The garden’s getting drenched with rain today, thankfully, so I stayed inside and made soup. Lovely celery and leek soup feels spring-like, light and nourishing just like the rain. Local leeks were back in this morning’s farmers’ market so I wanted to build a soup around them. I also had an abundance of organic celery [...]
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Waste Not Want Not: Cheese Rinds and a Celery Soup
Posted in Celery and celeriac, Cheese, Soup, Waste Not Want Not, tagged Cooking with cheese rinds on March 31, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Orange-braised Celery
Posted in Celery and celeriac, Citrus fruit, tagged Orange braised celery on February 29, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Even before I challenged myself to eat as locally as possible during the winter months, I favored the fruits and vegetables of cold months, eschewing zucchini and eggplant and tomatoes as summer fare. Citrus and celery fall into the chosen group. Citrus is obvious since it is abundant in the south. Celery maybe is less [...]
Dark Days 13: Root Soup with Cheese Wafers and Slaw
Posted in Celery and celeriac, Cheese, Dark Days Challenge, Parsnips, Soup, Turnips and rutabagas on February 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
A continuing series on weekly meals that use sustainable, organic, local and ethical food during the challenging winter months. For more information, go here to the DDC section of Not Dabbling in Normal’s website: Dark Days Challenge. In which I make a garnished root soup that combines hominess with sophistication… I need to clean out [...]
Greatest Hits of 2011
Posted in Appetizers, Celery and celeriac, Condiments, Flowers, Paper Chef, Preserving, Quick breads and muffins, Soup, Tigress Can Jam on December 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
So what clicked the most with my readers this year? A few conspicuous trends, heavy on the cannin’ and jammin’ as you would expect from a blog with the word “pantry” in the title. It was definitely a good year for the pantry, with over 250 jars added, not counting the ones I already gave [...]
Waste Not Want Not: Carrot and Celeriac Roots and Greens as Puree and/or Soup
Posted in Carrots, Celery and celeriac, Soup, Waste Not Want Not, tagged carrot green pesto, Cooking carrot greens, cooking celeriac greens on October 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
When the first fresh carrots and celeriac show up at our CSA or Farmers’ Market, the greens are young and tender and can be used as herbs or combined into purees and soups. The carrot greens can also be turned into pesto. Last year, I unwittingly created a family joke when I served carrot greens [...]
Celery and Lovage Soup
Posted in Celery and celeriac, Herbs, Soup, tagged Celery and lovage soup, cooking with lovage on June 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Celery is at the top of the “dirty dozen” vegetables that harbor pesticides at the highest level. It basically has no “skin,” so whatever sprays, stays. Invisible, possibly toxic. It’s a vegetable that I happen to love raw and cooked, and is part of the triumvirate of vegetables known as “mirepoix,” which starts many a [...]
Dark Days Week 14: Celeriac and Potato Gratin
Posted in Celery and celeriac, Dark Days Challenge, Potatoes, Vegetable gratin, tagged Celeriac gratin, Dark Days Challenge on March 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
With daylight savings time upon us, the dark days don’t seem so dark anymore, except in the food department. We are still diligently working away at our plentiful roots and winter squash, among many other local provisions put away in the mad stash of late fall. This lovely, aromatic combination of thinly sliced celeriac and [...]
Black Lentils with Roasted Carrots and Celeriac
Posted in Beans and legumes, Carrots, Celery and celeriac, Low or no salt, tagged Lentils and roasted vegetables on March 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
An improvised dish that evolved as I went along, this one’s a keeper. It may not look like much, but the combination of flavors was amazing. Typically, when I cook lentils as a main course or side dish, I add diced onions, carrots and sometimes turnip to the legumes while they’re cooking. Flavored with some [...]
Celeriac Salad with Walnuts and Cheese
Posted in Celery and celeriac, Salad, tagged Walnut oil dressing on March 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Every so often, I look back at my cooking journal to see what I was cooking a year ago, and guess what, I made two celery root salads at this time last year. I’m sure this is because there’s a logical sequence to using up the fall harvest, starting with the perishable greens and ending [...]
Roots, Stalks and Leaves: Celeriac Soup
Posted in Celery and celeriac, Soup, tagged Celeriac soup, Using celeriac stalks and leaves on October 24, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Among the items distributed at our CSA farm this week was a pair of small celeriac bulbs (a/ka/ celery root), with the stalks and leaves still attached. When the bulbs become larger, the stalks become woody but these were still tender. So I made a simple soup, first using the leaves to make a stock, [...]
