scattered on the top!

Celery;s lovely steamed and served as a veg. Or chop and put in stir fry.

It's one of the essential three too. Chop and onion, carrots and a couple of sticks of celery and you've got the base of anything. Add meat and stock for a casserole or soup. Add a tin of toms and veg stock, whizz up and make hidden vegetable tomato soup for the kids

Cut into 4-5cm pieces, fill with peanut butter and sprinkle on raisins for Ants on a Log.

Wow! Now I know who buys celery - MNrs! Thanks. Looks like i will mainly be making soup this week. Just hope the stringy bits disintergrate too!

don't forget the coleslaw

Just thought of celery, nut and sultana salad - I used to love that as a kid, I feel a revival coming on. Pity its winter.

Think my mum used to make an apple, beetroot and celery salad too - now that was yummy. She called it 'winter salad', so no excuse.

I make a pork casserole and a whole head of celery (chopped!) goes into one of those for 6+ people.

It's lovely cooked, when you saute it beforehand itgoes the most brilliant green.

whizz it with carrot, onion and garlic to make base for tomato sauce with pasta, bolognaise, chilli or shepherd's pie

Well, I made chicken and veg pie for supper, with celery as one of the veg. Will do veggie soup on saturday. Tried to give some raw to dd to eat, but she took one sniff and threw it back at me. She has quite enjoyed pulling all the feathery green leaves off the top of the stalks though

Yeuuuuuchhhh.

Give it to the kids to use as playdough scoops.

Make a collage with it.

Float them in the bath.