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Our tips for Celery

  • Cheap and healthy batch cooking

    Submitted by Gemma Parnell, Bedfordshire

    Bulk up meals like pasta bakes, curry and chilli con carne with beans, pulses vegetables and potatoes. It's cheaper healthier and it means you can use up the rest of the vegetables in the fridge! I always make at least one extra portion to freeze when cooking, and I make food for my baby at the same time.

  • Great soup from fridge oddments

    Submitted by Merryl Cook, Heaton Moor, Stockport

    Gather up all the bits from your fridge - coarse outside lettuce leaves, that bendy carrot, bit of onion, green tops of leeks and spring onions, a few herbs, etc, etc. Put in a pan with water to cover and a stock cube or meat jelly or gravy if you have some leftover and boil until the veg are soft. Whizz in processor or liquidiser. The French call this 'Garbure' and it's almost always delicious and different each time. Can be thickened with leftover potato, or some small pasta shapes can be added, or a cooked chopped bacon rasher. Soy sauce and a slowly poured beaten egg will make it Chinese-ish. Curry paste,and garlic, or grated cheese, or mushroom ketchup ... almost any mixture you invent will taste better than a tin of soup, and it's practically cash- and additive-free!

  • Turn your leftover veg into a healthy soup

    Submitted by Anonymous,

    Use up left over veg to make a healthy & tasty soup - lovely weekend lunch with crusty bread. Any veg - the more the better, plus herbs, seasoning (tin of chopped tomatoes add colour & flavour). When cooked mash for chunky soup or liquidise for smooth. The options are endless - have never had a bad one & the kids love it!

  • Crisp celery

    Submitted by Megan, Minnesota

    Wrap celery in foil and store in the fridge to keep it fresher for longer.

  • Salad storage

    Submitted by Cath Marsland, Stockport

    I threw away the drawers that came in the bottom of my fridge and replaced with long thin plastic sealable boxes now my salad ingredients stay fresher for days longer.

  • Stilton

    Submitted by Antonia Williams, Peterborough

    Too much stiliton cheese at Christmas can be frozen and later used up in a nice homemade celery soup.

  • Braised celery from bruised celery

    Submitted by John Sage, Hornsea, East Yorkshire

    If your lovely crisp celery has gone limp, don't throw it out, braise it in a stir fry or add it to your stews and casseroles - it is delicious and nutritious. I especially love it mixed with leek and Chinese leaf in a stir fry.

  • Lion pasta sauce or lion soup

    Submitted by Lell Picken, Consett co.Durham

    I make pasta sauces and soups from the vegatables that are "lion" about in the fridge! Peppers, celery, carrots, tomatoes that are too soft to go in a salad. It's never the same twice. I also do the same thing with fruit and make crumbles.

  • Celery leaves

    Submitted by Sunny A-Angeles, Athens, Greece

    Cut off the leaves when you buy a bunch of celery. Wash, dry for a few hours on a towel (they should still be fresh but without any water drops), seal in a plastic bag and keep in the freezer. Crumble a few frozen leaves into soups or other cooked dishes to which you wish to add celery flavour.

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