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Quotes About Celery

For my money, celery hasn't got a mean bit of fibre in its body, and we all need to start being much nicer to it.
~ Yotam Ottolenghi
I stared at him.' You're scared of bunnies?' 'Blah-hah-hah! They're big bullies. Allways stealing celery from defenseless satyrs!
~ Grover
AT NOON I found Clete sitting at the bar in Clementine's, a po'boy fried-oyster sandwich on a plate in front of him, a Bloody Mary in a big tumbler with a celery stalk stuck in it by his elbow.
~ James Lee Burke
I'll get home from work on Friday night and take out some beans and soak them. The next morning, I'll put them in a pot for soup, then just keep chopping, chopping, chopping – carrots and celery and cabbage – and in two or three hours, you have this wonderful, mellow soup that fills up the whole house with its aroma.
~ Lidia Bastianich
In the morning I'll have a juice to start off the day - that might be a fresh orange, but from the juicer. I like apple, carrot, ginger and I actually have celery straight sometimes.
~ Rochelle Humes
Tramp Soup (Potato Soup) (contributed by Diana Miller) 1 pound sausage 1 onion, finely diced 5 to 6 potatoes, peeled and cubed 2 stalks diced celery Salt and pepper 1-1.5 quarts milk Brown sausage with onion and celery. Drain. Add cubed potatoes and just enough water to cook potatoes until soft, not much. Add milk when potatoes are soft or until it is the consistency you would like. Sometimes I add cream to make it richer. Serves about 6.
~ Tricia Goyer
The reason is that you eat too many foods that are high in calories, which are little units that measure how good a particular food tastes. Fudge, for example, has a great many calories, whereas celery, which is not really a food at all but a member of the plywood family, provided by Mother Nature so that mankind would have a way to get onion dip into his mouth at parties, has none.
~ Dave Barry
I can't do a Bloody Mary. But I like the idea of them. It's got fresh vegetables in it.
~ Bobby Cannavale
No stuffing is complete without chopped onion and celery - they're the building blocks. If you want to deepen the flavor, consider adding leeks, sage, and/or hardy greens.
~ Claire Saffitz
How can something that's 95% water be so divisive? Alone among vegetables, the poor, innocent stick of celery elicits the most vicious attacks.
~ Yotam Ottolenghi
Good grief! Have some bread with your peanut butter! Mother said, watching Caroline make her lunch. You have enough peanut butter on that bread for three sandwiches, Caroline. Pay attention. Dost thou talk to thy queen in such a manner? Caroline asked, raising one eyebrow. I dost, said Mother. And don't forget to pack some carrots and celery, m'lady.
~ Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
I got an ant farm. Them fellas didn't grow anything. Hey, how about some celery? Plus, if I tore your legs off, you would look like snowmen.
~ Mitch Hedberg