{"id":160,"date":"2009-03-02T16:10:51","date_gmt":"2009-03-03T00:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.forthillfarm.com\/news\/?page_id=160"},"modified":"2014-04-11T13:56:53","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T13:56:53","slug":"celeriac-celery-root","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/recipes.forthillfarm.com\/?page_id=160","title":{"rendered":"Celeriac (celery root)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">Okay, everyone wants to know what that funny looking, celery-smelling thing is in their share.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>It\u2019s celeriac, a vegetable grown for it\u2019s bulbous root which ranges from the size of a baseball to a softball.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Its\u2019 flavor is like a cross between celery and parsley and the green leaves on top make a wonderful cooking herb.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">Storage and Handling:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">Remove the leaves and store separately in a loosely closed plastic bag for up to 5 days.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Store the root in a loosely closed plastic bag in your refrigerator crisper drawer for up to a month.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Before cooking, peel the outside layer of rough skin to reveal the white root inside.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">When peeled, celeriac will brown like potatoes or apples, submerge in water or add a squeeze of lemon juice to stop browning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">If you are fortunate enough to have a root cellar, they can be stored long-term when un-washed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">Culinary Uses:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">Celery Root or celeriac is wonderful grated, thinly sliced or julienne into salads or slaws, roasted, braised, mashed with potatoes, layered into gratins, and cooked into soups and stews.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">The fresh green tops can be used in stocks in place of celery, chopped and added into soups as an herb, or as garnish.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, everyone wants to know what that funny looking, celery-smelling thing is in their share.\u00a0 It\u2019s celeriac, a vegetable grown for it\u2019s bulbous root which ranges from the size of a baseball to a softball.\u00a0 Its\u2019 flavor is like a cross between celery and parsley and the green leaves on top make a wonderful cooking&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-160","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/recipes.forthillfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/recipes.forthillfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/recipes.forthillfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/recipes.forthillfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/recipes.forthillfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/recipes.forthillfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2375,"href":"http:\/\/recipes.forthillfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/160\/revisions\/2375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/recipes.forthillfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}