This morning at 7:45 I called Harley Belew to do the Utopia segment, sponsored by our good friends Randy & Lisa Sanders, who own the famous Save Inn Restaurant in Kerrville and Wheeler's restaurant over in Fredericksburg.
Today Harley's Pet of the Week was our beautiful, now four-months-old—Betty Rubble and I had a fun time visiting with Harley, at the Rose 99.9. Don't you just love her smile and those Betty Grable eyes.
Around ten-thirty this morning, after talking to way too many people on the phone, who wanted to bring us their dogs and a goose from Houston, I decided to take a much needed break, so I called Sandy at Wolfmueller's Books to ask her a couple of questions about her Nopalitos Salad recipe, because I was going to make it for Tony's and my lunch and I didn't want to screw it up.
After interrogating her, I thanked her for her helpful tips. And before we adios-ed each other Sandy said, "Nancy, please call me and let me know what y'all think of it." After promising her that I would, I gathered all of the ingredients, took this picture, and then carefully prepared it as she had instructed. And Sandy's recipe was so easy and simple to prepare it only took me fifteen minutes to make her cactus salad.
Right after I took this next picture of the salad that I had prepared, T. walks inside the trailer and declared, "I'm starving, Nance. Did you fix Sandy's salad?" I nodded and pointed to the bowl and the rest is history. We loved it! It was absolutely delicious and we ate it all up!
After lunch I cleaned up the kitchen and then I called Sandy at Wolfmueller's Books. "OMG, Sandy! We loved your salad. And it's now going to be our favorite salad."
"Jon and I are eating it right now for our lunch. I'm glad that y'all liked it."
"Sandy, we didn't like it—we loved it. I was a little worried about it because Tone says he doesn't like Cilantro or onions and he cleaned his plate and took second helpings and...." After Sandy and I adios-ed each other for the second time today, I called a couple of my friends and told them that they had to try my new recipe, Cousin Nancy's Stolen Cactus Salad, and they promised that they would. And I hope that y'all will try it too. Here's my latest recipe that I stole from Sandy. Enjoy!
Cousin Nancy's Stolen Cactus Salad
Ingredients:
1 15 oz. jar of Nopalitos (I used La Costena brand) Drain and rinse to remove the slime and then dice.
2 Tomatoes—diced
1 Can of Bush's Black Beans—drained and rinsed.
1/2 Red onion—diced
Jalapenos optional (I didn't use any nor does Sandy)
1/4 Cup or more of chopped Cilantro
Juice of 1 Lime
1 Avocado (Or packaged avocado like I used.)
Pepper to taste.
Enjoy! Eat and be merry! I can't wait to make this salad for Kinky and Ben to try, because I know that they are going to love it, too.
This afternoon Jon Wolfmueller called while I was outside, so Carlton took his call. "Hi, Nancy it's Jon. I just wanted to let you know that we have the two books that you ordered, The Art of Racing In The Rain. Next time y'all are in Kerrville come by and pick them up. Bye."
P.S. Mari, I swear that you'll love this recipe. It's the best! I love Nopalitos!
Y'all have a great evening!
1 comment:
Nopalitos come in JARS???
Lezzee, in that pilfered recipe I like tomatoes and lime and avocado, so I think I'll make guacamole salad instead. (smile)
But it is great to hear that folks are getting 'into' eating prickly pear. Maybe someday we'll be rich from the cactus harvest - it woudl be ABUNDANT - on our ranch in south Texas! (And then I woke up........)
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