On Tue, 30 Nov 2010 20:54:28 GMT, l, not -l wrote:

> On 30-Nov-2010, Chemo the Clown > wrote:
>
>>> > But I'm trying to come up with a good celery recipe where the celery
>>> > is the main dish, or at least the intentional star of the show.
>>>
>>> > I'm not having any luck googling for it as most of the pages with
>>> > 'main dish' and celery just have celery as an ingredient.
>>>
>>> > No vegetarians, or other restrictions. * *The bolder the better.
>>>
>>> > Any thoughts?
>>>
>>> > Jim
>>>
>>> Celery isn't a main ingredient. Sorry.
>>>
>>> W. Pooh (AKA Winnie P.)
>>
>> Why not? It could be.
>
> Main dishes are generally the primary souce of nutrition in a meal; celery
> is nearly devoid of nutritional value unless you are a hemophiliac. Other
> than vitamin k, you'd have to eat a lot of it to get very much of the few
> nutrients it has. Cook it and you get even less nutrition and flavor;
> ending up with strings and fiber.
> To get a nutritious dish, you need to supplement it with enough other things
> that you end up with --------- celery as a minor player in a main dish.

i don't think jim plans to eat only that for the rest of his life.

your pal,
blake