Nopales Guisados

Stewed Cactus

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Preparation info
  • Makes

    3 cups

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
We Are La Cocina

By Leticia Landa and Caleb Zigas

Published 2019

  • About

My father’s name is Salvador Guerrero. He worked in Texas, all over the United States, working for a train company, cleaning the wagons. He worked in Oregon at a fish company and a chicken company. And, finally, in Salinas in the farms. He got his papers during the amnesty of President Carter. He became a United States citizen in 1970. When he passes the Oakland towers where he became a citizen, he still cries every time. I didn’t know that until I got here. At any time he