- Arielle Stevenson
- Chinese celery salad is a great side dish or topping for soba noodles.
Part Deux
Celery is the Gary Oldman of vegetables — constantly morphing in presentation but consistently doing great things throughout the ages. You can count on celery. Julia Childs always stuffed her Thanksgiving birds with celery leaves. A great tip, if you've never tried it by the way.
Consider the childhood snack made from celery stalks stuffed with peanut butter and topped with raisins. It was playful, simple and healthy.
We find it in stuffing, soup and as a vehicle for ranch dressing at parties. Presented with the challenge of getting creative with the celery from my co-op basket, I made an Asian-inspired cold celery salad.
This article appears in Mar 7-13, 2013.