How To Eat A Prickly Pear (Or, What I Do While The Music’s Playing) – Julie Devereaux
Do you like to satisfy your curiosity when it comes to foods you’ve never had? I sure do! Especially fruits and desserts! I don’t think I’ve ever bought a prickly…
So, here it it…the prickly pear!
Do you like to satisfy your curiosity when it comes to foods you've never had? I sure do! Especially fruits and desserts!
I don't think I've ever bought a prickly pear, I can't recall ever buying one or trying one (maybe when I taste it, I'll remember!).
But when I saw them at the grocery store over the weekend, I had to have one! Then of course I realized I wasn't exactly sure how to eat a prickly pear so I youtubed it and voila!
'How to eat a prickly pear, aka cactus fruit and/or cactus fig'!
Let's do it
I'm following the instructions on the youtube video (how did we ever manage without youtube!)
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So, here it it...the prickly pear!
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Doesn't it kinda look like a red potato?
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The video says to cut off the ends so off they go! It sliced quite easily.
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The video then said to make a cut in the peeling and....
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....just like it did in the instructional video, the peeling came right off!
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There it is! The freshly peeled prickly pear, ready to slice into!
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I'm not sure how to tell if a prickly pear is ripe or not. It's soft but not overly juicy? Big seeds (now I can grow my own!)
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Here goes! Very good. Not too sweet, kind of "clean" tasting. I like it! And, no. I don't think I've ever had one! But I'd definitely buy another one...or two!
