If you're looking to broaden your fruit horizons beyond the quotidien, consider the many ways to eat prickly pears. Also known as cactus pear, this delectable desert fruit grows on shrub-size cactus ...

The first taste of raw prickly pear is often a surprise to those who have previously only known it as a candy or confection. It isn’t sweet, but reminiscent of an overripe strawberry, the brightness ...

Throw a rock in New Mexico and you will most likely hit a prickly pear cactus. The plentiful and beautiful cacti, also known as nopales, produce a sweet and bright ruby fruit that sprouts from hearty, ...

Some fruits can be challenging to cut and separate efficiently -- opening up a pomegranate can lead to a big mess, and pineapples are a lot of work to slice. Others, like the prickly pears, are ...

Move over green chile, the seventh annual New Mexico Prickly Pear Festival is coming to town. "While green chile is an amazing New Mexico staple, we'd love for people to know other plants around that ...