In article >,
Nancy Young > wrote:

> Lee Hobeck wrote:
> >
> > I live alone so I never cook my meals. A few months again I thought I
> > would try to cook some simple things. Recipe called for a stalk of
> > celery. This seems like a lot of celery to go into a soup for 4
> > people. When the recipe calls for a stalk, do they mean the whole
> > stalk or just a piece? I looked at some other recipes calling for
> > celery and saw the same thing.
>
> They probably meant a rib of celery. Use however much you want
> or seems appropriate.
>
> nancy

Rib or stalk, both mean the same thing.
Pull a single long piece off of the celery off the head that you get at
the store...

For soup, I cut it into 1/4" slices.
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K.