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[Jogeephus]

Cactus and tomatoes. Its that time of year. The paddles have just reached their perfect size. If you've never tried them I'd highly recommend it.

I cut some today. People with higher IQ's would wear gloves will cutting them but that is beside the point.

Once collected they can be wiped down with a kitchen sponge and rinsed off.



Once rinsed, they need to be trimmed.



Once trimmed just French them.



Cut some bacon up and cook in a frying pan and once done add the cactus and stir on medium heat for four to five minutes. Then add garlic, salt and chipotle pepper and cook for another two or three minutes.



End result is wonderful. Very much like green beans but much easier than snapping and stringing.

 

[Hook]

Looks good, and I'm intrigued. But I think I'll stick to string beans.

 

[Kingfisher]

They make good breakfast tacos too!

 

[skyhightree1]

Looks good, and I'm intrigued. But I think I'll stick to string beans.

:lol:

Jo looks good buddy.

 

[Craig Miller]

That looks good. Do you grow these cactus? I used to eat at this mexican place in morrilton arkansas a good bit that had a volcano bowl fajita with cactus in it. I wandered how it was cooked

 

[ga.prime]

In the future you'll need a permit to remove that gopher food from its natural environment. :D

 

[highgrit]

Looks good, guess I will give it a try. At least you don't have to fertilize or water cactus.

 

[Deepsouth]

Looks good, guess I will give it a try. At least you don't have to fertilize or water cactus.

Yeah, just add bacon. It makes everything good!

 

[Jogeephus]

That looks good. Do you grow these cactus? I used to eat at this mexican place in morrilton arkansas a good bit that had a volcano bowl fajita with cactus in it. I wandered how it was cooked

I don't, they grow wild usually on poor soils but you can sometimes find them around some of the old home places because they are ready before the green beans come in and people would plant some for easy food. Next the cactus pears will be ripe and you can eat these raw or make jelly, wine and all sorts of things out of them.

In the future you'll need a permit to remove that gopher food from its natural environment. :D

Are you sure you don't now? Seems I heard something about it being in the new Affordable Care Act. On page 7348 I think. ;-) :lol2:

 

[hillsdown]

That does look good , who would have thunk ! :lol:

This is now on our must try list when we go down south again . :tiphat:

 

[Jogeephus]

I think you would like them.

 

[Nesikep]

It goes along with the deep fried pickles I had in Kathleen GA.

Our cacti here aren't as big and not as flat either (and more prickly), they're about 2" long, 1 1/2" wide, and 1/2" thick.. spines are about 1" long too. Perhaps if you blanched them you could peel the skin off easily?

Around here they're famous for sticking to the heel of your shoe/boot, and flinging off, at which point they jab you behind the knee.. scares the bejesus out of a fellow!

 

[Hook]

It goes along with the deep fried pickles I had in Kathleen GA.

Our cacti here aren't as big and not as flat either (and more prickly), they're about 2" long, 1 1/2" wide, and 1/2" thick.. spines are about 1" long too. Perhaps if you blanched them you could peel the skin off easily?

Around here they're famous for sticking to the heel of your shoe/boot, and flinging off, at which point they jab you behind the knee.. scares the bejesus out of a fellow!

We called those jumping cactus in Arizona