Prickly pear jam

Prickly pear is a refreshing cactus fruit that can be incorporated into many recipes! From cocktails to desserts, we've got you covered with the best prickly pear recipes that you can try at home! #PricklyPear #Recipes #GloriousRecipes

Do you remember when I made prickly pear juice a few weeks ago and left you in suspense about what to do with it? Well, if you followed tho...

Prickly Pear Jelly (Heritage Recipe) For several years, when the children were teenagers, the Tanner family would go out to t...

From Adversity to Abundance: The Sweet Journey of Prickly Pear Jelly Sometimes life takes unexpected turns, leading us down paths we never t...

Happy Birthday to my husband ACE! If wandering through the desert and desperate for food...I might eat a cactus. Arizona has very specific native plant laws and it is actually illegal to just go out and fill up your buckets. I found a great article on the prickly pear fruit here that said, "Native plants in Arizona are protected by law and cannot be harvested or moved without a permit from the state's Department of Agriculture. It is illegal to harvest even the fruit from city, county…

Arizona - Prickly Pear Preserves Arizona is known as the Grand Canyon state and is our first visit to America’s South West - land of red rocks, desert sands, and cactus. I have never been to Arizona, but from what I hear, cactus are as common as pine trees are in Georgia, so it’s not surprising that one particular type of cactus has found it’s way into the kitchen - the Prickly Pear. To my knowledge, you can’t cook with pine cones, but the industrious people of the South West and Arizona…

This prickly pear jelly is made with prickly pear juice, lemon juice, pectin, and sugar in this family recipe for homemade magenta-colored jelly.

Don't be afraid to use prickly pears to make this uniquely flavorful jam, but do use gloves to remove the invisible spines.

Fichi d’India better known as prickly pears make a lovely, honey-like prickly pear jam.

Prickly pear adds a sweet flavor to barbecue sauce, that almost tastes like watermelon. Serve with smoked baby back ribs.