Genesis 1:29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
Today, we tried something new, at least new to us. Can you guess what it was?
Red potatoes? ...........
Nope.
Some kind of beet?............
Nope!
They tasted a little bit like a red raspberry, and the texture reminded me of a kiwi.
They have a lot of very hard seeds that are about half the size of a grain of rice. Thankfully the seeds are edible. It would be very difficult to spit them out because they are attached to the flesh and, also, because there are so many, many, seeds.
Okay, here is the last clue: they grow in the desert.
Did you get it?
We tried Prickly Pear cactus fruits!
I was shopping at Walmart and happened to see Cactus Pears in the produce area. The price wasn't high. I thought they would be fun to try. And they were! That was pretty adventurous of me, seeing as how the last time I felt adventurous was last week and it didn't turn out so good. Last week I thought it might be fun to try a Papaya. Well, it wasn't. The Papaya flesh looked so yummy, kind of like a cantaloupe, but it tasted like a mushy, squash. It was a real let down.
I am glad the Prickly Pear story has a better ending! We all liked them pretty well!
And, like most fruits, they are pretty good for you, too. I read that they are anti-inflammatory and high in some key nutrients.
Have you tried Prickly Pear Fruits? What did you think? Were they good or not so much?
I recognized these right away in the first picture. :) We had lots and lots of these growing down in Florida when we lived there. We had one in front of our greenhouse that became gigantic. We would eat the fruits occasionally, but I didn't have them all that often. They remind me a bit of a pomegranate...but not quite as flavorful. Daddy used to eat them the most. :) He broke off some starts from our big cactus by the greenhouse, and planted more of them in other spots around the property. They were easy to propagate!
ReplyDeleteThank you for the comment, Sunshine Country! Good job for getting the right answer! That's neat that you used to have these growing in your yard.
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