What do you do with celery????

[Retrograde]

24. Celery is essential in mirepoix

(a basis of French cooking) and its Louisiana cousin, the trinity. The former is one part minced carrot, one part minced celery, and two parts minced onion, the latter switches out the carrot for bell pepper. Sautee them up, and use the results in soups, stews, whatever needs some flavor - I use a mirepoix in meatloaf. Mr. Retrograde uses a lot of celery in what he calls shrimp creole. You can sliver it and add it to stir-fries. Tonight I'm using celery to bulk out some leftovers in a pot pie. I sometimes add it to tuna or chicken salad. You can make cream of celery soup, which is tasty but since celery has those dang strings it can be a challenge to puree.

Or you could just eat it raw - this was considered fancy in the late 19th century when fresh celery was rare and expensive (not my favorite - I don't like the texture).