Wife found some good looking cacti and brought it home for me. I picked it. It was a bit too slimy for my preference. But then it occurred to me that that slim would hold cornmeal for deep frying.
OMG is this tasty. The cost is basically cider vinegar, onions, corn meal and frying oil. We need to go back and get more to plant here.
I used to keep a cigar lighter and knife with me just in case I found some exceptional-looking cactus while driving around here. I’d still do it if urban sprawl hadn’t replaced wild cacti here in Texas with cultivated cacti in people’s yards.
I was extra-frustrated this year when I saw all the prickly pears changing colors in people’s yards, while knowing that no one actually harvests them.