"celery" news and stories

Call this snack Celery, Peanut Butter and Blueberry Sticks, and kids might roll their eyes and say, "Give me a break." But call them Bugs on a Log, and they're sold. Blogger peekandeat substitutes blueberries for the sweeter raisin "bugs" some people use, which, she says, are lighter and more delicate. Cutting the celery into two-inch pieces makes these logs easy to grab and eat. When I was a kid, my mom stuffed celery stalks with cottage cheese or cream cheese and topped them with pimiento-stuffed olives. She lined them up in a crystal celery dish -- something I haven't seen on a table in years -- which somehow made us feel, even snacking on the simplest food, that we were being treated to something incredibly special. If only she'd called them Fiery-Eyed Longboats.

You can also add cream cheese, sunflower seeds and pine nuts to celery, as in this recipe.

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We here at Slashfood love to eat food for the sake of, well, eating delicious food -- but sometimes a higher purpose calls.

According to a medical study recapped by Asylum, eating celery "increases the pheromone levels in men's sweat, making them more attractive to women."

How exactly does this work? And how much celery will you men need to tear your teeth into to up your game? Head over to Asylum to find out. Forget the GTL routine -- all you need for a successful night out are some crunchy green stalks.

I admit that when I first saw Leeann's (2 Nuts in a Shell) photo of the bears in a boat, I thought that the boat was a sled and that the two groups of bears were in a race to make it to the bottom of the hill/pate. If they were a bit more reclined, it would be a luge competition.

Boat or sled, the concept is adorable and Leeann was able to use it to successfully get her child, Jaden, excited about celery - a challenge right up there with luge.

The same idea would be really cute with any animal from a box of animal crackers or the concept could be taken one step further by using a healthier boat passenger. Any ideas for veggies that look like bears?

I was surfing around my friend Jade Walker's site today, and I didn't realize that she had a "Favorite Recipes" section, where she gave the recipe for something that she's been enjoying lately. Right now she has up Pop Pot Roast, which sounds like a damn good recipe for pot roast.

It's made with dried spaghetti sauce mix, which I think is an interesting twist. And it's made with pop! That's soda to some of the world (and "tonic" to those in the Boston area).

I know that in some places Thanksgiving stuffing is called "dressing" when it is not cooked inside the turkey, but where I grew up everyone called it stuffing no matter how it was cooked; it was what went into it was much more important. My stuffing is much like a hot, crispy bread salad and uses bread, onions, celery, sage, apples and dried fruit for a mix that is half savory and half sweet. Because it is not stuffed into a bird, but baked in a casserole dish, it seemed prudent to go all-out and make the dish vegetarian. It will still be enjoyed by the meat-eaters, especially if they are they type that puts gravy on their stuffing anyway, and will provide an option other than straight veggies for vegetarians.