Found some prickly pears bearing fruit today.
Prickly Pear w/ fruit
Found some prickly pears bearing fruit today.
Love that fruit. I heard that it makes great jelly.
Good preserves, good raw, or stewed. just got to get all the little prickly hairs off 'em before ya start to eating them <g> . I learnt that lesson the hard way! ;(
Last edited by GreyOne; 10-20-2009 at 07:37 PM.
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My Dad planted a bunch of cacti that look very similar to those up on top of Grandpa's slate pile when he was a kid...they really took off!
Mewonders if they are prickly pear?
PMZ
Mmmm, cactus salsa.
We imported a lot of sauces and salsas years ago and that was my favorite. I found some in an outlet mall north of Phoenix when I was in the States in 97, and ate it on crackers while I was driving. Bad Bluedog.
Those look nice. I kept an eye on the major patches within 50 miles or so of where i live, and the fruits on none ever matured, They all just wilted long before. maybe next year here...
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Prickly pear are pretty good eating. The plant itself is pretty good, but the fruits are especially tasty. I like to eat them while I'm in the Sandhills out west.
Baahhh, I still have needles in my hand from those suckers. I guess I will learn how to handle them someday.
Very nice, do they compare to anything tastewise we'd have here in the uk... it's not something I've ever seen on the shelf...
Locally the pads are called nopales and the fruit tunas. Norpales stewed up are about a slick as okra but sure are good mixed with carne asado. Kinda gettin' hungry thinking about this subject.
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