N.B. The fine prickles in the fruit can cause a few problems. I was picking prickles from my fingers for a few days after I made this jam. I have been told since that if you roll the fruit around in ...

I sat by the side of the road with the Mexican women peeling prickly pear fruit in the shadow of Teotihuacan. We waited as my Mexican cousins bargained for relics with the local farmers who dug them ...

*Center Staff Member Recipe from Rick Mick: Rick helps write and edit the Center’s action alerts, weekly e-newsletter and other email communications. This recipe is adapted from the Prickly Pear Jelly ...

Prickly pear fruit (and pads) is just one of many wild desert foods long used by Indigenous people. If you are harvesting prickly pear fruit this year, do so with respect, leaving fruit on the cactus ...

Prickly pear fruit is edible, and tasty at that! However, it's covered in dangerous spines, so you need to know the ...

Making jam from scratch in an old kitchen is one of the most joyful things you’ll ever do in the Karoo. And if you can somehow source red prickly pears, you’ll be blown away by the degree of ...

We are approaching peak prickly pear season. Based on the prickly pear fruit she can see in her neighborhood, Sonya Norman gives it another week or two before the fruit is really ready for harvest.

This recipe first appeared on Gourmet Today TV, aired on TVM on 15 October, 2016.