“I use it for soup starter too. A handful of celery, carrot, and onions is the beginning of most all of the soups I make. However, with only 2 people, it takes forever to finish off the soup.”
As you know, I’m not leaving my house since this county appears to be the flu capital of the state right now and there’s H1N1 swine flu here. So, I took a package of Cajun 16 bean soup mix and soaked the beans last night and they and a large cut up onion are in the slow cooker, along with beef broth and Italian diced tomatoes.
I DON’T HAVE ANY CELERY and I always chop celery into that soup but it won’t happen this time. I have some spicy Mrs. Dash that has celery seed in it so put some of that in. There was also a package of Cajun seasoning in the bag of beans so will add that toward the end. I need to get bottled celery seed in case it happens again that I don’t want to leave the house.
I had a half ring of Jalapeno seasoned sausage in the freezer so it has thawed and I’ll add that in an hour or two. This fills a large slow cooker so I will have plenty to freeze and it should feed me at least five/six days eating it once a day.
You could also dehydrate some celery. That would be great in soups and stews.