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Opuntia humifusa, nopales con salsa MA 6b
Before and after. bees loved the blooms. In case yall didn’t know nopales is the most Mexican food you can think of outside of the southernmost states, we got nopales in the damn flag !! I heard you can eat the eastern prickly pear but couldn’t find much info on it. most of the info was about the fruit which we also consume heavily (tunas), but good nopales are hard to find in MA. Anyway you pick the new growth (the pads) and peel them and cook them to your liking. These nopales looked like the ones from the sierra back home (if you know you know and you’re very lucky)
Anyway they were definitely more acidic themselves but the the sauce my mother made them in was killer and more than made up for it.
Try them don’t be shy
u/Delacruzz — 3 days ago