Here are a few things collected from the garden as the warmth very slowly recedes. On the left is a prickly pear which are a nightmare to handle. They have tiny spikes, thinner than a strand of hair, which can get into your skin with ease. What’s more, they are then almost impossible to see to pull out.
There’s also a small aubergine, an unripe orange that never fulfilled its dream of being squeezed into a glass – and chillis of which we have hundreds. [Click on image for higher res.]
Instructions on how to peel a prickly pear on the Instructables website.
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What a beautiful ensemble 🙂
Prickly pears – love the taste, but refuse to handle them.
Posted by ladyofthecakes | October 28, 2014, 3:07 pmWe’ve learnt our lesson….and still haven’t tried one yet – to eat that is.
Posted by con jamón spain | October 28, 2014, 4:42 pmThey are a bit pipsy.
Posted by ladyofthecakes | October 28, 2014, 6:01 pm