blake wrote on Sat, 5 Sep 2009 12:03:53 -0400:

>> On Fri, 4 Sep 2009 16:52:38 -0400, "Kswck" >
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> "sf" > wrote in message
>>>>
>>>> According to Jamie Oliver.com - "Half a head of celery is
>>>> half of the bunch, so about 3 bigger stalks and a couple of
>>>> little ones from the inner part, usually you leave out the
>>>> leaves if the recipe says 'stalks' and use them only if the
>>>> recipe specifies leaves."
>>>>
>>> Cooking aint an exact science. Add more of what you like.
>>>
>> The substitute is most likely to be for someone who just buys
>> loose stalks when celery is called for in a recipe. That
>> would be me. I'm not a big celery fan. I use a stalk or two
>> when called for and the rest of the head would just rot.

> i wish buying one or two stalks was an option available to me
> (in md). sometimes i'll hit a salad bar down the street when
> they do a 30% off after 3:30 p.m. if i'm making potato salad
> or something.

I guess I've already mentioned it more than once but, when making things
for myself, I find supermarket salad bars useful sources of small
quantities of ingredients for making tuna salad, egg salad, chicken
salad, Indian Kachumbar, salsa etc. I usually have the other ingredients
like mayonnaise, lemon juice, jalapenos etc.

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James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

Email, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not