We are surrounded by cacti! They will conquer us if we do not eat them. So we ate them.
Pio said they were tasty, and he suggested different ways for us to cook them.
First, you harvest fresh green leaves (or whatever they are - paddles?). The brighter the green, the better they are supposed to taste. We searched, but Pio said it was too early in the season for the fresh leaves to come out. Noah, John, Indigo and Tessa harvested several leaves for us.
Then, you burn the spines off in a stove or over a fire. Just a small amount of fire clears the whole paddle of its sharp pointies. Noah and John were excited about taking the work. They did the dirty work, after burning off the spines, of peeling the skins off and slicing the cacti into strips.
The next step was to fry them, and fry we did. It turns out, a skinned cactus is gooey, slimy and hard to hold on to. Analogies ranged from snot to worms to aloe vera guts.
They are tasty, but a little bitter. The first round, we did nothing but fry them. We have several other ideas. Stir fry. Add salt and seasoning. Particularly exciting is chicken fried cactus - breaded strips deep fried! Yummmy!
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