I’m so happy I found your channel! I use to watch your show when I was a little girl! You were one of my inspirations that led me to my love for cooking. Thank you and I appreciate your appreciation of our food!

You have to wash it after taking off the thorns. The micro almost invisible "aguates" are still on it and tend to stick to it due to all the slime oozing from it. The last thing you want is to have your lips and tongue full of aguates, that is nasty painful.

Where's the cheese and the finished product part?

a quick tip from a Mexican mamá.. 😊 if you boil the cactus with fresh garlic, salt onion, than rince after they are cooked they will lose that slimy texture. than do the rest that you did would be the best cactus I had.. great idea I love the rosting chiles idea.

I have a Mexican lady tell me to use the paper husks off of a Tomitillo and add to the water or the liquid that one uses to remove the slimy juices, started doing that, better flavor, as well it somehow changes it, doesn't foam up and boil over when making large pot full quantities, like oil on a pasta water. Send me your thoughts she said it helps keep some of the health benefits too, she came from a Nopal farm family, maybe she knows something ?

Made them for dinner, absolutely superb

While I was watching, I got a whiff of my neighbor cooking something. It smelled like Ancho perhaps. It was an interesting experience to watch the nopales cooking and smelling a similar meal on the winds.

Don't be intimidated by cooking with cactus. These tacos are amazing, light and healthy. i added Queso Catija for the cheese and some fresh ground Cumin to the dish. Will definitely make these again. Thanks Chef Bayless.

Great Video... nopalitos is my most favorite Mexican food ever! My Grandfather had a large garden and grew most of the family foods in his yard. Nopalitos was incorporated in dishes like chili Colorado or with scrambled eggs or with frijoles and much more. I love how you described the flavor. Very good! You are on my bucket list Rick... if I ever get to Chicago my goal is to dine in one of your restaurants. All your foods and recipes are spot on authentic. Thumbs up

Good description of cooked cactus. (Green bean with a lemony flavor, citrus.)

Very good! Muchas gracias 😊🙏🏼

I feel like your the Bob ross of cooking it might just be the voice though

Pretty nice kitchen! Great explanations, recipe, and not too long! Thnks!

I’d love to cook with you someday ! ❤️

Dios te bendiga.eres especial .

What an abrupt end,wow

Nice ! Love your video! Thank you !

Love your videos!

wtf? where is the rest of the video?

Would you make this with green beans instead of nopales or substitute with something like okra? I've had no luck finding nopales in my area...

Great dish chef . I love snacking on cooked nopales the next day right out the fridge.

I don't think the olive oil is for frying; some of its components degrade and make it bitter.

What kind of olive oil for cooking? The ones in the market seems to have low burning point and is good for salad only.

you are the best

You need to use fresh tomatoes not tomatoes of can. Taste is different !

Mas mexicano que muchos mexicanos

Fresh tomatoes and cilantro ...

how is the taste?

next time add some cilantro it will a better taste to the nopales

Great video

What is this sauce for ?

You need to finish the video. Looks great, probably taste even better!!

That mustache tho

You lost me at the can tomatoes. :(

Your beard is one of the most unusual amongst most of the worlds men

Never eat cactus !!!!I will tray it ...sure

Rick I've watched you for so long and love you but this is a terrible tutorial on nopales. First when you scrape them you end up digging the Thorns back into the nopal. Second you're removing at least 10 15% of it when you trim the edge. And third you left at least 25% of thorns still on. not good

tender young nopalitos best. I do not like cooks or chefs with facial hair gross! Some always makes it's way in the food.

Much more healthy to toss a couple hand fulls in a blender with some berries and a banana. You have cooked the living daylight out of the cactus, so all the nutrients are gone.

The color of his beard are distracting, not on a good way