Steve Wertz > wrote:

>On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 08:58:22 -0500, Becca wrote:

>> When you make spaghetti sauce, do you include celery as one of the
>> vegetables in your sauce?

>I often use some ground celery seed. It goes well with
>tomato-based sauces. If I were use celery, it would be very
>finely chopped after being deveined.

Celery can go into either spaghetti sauce or chili, but to
my mind either runs into the "unauthentic", and the practices
probably originated by food service companies motivated by cheapness
(school cafeterias etc.)

Still, if the celery is the only veg on hand, I'll throw it
in. After destringing/chopping.

Steve