Too much celery.

A customer brought me a grocery bag size of celery.  It's sturdy, flavorful, but quite tough.  I'm not likely to eat enough celery with cheese or peanut butter to get through this bundle, so it's an opportunity to learn.

Recipes.  Soup? Casserole? Roasted?  Pickled? I've only eaten it cold, as a snack thing beside carrot sticks.  What does one do with celery?

Or do I just use it for tent pegs?

Chop it up and freeze for quick mirepoix ingredient is my best idea. Chop, lay in single layer on pans in freezer till hard, pour into ziploc bags. Use water displacement method to take all the air out of the bags (or vacuum if you have one), pop back in freezer. Amaze your friends with never ending supply of celery.

Margie

Celery, water chestnuts, and packing peanuts are all related in that they all taste similar.

I'm not a celery aficionado but I like it, raw as a snack or the usual recipe uses.  However, my wife hates the stuff.  She claims it tastes like dirt and makes everything it's near taste the same...odd.  

I love celery, if I have some then I'll cut it up and put it in just about anything.

Or just eat it as-is.  Which is why I usually do not have celery.

Beets and Radishes taste like dirt.  Sweet or peppery dirt..  

Celery is great. Plain, or with cream cheese, ranch, peanut butter, humus (all flavors), spinach artichoke dip, etc.

Unfortunately, I don't have any recipes where it is the star...  

We've made this and enjoyed it, also freezes well: https://thedefineddish.com/spicy-celery-stir-fry/

Another option: https://www.recipetineats.com/leftover-celery-salad/#wprm-recipe-container-53669

Soups tend to use a fair bit of celery. Maybe make up a soup base of celery, carrot, and onion and then freeze in packets to use as needed?

Celery is the key ingredient in all good crock pot recipes.

My wife was taught a number of recipes by a Louisiana lady who claimed that ALL Cajun cooking started with the holy trinity (lower case): Celery, onion, and garlic sauteed in oil

I refuse to eat the stuff raw, but cooked is great

In reply to Streetwiseguy :

Chow Mein is made with celery.  Cooking it softens it add chick or pork.   Plus water chestnuts. 

Using Margie's method or a vacuum sealer, no freezer burn?

Cajun raw materials for sure.  
 

Soups

https://www.feastingathome.com/celery-soup/

Other random ideas

https://www.tasteofhome.com/collection/non-boring-celery-recipes/

Lots of Bloody Mary's?

I'd be making a vat of buffalo chicken dip

I sometimes go to a Chinese restaurant that serves it stir fried. The sauce they use to finish it is made with  garlic, red pepper flakes, scallions and perhaps fresh ginger and thickened with cornstarch water mix. I'm not a big celery fan but fixed this way, it's delicious.

Robbie (Forum Supporter) said:

Celery, water chestnuts, and packing peanuts are all related in that they all taste similar.

I am not sure I want to know how you know what packing peanuts taste like.  

I'm going for soup first.  I like the idea of Asian peppery stir fry, too.  I may have to get some strings out of it.  It's a lot sturdier than store bought stuff.

Celery does not taste like packing peanuts, unless you are eating very bad celery.

In reply to Streetwiseguy :

Cut into short pieces the strings shouldn't be much of an issue.    I like the idea of chopping and freezing it.

I made soup, which tastes very much like celery.  I may try some seasoning in small helpings to see what direction I need to go.  Asian red pepper-ey, I think.

Robbie (Forum Supporter) said:

Celery, water chestnuts, and packing peanuts are all related in that they all taste similar.

Water chestnuts and packing peanuts sure.   Celery? Absolutely not! Too weird tasting for me. My grandmother likely ruined that for me with her making rhubarb pie all the time (I called it celery pie). 

I ate rhubarb once, thinking "Ooh, red celery!"

I learned a valuable lesson that day.

Rhubarb is delicious, when combined with a sufficient quantity of sugar.  It shares nothing other than shape with celery.

dean1484 said:

Robbie (Forum Supporter) said:

Celery, water chestnuts, and packing peanuts are all related in that they all taste similar.

I am not sure I want to know how you know what packing peanuts taste like.  

They taste just like puffy Cheetos, but without the cheese. Definitely better than celery.