It’s not often that a salad can make me swoon, but this one, the grilled nopales salad from Zona Fresca in Winter Park, made this soggy Thursday just a little bit brighter. Zona Fresca, the South ...

To celebrate Cinco de Mayo, Chef Amalia Flores joined Gayle Guyardo, the host of the global health and wellness show, Bloom, to share a delicious, refreshing cacti salad recipe. Nopal is a common name ...

All last week I sliced, diced, steamed, grilled and roasted nopales, the juicy pads of the prickly pear cactus that are popular throughout Mexico. I enjoyed them in salads, with steak, in tacos, with ...

Remove two links of chorizo, and grill them until they are overly charred and nearly overdone. When they are cool, slice them into quarters lengthwise and then dice them into chunks. Place in a bowl ...

Instructions: Clean and cut cactus paddle into a small dice. Soak the cactus in copiously salted water up to 30 minutes to remove “slime.” Drain, rinse, and repeat if necessary. Fill medium-sized ...

Cactus might look intimidating, but once you learn how to clean and cook it to make nopales, you’ll be looking for ways to incorporate this nutritional powerhouse into more dishes Walk around almost ...

Prickly desert cactus sounds like the last thing you’d want to eat. But -- surprise! -- once the spines are off, cactus is juicy and tender, great in anything from salads and soups to main courses and ...