To celebrate Cinco de Mayo, Chef Amalia Flores joined Gayle Guyardo, the host of the global health and wellness show, Bloom, to share a delicious, refreshing cacti salad recipe. Nopal is a common name ...

Instructions: Clean and cut cactus paddle into a small dice. Soak the cactus in copiously salted water up to 30 minutes to remove “slime.” Drain, rinse, and repeat if necessary. Fill medium-sized ...

“I get into the spirit of things,” says Sandra Sanchez as she takes out red, white and green plates and unwraps a bundle of red, white and green napkins. In the family room, the table that she will ...

All last week I sliced, diced, steamed, grilled and roasted nopales, the juicy pads of the prickly pear cactus that are popular throughout Mexico. I enjoyed them in salads, with steak, in tacos, with ...

Cactus might look intimidating, but once you learn how to clean and cook it to make nopales, you’ll be looking for ways to incorporate this nutritional powerhouse into more dishes Walk around almost ...

Prickly desert cactus sounds like the last thing you’d want to eat. But -- surprise! -- once the spines are off, cactus is juicy and tender, great in anything from salads and soups to main courses and ...