To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Opuntia as food
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2004 08:05:34 -0500
These spineless cactus grow like weeds. The one I have went from a single
pad to 4 feet high and multiple branches in one year. The young pads taste
pretty good as nopalitos and eggs. Even though mine was spineless, I still
had to be careful of the fine glocids as they caused a lot of pain and were
hard to extract from the fingers.
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DATE: Fri, 9 Apr 2004 04:47:59
From: Jim F <bonfire58_2000@yahoo.com>
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Cc:
> Responding to Louisa and whomever else who might like to eat some
> 'Paddle Cactus,'
>it is delicious. And there is no need to peel it, simply scrape the spines
>off, cut it into ¼" to ½" strips, boil until tender and enjoy.
>When I got my paddles, I purchased them from:
>Rivenrock Gardens Edible Organic Cactus ( Cacti ) ( Cactuses ) ... Rivenrock
>GArdens Edible Cactus ( cacti ) ( cactuses ) opuntia: organic grown and
>edible cactus ( cacti ) to eat. Buy organic grown, edible opuntia cactus.
>...
>www.rivenrock.com/ - 10k - Cached - Similar pages
>
>Jim Fruth
>Pequot Lakes, MN
>
>
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