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

Prickly Pear Jelly Recipe Ingredients - 3 cups prickly pear juice - 1/4 cup lemon juice - 1 package (1.75 oz) fruit pectin (like Sure-Jell) - 4 cups sugar - 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract (optional)

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...

Have you ever had Prickly Pear Jelly? Would you like to try it? Well, I'm going to share with you how I made mine. The picking and cleani...

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…

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

Delicious jelly with a unique flavor.

Prickly Pear tunas are turning ripe this time of year. Tuna are the fruit of the prickly pear cacti that ripen after it flowers. Prickly Pear Jelly has a unique flavor I wouldn't begin to know how to describe, but it's good. My neighbor has a nice crop of tunas this year and I decided to try my hand at making jelly. I searched the web for recipes and tips then got started. There are different kinds of prickly pears and the tunas can be different colors. I'm not sure all prickly pear tuna are…

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

One of my favorite things to do is to make jelly, especially jelly from wild fruit. I thought I'd share my (fairly) painless method of making prickly pear cactus jelly-and yes, it is worth it. Collecting the Fruit: First you need to collect the fruit. There are many varieties of prickly pear cactus, and as far as I know, both the fruit and pads are edible on all Western North American Opuntia species. These are the flat, beaver-tail shaped cactus. Not all of them produce a good fruit for…