"sf" > wrote in message
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> On Thu, 06 Jun 2013 17:37:22 -0600, casa bona > wrote:
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>> On 6/6/2013 4:18 PM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
>> > On Thu, 6 Jun 2013 14:31:25 -0700, "Cheri" >
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>> >> I saw Ina Garten make this a few months ago.
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>> > WTF is celery???
>> >
>> http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...d/Celery_1.jpg
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> I wonder where people find just a couple pieces of celery with all
> those leaves in a grocery store? It's great for soups and stock.

I can get it at Winco. I LOVE the leaves! But most stores sell it with
little to no leaves. I remember being so disappointed when my parents came
to help out when I was sick. I sent my mom to the store to buy celery for
soup. She came back with celery hearts thinking I would be happy. Said she
bought me the best part. And I was like... Uh... No... Still, I know that
at Albertsons where she bought it, there would not have been many leaves.
But a few leaves are better than none. I sometimes buy the dried leaves.
They're not as good as the fresh, IMO but still better than none.

Some years ago I saw a recipe in one of those church produced cookbooks that
called for something like 2 cups of leaves for a soup. People were
wondering how to get that many leaves. Not likely that you would unless you
grew it yourself.