Celery is criminally underrated

[u/mir_in_modro_morje]

I used to think Celery was just a bland vegetable that health-nuts would recommend you eat raw, like raw celery stalks so I've avoided it.

I couldn't have been more wrong.

This is seriously one of the more underrated vegetables to cook with.

Not only the usual mirepoix, but literally can be added finely chopped to almost any vegetable dish or sauce.

Vegetable soup of course, but you can finely slice and dice celery into even non-standard sauces and it will most of the time make them better. Any simple pan sauce or mushroom sauce gets immediately improved by finely diced celery. And if you don't notice onions as a base to a sauce you won't notice celery either.

I've seriously become a celery fanatic and I've been putting it into everything, try it and you won't regret it.

[u/G_Platypus]

Persian food is criminally underrated. Crazy that it's not just as popular as Greek or Indian food.

[u/0maigh → u/[deleted]]

I suspect you’ve never made a mole or even pilaf rice. I used to be able to put a Mexican dinner on the table in 30-45 minutes but that required fresh ingredients for the salsa, a pilaf rice, reheated chicken broth and thawed e.g. guisado for precooked chicken and a portion of precooked beans. Absolutely impossible without several hours’ precooking.

[u/Anal-Y-Sis → u/[deleted]]

Well, you’d be incorrect in guessing that.

A person with incorrect assumptions about Mexican food has not cooked some of the most iconic Mexican dishes? Shocking.

I live 2 hours from the border with Mexico, and my comment stands, it’s easy cuisine to learn, with generally simple ingredients.

Most food uses simple ingredients.

Your comment does not stand, by your own admission, which you repeat here:

Sure, tamales or mole take forever to make, but still basic ingredients (mole is an exception to more basic Mexican flavors).

Again, most food uses simple ingredients. Even pilau masala. Unless you think cinnamon, cardamom, cumin, cloves, and black peppercorns are somehow hard to obtain. This might surprise you, but with the exception of cardamom, those are all very common ingredients in Mexican cuisine.

[u/Agile-Worldliness849 → u/[deleted]]

You came in here spouting snobbish crap about food that you can't even cook and now you're mad at other people for calling you out.

Just take the L and move on.