Had it with the Food Channel...

[RICHARD]

I've heard about the cactus and I've seen it in stores. It's another thing I have no idea how to cook.
What can you do with cactus?

You don't have to cook the cactus-you can get it canned!

Nopales! They are just like string beans. You can buy them raw and cook them, but you have to de-spine them, chop and then boil.

They make a 'slime' that some people find offensive, just rinse and heat.

Breakfast?

Chorizo, egg, some nopales?

Or you can buy a canned enchilada sauce-has to be red- toss some nopales in and heat it up! serve as a side veggie.

Scrambled eggs and nopales, with some salsa in a flour tortilla? Lunch?

By themselves!

Buy a small jar to get the taste -sabor (sah bore)- and go from there!

Oh and invite your sister over and cook for her!

[smokey the elder]

I have one of Rick Bayless' cookbooks, Mexico, One Plate at a Time. There are some yummers recipes in there. We do Mexican a lot now!

[Daisy and Delilah]

I'm intrigued by the "slime". Is that a big turnoff? Are we talking slime like okra? That doesn't bother me. Cactus is a succulent so I guess it would pretty much reduce to a slimy substance. Hmmmm...... This is so interesting.

[RICHARD]

I'm intrigued by the "slime". Is that a big turnoff? Are we talking slime like okra? That doesn't bother me. Cactus is a succulent so I guess it would pretty much reduce to a slimy substance. Hmmmm...... This is so interesting.

Yes, Slime like OPRAH!
DUDE, you are on your way!
When you go to the store take a pencil and write down what you see and let me know.....I'll try to figure it out!


STE.

LOL, that's another 'man crush' I have. Getting paid to eat Mex?

Get outta here!

We have to have a MEX recipe week! Do you find it hard to get ingredients where you live?

Anthony Munoz, a lineman for the football Bengals found that there were no places to get good tortillas in the midwest when he was playing there. He opened up a mex food place and made money on it, that was years ago!

[Daisy and Delilah]

Will do, Richard.

I made some scalloped potatoes today and crumbled chorizo in them. Delicious!!!!

[RICHARD]

I saw the listing for Daisy Duke this morning and she cooked chorizo.

I was up early and tuned in but feel asleep.

[jennielynn1970]

I wish we had a TV in our library at school. I could have been watching Food Network on the days that I went in at 6am.

I'm still shocked that as a "media center" the only media we really have are books and magazines. My cookbook section kicks butt! I've put some major money into it on our book orders during the past 4 years.


On a side note, about Food Network... anyone find Ina Garten, the Barefoot Contessa, a bit pretentious? Even though some of her food really interests me, she just annoys me.