You've kept your channel wildly eclectic & interesting right from jump-street Kelly! Sight seeing, exercise, cooking, all on TOP of the killer fishing videos! THIS is why so many of us jumped onboard for your wild, wacky, wonderful journey you're taking us on. The absolute JOY you get from exploring life is ALWAYS inspiring ma'am! As per the usual, thank you for the vid, your time & effort are always appreciated!
Kelly your video from Texas was amazing seeing things you haven't seen before like cactus plants and cactus fruits .if Kelly doesn't have her coffee in the morning look out guys. Preparation of how you cooked the catcus was awesome with butter and onions loved it 😀😀👍👍❤❤
All along the south Texas and Mexico border, “Tunas” are an amazing treat, they come in yellow, green and red. In the fall there are street vendors everywhere that sell them. My favorite fruit in the world.
Hi ... you and your group have the best set of original.. home cook.in recipes i.ve seen i think ... ever.. with catch and cook lobster.s... shrmip.s .. the barracuda..my lip.s are sealed...also this ..cactus.. great.. stuff.. very original... now i.m gonna watch the wild boar and the swamp...cabbage...... out standing..... have a great day....
Awesome video 👍 thanks for sharing all the cool things you guys saw and did down there! You had me itchy just from watching you picking those cactus fruits LOL 🤘👍😀
There's a tex-mex restaurant near me that serves the best cactus salad ever. Not sure if it's cooked or pickled but it's fantastic. Gabe is right, always try new stuff. Thanks guys.
Check how we cook it in Mexico, whit beans, meat and tortilla... another level ...Nopales... that’s why we call our selves Nopaleros!! Greetz from Berlin
I'm sure someone of Mexican heritage, or someone familiar with this food, already said in the comments but there is a little more that goes into preparing and cooking the cactus. My mom, born in Mexico, made it with a sauce made of chile ancho. It's actually really good. Good video and I liked seeing this being tried out
I grew up with prickly pear cactus growing in our yard. When they're ripe skin the fruit and chill it awhile before eating. Be careful of the thorns, they will stick you. The fruit is sort of a jelly mass packed with seed. Its sweet and delicious. Timing is everything, over ripe and the taste goes bland. Uncooked and cold is how we always had them.
Props on you trying out cactus or what we call “nopales”. True the paddles that are best are young in the spring and have thorns that are soft as leaves. They are more tender and and tastier. As for the prickly pears (tunas) even I have problems on when to pick them and I was raised eating them by my grandpa (abuelito) Y’all end up in San Antonio again let me know 🍺
A propane torch is your friend. Burn all around fruit till you get all the thorns. Newspaper is a great tool to grab the cactus itself. I've been doing this for a while. Great Job!
I live in NM and we have lots of p-pears. they're very tasty when very purple red. Also, to clean the spines, use a torch to burn off the littlest spines.
I work at a cotton gin in West Texas, almost on a daily basis I load cotton seed by the ton for cattle feed and people who know that deer love em. It's like a T-bone for the deer high in protein
I'm almost 60 years old and I've lived in Texas my entire life. When I was a young boy. We lived in South West Texas for several years. I grew up eating the fruit of the Prickly Pear Cactus and Mesquite beans from the mesquite trees there as well. Always a sweet treat. The prickly pears tunas do indeed make a great jam. One thing when eating them raw. Most Texans throw them in the camp fire for just a few seconds. ( You can do this on a stovetop too). This does two things. First it quickly burns off any of those little patches of micro thorns. Called Glochids, so you don't end up painfully discovering them for the next six or seven hours on different parts of your hands. And secondly, just like with a bell pepper, allowing them to sit in the hot coals for just a few seconds. Makes them easier to peel. Even more so if you place them directly into a small paper bag and let them self steam for a minute or two. But as kids we usually just carefully peeled them and enjoyed the tangy, slightly sweet red flesh inside. Compared to the seed filled middle, the first thing layer of seedless meat just under the skin can be scraped off the skin with the back of the blade of a pocket knife, ( every boy in Texas past the age of three usually has one or two pocket knives. ) , and enjoyed. Eating the part with the seeds is much like eating a pomegranate.
Happy belated Kelly!! You always keep me intrigued and of course I love your content. You are such an inspiration. Keep up the great collabs with your awesome peeps as well!! Badassery at its finest!!!!
You should boil(simmer or low roll) fresh cacti first...a couple of hours, until they're sort of al dente. They give off a lot of slime, so wash them thoroughly, after. Then finish them however you'd like.
FYI best time to eat cactus is in the spring time they put out new growth, they are softer , sweeter and the stickers are soft and green.Cows will eat the old ones stickers included 😊
You can take 5-6 of those pears and put in a colander and swirl them around under running faucet water and no more quills. We do that then put in a juicer and get the juice to make jelly. The juice is very good in drinks like lemonade or ritas. You can also put in a blender and strain through cheese cloth. We will be picking them this upcoming dove hunting weekend at the ranch. Its that time of year again.
Being from deep south Texas I've seen those grow on cactus all my life, never have had them in my 52 years being on God's green earth! Big props to you, keep the video's coming!!!!😁
I have lived in the Tampa bay area since the summer of 1988 and I have never wanted to even go any farther south until I started watching you and deermeatfordinner and Kelly I would love to bring my dad down to maybe do a weekend fishing maybe get a hog hunt in he has been fighting infections with a knee replacement that his body wouldn't except so after 8 yrs and 18 surgeries he had basically no other choice but to have his left leg amputated and is just now able to get back into the woods and on the water again!! If you are going to be doing another prize thing where you do something along the lines of a hunt and fishing trip please let me know!! I have a Facebook that you can message me the info if you do it again I am a huge fan of all three of yall!!!
Kelly invited me and I show you how to properly cook the 🌵 and how to eat the 🌵 Fruit it It would be an honor I live in Illinois but I have family in Texas to and love to visit Florida God bless you and Gabe and the kids and Deer meat for dinner and all the Family 🙏🏻
I can't believe you didn't notice the SPIDERS 2:06 on the 1st cactus you were pulling the pears from, right after BlueGabe mentioned spiders! At some local Hispanic tiendas, they often sell fresh cactus, all cleaned, sliced, iced down, or even the whole paddles, cleaned of course. You can even buy them pickled. My mom had cactus patches in our yard, we had to help clean them as well. We always had them fried, often mixed with scrambled eggs, with tortillas for breakfast tacos. The prickly pears or tunas, we just cleaned off the spines, peeled and ate the insides. It has lots of seeds so you do like with watermelon seeds, just spit them out. I have seen people make prickly pear jam, never tried it though.
How cool would it be to see kelly and blue gabe hang out with the googans, maybe like lunkerstv or flair or lojo? Or lfg? I think it would be wicked cool to see a crossover of worlds🤘🤘🤘🤘
Cactus apples or in Spanish Tunas. I've made seriously good wine with them and cooked them down, extracted the juice, added sugar and produced a different tasting syrup for pancakes & waffles. You can remove those microsplinters on them by using a meat fork and holding them over an open flame a few seconds.
That´s nice fruit it has a lot of antioxidant properties Here in the Canary Islands we know as ''tuno'' the fruit of that cactus, I recommend the red one in a shake with other fruits. There´s another type of tuno that has a sweeter taste (tuno canario).
i miss my granny. she would make a cactus and ground beef dish that was so amazing. i remember her sitting outside cleaning the cactus with a potato peeler, bare handed. ohhh memories.
Kelly, you always provide a great video of your life and times. Outstanding balance of harmony and life in a cup of happiness. Thanks for sharing this electrifying video with us that watch your channel my friend. Thanks for the time you spend for us. It's said that when you got it. You got it.
In Spanish the fruit is called tuna, and cooking the paddles the best thing to do is chop them up boil them over and over until the slime is gone. Personally I boil drain the slime, boil and drain, and boil again. Then I blend me some chilly Colorado and fry some pork then mix it all together for some delicious tacos 😍
I remember my first experience grabbing ahold of cactus I had red fur stuck in my fingers which seemed like days. Now I grow nopales and cook the young tender leaves I have learned to blanch them first and boiling water before handling them to take the spines off. As for the Tunas or prickly pear if you let them get really right they kind of taste like a papaya thank you for the video
I’m 46 and didn’t grow up in a world where women stayed home to cook unless they were interested in it. I chased my career while being a mom but once my boys hit 10 yrs old, I had to learn how to cook more than just the holiday meals that consisted of multiple family recipes (things little boys don’t like), which was all I knew how to cook at first 😬 It doesn’t matter if you’re male or female; if you enjoy cooking then do it. Do not do it simply because you’re a woman. Men love to cook, too. Let’em. We help them provide for the family these days 😉 #allaboutbalance
Reminds me of my folks. Grew up in Kansas. We spent many a day foraging for gooseberries, elderberry, mushrooms. Fished for cats, gars, drums, carps, bluegills, ate everything including the turtles. I'd refer to them a hippies but they weren't. They just loved
Awesome vid, Kelly! Thanks for making my day! Also; I see the questions flying. I don't care who you're seeing, as long as they're treating you right. Live your life, gorgeous!
Noples is the Mexican version of tofu, it takes on the flavor or what you cook it with. The thick leaves are normally not so good. We always use the very thin leaves
You should pick the paddles in the spring when they are freshly grown, not the old ones. I made Prickley Pair Jelly, really difficult to get the pectin right, they have very little natural pectin. Very tasty jelly.
Some hints.. use long barbecue tongs. Harvest on cool mornings.. why? The ph changes from alkaline to acidic as the day goes on, and resets the next morning. Yes , pick the smaller younger pads.Avoid any that have a purple tinge... they’re toxic. Some people singe the spines off with a fire or propane torch. Others put them in a jar with water and shake to remove the spines.
Kelly when picking cactus blossom's use tongs like you would use for chicken or turning things in a hot skillet. Was down south in Arizona watched some natives using them.,..well that and a big set of pliers hahaha. tongs seemed to be the ticket though.
That's was a great video. It's nice to see you traveling around to experience all the great things in Texas. Can't wait to see what you have in store for later. Thanks for sharing this video. It's always to see that gorgeous smile.
I guess they forgot to tell you that one can purchase both elements of the prickly pear, already de-spined, at most grocery stores in South Texas! Also, I cringed when you walked up on that pear bush in shorts and Crocks! Being from South Texas, I would never walk up on one without at lest tall boots on, if not rattlesnake leggings! Glad you made it out safely! Whew!
@@PapaKryptoss I was just taught at a very young age to respect venomous snakes, learn the habitats they are prone to inhabit, and how to avoid emergency trips to the hospital!
The catcus leaf, you scrape off the spines with a knife. You dice the catcus and cook it in a chili sauce. Tastes very good that way. It is also used as a filling with chili sauce in a gordita. Thats how mexicans make that. Yes prickly pear (tunas in spanish) tastes like a fruit or dragon fruit (pitaya). We just peel the skin off and bite into it.
I love the prickly pear fruits. But being up north in wisconsin they are already cleaned up so usually don't have to deal with the spines and such. Once in a while you'll get one. But they are really good tasting. Can't say so far that I've been a fan of the paddle but haven't tried those much.
In Spanish we call them tunas! They sweet! There is yellow red and green ones! But a lot of people say they constipate you, but.... haven’t had the issue lol You gotta try grilling them! 👍🏻 the nopales I mean
Hi Kelly, Noah here from Texas. WELCOME TO TEXAS!!! Glad you are enjoying yourself. there are many things to do here. we have some of the best wildlife around. I was fortunate to spend the weekend at Garner State Park and took a picture of a horned lizard. it was like the SOB posed for the camera LOL LOL cause once i took the picture it left. LOL LOL LOL. I really hope you enjoy your stay.
Somehow your video culinary skills didn't make us want to rush out and try some, lol. I've seen the petals cleaned, cut small, and eaten in stews and meat dishes and the fruit makes a great jelly and a refreshment drink.
called cotton seed hulls. also fed to cattle before going to auction to fatten them up. we would mix cotton seed hulls with some maze, maybe a lil alfalfa , or maybe some peanut hay spray with molasses. cows would go nuts eating it. prickly pear cactus save your life if you are thirsty too..
The blooms make great jams and jellies and the paddles make great street tacos 😋 also if you harvest the paddles, you want the younger ones, and just a tip, a melon baller works great for the thorns, with the bright green color, and to blue gabe, it's Texan not texian.
Welcome to Texas. Enjoy some Balcones Whiskey with that Cactus 🌵. And get ya some boots. Those cactus thorns will go through those shoes. We have some amazing outdoor experiences in the Lone Star ⭐️state. Awesome channel.
I think in Mexico I've had cactus they skin those ears I like them they when prepared well and selected right taste like a really good green bean taste great with fajitas meat. Looked good I've never eaten the prickly pears though. Just started watching your channel it's very nice to watch thank you. Best David
That's awesome Kelly!!! I'm from Arizona so everything you were coming across I grew up with and usually take for granted. Would love to have you come over here for a visit and would gladly be your tour guide. I'll catch you on the flip side!!
Kelly, i live in central Texa. We take the purple prickly pear fruit and make wine. You need to pick 5 gal of the fruit. Cook them in a big pot. You need 1 gal. of juice to make 5 gal. of wine.
I have a small growth of these in my yard, My friends girlfriend picked a couple and brought them in. The red parts turn into fruits, after the flowers die. They are slimy and have seeds. Not the best thing I have ever tried. BUT! If you had nothing else you would enjoy them.
Kelly you have got to try Yucca root soup! You can Google search the recipe, it is absolutely delicious and good for you! It's one of many things made from cactus that people are unaware of! And of course tequila a all time favorite!!!!!!!!🤣
I got lost deer hunting once when fog rolled in the mountains in south eastern NM and found two prickly pears and that was the only thing I had to eat for 36 hours. My Grandmother use to make prickly pear jelly. Raw they taste like watermelon/kiwi cross
ever try dry age seafood, i was thinking of just cutting off head of tuna and pulling cut out without cutting belly so can have a dog collar cut tuna steak, and maybe running some hickory smoke threw hickory nut oil and thumper ice worm to cold smoke when dry aging
Great video hun always want to try something new great job. And that rock house was extremely cool craftsmanship even the 190 year old fan still work. Keep up the great work
My whole life me and my family have ate nopale so much but never seen it with butter, usually we make them with a good carne asada on the grill it's so good
Great video Kelly, in-spite of BlueGabe’s Tex-i-an pronunciation. 😎 Seriously, the jelly can be very good, but is a whole lot of work. Thank you for your videos!
Napalitos in scrambled eggs is good but prickly pear jelly is da bomb on your toast. One of our staples as a South texas kid. Also misquite bean jelly is pretty tastey ...you ought to see what those roadrunners will do to a snake and or lizzard..
You guys were freaking me out too walking around in South Texas in flip flops and crocs. Rattlesnakes love those big bunches of Pears like that! The leaves are called Nopales and they are best if you get the really young leaves in the Sprong when they are just a few inches long that don't have defined "stickers" on them yet. Cook them as you did and when soft and tender scramble in some eggs and pre-cooked bacon or sausage...roll it up in a tortilla...Nopalitos! Enjoyed the video anyway, Be safe!
Gotta peel those cactus paddles. The big boys are going to be very fibrous and tough, the smaller ones are much more tender. Also good practice to salt and de-slime them with a quick blanch. Also a torch for the micro spines.
you need to visit the old Forts . i like the Alamo and the old fort in Goliad. don't forget to visit the Sam Houston Monument in Deer park, Texas. good fishing/crabbing there too. lots of Texas history.
Kelly, next time to eat those cactus you need to get the new blooming ones. Which are a bright bright green and not dull colored. Those are the best of the best.
Love the variation of the videos. I normally have some input into cooking videos. But with cactus I guess I don’t have much to offer. But It seems that I may not be missing anything. Nice innuendos. 😈 That Texas Landscape is harsh. Yet Beauty prevails. I’m sure those cacti have fed generations.
You've kept your channel wildly eclectic & interesting right from jump-street Kelly! Sight seeing, exercise, cooking, all on TOP of the killer fishing videos! THIS is why so many of us jumped onboard for your wild, wacky, wonderful journey you're taking us on. The absolute JOY you get from exploring life is ALWAYS inspiring ma'am! As per the usual, thank you for the vid, your time & effort are always appreciated!
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Bluegabe with the “ you never spit anything out do you “ joke
Kelly your video from Texas was amazing seeing things you haven't seen before like cactus plants and cactus fruits .if Kelly doesn't have her coffee in the morning look out guys. Preparation of how you cooked the catcus was awesome with butter and onions loved it 😀😀👍👍❤❤
I always look forward to your videos. It's nice to know that people like you still exists in this crazy time we are in.
All along the south Texas and Mexico border, “Tunas” are an amazing treat, they come in yellow, green and red. In the fall there are street vendors everywhere that sell them. My favorite fruit in the world.
Las tunas son ricas !!! yummy
Kelly has such a great personality. She laughs easily. That's a good thing. Bless you both.
Hi ... you and your group have the best set of original.. home cook.in recipes i.ve seen i think ... ever.. with catch and cook lobster.s... shrmip.s .. the barracuda..my lip.s are sealed...also this ..cactus.. great.. stuff.. very original... now i.m gonna watch the wild boar and the swamp...cabbage...... out standing..... have a great day....
Cactus (nopales) make a great vegetarian taco with black beans and cheese, yum!
That cactus fruit is amazing !
I harvest them every year here in New Mexico
I hike pass those cactus all the time here near Las Vegas. Always wondered how to do that. Thanks.
Really enjoy your content and especially since Gabe has been helping you! Keep it up!
Awesome video 👍 thanks for sharing all the cool things you guys saw and did down there! You had me itchy just from watching you picking those cactus fruits LOL 🤘👍😀
I hope you and BlueGabe make many more videos together, each of you are great by yourself but together y'all are fantastic.
There's a tex-mex restaurant near me that serves the best cactus salad ever. Not sure if it's cooked or pickled but it's fantastic. Gabe is right, always try new stuff. Thanks guys.
Check how we cook it in Mexico, whit beans, meat and tortilla... another level ...Nopales... that’s why we call our selves Nopaleros!! Greetz from Berlin
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I'm sure someone of Mexican heritage, or someone familiar with this food, already said in the comments but there is a little more that goes into preparing and cooking the cactus. My mom, born in Mexico, made it with a sauce made of chile ancho. It's actually really good. Good video and I liked seeing this being tried out
I think u and Bluegabe make a great duo! Hooe many more collabs to come.
Love how Chillled this Girl is!!!!
I grew up with prickly pear cactus growing in our yard. When they're ripe skin the fruit and chill it awhile before eating. Be careful of the thorns, they will stick you. The fruit is sort of a jelly mass packed with seed. Its sweet and delicious. Timing is everything, over ripe and the taste goes bland.
Uncooked and cold is how we always had them.
Props on you trying out cactus or what we call “nopales”. True the paddles that are best are young in the spring and have thorns that are soft as leaves. They are more tender and and tastier. As for the prickly pears (tunas) even I have problems on when to pick them and I was raised eating them by my grandpa (abuelito) Y’all end up in San Antonio again let me know 🍺
20:30 As a Texan when I was a kid we just picked the prickly pear and brushed the prickles off and ate them seeds skin and all not cooked!
A propane torch is your friend. Burn all around fruit till you get all the thorns. Newspaper is a great tool to grab the cactus itself. I've been doing this for a while. Great Job!
I live in NM and we have lots of p-pears. they're very tasty when very purple red. Also, to clean the spines, use a torch to burn off the littlest spines.
I work at a cotton gin in West Texas, almost on a daily basis I load cotton seed by the ton for cattle feed and people who know that deer love em. It's like a T-bone for the deer high in protein
I'm almost 60 years old and I've lived in Texas my entire life. When I was a young boy. We lived in South West Texas for several years. I grew up eating the fruit of the Prickly Pear Cactus and Mesquite beans from the mesquite trees there as well. Always a sweet treat. The prickly pears tunas do indeed make a great jam. One thing when eating them raw. Most Texans throw them in the camp fire for just a few seconds. ( You can do this on a stovetop too). This does two things. First it quickly burns off any of those little patches of micro thorns. Called Glochids, so you don't end up painfully discovering them for the next six or seven hours on different parts of your hands.
And secondly, just like with a bell pepper, allowing them to sit in the hot coals for just a few seconds. Makes them easier to peel. Even more so if you place them directly into a small paper bag and let them self steam for a minute or two.
But as kids we usually just carefully peeled them and enjoyed the tangy, slightly sweet red flesh inside. Compared to the seed filled middle, the first thing layer of seedless meat just under the skin can be scraped off the skin with the back of the blade of a pocket knife, ( every boy in Texas past the age of three usually has one or two pocket knives. ) , and enjoyed. Eating the part with the seeds is much like eating a pomegranate.
My uncle from Italy swore by the yellow flowered ones that grow over there. But me I love them all. Bring back good memories of him.
Happy belated Kelly!! You always keep me intrigued and of course I love your content. You are such an inspiration. Keep up the great collabs with your awesome peeps as well!! Badassery at its finest!!!!
Great vid Mrs young !!! Really think it’s cool how y’all ain’t afraid of trying new things and food !! Keep up the great vids 👌🏻
You should boil(simmer or low roll) fresh cacti first...a couple of hours, until they're sort of al dente. They give off a lot of slime, so wash them thoroughly, after. Then finish them however you'd like.
FYI best time to eat cactus is in the spring time they put out new growth, they are softer , sweeter and the stickers are soft and green.Cows will eat the old ones stickers included 😊
Can't say I've ever had the opportunity to try a cactus and prickly pear cook, but it looks pretty darn good, thanks Kelly!
You can take 5-6 of those pears and put in a colander and swirl them around under running faucet water and no more quills.
We do that then put in a juicer and get the juice to make jelly. The juice is very good in drinks like lemonade or ritas. You can also put in a blender and strain through cheese cloth. We will be picking them this upcoming dove hunting weekend at the ranch. Its that time of year again.
It’s cool how you share all kinds of thing besides ocean activities with us. I’ve always wanted to try those fruits.
Being from deep south Texas I've seen those grow on cactus all my life, never have had them in my 52 years being on God's green earth! Big props to you, keep the video's coming!!!!😁
U missing out on high in vitamin fruit. I guess it's a middleeastern thing lol
Awesome video ! Such a fun trip too
I have lived in the Tampa bay area since the summer of 1988 and I have never wanted to even go any farther south until I started watching you and deermeatfordinner and Kelly I would love to bring my dad down to maybe do a weekend fishing maybe get a hog hunt in he has been fighting infections with a knee replacement that his body wouldn't except so after 8 yrs and 18 surgeries he had basically no other choice but to have his left leg amputated and is just now able to get back into the woods and on the water again!! If you are going to be doing another prize thing where you do something along the lines of a hunt and fishing trip please let me know!! I have a Facebook that you can message me the info if you do it again I am a huge fan of all three of yall!!!
Thank you and god bless all of yall!!! Keep up the fantastic videos!!
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Kelly invited me and I show you how to properly cook the 🌵 and how to eat the 🌵 Fruit it It would be an honor I live in Illinois but I have family in Texas to and love to visit Florida God bless you and Gabe and the kids and Deer meat for dinner and all the Family 🙏🏻
I can't believe you didn't notice the SPIDERS 2:06 on the 1st cactus you were pulling the pears from, right after BlueGabe mentioned spiders! At some local Hispanic tiendas, they often sell fresh cactus, all cleaned, sliced, iced down, or even the whole paddles, cleaned of course. You can even buy them pickled. My mom had cactus patches in our yard, we had to help clean them as well. We always had them fried, often mixed with scrambled eggs, with tortillas for breakfast tacos. The prickly pears or tunas, we just cleaned off the spines, peeled and ate the insides. It has lots of seeds so you do like with watermelon seeds, just spit them out. I have seen people make prickly pear jam, never tried it though.
How cool would it be to see kelly and blue gabe hang out with the googans, maybe like lunkerstv or flair or lojo? Or lfg? I think it would be wicked cool to see a crossover of worlds🤘🤘🤘🤘
You can eat the cactus pads(pull the spines), too, or make prickly pear jelly. Our grocery markets sell it in the produce isle.
Cactus apples or in Spanish Tunas. I've made seriously good wine with them and cooked them down, extracted the juice, added sugar and produced a different tasting syrup for pancakes & waffles.
You can remove those microsplinters on them by using a meat fork and holding them over an open flame a few seconds.
That´s nice fruit it has a lot of antioxidant properties Here in the Canary Islands we know as ''tuno'' the fruit of that cactus, I recommend the red one in a shake with other fruits. There´s another type of tuno that has a sweeter taste (tuno canario).
i miss my granny. she would make a cactus and ground beef dish that was so amazing. i remember her sitting outside cleaning the cactus with a potato peeler, bare handed. ohhh memories.
Kelly, you always provide a great video of your life and times. Outstanding balance of harmony and life in a cup of happiness. Thanks for sharing this electrifying video with us that watch your channel my friend. Thanks for the time you spend for us. It's said that when you got it. You got it.
In Spanish the fruit is called tuna, and cooking the paddles the best thing to do is chop them up boil them over and over until the slime is gone. Personally I boil drain the slime, boil and drain, and boil again. Then I blend me some chilly Colorado and fry some pork then mix it all together for some delicious tacos 😍
I remember my first experience grabbing ahold of cactus I had red fur stuck in my fingers which seemed like days. Now I grow nopales and cook the young tender leaves I have learned to blanch them first and boiling water before handling them to take the spines off. As for the Tunas or prickly pear if you let them get really right they kind of taste like a papaya thank you for the video
Loving the variety of your content, great work!
Not to many young ladies even bother learning to cook now days. Good job.
I’m 46 and didn’t grow up in a world where women stayed home to cook unless they were interested in it. I chased my career while being a mom but once my boys hit 10 yrs old, I had to learn how to cook more than just the holiday meals that consisted of multiple family recipes (things little boys don’t like), which was all I knew how to cook at first 😬 It doesn’t matter if you’re male or female; if you enjoy cooking then do it. Do not do it simply because you’re a woman. Men love to cook, too. Let’em. We help them provide for the family these days 😉 #allaboutbalance
@@kimberlyb5512 sorry for offending you and I surely didn't mean it to sound like it did.
Blue Gabe got ya on that one. Never spit anything out huh?
And u can cook cactus on the grill put lime on it really good with steak
Cactus blooms are super delicious in Jams....super rich in color and flavor. Can you try to make Jam Kelly and do a video?
Reminds me of my folks. Grew up in Kansas. We spent many a day foraging for gooseberries, elderberry, mushrooms. Fished for cats, gars, drums, carps, bluegills, ate everything including the turtles. I'd refer to them a hippies but they weren't. They just loved
Love yalls videos and glad you had a good time in Texas 👍
Awesome vid, Kelly!
Thanks for making my day!
Also; I see the questions flying.
I don't care who you're seeing, as long as they're treating you right.
Live your life, gorgeous!
Noples is the Mexican version of tofu, it takes on the flavor or what you cook it with.
The thick leaves are normally not so good. We always use the very thin leaves
You should pick the paddles in the spring when they are freshly grown, not the old ones. I made Prickley Pair Jelly, really difficult to get the pectin right, they have very little natural pectin. Very tasty jelly.
Some hints.. use long barbecue tongs. Harvest on cool mornings.. why? The ph changes from alkaline to acidic as the day goes on, and resets the next morning. Yes , pick the smaller younger pads.Avoid any that have a purple tinge... they’re toxic. Some people singe the spines off with a fire or propane torch. Others put them in a jar with water and shake to remove the spines.
Grew up in south texas. My mom used to make a jam out of these. Great on toast or PBJ sammiches.
Kelly when picking cactus blossom's use tongs like you would use for chicken or turning things in a hot skillet. Was down south in Arizona watched some natives using them.,..well that and a big set of pliers hahaha. tongs seemed to be the ticket though.
That's was a great video. It's nice to see you traveling around to experience all the great things in Texas. Can't wait to see what you have in store for later. Thanks for sharing this video. It's always to see that gorgeous smile.
Excellent video, thank you very much for sharing, take good care of yourself
I guess they forgot to tell you that one can purchase both elements of the prickly pear, already de-spined, at most grocery stores in South Texas! Also, I cringed when you walked up on that pear bush in shorts and Crocks! Being from South Texas, I would never walk up on one without at lest tall boots on, if not rattlesnake leggings! Glad you made it out safely! Whew!
You don't get outside much do you!
@@PapaKryptoss I was just taught at a very young age to respect venomous snakes, learn the habitats they are prone to inhabit, and how to avoid emergency trips to the hospital!
@@PapaKryptoss so how many prickly pears have you harvested? Just curious.
@@williambenner5550 I bet you wear two masks and have hand sanitizer everywhere.
Those cactus fruit are wonderful raw the paddles are the ones you cook and then only the new young paddles
The catcus leaf, you scrape off the spines with a knife. You dice the catcus and cook it in a chili sauce. Tastes very good that way. It is also used as a filling with chili sauce in a gordita. Thats how mexicans make that. Yes prickly pear (tunas in spanish) tastes like a fruit or dragon fruit (pitaya). We just peel the skin off and bite into it.
I love the prickly pear fruits. But being up north in wisconsin they are already cleaned up so usually don't have to deal with the spines and such. Once in a while you'll get one. But they are really good tasting. Can't say so far that I've been a fan of the paddle but haven't tried those much.
I love eating prickly cactus with lemon and salt it’s so delicious and the cactus you can eat it raw or cocked or as a salad.
In Spanish we call them tunas! They sweet! There is yellow red and green ones! But a lot of people say they constipate you, but.... haven’t had the issue lol
You gotta try grilling them! 👍🏻 the nopales I mean
Hi Kelly, Noah here from Texas. WELCOME TO TEXAS!!! Glad you are enjoying yourself. there are many things to do here. we have some of the best wildlife around. I was fortunate to spend the weekend at Garner State Park and took a picture of a horned lizard. it was like the SOB posed for the camera LOL LOL cause once i took the picture it left. LOL LOL LOL.
I really hope you enjoy your stay.
Somehow your video culinary skills didn't make us want to rush out and try some, lol. I've seen the petals cleaned, cut small, and eaten in stews and meat dishes and the fruit makes a great jelly and a refreshment drink.
called cotton seed hulls. also fed to cattle before going to auction to fatten them up. we would mix cotton seed hulls with some maze, maybe a lil alfalfa , or maybe some peanut hay spray with molasses. cows would go nuts eating it. prickly pear cactus save your life if you are thirsty too..
The blooms make great jams and jellies and the paddles make great street tacos 😋 also if you harvest the paddles, you want the younger ones, and just a tip, a melon baller works great for the thorns, with the bright green color, and to blue gabe, it's Texan not texian.
Welcome to Texas. Enjoy some Balcones Whiskey with that Cactus 🌵. And get ya some boots. Those cactus thorns will go through those shoes. We have some amazing outdoor experiences in the Lone Star ⭐️state. Awesome channel.
I think in Mexico I've had cactus they skin those ears I like them they when prepared well and selected right taste like a really good green bean taste great with fajitas meat. Looked good I've never eaten the prickly pears though. Just started watching your channel it's very nice to watch thank you.
Best David
That's awesome Kelly!!! I'm from Arizona so everything you were coming across I grew up with and usually take for granted. Would love to have you come over here for a visit and would gladly be your tour guide. I'll catch you on the flip side!!
you know coffee is life and number one prio in the morning :)
My Grandmother use to make Prickly pear jelly that was sooo good!! 🤤
Kelly, i live in central Texa. We take the purple prickly pear fruit and make wine. You need to pick 5 gal of the fruit. Cook them in a big pot. You need 1 gal. of juice to make 5 gal. of wine.
Awesome, gotta give her a thumb's up for trying new foods . A lot of people so finicky , so you go girl
I have a small growth of these in my yard, My friends girlfriend picked a couple and brought them in. The red parts turn into fruits, after the flowers die. They are slimy and have seeds. Not the best thing I have ever tried. BUT! If you had nothing else you would enjoy them.
Thank you kelly 😊
Kelly you have got to try Yucca root soup! You can Google search the recipe, it is absolutely delicious and good for you! It's one of many things made from cactus that people are unaware of! And of course tequila a all time favorite!!!!!!!!🤣
That cactus fruit is called "tunas" in Spanish when you peel them put them in the fridge they are so good cold😉
I got lost deer hunting once when fog rolled in the mountains in south eastern NM and found two prickly pears and that was the only thing I had to eat for 36 hours. My Grandmother use to make prickly pear jelly. Raw they taste like watermelon/kiwi cross
ever try dry age seafood, i was thinking of just cutting off head of tuna and pulling cut out without cutting belly so can have a dog collar cut tuna steak, and maybe running some hickory smoke threw hickory nut oil and thumper ice worm to cold smoke when dry aging
Great video hun always want to try something new great job. And that rock house was extremely cool craftsmanship even the 190 year old fan still work. Keep up the great work
My whole life me and my family have ate nopale so much but never seen it with butter, usually we make them with a good carne asada on the grill it's so good
Never tried it..now I know how to prep.thanks
I wonder how it would go through a juicer, I have a masticating juicer that will crush seeds.
Great video Kelly, in-spite of BlueGabe’s Tex-i-an pronunciation. 😎 Seriously, the jelly can be very good, but is a whole lot of work. Thank you for your videos!
I live in Connecticut and it grows here. It deflates in the fall and inflates in the spring. I don’t eat it but it has a amazing flower
Eggs and cactus is pretty good for breakfast. Always thought it would be gross till my Mexican mom convinced me to try it. It’s not bad!
ok It helps to boil the cactus first to get rid of the slime. The Tunas are best when purple just peel and eat so good !
Napalitos in scrambled eggs is good but prickly pear jelly is da bomb on your toast. One of our staples as a South texas kid. Also misquite bean jelly is pretty tastey ...you ought to see what those roadrunners will do to a snake and or lizzard..
red tunas and lemonade good in the south texas summer.
Kelly , your suppose to havrves the small cactus pads= usually ready around February/march
You guys were freaking me out too walking around in South Texas in flip flops and crocs. Rattlesnakes love those big bunches of Pears like that! The leaves are called Nopales and they are best if you get the really young leaves in the Sprong when they are just a few inches long that don't have defined "stickers" on them yet. Cook them as you did and when soft and tender scramble in some eggs and pre-cooked bacon or sausage...roll it up in a tortilla...Nopalitos!
Enjoyed the video anyway, Be safe!
Certain types of cactus , the inside can be used as sunscreen , cool video
Gotta peel those cactus paddles. The big boys are going to be very fibrous and tough, the smaller ones are much more tender. Also good practice to salt and de-slime them with a quick blanch. Also a torch for the micro spines.
you need to visit the old Forts . i like the Alamo and the old fort in Goliad. don't forget to visit the Sam Houston Monument in Deer park, Texas. good fishing/crabbing there too. lots of Texas history.
Kelly, next time to eat those cactus you need to get the new blooming ones. Which are a bright bright green and not dull colored. Those are the best of the best.
Back in the day as a kid those used to be all-around here in Central Florida. Haven't noticed many nowadays
Love the variation of the videos. I normally have some input into cooking videos. But with cactus I guess I don’t have much to offer. But It seems that I may not be missing anything. Nice innuendos. 😈 That Texas Landscape is harsh. Yet Beauty prevails. I’m sure those cacti have fed generations.