I thought I would share with you are simple method of putting up this celery for later. This celery is not the type that you cut into celery sticks but it is wonderful in soups, scalloped potatoes, anything where you would like that nice celery flavor. Cutting celery is also much easier to grow here in the northland.
We carefully cleaned it, the bottom tends to collect a lot of dirt.
This was a very simple project and it will be so nice to have this to add to stuff all winter long! Putting up food for winter in a simple and easy way definitely works for me!
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I do this too! We don't grow our own, but I hate when we buy a stalk and it just sits and sits in the fridge until it gets floppy and we inevitably throw it out. All because I needed 1/4 chopped celery!
I started chopping it, then flash freezing it on a cookie sheet and transferring it to freezer bags all on the day we buy it. No more waste!
Good to see you over at WFMW, and I am enjoying my visit to your blog, too. I hope you'll stop over and visit me at Free 2 Be Frugal.
From the stalks, that looks an awful lot like rhubarb to me. (But that would mean that a) it would be ready for harvest in the spring and b) I've always heard that rhubarb leaves are poisonous.)
Is this a related plant?
Interesting...why is it red? Is the actual name "cutting celery"? I'd be interested in knowing more about it since I too live in a cold climate and I've always been told celery is too hard to grow. I'd love to know where they got seeds or whatever more info. THanks!
Topaz- I am quite sure this is not related to rhubarb, but you are right it does kind of look like it.
Nola- I will have to check for sure on the name but I ordered my seeds and I think my parents ordered theirs from Fedco seeds. I am not sure why the stalk is red. The ones that I have (though mine didn't grow as big) were all green but my dad does like to get unusual varieties of things.
Thanks Abbi! I'd love to know the actual name when you get a chance.
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