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capn.sharky
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Cactus Fruit
Oops---Too much fruit and I hit the wrong button. Question---heating the fruit seals in the flavor. But, does it taste like chicken.
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David K
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Nope, but it tastes just like rattlesnake!
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bajalera
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Served with a chipotle-based salsa, glochids are very tasty. Particularly when barbecued.
Lera
[Edited on 8-20-2004 by bajalera]
\"Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest never happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.\" -
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jrbaja
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Glochids
Pitahaya??
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Glochids=Barbed spines nfm
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elizabeth
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Capn Sharkey and David K:
You are both wrong...it tastes like iguana
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JESSE
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Bad news people, there are no Pitayas to be found at Tijuana at this point, i went to the market where i had seen them, and my friend told me they
sold out a few days ago and had to discard the rest because they where getting rotten, he doesnt know if his supplier will bring any this weekend, i
will keep searching for them but it doesnt look good.
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bajalera
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But to bring out the distinctive flavor of the glochids, it's essential that they not be over-ripe, and that the wood be mesquite.
bajalera
\"Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest never happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.\" -
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Neal Johns
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Lera, Not gonads, GLOCHIDS!
My motto:
Never let a Dragon pass by without pulling its tail!
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bajalera
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The reason most people don't realize that glochids are edible is because it's so difficult to separate them from all that sand in the bottom of the
sack.
Fortunately, Neal, your maiden sister's little folder explains the easy way to do that. The recipes she includes are certainly yummy too.
And that glochid diet she went on certainly trimmed down her figure.
Lera
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Taco de Baja
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| Quote: | Originally posted by bajalera
Fortunately, Neal, your maiden sister's little folder explains the easy way to do that. The recipes she includes are certainly yummy too.
And that glochid diet she went on certainly trimmed down her figure.
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First there was the grapefruit diet
then the south beach diet
then the 0 carb diet
Will the glochid diet be the next one to sweep the country???
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cnelsoni
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pitaya
This is garden of Eden stuff! Unbelievable color,texture and taste. Easily this finest fruit I have ever encountered. Start watching for them in Oct!
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Pitahaya fruit
Are you into the second harvest also??
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Mike Humfreville
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Last October we were kicking back at Camo Gecko (this year too!), 4 miles south of the village of Bahia de Los Angeles. I drove the road to the
village at least once daily and there were always local families wandering the hillsides gathering the fruit. It was available at the markets in the
village. I've always wondered why there are the two spellings of its name: Pataya and pitahaya. The latter adds a sylable unless you pronounce it by
surpressing the third sylable. Sort of like the name Abraham. While spelled the same in Spanish and English, the Spanish pronunciation is only two
sylables: Abram, because the second sylable is silent.
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bajaloco
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Last summer we were driving north from San Bartolo. It was mid July, and all along the highway from San Antonio to the tope towns just south of La
Paz, you saw people with Se vende pitahaya signs.
We stopped a couple of times and the fruit was over-ripe. It was selling for around 50 pesos for a large bag full.
We never heard it pronounced like pitahaya, it sounded more like two syllables than three, like pitaya. I think the fruit must have different seasons
for different areas in Baja. We didn't see it anyplace north of La Paz.
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Tucker
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Except in the "CH" letter
the "H" in spanish words is always silent, thus seemingly changing the pronunciation.
\"I think it would be a good idea.\"
-- Mahatma Gandhi, when asked what he thought of Western civilization
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jrbaja
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Seasons
El Triunfo has a bunch of people with bags of them for sale right now.
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