Celery Root Cucumber Salad

A perfectly balanced meal: four kinds of vegetables, red beans with rice (plain, no lard), and piece of grilled fish with a little salt and pepper.


I'm trying to take advantage of celery root while I can, since they don't always appear at the farmers market. This week I roasted them, then tossed them with cucumbers, romaine lettuce, and carrots in a mustard garlic vinaigrette. Next time I might try them raw in a slaw. I'm not sure they're worth the trouble, though. They do just kind of taste like celery. Where I really see them pulling their weight is in a puree or soup, where celery fibers are completely undesirable.