I love celery.
Did you know?
Celery is an athlete’s secret weapon. According to the Top 100 health Tips book, celery is full of goodness, of nutrients that keep energy level high. It is also high in Vitamin C and rather diuretic too. It has a high sodium content, not to worry it is far from being in dangerous level, which help in maintaining mineral balance in your body if you drink a lot of water.
Apparently celery is 95 percent water and it contains 7 calories per 100 grams. It is said that you actually burn more calories chewing on a celery.
CELERY is eaten with the fingers.
Vegetable: Celery
Photo from the blog Confession of a kitchen witch
Here is a quick recipe for celery, although a stick of celery and a pinch of salt is good and ready for me and my pork pie!
Celery and Blue Cheese Salad
1 tbsp of lemon juice
1 tbsp of olive oil
1/2 tsp of salt
2 apples cored and chopped
2 sticks celery chopped
1 bulb fennel slice
2oz blue cheese (stilton) diced.
Mix the lemon juice, olive oil and salt.
Pour it into the apples, celery, fennel and cheese.
Serve immediately with a crusty bread.
Yummy
I am really getting hungry just by typing this.
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Celery Sauce.
Take a large bunch of celery, cut it fine, and boil it till soft, in a pint of water; thicken it with butter and flour, and season it with salt, pepper, and mace.
Did you know?
It was only after the seventeenth century that raw celery became a usual fare for the dining table.
Beforehand, it would be cooked and used solely for medical purposes.
I read on an old copy of Good Housekeeping whilst waiting in my GP surgery that celery acts as a diuretic which help to banish water retention.
The good news it that it has a slight negative calorie count. Yeah!!! Apparently it contains so little calories that you would lose more calories munching on a celery than gaining eating it. Isn’t that wonderful?!!! And not only that, celery contains a lot of fibre to fill you up.
Celery is extremely low in calories and help fight water retention, therefore every dieter’s best hunger pang’s back-up.
It has a high cleansing property which promotes kidney function.
Celery Juice
2 small bunches of watercress
1 head of celery
2 yellow peppers, deseeded
Wash all the vegetables
Cut into manageable pieces for the juicer
Juice
Drink immediately
Enjoy