by Brian | Jan 14, 2013 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Recipes
Recent posts here have covered prickly pears, prickly pear syrup, and, most certainly, prickly pear margaritas. Does the syrup end there? No, you can put it on pancakes or waffles. Drizzle it on pound cake and ice cream. But wait. There’s still plenty of beverage...
by Brian | Jan 5, 2013 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Recipes
Attempting to make a prickly pear margarita, in the past weeks I began by trying to make my own prickly pear syrup. That first syrup attempt was a disaster. Now, I am very happy to report dual success. I have a great prickly pear margarita recipe, using prickly pear...
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by Brian | Dec 17, 2012 | News
This will be an odd post for me, for it is about failure. Yes, a kitchen bummer. It’s cactus pear or prickly pear season and I love that fruit and the things you can do it with it. Like a prickly pear margarita. [The recipe for that will come later this week.] Thing...
by Suzi | Nov 16, 2010 | Recipes
How do you get that red color in the picture? You can’t do it with watermelon. Berries perhaps. But that red in a margarita glass announces its true heritage: prickly pear cactus. Prickly pears arrive in farmers’ markets in the southwest in late summer. It can take...
