 We've come out for a bit of a walk and we've seen these prickly pears down there and because I'm with foraged by her how can we not stop and pick some prickly pears which she's been researching and now we've decided to come and get some and we're going to make some what we're going to make we're going to make a prickly pear syrup and put them in some cocktails so we have a prickly pear cocktail so stick around for that and I haven't changed I'm not making bright pink cocktails all time lads I will be back with some hiking videos and some bushcraft but for now join me as we make bright pink cocktails in the sun and that's why they're called prickly pears do they inject their prickly pears into you know you just get like a little splinter right but they're hard to I feel like you should be pricked by a prickly pear just did you bring the tweezers they're they're not in my bag that would have been such a good name they're in the um they're in my first aid kit in the car how's your finger look at them it's littered the whole side of this place is just littered with big old paddle cactus the prickly is tits Fern's already had one in the finger I've had on one on me I'll show you one look easy to get off and twist off and there you go you sang about it on jungle book if you want any references check out the jungle book for prickly pears and how to deal with them no one's safe from these prickly it's not even the cells you put them next to each other and they just prick each other they're mad for it this is a prickly pear it's prickly they're very prickly okay so they're just these are plants and they're like little paddle shaped cactuses and then there's the pear shaped fruit and they're all covered in spines and really you need gloves to harvest them but there are no toxic varieties so they're really safe fruits to harvest um and we don't really know what they taste like yet so should we we should try one we try one now live oh my god live guys you can like so this isn't something I've foraged before because obviously they don't grow in the UK but you can eat them raw but they've got flesh inside and then they're covered in pips so you have to eat that oh my god look what are you getting on that are you wearing white is this right wow you're going in oh my god it's nice is it nice what does it taste like a fruit if there was a fruit that it could be like okay live don't get it on the shirt okay so many pips though can you eat them no it's a bit they're quite warm you have a little cactus growing inside you there's so many like there's so many I think that's why we're going to take them home and juice them and this was just the tester to get them where they're coming from just multiplying and wake up in the nightlap your tongue is so pink wow I like it though what did you think it tasted like a little bit like kiwi fruit maybe like an unripened plum like a tart it has a bit of tartness to it like a plum I mean they're a messy little thing you couldn't it's difficult to eat them on the go look at your fingers I know do you think it will stain so you could it's a natural dye is it don't get it on the air so I'm trying have some more I do like it it's a labor of love isn't it yeah but a lot of wild foods are aren't they and they're they're our cultivated versions so you can buy them in the market cultivated and they don't have as many pips in and they don't have the shrines on the outside that's what you're looking for a little like a little chicken gizzard mmm awesome I wonder if you can eat the seeds have you asked oh the what I read said don't eat the seeds well I don't think they're toxic they're just you don't want to eat all the seeds there's the seeds and that's what you're doing with little tiny seedlets like that it's kind of got a greasy like that it's not like a disgusting oh no what I've got a prickle how have you managed that oh but it's definitely happened and I need to help me immediately it's everything but if I swallow it you're all right how have you managed that I can feel it honest in your lip oh I'm never gonna get that out might have to do some surgery or something get rid of that I'm worried I'm gonna swallow it no but it's only people it's not gonna do anything bad to you I'm filming it so you're here live for the extraction crush it that crush it prickly pears in the front I maybe I scrapped it out yeah that's what I mean it's rough it rough and tumbled it they're only soft aren't they they're quite soft got it she got it oh my god right they are prickly the call prickly pears and we've come underprepared underprepared good pun by not bringing any gloves or knives or spoons or anything like that that you're supposed to bring because we're just we're randomly hiking and we're just sort of doing it on the hoof as they say and so we've had a few in the old fingers and it's not the prickles on the the paddles that you've got to watch out for although you do because look at the size of them it's the ones on the pears they're little fine hairs of the things and we've had them in our fingers and phones just that's one in the roof of a mouth which is expertly extracted there you go we're gonna get these home and we're gonna make like a sweet syrup and we're gonna fry some of these and we're also gonna fry some come and have a look they're too much how do we deal with that imagine if i got one of those in the roof of my mouth how do we deal with it i use you have to cut off the spines but they sell them in the market and then you just chop them up and literally fry them do we just skin it no you don't need to skin it okay well we'll just fry it i've got a knife maybe we can come back when i've got the knife and we can because we can't carry that in my t-shirt get my shirt okay right we're gonna have to go we're gonna wrap a few of these in first t-shirt we're gonna eat these because these are edible too uh and we can have them with our fancy drinks no and also what's this swiss charred it is we've just been suffering getting all these prickles out of ourselves thinking oh yeah we wish we had a knife but classic hiker bum bag embarrassing as it is even more so my little spider code bug which is the perfect travel companion put this in your first aid kit and you can get away we're taking it on the plane i won't do it don't do as i just don't do it all right but you can do it because look how small it is the spider code bug and perfect for chopping off these little spines and getting some paddles right come with me get this prickly pear um so fern's the one who's been doing all the research really i can't take any credit for it but she says it's the smaller darker green ones when you when you're collecting the paddles but you can see there's loads of them in all sorts of stages of their life some of them have shot to bits some of them look pretty healthy so you zoom down in you can see this one looks pretty healthy nice and dark green i mean you're going to have to take a bit of a tickling but the old spider core straight through and very satisfying indeed look at that and it's going to take some time but i guess you can if you can get hold of it there must be a easier man down oh my god are they barbed as well too is too much is too why could it be worth the effort so what happens they get in here they're barbed and then they break off because the ends are really fine and it's not just doing what this is science this is for you guys so you don't i do it so you don't have to it's not these big ones you know where you are with them they'll just cut you in your bleed it's these little fine ones down here near the base of it they're barbed and they break off into your skin and will cause all sorts of mutations so i don't think it's worth it no you haven't tried it yet i don't think it's worth it it might be the most lovely vegetable you've ever eaten no no am i allowed to do that no actually instant death right it hurts though maybe let's just take one home get all the spines off home because that home you can use a fork as well to hold her down to hold her down yeah all right but transporting them you surely you have to take the thing just oh right i hate these things what why can't we just be cooking stews in the woods it's not easier we have to eat the prickly cactus full okay join us later when we figure that out to get these home oh my god there's such a labor of pain it's going to be the best thing i've ever eaten there you go that's what they look like we know defense pathetic now isn't it now who's the winner not me there you go i was a bit like a bull in a china shop and when it started prickling me it was like i think there's a fable to be found here but can't be bothered to find it but fern's just taking the time painstakingly removed all the spines from that well done fern and now we can take him and maybe a couple more back home and we'll see what they taste like it doesn't smell too clever but i can't do it too too too heavy-handed it smells good well fresh right can you eat it raw let's have a taste of it can you eat it raw i don't know right brilliant i'll even see you or a word it's pretty bland to be fair anyway let's get it back get it cooked it might become something worth the prickles vlogging in apartment that i'm doing yeah vlogging it look i don't know people might want to do you like what i say you do come in here airbnb because you might want to book an airbnb and come to tenor eve and pick prickly pears and get stuck in the mouths these 30 quid a night for two of us and because we're not near any like pubs clubs and all that we we sort of took that out of the way it was pretty cheap so all this for 30 quid for for two of us a night and look at this this is like at the old doors and the wooden beams and it's an old plantation like they should um found bananas and coffee and all sorts of stuff back in the day and it was the hosts family that owned it and now he's got it and he uses it as an airbnb but this is the pièce de résistance look at this the sink excuse the mess but look at that wooden sink like some sort of it's like a burl in it like it's been carved out of a big burl of a like a birch burl or something like that beautiful burl and then the shower's all like stone natural stone shower is good stuff good soup good soup and uh do you want to look at that do you want to show that garden cribs mtv cribs before you go can i use your little knife please i never thought you'd ask that's one prickly pear there in there that you can see that fern's just just done so you've got maybe three teaspoons of juice per one prickly pear so all the seeds have cooked it's quite gelatinous so it's uh it's hard to get through here fern's going to stick here and do this while i take your out garden but also just look at this looking bag they're all you can see them all stuck in the side of my bag and all that that dust there that's all spines so you have to be careful and get rid of them all properly because that is a bad time to look at them all and then do you think they're full of vitamins so many vitamins super food it is gelatinous though isn't it i thought it would be more juice uh yeah it's like uh it's already like syrupy in it yeah not juicy like uh citrus would be the the juice that's coming out of it is quite viscous thick almost and so we'll bear that in mind when we're making our you it would make a nice syrup you wouldn't need much sugar would you like to stick already like you just need to sweeten it a bit again drizzle some vanilla ice cream maybe quite good there you go i've helped i've helped i've helped you prove it look look at that beautiful and these are edible as well but look in here so we're in this compound it's like it's got its own walled garden around this building the mountains in the background the sea out there and it's got all these lovely look at that bird of paradise like little secret areas and you've got like little table and chairs a hammock you having it just make sure there's no spiders in there and then we'll get in there shall we this is it this is sort of camping in it sorry for the lack of uh sorry for the lack of like camping and hiking videos but but i need this i've needed a holiday let's get you down here this is too comfy there i am not swizzling about stop the last time i was on this island i tried to swim with turtles and it just didn't happen i said if i if i managed to swim with turtles i'll get a turtle tattooed on me and i i didn't manage it and ended up just having to get a well not having to i did get a shell on me which is not the same is it not the same as a turtle so we're going to try and swim with some turtles tomorrow we've got a big hike planned to like a secluded curve yeah lots of outdoorsy stuff so i'll bring it out stick around it's not my usual content and i do appreciate that i've had about three or four different varieties of the flu what's that about like just getting out of one flu and then you get another one that's got different you know like a sommelier will like tell you about the wine and the wine notes like i'm like a fluillier so i can be like oh yeah this one's got wonderful raspy cough back to it the first couple of days you get a wonderful sweaty night's sleep really hits you hard at first and then it's sort of tapers off into just a whooping style cough lots of fleb just been tumbling into from one illness into other and then we sort of impromptu we've booked this just a few days out in some sunshine cheap as chips like the flight was cheap because we're flying out on new years eve and the accommodation as i said like 30 quid a night for two year making all our own picnics and taking them out in the day on our hikes like sandwiches and stuff and keeping everything low budget just enjoying it getting a bit of vitamin d and then i'll be back when i get back from this holiday we've got proper hikes proper wild camping proper bushcraft and all that sort of stuff but for now i'm just enjoying me me holiday and i thought i'd try and do a little vlog and bring you along for the ride so enjoy if you want if you don't want to go and watch some old mcq bushcraft outward the goat should i spend a night in here that's kind of that's kind of camping isn't it in hippie hammock though just get a few joss sticks on get me hey man whoo f**k hey man oh i better go and ask i better go and help some more but yeah that's where we're at in fact i'll let you have a little look more around garden so you've got this little hidden hidden hammock area which is pretty cool this monstrosity here is uh their capok tree and if you look it's all like nice and smooth on here all up on the top there but then as you start getting down here look at these little warlords man there's no giving that that's solid so that's going to stop anything from climbing up there and imagine if you if you've had a few scoops and you're on your way back from tiki bar and you stumble on to that oh my god that is medic buddy frog more succulents nanas fresh nanas we had the other day right is you ready yeah i did yeah and then you can sit in there you can sit in that boat if you want you've got the mountains but what we're really here for is this the champagne cocktail that's a good color but there is a seed in that one it's okay do you want to try some just by itself yeah pink it's gloop pink gloop freshly prepared oh it's nice isn't it yeah it's tight it's got that gooseberry vibe like a sweeter gooseberry i quite like the mouth feel of it as well it's like it's got a gooeyness to it like like a melted sweet so i'm not getting in look at this what fern's done it does look bonnie though and i want to appreciate the effort had to say that yeah wow i was just killed a rare parrot there that's just fallen to the floor wow oops that looks good look out fern's new hat from decathlon today it's absolutely stunning because i love decathlon on a scale of one to ten decathlon it's ten it might even be an 11 it was the highlight of my holiday wow guys if you come to tennery you can make sure to hit up decathlon oh wow that's great i'm apparently there in England but i can't imagine anything so magical that's what you get when you hang out with a professional forager look how pretty that is what will it taste like though right real talk here we go welcome to real talk with ball and fern i've not tried this yet fern's been chilling it i've had two six two six first of all cheers cheers let's let's have a go and see what it's like yeah it's yummy actually it's nice but i've just been having to tweezer find hairs and spiked out of her tongue i wasn't careful enough but i didn't realize the extent of how figgly the figgly bears are but i can confirm what are they they live up to their name don't they yeah could you tell them what you've done so what we had to do mainly me because we got paranoid then after fern got in it that they were all in the drink which they were we had to they weren't there was there was a couple there was maybe two but it's not worth risking it getting in your throat i wasn't being careful enough i should have been washing my hands between handling the prickly pears and making the drink prickly pears are a labour love that's what we've learned but so we were thinking right well let's we're gonna have to get some muslin we didn't have any so we've used a pair of my underpants did you wash those underpants no yesterday's and i can't will you fresh underpants to waste so now there's a pair of like old underpants that are bright red in the sink it looks like there's been an absolute murder in there like a mayhem uh final thoughts i know why they cultivate them without the prickles and the seeds is it worth it no but we have learned something today we've learned yeah i've had a good laugh and we've had a delicious cocktail and a delicious cocktail cheers goodbye right you'll see a change of a tire no it's not the next day it's just like not soon after we were just outside because them little hairs are a nightmare hairs they got everywhere third got one in the roof of her mouth in her tongue that is crazy she had to come in and pick it out of her tongue they're all in our clothes every time we were like wiping ourselves we'd push one into the skin but oh no all in my pants so we've had to just take all our clothes off we're so soaking everything we've had to wipe everything down with wet cloths if you're gonna prick don't prick prick don't prick prickly pears because they're not worth it stick to the legs rivers you used to but green bit oh yeah great yeah stay tuned for green bit it could be the redemption of the prickly pear yeah let's go you know we're just trying this for the first time that way yeah so we were saying earlier like if it was just like if it was english foraging obviously fernald knows what she was doing more but because we're in a different country and we've both never tried this before we're just it's trier than ever and it's quite funny so we're just bringing you along for the ride slime and these are slimy slimy little oh oh yeah they're so slimy but i mean yeah awkward slimy isn't it when you pick in the pan well if you fry it it's good isn't it fried okra do you know what i do know is that they're traditionally served with egg right are they should we rustle up an egg yes okay we're gonna rustle up an egg stay tuned right here we go we're gonna try this now dust there we go for some reason when the first taste it was like burnt pancake like the edge of a pancake you're feeling that aren't i was like what does that taste like and then as soon as you say pancake i was like it's a pan it tastes like pancake batter like a pancake it's a bit no but then at the end it gets slimy like an ock and it tastes a bit like a pimento pepper or padron pepper god if you if you're in the market for some slimy pancake get involved should be fair that nutritious and delicious we might have just cooked it terribly like some people are probably going to watch this and be like you've mullered it sorry for mullering it it's not it's not awful it's not bad i can eat it i'm rave review i can eat it if i'm starving to death i'd eat it well done fern congratulations bye for now