Yeah, I don't use a recipe either. I don't even measure the amount of beans. I hate carrots unless they are finely chopped in soup (and not all soup). I am less of a fan of celery, though it's fine in chicken soup (for me). For some reason the idea of beans and celery in the same pot is odd. That's just me.
I make chili with celery and beans (and other stuff, of course). I can't think of any other bean in which I add celery though. Don't know why, but I don't dislike it so it's not a big deal.
That looks wonderful!
I use onion, carrot and celery as a base for most soups and slow cooked dishes but raw celery? I would rather walk around Baghdad with a six inch nail in my foot....
Can you believe some people put peanut butter on celery and eat that as a snack? Oh, and my husband said his mom used to put cream cheese and raisins on it for him and his brother as a snack. She called it "ants on a log". Sounds yucky to me.
They need to see a shrink.
Those look great to me!
I used to put out raw baby carrots, fresh raw broccoli, and cauliflower on a tray with a small bowl of ranch dressing for dipping right before the kids came home from school. I would set it out on the counter, and after they came home, it would be gone within an hour. When I first moved up here and joined my ready made family, hubby was buying chips and not so healthy snacks for them. He would buy the raw vegetables and keep them in the frig. I explained to him that they would go through some trouble to pull potato chips out of a cabinet, but raw vegetables would likely stay in the refrigerator crisper drawer and rot if someone didn't put it out for them to nibble on. Worked like a charm.
Tagliatelle alla Bolognese.