I knew it would make a gorgeous cocktail, but to be honest I was not prepared for how absolutely delicious they would be. It is the syrup that makes the Prickly Pear Margarita Cocktail so pretty. I also had a friend mention that it actually grows in the Denver area…so yes, I will try it again one day! Otherwise you can get Prickly Pear Syrup from Amazon ( affiliate link).
#PRICKLY PEAR MARGARITA HOW TO#
That being said, Hank shows you on his site Hunter, Angler, Gardener, Cook how to make Prickly Pear Syrup if you have fresh fruit readily available. How lucky was I that I still had the little bottle that Jan had sent me? Very. The inside of my pot was absolutely immaculate and shiny copper where the syrup had been and my syrup was none the better for it. Well apparently a component in that fruit is GREAT for cleaning copper. I also discovered that I should have used a stainless steel pot once I finished the process of simmering sugar and fruit together in my small copper pot and strained it, I was not happy with the resulting brownish color. So I did just that.īut you will not find a recipe or the results of that effort here, nope.
Not so much…once cut open it was clear that idea was not going to happen, the firmer outside flesh has a bunch of seeds and juicy flesh in the center so using it all to make my own Prickly Pear Syrup was the most I could do. I had no idea what to expect inside, so before I cut one open I imagined using a piece as garnish. See all that fuzzy looking stuff? Yeah, each one ready to impale you, prickly is right! I trusted Jan, and dug out my garden gloves, I wasn’t taking any chances!
I mean they were here within a couple of days too all packaged so nicely to stay cold amazing how just a couple of weeks ago that was necessary! Jan warned me to use with caution, they have little tiny stickers all over their skin, she even put a reminder note in the box so I wouldn’t forget and impale myself on them. I wondered where if I could find some of the fruit locally and she offered to send me some of the gorgeous little orbs…and she did. OK…how about we go somewhere totally opposite of where we are now!”Īfter I saw that photo, I recalled that Jan had sent me some Prickly Pear Syrup after a visit through Denver a couple of years ago and was reminded that I had wanted to make a Prickly Pear Margarita Cocktail…clearly that never happened but with a reminder from Jan I was on it. She and her husband Pat must have had a conversation like this one day, “Honey, let’s move some place different. While I’ve spent over 30 years in Denver, Jan and her family called the Pacific Northwest home for years but are now making their homestead in Arizona. Now we have spread out across the country. These are our girls my daughter Emily on the left and Jan’s girl Kim on the right.
How quickly time does fly I can almost taste the foods we shared in those lovely days in North Carolina. At the end of the summer we would have shelves of food we had put by and a freezer filled with berries and corn. We both had big gardens too…so I recall those days fondly when we would take the results of those gardens and spend the day with each other canning…ALL day long! Tomatoes and pickles, that’s what I remember. We sure loved our kids and spent our times including them in our adventures and during the summer that often meant a trip to a berry farm the girls loved picking a strawberry or two or filling their little hands with blueberries while Jan and I filled our vehicle with enough for an army. Jan and I clicked on so many levels we were both stay at home mom’s but never content to spend our time watching soaps or shopping. We’ve been friends since our oldest girls were born and they’re now both grown and have babies of their own. I saw Jan, a friend of mine for more years than we like to admit, share a photo of her Prickly Pear Cactus on Facebook and she indicated she would be making jam from the fruit.
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