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robjh
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- Location
- Cambridgeshire - almost Essex
It's all coming back to me now. I'm a sucker for roadside produce stalls though - I've stopped for many a vegetable, box of eggs or jar of honey to pop into my pannier.
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robjh
Legendary Member
- Location
- Cambridgeshire - almost Essex
And how was it?
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robjh
Legendary Member
- Location
- Cambridgeshire - almost Essex
Round here you get 'Fen celery' from about October to December, which is whole, large celery plants with a bit of the root attached. If you stick them in a pot of water they can keep growing for two or three months and you get new small stalks long after you've picked off and eaten the original ones, and then a tiny celeriac root at the end when you finally give up with it. I've still got two sprouting on the kitchen side.
Who knows, they're so good that they might even persuade a @Fab Foodie to the delights of celery.
Fab Foodie
hanging-on in quiet desperation ...
- Location
- Kirton, Devon.
Cooked celery is fine, or just the centre leaves in a salad, but nothing more. Stalks raw are Bleurghhhhh, one of my few food dislikes. Cooked celery on the other hand adds some Umami flavour enhancement.
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robjh
Legendary Member
- Location
- Cambridgeshire - almost Essex
Wow, and I thought I'd invented this trick.
Celery is supposed to be the only (or one of the very few) foods that consume more calories in the eating than in the food itself. 
So theoretically, it's the ideal diet food. 
However, given that I share @Fab Foodie's opinion of celery, I am not a slim, light-weight figure ... 
So theoretically, it's the ideal diet food. However, given that I share @Fab Foodie's opinion of celery, I am not a slim, light-weight figure ...
Fab Foodie
hanging-on in quiet desperation ...
- Location
- Kirton, Devon.
You're not alone!
hopless500
Trundling along
- Location
- not-as-flat-as-you-think Norfolk
Chunks of cooked celery
far too bitter for me.However raw celery with cheese or dips is delicious.
I dunno, he didn't really. It was a poor joke at the expense of your lunch which you successfully called me out on, so I'm going to slink off with my tail between my legs and make some pea and ham soup.
Cubist
Still wavin'
- Location
- Ovver 'thill
A friend of ours now sadly departed invited us round for dinner. He had prepared a casserole and trifle in identical casserole dishes (he didn't own a trifle bowl) and as we arrived he put the casserole in to warm as we drank aperitifs.
After half an hour he went to put the veg on and checked the casserole. To his dismay he discovered he'd accidentally baked the trifle.
All was not lost. We had an extra half an hour of aperitifs and nibbles, and the baked trifle was delicious!
After half an hour he went to put the veg on and checked the casserole. To his dismay he discovered he'd accidentally baked the trifle.
All was not lost. We had an extra half an hour of aperitifs and nibbles, and the baked trifle was delicious!
Biff600
Veteran
By that statement, it suggests that the celery has entered the house, something that would never happen as long as I have a hole in the proverbial !!
The same applies to garlic, baked beans and brocolli
jefmcg
Guru
Um, what else were you planning to make? I almost always turn chickpeas into hummus. Too lazy to make falafel.I boiled a pan of chick peas dry this evening while in the next room consulting an online cycling forum, and after retrieving what I could, was left with a mess of dried-out, mushed-up and slightly charred legumes at the bottom. What to do?
Answer :
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Bit of tahini, olive oil, garlic salt and pepper, some blending and it made a pretty good hummus.
Mmmmm...
Oh, but I have a topical joke I need to share .....
Q Why does Donald Trump sleep with a tub of hummus?
A Because he likes it when a chickpea's in his bed.
reputedly with the French classic - Tarte Tatin
jefmcg
Guru
That is the saddest thing I've ever read.garlic
Other than your joke?
