Squirrel X's Culinary Miscellany!
celery casserole
"Make anything with love, and BAM! It's a beautiful meal."
__Emeril Lagasse
"Who could ever weary of moonlit nights and well-cooked rice?"
__Japanese proverb
"What I love about cooking is that after a hard day,
there is something comforting about the fact that
if you melt butter and add flour, then hot stock, it will get thick! It's a sure thing.
It's a sure thing in a world where nothing is sure!"
__Nora Ephron
"A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness."
__Elsa Schiaparelli
"Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work
in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent,
so is the ballet. "
__Julia Child
"Cooking is a creation."
__Piero Selvaggio
"'Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers."
__William Shakespeare
"Cooking is like love.
It should be entered into with abandon or not at all."
__Harriet Van Horne
Celery Casserole
Ingredients:
5 cups celery, chopped
1/2 cup margarine
2 tablespoons onion, chopped
1/4 cup all-purpose flour
2 cups whole milk
1 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon black pepper
1/2 cup heavy cream
3/4 cup pecans, chopped
1/3 cup seasoned bread crumbs
Instructions:
1) Preheat oven to 375�.
2) Butter a 1 and 1/2 quart casserole dish.
3) Melt 1/4 cup of the margarine in a double boiler.
4) Add the onion and the flour and cool 'til thickened
to the consistency of gravy.
5) Remove from heat and stir in the milk, salt, and pepper.
6) Cook for an additional fifteen minutes, 'til mixture is thickened.
7) Cook celery in salted water in a covered pan
for about fifteen minutes.
8) Drain the celery completely and put it the bottom of
the prepared casserole dish.
9) Stir the heavy cream into the thickened sauce mixture
and pour over the celery.
10) Melt the other 1/4 cup of margarine, then add the crumbs
and the chopped pecans.
11) Sprinkle crumb mixture on top of casserole and bake, uncovered, for fifteen minutes.
and the best of intentions for whoever wants to try 'em,
but if somethin' goes wrong, don't blame the varmint.*
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