To prepare prickly pear jam, start by sanitizing the jars, following the Health Ministry's guidelines provided at the end of the recipe. Once this task is done, move on to the prickly pears: first, ...

Sep. 26—Throw a rock in New Mexico and you will most likely hit a prickly pear cactus. The plentiful and beautiful cacti, also known as nopales, produce a sweet and bright ruby fruit that sprouts from ...

*Center Staff Member Recipe from Rick Mick: Rick helps write and edit the Center’s action alerts, weekly e-newsletter and other email communications. This recipe is adapted from the Prickly Pear Jelly ...

If you're looking to broaden your fruit horizons beyond the quotidien, consider the many ways to eat prickly pears. Also known as cactus pear, this delectable desert fruit grows on shrub-size cactus ...

Life in the upper Sonoran Desert has its perks. Among them: six months of peerless weather and more prickly pear pods than you can shake a rain stick at. Rather than letting the pods go to waste, ...

This recipe first appeared on Gourmet Today TV, aired on TVM on 15 October, 2016.

Making jam from scratch in an old kitchen is one of the most joyful things you’ll ever do in the Karoo. And if you can somehow source red prickly pears, you’ll be blown away by the degree of ...

Prickly pear cacti in the Tucson area are laden with plump, red fruits at this time of year — creating not only a colorful landscape but an opportunity for native-food fans to whip up a batch of ...

McALLEN -- The prickly pear cactus, with its green, thorn-covered pads jutting out of the tall grass and mesquite thickets of South Texas, has become a fixture of the Rio Grande Valley. While waving ...

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My wife and I visited her cousin, Penny, a few weeks ago and were amazed at an enormous cactus she had in landscape. It was an eastern prickly pear cactus measuring about 100 square feet, loaded with ...

Q: If I want to eradicate a stand of prickly pear cactus, can I just mow over it with a shredder, or do I need to burn it or dig it up or something? Peter J., Amarillo A: The Texanist, rather than ...