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Fri, Nov 24, 2006

Stuffed Celery

Posted at 3:44 pm MST to Technology

I do a decent turkey dinner, even though I have lived alone since college. My Mom always did big Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners (New Years was ravioli at Nonna's) and I started helping from the age of seven or eight with things like the stuffing for the turkey and stuffed celery, and stirring the (packaged) filling for the lemon meringue pie.

This year, being in New England I went to my brother Larry's (where I assembled the stuffed celery). I stopped at my Aunt Irma's on the way back to Boston and ended up spending the night, since the weather and traffic were both and staring at headlights through pouring rain was threatening to trigger a migraine.

My Aunt Bev and cousin Karen were at my brother's for dinner (Aunt Bev made the pies) and my cousin Tom and his wife Mary and son Michael were staying at Aunt Irma's, so I saw all of my New England relatives this trip except my Uncle Tom, who is still in the nursing home after falling off the roof, but seems to be making progress.

There is a leak in the roof he fell off, so he may have been examining the situation at the time of his fall.

Stuffed Celery

cream cheese
milk 
celery, trimmed and washed
Worcestershire sauce
pimento-stuffed green olives

Put the cream cheese into a bowl with a little milk
mash it with a fork until smooth and stirrable
add some Worcestershire sauce and stir it in
(if the cheese turns brown after you mix it in, you
have used too much sauce)
slice lots of green olives (1) and 
stir them into the cheese mixture

Use the fork you have been stirring things with to 
load the celery stalks with the cheese mixture. 

Don't make these too far ahead, 
the cheese gets tries to dry out and get nasty. 
On the other hand, the cheese mixture keeps well 
in the fridge in a sealed plastic tub.

The cheese mixture is also nice between crackers 
and wonderful on hot toast. 

Note:

1. When you get tired of slicing olives, do another dozen.
You want bits of olive in every bite of cheese and celery. 

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