Dave Smith wrote:
>
> Celery is funny stuff. It is usually quite bland, but I have on occasion
> found it to have much more flavour than usual. A bout a month ago I put
> one stalk of celery into a pot of soup and it turned out to be too much
> celery flavour.

A stalk would be quite a lot of celery.
Perhaps you meant a rib.

I've never found much flavor for soup
in the ribs. It's mostly in the leaves.
Celery leaves are great in soup.