Saturday, September 12, 2009
Last week I bottled these
lovely Hatch Green Chilis.
Can't wait to get back from
NM the first week of
October with more.
These little buggers
are hot. Nate didn't use
gloves when he helped
peel them and really
paid for it. His hands
burned for a full 36 hours.
His only relief was
HAND SANITIZER
the waterless kind,
like Purell for example.
It saved his little hide.
Also got some peach slices
and peach jam put up as well.
This morning Nate and I went for a nice drive in
the Scorching AZ Desert
and found these little beauties.
Forgot the camera but we had
a blast picking these prickly
little suckers.
Right off I leaned alittle too close
to one of the Cactus and got a
nice little present left in my
right thigh.
Nate was dying laughing until
I tossed a Pear into the box and
it bounced out and all the little
prickers stuck in his leg.
Then it was my turn to laugh.
Then after careful instruction
on my part to not whip me
with any branches
as we were seaarching for
our treasures
he smacks a mesquite
branch and it whips my
arm leaving a huge welt and
bringing stinging tears to my
eyes. And there we were
laughing as I punched him
in the arm as hard as I
could for whipping me like
I asked him not to.
After 12 years of marriage
mutual pain is very funny
to us for some strange reason.
Tongs are great things.
If not for these little friends
of ours I fear we would have
come home with a few more
little prickers in our skin
than we did.
It's 1130 pm and I'm
still finding the
prickly little suckers
in my hands and arms.
Wash 'em, cut'em in half
This lovely bright fusha pink
juice is all over the kithen.
Luckily it cleans up very easy.
Put 'em in a pot, cover with
water and boil'em like crazy.
Pull 'em out, mash 'em with
a potato masher and strain them.
No blender, it destroys
the natural pectin in fruit.
Look at all that Prickly Pear
Juice.
Strain it again cuz there's debris
and little prickers still in there.
Don't go buy some fancy
little strainer or sieve.
Just use a very strong
paper towel that is white
like Brawny or Bounty
and you have a great
strainer that you can just
throw away as it gets
clogged with seeds and pulp.
Then store the juice
(freeze it, or bottle it) or
add those sweet little
friends that it takes to
make some super yummy
Prickly Pear Cactus Jelly.
Or a little sugar and fizz
to get a great Prickly Pear Drink
or Freeze it for some
nice Prickly Pear Sherbert or Sorbet.
Part 2 on MondayPrickly Pear Cactus Jelly
from the Prickly Pear
Cactus Juice that is all over my
kitchen, all in my freezers
and all in my fridge.
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You are awesome with canning! Looks yummy! :)
I know I say this all the time, but YUUUMMM!!!!
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