“Generations of families have been coming to our festival. “It is a tradition in our city that everyone looks forward to,” Perez said. Strawberries are not quite as prevalent in the city today, but the Garden Grove Strawberry Festival still runs annually. Garden Grove resident and public relations professor Tom Hoxie organized the first event, held in a vacant lot between Garden Grove Boulevard, Brookhurst Street and Brookhurst Way. Strawberries were farmed on both the east and west sides of the city, and in 1958, the Chamber of Commerce hosted the first Garden Grove Strawberry Festival as a way to bring the entire community together. Strawberries used to be associated with Garden Grove in the same way Valencia oranges are associated with Orange County. “We used to have prolific strawberry fields in Garden Grove, and it was one of our main crops,” said Andrea Perez, president of the Garden Grove Strawberry Festival. Get everything you ever wanted to know about strawberries in this episode of My Fearless Kitchen TV.The strawberry is an important part of the city of Garden Grove’s history. Go make those strawberries fancy! And enjoy them while you’re at it! It’s really easy, and it’s the perfect way to fancy up a plate! Then use your fingers to gently spread the slices out into a fan shape. Leave the leaves on the strawberry, and slice almost all the way through, without fully cutting through the berry. Here’s another super-simple way to make your strawberries look super-fancy! It’s sort of like this easy tip for slicing onions quickly.
Use them all, or snack on the ones that don’t exactly look like hearts! As you can see from the photo below, the two outside strawberry slices are the ones that look the most like hearts, but they all look a little like hearts. That’s it! It’s so simple, and it’s so adorable. Then, use a paring knife to cut the strawberry into slices. Have you seen cute little strawberry hearts? They look so adorable, and they are perfect for a special occasion, for your kids’ lunches, or just because! To start, cut a “V” in the top of the strawberry to remove the green leaves. It might work with a different style egg slicer, but it sure didn’t work with mine! How Do You Cut a Strawberry Into a Heart? In this video, I tried using an egg slice to slice a strawberry. Once the hull is off the strawberry, it’s easy to slice strawberries with a small knife. I use a paring knife and cut a “V” in the top of the strawberry to get the green leaves off. So it works, mostly, but I don’t like this method. I think the bottom part of the strawberry is the best part, and using a straw to pop the top off the strawberry takes off a lot of that bright red bottom of the fruit. And every time I tried, I always left some of the leaves behind, so I had to try again.
It was hard to line the straw up quite right. I tested the straw technique to see if that would work to take the green tops off strawberries.
(Personally, I don’t eat them, I’m not crazy about the texture or taste.)Ĭutting the tops of strawberries is pretty simple! You can just slice the tops off with a paring knife, but that might take off a lot of the red, ripe fruit. If you like them, and you want to, go right ahead and eat them! If you don’t want to, you don’t have to. Yes, you can! The whole strawberry is edible, including the green leaves. As long as you’re starting with fresh, pretty berries, that is! (Get the tips for choosing the perfect berries here.) Can You Eat the Top of a Strawberry?
Have you ever seen fancy-looking strawberries at a restaurant and wonder how they do that? It’s really easy to slice strawberries and make them look pretty. Check out these easy tips for taking the green leaves off your strawberries, slicing them, and making them look so very fancy – including making adorable strawberry hearts!
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