Kayelle
Chef Extraordinaire
My husband and I spend time each week helping to feed the needy in our community, and this week we cleaned and prepared 20 flats of locally grown and donated strawberries, for serving. Phewwww!!
Here's the tip..get a package plastic drinking straws from the grocery...the kind that are bigger for drinking smoothies, NOT the "flex straws". Holding the berry between your thumb and forefinger, top end up, run the straw all the way thru the bottom of the berry popping out the core and the stem at once. We grow very large berries in these parts, but small berries could use a smaller straw. This is really slick, and fast...hardly any waste either. Wish I could give someone credit for where I heard this, but alas...I do well to remember what I had for dinner last night.
Anyone else have any great cooking tips?
Here's the tip..get a package plastic drinking straws from the grocery...the kind that are bigger for drinking smoothies, NOT the "flex straws". Holding the berry between your thumb and forefinger, top end up, run the straw all the way thru the bottom of the berry popping out the core and the stem at once. We grow very large berries in these parts, but small berries could use a smaller straw. This is really slick, and fast...hardly any waste either. Wish I could give someone credit for where I heard this, but alas...I do well to remember what I had for dinner last night.
Anyone else have any great cooking tips?