Celery masterclass

[ska invita]

use it instead of onions

 

[Fez909]

French celery soup? bluegh

 

[Fez909]

Cheese n celery crisps? bluegh

 

[Callie]

----> BIN

 

[Fez909]

Beef 1/4 pounder with celery rings? Bluegh

 

[Fez909]

Caramelised celery tart? Bluegh

 

[Firky]

Onions > celery.

Celery is quite low down on the list, way down there with cauliflower.

 

[Callie]

toe jam > celery tbf

 

[Greebo]

use it instead of onions

Nah mate - you use celery to replace the bulking out provided by onion, and garlic to somewhat replace the flavour.

 

[DexterTCN]

I think you use more calories digesting celery than you get from eating it.

 

[Fez909]

I think you use more calories digesting celery than you get from eating it.

That's one of the things always touted in its favour, but I'm pretty sure the same is true for lettuce and some other greens. Oh, and water!

 

[ska invita]

Celery is quite low down on the list, way down there with cauliflower.

i always thought that then got given some the other day and had no onions and its turned me into a gourmet chef over night. Chop it finely for all pasta and noodle dishes that might have wanted onion -one cut down the middle then chopped across - it disappears into the food and leaves the amabassador very impressed

 

[DexterTCN]

right...pasta with celery....for the Ambassador

 

[Fez909]

I think you use more calories digesting celery than you get from eating it.

And I'm shocked to find it's not even true!

A stalk of celery provides 6 calories to the body, but the body expends only half of a single calorie digesting it.

From the Wiki page on negative calorie foods.

The only 'food' that it is true for is ice cold water.

 

[DexterTCN]

Fez...who's going to eat a raw stick of celery...there'd be dip.

 

[Fez909]

Fez...who's going to eat a raw stick of celery...there'd be dip.

that makes it even less true

 

[TruXta]

I think you use more calories digesting celery than you get from eating it.

Nah, that's only true for very cold water.

Anyway, much as I like celery it's no replacement for onions and is certainly not a patch on the mighty alliums.

 

[ska invita]

right...pasta with celery....for the Ambassador

he's the italian ambasaddor

 

[Fez909]

Nah, that's only true for very cold water.

Anyway, much as I like celery it's no replacement for onions and is certainly not a patch on the mighty alliums.

Agreed about celery, but what're these bourgeois, ponce-foods named alliums, you speak of?

 

[DexterTCN]

he's the italian ambasaddor

He's not going to want fucking pasta then...will he? He'll be sick of it. He'll stab you in the eye if you give him pasta....

.....


....with celery.

 

[ska invita]

Dont knock it till you've tried it people - cooking secrets like this dont come along very often

 

[Greebo]

<snip>Anyway, much as I like celery it's no replacement for onions and is certainly not a patch on the mighty alliums.

Agreed. Although celery stalks do make a good trivet inside the roasting tin for meat or fish.

 

[ska invita]

He's not going to want fucking pasta then...will he? He'll be sick of it.

No he isnt sick of it - he's forever travelling abroad for diplomatic purposes and finds it quite comforting to have a gourmet bowl of pasta, especially one with such a unique flavour. Thank you very much.

 

[DexterTCN]

OK I'll try it, what's the recipe?

 

[Fez909]

Onion masterclass....use it instead of celery for dipping as it is a far superior foodstuff.

Where's your celery god now, ska invita

 

[TruXta]

Agreed about celery, but what're these bourgeois, ponce-foods named alliums, you speak of?

Bourgeois? I'm on about onions and garlics.

 

[Cid]

i always thought that then got given some the other day and had no onions and its turned me into a gourmet chef over night. Chop it finely for all pasta and noodle dishes that might have wanted onion -one cut down the middle then chopped across - it disappears into the food and leaves the amabassador very impressed

Did you think that maybe combining the onions and the celery would be twice as good? If you do that you're 2/3 of the way to getting up to the standard of most of Mediterranean Europe.

 

[Fez909]

Bourgeois? I'm on about onions and garlics.

Oh.

I've never heard that term before

 

[TruXta]

Oh.

I've never heard that term before

It's the Linnean family name.

 

[DexterTCN]

It's the poncy term for onions and garlic.