You've kept your channel wildly eclectic & interesting right from jump-street Kelly! Sight seeing, exercise, cooking, all on TOP of the killer fishing videos! THIS is why so many of us jumped onboard for your wild, wacky, wonderful journey you're taking us on. The absolute JOY you get from exploring life is ALWAYS inspiring ma'am! As per the usual, thank you for the vid, your time & effort are always appreciated!

Bluegabe with the “ you never spit anything out do you “ joke

Check how we cook it in Mexico, whit beans, meat and tortilla... another level ...Nopales... that’s why we call our selves Nopaleros!! Greetz from Berlin

All along the south Texas and Mexico border, “Tunas” are an amazing treat, they come in yellow, green and red. In the fall there are street vendors everywhere that sell them. My favorite fruit in the world.

Cactus (nopales) make a great vegetarian taco with black beans and cheese, yum!

Kelly your video from Texas was amazing seeing things you haven't seen before like cactus plants and cactus fruits .if Kelly doesn't have her coffee in the morning look out guys. Preparation of how you cooked the catcus was awesome with butter and onions loved it 😀😀👍👍❤❤

I grew up with prickly pear cactus growing in our yard. When they're ripe skin the fruit and chill it awhile before eating. Be careful of the thorns, they will stick you. The fruit is sort of a jelly mass packed with seed. Its sweet and delicious. Timing is everything, over ripe and the taste goes bland. Uncooked and cold is how we always had them.

Happy belated Kelly!! You always keep me intrigued and of course I love your content. You are such an inspiration. Keep up the great collabs with your awesome peeps as well!! Badassery at its finest!!!!

Props on you trying out cactus or what we call “nopales”. True the paddles that are best are young in the spring and have thorns that are soft as leaves. They are more tender and and tastier. As for the prickly pears (tunas) even I have problems on when to pick them and I was raised eating them by my grandpa (abuelito) Y’all end up in San Antonio again let me know 🍺

I guess they forgot to tell you that one can purchase both elements of the prickly pear, already de-spined, at most grocery stores in South Texas! Also, I cringed when you walked up on that pear bush in shorts and Crocks! Being from South Texas, I would never walk up on one without at lest tall boots on, if not rattlesnake leggings! Glad you made it out safely! Whew!

I always look forward to your videos. It's nice to know that people like you still exists in this crazy time we are in.

You should boil(simmer or low roll) fresh cacti first...a couple of hours, until they're sort of al dente. They give off a lot of slime, so wash them thoroughly, after. Then finish them however you'd like.

I'm almost 60 years old and I've lived in Texas my entire life. When I was a young boy. We lived in South West Texas for several years. I grew up eating the fruit of the Prickly Pear Cactus and Mesquite beans from the mesquite trees there as well. Always a sweet treat. The prickly pears tunas do indeed make a great jam. One thing when eating them raw. Most Texans throw them in the camp fire for just a few seconds. ( You can do this on a stovetop too). This does two things. First it quickly burns off any of those little patches of micro thorns. Called Glochids, so you don't end up painfully discovering them for the next six or seven hours on different parts of your hands. And secondly, just like with a bell pepper, allowing them to sit in the hot coals for just a few seconds. Makes them easier to peel. Even more so if you place them directly into a small paper bag and let them self steam for a minute or two. But as kids we usually just carefully peeled them and enjoyed the tangy, slightly sweet red flesh inside. Compared to the seed filled middle, the first thing layer of seedless meat just under the skin can be scraped off the skin with the back of the blade of a pocket knife, ( every boy in Texas past the age of three usually has one or two pocket knives. ) , and enjoyed. Eating the part with the seeds is much like eating a pomegranate.

Can't say I've ever had the opportunity to try a cactus and prickly pear cook, but it looks pretty darn good, thanks Kelly!

Blue Gabe got ya on that one. Never spit anything out huh?

i miss my granny. she would make a cactus and ground beef dish that was so amazing. i remember her sitting outside cleaning the cactus with a potato peeler, bare handed. ohhh memories.

Awesome video 👍 thanks for sharing all the cool things you guys saw and did down there! You had me itchy just from watching you picking those cactus fruits LOL 🤘👍😀

That cactus fruit is amazing ! I harvest them every year here in New Mexico

I work at a cotton gin in West Texas, almost on a daily basis I load cotton seed by the ton for cattle feed and people who know that deer love em. It's like a T-bone for the deer high in protein

Not to many young ladies even bother learning to cook now days. Good job.

Great vid Mrs young !!! Really think it’s cool how y’all ain’t afraid of trying new things and food !! Keep up the great vids 👌🏻

I think u and Bluegabe make a great duo! Hooe many more collabs to come.

Kelly has such a great personality. She laughs easily. That's a good thing. Bless you both.

I hike pass those cactus all the time here near Las Vegas. Always wondered how to do that. Thanks.

Really enjoy your content and especially since Gabe has been helping you! Keep it up!

A propane torch is your friend. Burn all around fruit till you get all the thorns. Newspaper is a great tool to grab the cactus itself. I've been doing this for a while. Great Job!

20:30 As a Texan when I was a kid we just picked the prickly pear and brushed the prickles off and ate them seeds skin and all not cooked!

Being from deep south Texas I've seen those grow on cactus all my life, never have had them in my 52 years being on God's green earth! Big props to you, keep the video's coming!!!!😁

There's a tex-mex restaurant near me that serves the best cactus salad ever. Not sure if it's cooked or pickled but it's fantastic. Gabe is right, always try new stuff. Thanks guys.

That's awesome Kelly!!! I'm from Arizona so everything you were coming across I grew up with and usually take for granted. Would love to have you come over here for a visit and would gladly be your tour guide. I'll catch you on the flip side!!

That's was a great video. It's nice to see you traveling around to experience all the great things in Texas. Can't wait to see what you have in store for later. Thanks for sharing this video. It's always to see that gorgeous smile.

That´s nice fruit it has a lot of antioxidant properties Here in the Canary Islands we know as ''tuno'' the fruit of that cactus, I recommend the red one in a shake with other fruits. There´s another type of tuno that has a sweeter taste (tuno canario).

Awesome vid, Kelly! Thanks for making my day! Also; I see the questions flying. I don't care who you're seeing, as long as they're treating you right. Live your life, gorgeous!

Loving the variety of your content, great work!

It’s cool how you share all kinds of thing besides ocean activities with us. I’ve always wanted to try those fruits.

I hope you and BlueGabe make many more videos together, each of you are great by yourself but together y'all are fantastic.

I live in NM and we have lots of p-pears. they're very tasty when very purple red. Also, to clean the spines, use a torch to burn off the littlest spines.

I remember my first experience grabbing ahold of cactus I had red fur stuck in my fingers which seemed like days. Now I grow nopales and cook the young tender leaves I have learned to blanch them first and boiling water before handling them to take the spines off. As for the Tunas or prickly pear if you let them get really right they kind of taste like a papaya thank you for the video

My uncle from Italy swore by the yellow flowered ones that grow over there. But me I love them all. Bring back good memories of him.

Awesome video ! Such a fun trip too

Love yalls videos and glad you had a good time in Texas 👍

FYI best time to eat cactus is in the spring time they put out new growth, they are softer , sweeter and the stickers are soft and green.Cows will eat the old ones stickers included 😊

Ahhhh, finally seein y’all in my home state. I’m from south of San Antonio and we call them cactus apples. Yep we cook cactus every once in a while. If ya ever picked cotton those spurs inside will bloody your fingers, until ya figure out how to pick it. We shoot wild hogs now. They took the place of javalinas, but they are still good. Yep no gloves. Y’all’s videos are amazing. Thanks so much.

Excellent video, thank you very much for sharing, take good care of yourself

Kelly, you always provide a great video of your life and times. Outstanding balance of harmony and life in a cup of happiness. Thanks for sharing this electrifying video with us that watch your channel my friend. Thanks for the time you spend for us. It's said that when you got it. You got it.

I can't believe you didn't notice the SPIDERS 2:06 on the 1st cactus you were pulling the pears from, right after BlueGabe mentioned spiders! At some local Hispanic tiendas, they often sell fresh cactus, all cleaned, sliced, iced down, or even the whole paddles, cleaned of course. You can even buy them pickled. My mom had cactus patches in our yard, we had to help clean them as well. We always had them fried, often mixed with scrambled eggs, with tortillas for breakfast tacos. The prickly pears or tunas, we just cleaned off the spines, peeled and ate the insides. It has lots of seeds so you do like with watermelon seeds, just spit them out. I have seen people make prickly pear jam, never tried it though.

Love how Chillled this Girl is!!!!

Reminds me of my folks. Grew up in Kansas. We spent many a day foraging for gooseberries, elderberry, mushrooms. Fished for cats, gars, drums, carps, bluegills, ate everything including the turtles. I'd refer to them a hippies but they weren't. They just loved

I'm sure someone of Mexican heritage, or someone familiar with this food, already said in the comments but there is a little more that goes into preparing and cooking the cactus. My mom, born in Mexico, made it with a sauce made of chile ancho. It's actually really good. Good video and I liked seeing this being tried out

That was very brave or crazy! 😀 Looked like to many seeds for me and the paddles I would have to pass on completely but I'm glad you still use garlic. Thank goodness for gloves and thxs for the video!

Kelly you have got to try Yucca root soup! You can Google search the recipe, it is absolutely delicious and good for you! It's one of many things made from cactus that people are unaware of! And of course tequila a all time favorite!!!!!!!!🤣

Where I was in Mexico, they had guys that had like an Ice box attached to their bicycles, they would pedal to a spot and sit there where they sold cactus pear fruit, peeled and lemon juice sprinkled on them.

Love the variation of the videos. I normally have some input into cooking videos. But with cactus I guess I don’t have much to offer. But It seems that I may not be missing anything. Nice innuendos. 😈 That Texas Landscape is harsh. Yet Beauty prevails. I’m sure those cacti have fed generations.

How cool would it be to see kelly and blue gabe hang out with the googans, maybe like lunkerstv or flair or lojo? Or lfg? I think it would be wicked cool to see a crossover of worlds🤘🤘🤘🤘

Great video hun always want to try something new great job. And that rock house was extremely cool craftsmanship even the 190 year old fan still work. Keep up the great work

Omg Kells put some boots on, those tail shakers are everywhere! Tail shakers are what I call rattlesnakes!

In Spanish the fruit is called tuna, and cooking the paddles the best thing to do is chop them up boil them over and over until the slime is gone. Personally I boil drain the slime, boil and drain, and boil again. Then I blend me some chilly Colorado and fry some pork then mix it all together for some delicious tacos 😍

Grew up in south texas. My mom used to make a jam out of these. Great on toast or PBJ sammiches.

The catcus leaf, you scrape off the spines with a knife. You dice the catcus and cook it in a chili sauce. Tastes very good that way. It is also used as a filling with chili sauce in a gordita. Thats how mexicans make that. Yes prickly pear (tunas in spanish) tastes like a fruit or dragon fruit (pitaya). We just peel the skin off and bite into it.

The cactus pear (tunas) are ready when the top is closed

Prickly pears they're awesome also good for inflammation and pain. Ex mother-in-law used to sauteed the cactus in salsa

Welcome to Texas. Enjoy some Balcones Whiskey with that Cactus 🌵. And get ya some boots. Those cactus thorns will go through those shoes. We have some amazing outdoor experiences in the Lone Star ⭐️state. Awesome channel.

You can take 5-6 of those pears and put in a colander and swirl them around under running faucet water and no more quills. We do that then put in a juicer and get the juice to make jelly. The juice is very good in drinks like lemonade or ritas. You can also put in a blender and strain through cheese cloth. We will be picking them this upcoming dove hunting weekend at the ranch. Its that time of year again.

Gabe’s face after eating that big Cactus was funny as hell lol! The fruit looked delicious but was it really? 😂😂😂

Lol 20.55 Kelly ran into that one. Point to BlueGabe.

Never tried it..now I know how to prep.thanks

You can eat the cactus pads(pull the spines), too, or make prickly pear jelly. Our grocery markets sell it in the produce isle.

Cactus apples or in Spanish Tunas. I've made seriously good wine with them and cooked them down, extracted the juice, added sugar and produced a different tasting syrup for pancakes & waffles. You can remove those microsplinters on them by using a meat fork and holding them over an open flame a few seconds.

Haven't had a chance to try them yet but would really love to, hoping to be able to soon

For about 3 months, we gather about 500 kilos (1,100 pounds) of "tunas" (cactus fruit) on my father-in-law's ranch. I'm reading the comments by people who have never had them... Im going to clear the air. They don't taste like kiwis as someone said, but can be a little like dragonfuit. They have a flavor all their own. If anything, they taste like a soft, mushy melon. The "fuzz" that is on the fruit are actually miniature spines, that are similar to "hook and latch" Velcro, that is extremely annoying. You do NOT want to accidentally eat the fuzz. It WILL irritate your intestines. You CAN and should eat the seeds. I bumped my head on some tunas two weeks ago while picking them and as of my daily shower yesterday morning I think I finally got all of the annoying fuzz out of my scalp. They're great peeled with a knife and eaten raw, and they're fantastic when you make ice cream from them. There are many varieties, and many flavors. Our Nopal (cactus plants) grow fully into trees that are about 25 feet tall, each with well over 1,000 cactus fruit per tree. To harvest, we have cups (usually a 1 or 2 liter coke bottle with the top cut off) that are screwed onto a stick and we use extremely sharp machetes or long knives (I use my fillet knife) to separate the fruit from the pad, and drop them into the cup, and lower them from there to one of the buckets. We usually get 5 buckets each visit to the ranch. As far as eating the cactus pads, we generally eat only the young ones which also have a season for harvest. They taste a little tart, or "tangy" and when raw they have the same type of vitamin E rich "slime" that Aloe Vera has. Cactus pads (we just call them "Nopalitos" are fantastic, and are very good for your health, having serious healing properties because of the vitamin E.. They're a huge part of the average Mexican diet, especially here in central Mexico. I eat Nopal at least 3 to 5 times per week. Which is good for me, because I used to have ulcers and now I don't. We harvest our own on the ranch or we buy them in our local grocery store or in our local vegetable markets. Kelly did a good job preparing the pads and cooking the pads. She surprised me for someone who never prepared them before; it was as though she's done it every day... The older ones, yes, we trim the outer shell (cascara) off of it and eat the inner part, unless we boil them into a "guiso" or "stew" then the outer shell becomes soft. Fruit g tends to only make the shell harder. The younger ones, though,, we eat the entire thing EXCEPT FOR THE SPINES! Very delicate in texture and flavor. Most grocery stores nationwide carry Nopal leaf strips (cactus pad flesh) in a pickle jar, available in the International foods section. If you don't have Nopal growing in your area, then at least you can buy some to try on a salad or to put some into a beef and potato stew. They are delicious, and would taste about like what Kelly prepared, even though you got them from a can or jar. Sometimes I will cut one pad off of the tree while out at the ranch, go around the outside with a knife and split the in half. Then I will fillet the softer meat out of the middle kind of like filleting a fish, and eat the tasty flesh straight from the inside of the pad, for a refreshing treat. It only takes a minute, and it will refresh you and hydrate you like nothing else out there. If all you have are cactus 🌵 out in an area where you are, you have an endless supply of succulent (water-laden) food all around you. You cannot starve or die from thirst. The tuna fruit is equally refreshing and life supporting, but you must be more careful with them to not ingest the fruit's natural fuzzy defensive spines. I think I may do a video on these, inspired by Kelly. Good job, Kelly! Enjoyed the video! 😁

Yes they’re called cactus pears and you could get them in the supermarket as well. These are really good cancer fighters.

Some hints.. use long barbecue tongs. Harvest on cool mornings.. why? The ph changes from alkaline to acidic as the day goes on, and resets the next morning. Yes , pick the smaller younger pads.Avoid any that have a purple tinge... they’re toxic. Some people singe the spines off with a fire or propane torch. Others put them in a jar with water and shake to remove the spines.

Its all fun and games until you hear that rattle sound lol .....great stuff 👌👌👌👌👌🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Kelly when picking cactus blossom's use tongs like you would use for chicken or turning things in a hot skillet. Was down south in Arizona watched some natives using them.,..well that and a big set of pliers hahaha. tongs seemed to be the ticket though.

My family eats cactus all the time . I hate it lol 😂

you know coffee is life and number one prio in the morning :)

Nice vid!.. Wait !!! I saw Bud Light in the land of Pearl and Lone Star beers !!!!! sacreligious! lol usually those 'nopales' are boiled first, then fried............try that next meal

Coming soon to homes everywhere. The adventures of Laura Croft (Kelly Young) and her faithful sidekick Rick (Bluegabe).

Napalitos in scrambled eggs is good but prickly pear jelly is da bomb on your toast. One of our staples as a South texas kid. Also misquite bean jelly is pretty tastey ...you ought to see what those roadrunners will do to a snake and or lizzard..

Back in the day as a kid those used to be all-around here in Central Florida. Haven't noticed many nowadays

I love the prickly pear fruits. But being up north in wisconsin they are already cleaned up so usually don't have to deal with the spines and such. Once in a while you'll get one. But they are really good tasting. Can't say so far that I've been a fan of the paddle but haven't tried those much.

Great job Kelly, I HATE cactus, way too many bites:) I'd love to try the ripe "pears" though. Looks like you had a great time with "blue glob", LOL!

Welcome to Texas. Glad you're having fun in South Texas. Are you thinking about moving here? You would be a great addition to our great state.

My whole life me and my family have ate nopale so much but never seen it with butter, usually we make them with a good carne asada on the grill it's so good

Those bugs on cactus looked exactly like leaf-footed bugs. They're a bane in my garden.

I love eating prickly cactus with lemon and salt it’s so delicious and the cactus you can eat it raw or cocked or as a salad.

they are so good and i love your video

Somehow your video culinary skills didn't make us want to rush out and try some, lol. I've seen the petals cleaned, cut small, and eaten in stews and meat dishes and the fruit makes a great jelly and a refreshment drink.

I think in Mexico I've had cactus they skin those ears I like them they when prepared well and selected right taste like a really good green bean taste great with fajitas meat. Looked good I've never eaten the prickly pears though. Just started watching your channel it's very nice to watch thank you. Best David

Your Crocs sound like what we wear on the ice , when ice fishing. Hi from Mi.

Kelly, i live in central Texa. We take the purple prickly pear fruit and make wine. You need to pick 5 gal of the fruit. Cook them in a big pot. You need 1 gal. of juice to make 5 gal. of wine.

called cotton seed hulls. also fed to cattle before going to auction to fatten them up. we would mix cotton seed hulls with some maze, maybe a lil alfalfa , or maybe some peanut hay spray with molasses. cows would go nuts eating it. prickly pear cactus save your life if you are thirsty too..

I would eat anything you cooked with a big smile 😃 and love every bite!

Cactus blooms are super delicious in Jams....super rich in color and flavor. Can you try to make Jam Kelly and do a video?

Hi ... you and your group have the best set of original.. home cook.in recipes i.ve seen i think ... ever.. with catch and cook lobster.s... shrmip.s .. the barracuda..my lip.s are sealed...also this ..cactus.. great.. stuff.. very original... now i.m gonna watch the wild boar and the swamp...cabbage...... out standing..... have a great day....

Ya'll make a good team, excellent video.

Those cactus fruit are wonderful raw the paddles are the ones you cook and then only the new young paddles

Hi Kelly, Noah here from Texas. WELCOME TO TEXAS!!! Glad you are enjoying yourself. there are many things to do here. we have some of the best wildlife around. I was fortunate to spend the weekend at Garner State Park and took a picture of a horned lizard. it was like the SOB posed for the camera LOL LOL cause once i took the picture it left. LOL LOL LOL. I really hope you enjoy your stay.

Cool new video update, Kelly!❤️❤️

Eggs and cactus is pretty good for breakfast. Always thought it would be gross till my Mexican mom convinced me to try it. It’s not bad!