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Prickly Pear Margaritas 1 cup prickly pear juice (or syrup) 1 1/2 trays ice 1 1/2 cup margarita mix (this is the easy way out) – lime juice from scratch is even better 1 cup tequila, optional if you want yours alcoholic Blend all ingredients except ice. Slowly add in ice until perfect. Delicious!

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Now that we’ve made the prickly pear juice in PART THREE, we’re ready to have some yummy fun with prickly pear fruit. Click here for PART ONE. Click here for PART TWO. In PART THREE, I explained how to get the juice out of prickly pear fruits. Boiling the way I showed works really well. [...]

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Click here to read “Prickly Pear Fruit Harvesting PART ONE”. Click here to read “Prickly Pear Fruit Harvesting PART TWO”. Now that you’ve picked the fruit from the prickly pear, it is time to prepare it. We prefer a “no touch” method, which doesn’t involve any knives or accidental touching. Click here for a great [...]

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Click here to read “Prickly Pear Fruit Harvesting PART ONE”. When picking prickly pear cactus fruit, it’s obvious that you need to be careful of the large needles. What isn’t so obvious is that you need to be even more careful of the almost minuscule little thinner-than-hair short needles. These small ones are so tiny [...]

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It’s officially prickly pear fruit harvesting season here in southern Arizona. Our prickly pears, a.k.a. tuna (Yes, Tuna!), are beautifully ripe. Some are even falling off their pads. We’ve been surprised at the various colors of the fruit – we especially like the bright red ones that look almost like radishes. Today’s post shows photographs [...]

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Many people believe that deserts are barren wastelands. I’ve been to several and I’ve found them all alive with plants and animals. I’ll even go so far as to say I believe the Sonoran Desert is one of the most beautiful places on Earth. Currently, many cactus flowers are blooming here (and they have been [...]

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