storing celery and bell pepper

[Guest guest]

Once on the Martha Stewart program, she said to take celery out of the plastic

bag and wrap in aluminum foil. It worked better for me than the store plastic

bag, but we go through celery fairly quickly, same with peppers. Now I cut the

celery ribs off the root and cut off the leaves, rinse the celery well, wrap in

paper towels and then in aluminum foil and it seems to keep a lot better.

Additionally, when I want to chomp raw celery, it's a lot faster to just grab

and go. I always save the root end and the leaves, washing them well and tossing

them in a freezer bag, then the freezer, so when I am doing a pot of soup or

beans, all I have to do is toss the frozen celery root and leaves in my bouquet

garni (little baggie of cheesecloth with some other herbs and things in it),

toss it in the pot and when the beans or soup is finished, I dig the bag out and

toss it away.

 

Same with bell peppers. I take the seeds out, rinse, dry and wrap. I buy a 3

pound bag of baby sweet peppers every 2 weeks and they are always crisp and

fresh, so maybe it would help to do that. Peppers are designed so that the

vehicle (the pepper itself) rots, protecting the seeds inside and providing

fertilization for the seedlings. Neat design, but at 5.99 a pound for a red,

yellow, or orange sweet pepper, like you, I don't want to see my expensive

vegetables rot.

 

I haven't tried the new vegetable saver bags yet (the price is a wee high), but

probably will, since we consume a lot of produce here.

 

Worst comes to worst, the next time you've got celery or peppers in the

refrigerator and you are going away for a bit, go ahead and chop them up and

toss them in the freezer in freezer bags or freezer containers.

 

Hope this helps. Jeanne in GA

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Arnold,

Remove all veggies and fruits from the plastic bags or containers and store them

in the fridge drawer. Natural gasses from the ripening fruits and veggies

collect in the plastic bags or containers and cause them to quickly spoil.

Hopefully you are limiting the amount of plastic bags anyway and are shopping

with cloth bags. Plastic lives forever in the landfills.

Deanna in Colorado

also at recycled_gardens

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dacillo <tsog_323 wrote:

> I came back from a three-day weekend vacation and saw that my celery and red

bell pepper were all rotten inside their plastic stored on the bottom part of

the refridgerator.

[Guest guest]

Jeanne,

Aluminum foil works great for celery and even fresh mushrooms. I was shocked

to find that some left over fresh mushrooms were still fresh and beautiful, two

weeks after I bought them. They had gotten tucked into the back of the drawer

and I had forgetten about them, but that foil seemed to just magically keep them

fresh. I had covered the container in foil.

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Jeanne B

Monday, May 18, 2009 4:37 AM

Re: storing celery and bell pepper

 

 

 

 

 

Once on the Martha Stewart program, she said to take celery out of the plastic

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[Guest guest]

My problem with those fancy plastic vegetable storage bags is that they are

coated with something and cannot be recycled. If it cannot be recycled, it

tends not to end up in my house so I like all of these great ideas.

 

Kathleen

 

 

It worked better for me than the store plastic bag, but we go through celery

fairly quickly, same with peppers. I haven't tried the new vegetable saver bags

yet (the price is a wee high), but probably will, since we consume a lot of

produce here.

[Guest guest]

I read somewhere that if you cut off the bottom of a stalk of celery, then put

it in a vase like you would a bunch of flowers, it will keep much longer in the

fridge. Never tried it, though, it doesn't last too long in my house. Now I am

curious if it actually works!

 

-Jacki in FL

[Guest guest]

Jacki,

I don't know about celery but this works with Romanine Lettuce. I don't cut off

all of the stalk just trim the bottom and place it in ajar with a small amt. of

water,refrigerate and it lasts a couple weeks staying crip and fresh. I think it

would last for months this way but I eat it before I can test it. LOL..

Deanna in Colorado

also at recycled_gardens

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" jackiwolfe " <jwolfe417 wrote:

> I read somewhere that if you cut off the bottom of a stalk of celery, then put

it in a vase like you would a bunch of flowers, it will keep much longer in the

fridge.

[Guest guest]

Deanna, wwjd, Kathleen and Jacki,

 

thanks guys for your tips. that would really a great help. i have been a

vegetarian for only two months now and tips like these saves me money from

saving vegetables since I leave around 20kms away from the market so I have to

buy my vegetables during Sunday and good for the whole week.

 

i'm happy I found this group.

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Jeanne B,

 

thanks for your tip. that would really a great help. i have been a vegetarian

for only two months now and tips like these saves me money from saving

vegetables since I leave around 20kms away from the market so I have to buy my

vegetables during Sunday and good for the whole week.

 

i'm happy I found this group.