What to do with celery leaves

Barriehie said:
I've done that too. I cut it off and plopped it in a shallow dirt hole with some water and it started growing. Gets pretty hot here to expect a reasonable harvest.
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I have grown the golden variety here but found that it needed too much water compared to how much it rains here, so have gone back to buying it. But I'm lucky. Here in Australia it comes with the leaves and is typically huge
 
Here's what I'm getting for $1.97
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Barriehie said:
Yes. Their prices are all over the place...
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I think it was .99 cents due to the high demand for celery (they were able to get a lower price) during the holidays, plus they have to remain competitive since most of the grocery stores had it on sale as well.
 
Barriehie said:
Kroger is pricey for me. I go there for items unavailable at Walmart and usually clean up in the smoked meats to make the trip worthwhile.
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We don't even have Kroger in my part of Ohio. We do have Meijer's and Walmart, but otherwise our grocers are all regional (Giant Eagle, Acme, Beuhler's, and Marc's).
 
JAS_OH1 said:
Blanched celery? I haven't heard of that before. You mean they blanch it before they sell it?

The celery I buy is close to that size, maybe a few inches shorter but not much.
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No it's a gardening term. They deprive it of light by forcing the celery to grow in a tube (which also stops it spreading out which is how it grows naturally. It needs a minimum of 3 weeks to make it less bitter and sweeter. It also is why in the pictures above the celery is more yellow than green.

How to Blanch Celery in the Garden | Gardener’s Path
 
I almost always use them. Normally I will chop them up and use them in a chicken salad type dish.

Once I tried crisping them up to use as a topper for asparagus soup. They tasted fine, but they lost most of their flavor
 
Barriehie said:
Hmm, seems like that's sacrificing nutrition for flavor?
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Yep. But a lot of people find the natural taste of celery too strong and bitter. It shows here that they don't do it in Australia. The flavour is a lot stronger.

For the home garden you can actually buy naturally self blanching celery ostensibly called Golden celery but that's too expensive for the commercial scene.
 
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