Prior to this weekend, I would have been on the "I hate celery" bandwagon, but this weekend in the Napa Valley, I had a salad at a restaurant that totally changed my viewpoint as a life-long celery hater.

It was a "shaved" celery salad - peeled stalks chopped very thin dressed in a gorgonzola cheese cream dressing topped with candied nuts and fig slices and garnished with the edible (who knew?!) leaves from the celery tops.

It made a believer out of me. I clearly have just been eating really bad stuff.