Cactus

This is a nopal cactus and the red fruit is called tuna. To eat the cactus peel the new bright green paddles and  cut off the espinas (stickers) and cut them in tiny squares and cook them with eggs or a salsa. A favorite of Shakara, my 8 year old! And the tunas, after peeling the fleshy fruit is full of seeds but has awesome flavor, sort of like a honeydew melon. Corbin, our youngest, when we pass a cactus full of tunas says, "Si hay tunas". (Yes, there are tunas)  He likes nothing better than stopping and getting some tunas. We have three of these big nopal growing in our yard.