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Interesting Discussion With My Gardener This Morning
January 17, 2023, 01:16 PM
Flash-LBInteresting Discussion With My Gardener This Morning
The wife wanted one of our cactuses trimmed which would be extra as we don't include that in our maintenance.
The gardener asked if he could cut some of it for his wife to cook up and eat and I said sure, take all you want.
So, the subterrannean economy works. I get it trimmed for free and he and his wife get free food.
January 17, 2023, 01:23 PM
tatortoddWhen I used to go to SoCal frequently on business there was a Mom & Pop Mexican restaurant that had a phenomenal nopalitos dish. Since then, I've purchased the Goya nopalitos and use it occasionally for scrambles and omelettes.
My Dad was visiting over the holidays and he's not much of a vegetable eater. One morning, I made nopalitos and onion omelettes and he enjoyed it. He believes it was the first time he's eaten cactus.
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DISCLAIMER: These are the author's own personal views and do not represent the views of the author's employer. January 17, 2023, 01:30 PM
lastmanstandingNapoles (prickly pears) are pretty common in Mexican cooking and are considered a super food. I would like to source some for a molcajete dish I want to make.
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January 17, 2023, 01:39 PM
SIGnifiedYep prickly pear cacti are notoriously edible.
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jhe888quote:
Originally posted by lastmanstanding:
Napoles (prickly pears) are pretty common in Mexican cooking and are considered a super food. I would like to source some for a molcajete dish I want to make.
Any Mexican grocery in Texas. And many non-Mexican groceries.
You can make a jelly out of the fruit of prickly pear, too. It needs lots of sugar because the fruit is tart, but it is good.
The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything. January 17, 2023, 02:01 PM
SchmelbyI didn't know you could eat cactus!
January 17, 2023, 02:30 PM
229DAKquote:
Originally posted by Schmelby:
I didn't know you could eat cactus!
Just demil it first!
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January 17, 2023, 08:31 PM
flashguyquote:
Originally posted by jhe888:
quote:
Originally posted by lastmanstanding:
Napoles (prickly pears) are pretty common in Mexican cooking and are considered a super food. I would like to source some for a molcajete dish I want to make.
Any Mexican grocery in Texas. And many non-Mexican groceries.
You can make a jelly out of the fruit of prickly pear, too. It needs lots of sugar because the fruit is tart, but it is good.
My mom used to make Prickly Pear Cactus jelly. I rated it as a close match to her red currant jelly in taste. I used to take little jars with me on travels and gave them out as "bread-and-butter gifts" at places I stayed.
flashguy
Texan by choice, not accident of birth January 17, 2023, 09:22 PM
Redleg06"Just demil it first." Obviously someone didn't get the word.
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January 17, 2023, 10:22 PM
Pipe SmokerGoya brand cactus?
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Serious about crackers. January 18, 2023, 03:28 AM
henryazquote:
Originally posted by Redleg06:
"Just demil it first." Obviously someone didn't get the word.
Favorite food of the javelina.
When in doubt, mumble January 18, 2023, 04:09 AM
Rey HRHquote:
Originally posted by Flash-LB:
I'm not sure whether the OP is about the edibility of cacti or viability of bartering.
As to cactus, I tried some after buying it in a flea market. I suppose it's like rice or potatoes as I don't remember it having too much taste.
As for bartering, I found that handymen here prefer cash rather than even checks.
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January 18, 2023, 05:29 AM
OKCGeneYou have to wonder about the first person who upon looking at or fell into a thorny prickly nasty cacti thought hey I’m drunk I think I’ll eat one.
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January 18, 2023, 10:24 AM
Southern RebelOf all the careers I dreamed about in my youth, "Cactus Trimmer" was never on the agenda! That just goes to show a person raised in the "deep hollers" of Tennessee has suffered extreme social discrimination and should be in line for some of that California money to be paid to slave descendants.
January 18, 2023, 02:44 PM
Flash-LB [/QUOTE]
That Javelina has tough gums for sure.
I can tell you from experience that if you pick up a piece of cactus avoiding the large thorns, you will be surprised to learn that there are thousands of smaller ones that you'll spend hours pulling out of your hands with tweezers.
Ask me how I know...or don't.
quote:
Originally posted by Rey HRH:
I'm not sure whether the OP is about the edibility of cacti or viability of bartering.
I was referring to the viability of bartering or more specifically, my good fortune to have him offer to take it and subsequently me not having to pay him to take it.
January 18, 2023, 03:00 PM
RogueJSKquote:
Originally posted by Flash-LB:
I can tell you from experience that if you pick up a piece of cactus avoiding the large thorns, you will be surprised to learn that there are thousands of smaller ones that you'll spend hours pulling out of your hands with tweezers.
Yep. I learned that the hard way as a kid too.
"What's the big deal, it doesn't seem that hard to just avoid the (large obvious) thorns..." 
January 18, 2023, 06:38 PM
MelissaDallasFirst time I went dove hunting was on a boyfriend’s family place out around Sweetwater/Merkel. I was in my late teens, wearing little boy’s Big Smith overalls. I had always heard tunas from nopales tasted good. They were pretty and red, so I picked a couple and stuck them in my pockets. Yeah, that little circle of fuzz around the end is hundreds of tiny spines. Boyfriend’s mom spent a big part of the evening picking those out of my lower belly with tweezers.