A description of four ways to preserve prickly pear cactus pads (nopales in Spanish): drying, pressure canning, pickling and freezing with links to two ways to preserve the fruit.
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Root Simple is the name of a blog run by Kelly Coyne and Erik Knutzen, the authors of The Urban Homestead and Making It. They live in Los Angeles with 3 cats, 5 chickens and whole heck of a lot of plants. Their kitchen is always a mess.
