Day 25: prickly
These pad cacti grew in my yard in Tennessee when I were a lass. I tried picking some. Once.
See, you think if you avoid the big spines, you’ll be okay. But they also have bzillions of little microscopic, hair-like spines that get into your fingers like raw fiberglass and make touch painful for days. Bastards.
Google tells me they’re called nopales and they’re a mainstay of Mexican cuisine. Here’s a recipe for pickled nopales. Anyone ever et them?
October 25, 2018 — 8:39 pm
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