On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 07:34:57 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> wrote:

>
>"Dave Smith" > wrote in message
m...
>> On 28/03/2012 1:37 AM, Paul M. Cook wrote:
>>> "Julie > wrote in message
>>> ...
>>>> I know that celery is high in sodium but I never had salty tasting
>>>> celery
>>>> until just now. I know someone else reported on this before. I think
>>>> it
>>>> was Lee. I have had bitter tasting celery a few times. But this stuff
>>>> tastes like someone gave it a really good sprinkle of sea salt. I don't
>>>> mind it. I like salty things. I just find it to be interesting!
>>>
>>> It varies. I've had some very salty celery and some extremely sweet
>>> celery.
>>> Just has to do with the weather when it was growing I think. Celery is
>>> kind
>>> of salty to start with. I find I need less salt when I cook with it.
>>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>
>I keep dried celery for soup and such if I don't have the real stuff in the
>house. I only need to use a teensy bit of that.

Dehy celery works much better if you first rehydrate it in cold water
for like 20 minutes, then toss it in a pot of hot soup... the heat,
any acidity, and fat will prevent the flavoids in dehy vegetables from
fully releasing... this is especially noticable with dehy celery. I'm
a firm believer in keeping dehy veggies on hand, too many times I went
into the fridge only to find I ran out or the celery, bell pepper,
etc, has melted to mush.