Don’t worry. It’s not a different color celery, just a different part.
Here, what is referred to as celery is celery root or celeriac. The celery stalks we occassionally find here are usually imported from Holland, although it seems domestic growers are starting to get wise on the gap in the market.
I’m assuming that the celeriac sold here comes from a different type of celery than stalk celery. Celeriac occassionally is sold with the stalks, but they’re very wilted and anemic-looking. There’s no possible way you could use it as stalk celery.
Let me add one more point of info, Fenris.
There’s also a type of celery called Golden Celery which is grown under a clump of dirt or paper which produces, well, whitish-yellowish celery. (A similar method is used to grow white asparagus, rather than green.)
Incidentally, celery shouldn’t be too bitter. If it is, it’s just crap celery. It’s no wonder people have bad experience with veggies, as 90% of the stuff available at supermarkets are colorless, tasteless imitations of real vegetables. God, I didn’t even know what a real tomato was supposed to taste like until my parents started growing them in the garden. Those greenhouse tomatoes available during winter at Jewel? Why even bother? Canned tomatoes are a better alternative at that point. But I’ve digressed enough…
I used to mix Brewers Yeast into orange juice and drink it.
The smell was pretty odd, and noone ever likes the taste.
I kindof got used to it.
I don’t really know if it helped me or not, but…it DOESN’T make sense does it?
There are several variations, but generally bubble tea is tea, flavouring, and sweetened milk, shaken and served cold, with ice and tapioca pearls. Sometimes grass jelly or tofu is added. The drink is usually served in a clear plastic cup with a domed or autoclaved lid, and a very thick straw so that you can suck up the tapioca pearls, which are the size of gumballs.
It’s very popular in Hong Kong and Taiwan, but not well-known elsewhere. Owing perhaps to its sizeable Chinese population, Toronto has several bubble tea shops, but I haven’t seen any in other North American cities.
Nope – Orbitz is nothing like bubble tea. Orbitz has small gelatinous spheres which are the same density as the pop. With bubble tea, you have large marble-sized balls of black tapioca that sink to the bottom of the cup. They’re trapped underneath the ice and can only be extracted through a straw. But even the tapioca pearls are optional; some people prefer their bubble tea with coconut jelly, almond tofu, or with nothing added at all. The “bubble” in “bubble tea” doesn’t refer to the tapioca but rather to the air bubbles formed when the tea is shaken (usually with ice and milk or some other creamer).
We have them here in New York, originating (surprise, surprise) in Chinatown, but they’ve branched out. What I first saw was actually not tea, but coffee - and simply called Tapioca Coffee. I persuaded a friend of mine to try it; now she loves it and I leave it alone, having decided that the pearl tapioca is just too large.
I occasionally put milk and sugar in my tea, but I’m drawing the line at tapioca or jelly <shudder>.
Another food item(s) that make no sense: sugar-free chocolate and candy. Ah, ah–I am diabetic–saw that coming. Either eat the real stuff occasionally, or just give it up and eat fruit.
My mistake, my mistake…I was thinking Watergate Salad. Pistachio pudding mix, Cool Whip, pineapple, coconut, walnuts, other fruit, and yes, I’ve had it with celery and it’s just disgusting with celery.
I don’t like Waldorf Salad for that very reason…too much celery.
I know it’s essential in cooking, but I still don’t like it. I do use it when it’s called for and essential, but I will act like a child and pick it out of something I’m eating if I’m at home.
Out in public I do behave like an adult, though.
I LOVED Orbitz. It was so weird. These little beads just floating on your tongue. (I believe they were gel, and so they were soft-you didn’t choke on them).
The thing I hate about celery is that it’s so frayed-you bite a piece off, and those little threads just hang and choke you.
I love Watergate Salad! Holidays and cookouts wouldn’t be the same without it.
I agree with you about celery. I’ll cook with it when I must, but I’ll pick it out as I eat it.
And I don’t behave in public - there will be a little celery pile on the side of plate, no matter where we go to eat. I also drive my husband nuts when I remove the lettuce, tomato, onion, pickles and other unnecessary veggies from sandwiches and burgers. Veggies are for salad!
Fenris needs to be tied and lash whipped. Chicken Fried Steak? ACK.
Personally I am not one for breaded meat, chicken, fish or seafood. I can’t stand it. Gentlely marinated in a nice sauce and carefully cooked to perfection (note there’s no grease, maybe real butter or olive oil but Lord have mercy, not fried!)
Of course I rarely eat meat anyway so you can have all the Chicken Fried Steak that I will not eat in my lifetime.
If I want something healthy to drink, I’m not drinking soda.
If I want something soda, I want it to be tasty.
And if I’m trying to use it to lose weight, I think it would be a drop in the damn bucket compared to the stuff I’m eating, which is where I should be focusing my efforts in that case.
Either eat the real stuff occasionally, or just give it up and eat fruit.