The Tamale Lady Made Me Mad!

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nicolepa Posted 5 Aug 2008 , 7:26pm
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My grandma taught me how to make tamales. She is famous for hers. Stores have been trying to get her to sell them for years.

She says you can use just about any kind of pork. She usually uses pork butt. As far as how to cook them, you don't need a tamale cooker. If I'm doing a bunch I will use my rice cooker/steamer and steam them. If I'm just doing a couple I will cook them in the microwave.

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feliciangel Posted 5 Aug 2008 , 7:34pm
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You guys made me hungry now. I have to listen for the tamale man to come. here were I live there are a lot of places to choose from. The man that sell them door to door around here makes the most delicious red one. My stomach is growling "I want a tamale" icon_cry.gif Last time we bought from him his price was $1.35 each

Oh and those Hormel can tamales make some bomb nachos

here a recipe if any wants to try I eyeball it

3 Hormel tamales smashed
1/3 can Hormel chili bean no bean
1 cup velveta cheese
a couple of Ortega green chili's (optional)

then heat until cheese melts

easy and good

just had to add my 2 cents

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Jasmine33 Posted 5 Aug 2008 , 7:35pm
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Cambriascakes. I know what you are saying. When we started buying I told Joe the same thing, if they are $1.00, my cost better not be more than a dime each to make. lol

I am not saying they aren't worth this amount. I am very frugal minded though and since we are eating so many and my kids want these every week, $23.00 adds up quickly. They actually want more than that. So I may as well make them myself and save some expense.

I make alot of stuff from scratch. Bread, stromboli, pizza. Given that plus the hassles with buying from someone else it is just in our best interest to make our own.

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SURE!!!! I'm eating some right now! I love tamales! for breakfast with eggs...lunch with salad and beans...dinner.... anytime. I love chicken, beef, pork, tontitos ( thats what they call the ones with only masa!), the plain corn ones...sweet ones, cheese and chile verde..OMG the possibilities are endless.. One of these days I will try to make my own. My mom makes them...but I'm afraid...very afraid.....




My hubby likes the chili verde when we eat out. I need to learn to make those.

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I don't like buying from home cooks around here. There was a big arrest in the area for unsafe cooking in a backyard. Turns out the people were boiling their meat in galvanized trash cans!!

No telling how many people were poisoned. The heat makes the metal seam deteriorate. I politely refuse to buy from anyone now.




Boiling meat in a trash can???? Oh wow! That is terrible! Was it tamales? Yeah I have always been very iffy about stuff like this.

There is a few times I have been hit up in the parking lot of a mexican market and I didn't buy.

My neighbor was buying and my son said he knew the lady cause she subbed at his school. She lives about 10 blocks away from us. She was cooking them on the stove once when he went to get them, not in the backyard. icon_lol.gif

But yeah, we need to be careful

While we are on the subject of home cooks. About a mile away there was a taco house. They had a taco buisiness in the garage, tables set up and everything and every friday and sat. night that place would be rocking.

$1.00 each and your choice of carnitas, carne asada, other kinds of meat.
These were truly the best I ever had in my life!! You know the "soft tacos" that hispanics make.

We went for about a year then all of a sudden they closed down. Don't know why, maybe the taco police got them? icon_sad.gif

I about cried when I realized they weren't selling any more.

If anyone knows how to make these please let me know! I have tried all kinds of carne asada recipes and mine are not to die for. I still don't know exactly how they do these corn tortillas. They aren't friend and they aren't just warmed up. I have tried using a flat black skillet and adding a tiny bit of water, no success. icon_cry.gif

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Jasmine33 Posted 5 Aug 2008 , 7:38pm
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mmm... I would love to get her recipe! lol How long in the microwave? I have a huge metal pot, I really just need a steemer. I have an old smaller pot I used to steam vegetables but the handle kept breaking so I saved the steamer and tossed it out. Couldn't find it yesterday. I like what one person said earlier about flipping it over inside the pot and using that.

If I can find it. lol

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mariela_ms Posted 5 Aug 2008 , 7:57pm
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icon_lol.gif It's funny to hear people calling us hispanics.. It cracks me up! icon_biggrin.gificon_lol.gificon_lol.gif I think one comedian, don't know who it was, but he said something like "there is no such place as Hispania, why are they calling us hispanics?!" It's so true and funny. Not to make fun of anyone using that word, it's everywhere! And I don't get offended at all.

I rather be called Latina, or simply Mexican. I'm sorry I'm just babbling on...I got tamales stuck on my head and I can't think straight....

One more thing..Im so proud of my son, he's 22 months, he ate almost a whole sweet tamale the other day! now that is a true mexican! icon_lol.gificon_lol.gificon_lol.gifthumbs_up.gifthumbs_up.gif

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mariela_ms Posted 5 Aug 2008 , 7:58pm
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Microwave?!?!?! COOL!!!! let us know how long please!! icon_razz.gif

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nicolepa Posted 5 Aug 2008 , 7:59pm
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I still don't know exactly how they do these corn tortillas. They aren't friend and they aren't just warmed up. I have tried using a flat black skillet and adding a tiny bit of water, no success. icon_cry.gif




To soften the corn tortillas you heat a bit of oil in the frying pan and put the corn tortilla in. Just a few seconds on each side. This is how my grandma does it for her enchiladas.

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lanibird Posted 5 Aug 2008 , 8:04pm
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Man! Now you guys have me craving tamales! My MIL and DH's cousin make some AMAZING ones! Mmmmm, smotherd in chile con queso..mmmmm. Ok, I gotta call DH, see if he can make some calls and put in some orders! icon_lol.gif

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roxxxy_luvs_duff Posted 5 Aug 2008 , 8:08pm
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Cambriascakes. I know what you are saying. When we started buying I told Joe the same thing, if they are $1.00, my cost better not be more than a dime each to make. lol

I am not saying they aren't worth this amount. I am very frugal minded though and since we are eating so many and my kids want these every week, $23.00 adds up quickly. They actually want more than that. So I may as well make them myself and save some expense.

I make alot of stuff from scratch. Bread, stromboli, pizza. Given that plus the hassles with buying from someone else it is just in our best interest to make our own.

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SURE!!!! I'm eating some right now! I love tamales! for breakfast with eggs...lunch with salad and beans...dinner.... anytime. I love chicken, beef, pork, tontitos ( thats what they call the ones with only masa!), the plain corn ones...sweet ones, cheese and chile verde..OMG the possibilities are endless.. One of these days I will try to make my own. My mom makes them...but I'm afraid...very afraid.....



My hubby likes the chili verde when we eat out. I need to learn to make those.

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I don't like buying from home cooks around here. There was a big arrest in the area for unsafe cooking in a backyard. Turns out the people were boiling their meat in galvanized trash cans!!

No telling how many people were poisoned. The heat makes the metal seam deteriorate. I politely refuse to buy from anyone now.



Boiling meat in a trash can???? Oh wow! That is terrible! Was it tamales? Yeah I have always been very iffy about stuff like this.

There is a few times I have been hit up in the parking lot of a mexican market and I didn't buy.

My neighbor was buying and my son said he knew the lady cause she subbed at his school. She lives about 10 blocks away from us. She was cooking them on the stove once when he went to get them, not in the backyard. icon_lol.gif

But yeah, we need to be careful

While we are on the subject of home cooks. About a mile away there was a taco house. They had a taco buisiness in the garage, tables set up and everything and every friday and sat. night that place would be rocking.

$1.00 each and your choice of carnitas, carne asada, other kinds of meat.
These were truly the best I ever had in my life!! You know the "soft tacos" that hispanics make.

We went for about a year then all of a sudden they closed down. Don't know why, maybe the taco police got them? icon_sad.gif

I about cried when I realized they weren't selling any more.

If anyone knows how to make these please let me know! I have tried all kinds of carne asada recipes and mine are not to die for. I still don't know exactly how they do these corn tortillas. They aren't friend and they aren't just warmed up. I have tried using a flat black skillet and adding a tiny bit of water, no success. icon_cry.gif




you dip the tortillas in oil then place them on a comal to warm them

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nicolepa Posted 5 Aug 2008 , 8:12pm
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nicolepa

mmm... I would love to get her recipe! lol How long in the microwave? I have a huge metal pot, I really just need a steemer. I have an old smaller pot I used to steam vegetables but the handle kept breaking so I saved the steamer and tossed it out. Couldn't find it yesterday. I like what one person said earlier about flipping it over inside the pot and using that.

If I can find it. lol




Microwave time varies depending on how many you are making and their size. My grandma makes them very small, which I love because the meat/masa ratio is good. Most tamales I have tried have too much masa. For her's I usually do it for a minute or minute thirty and then check. Just peel back a bit of the husk and if it still sticks it needs to be cooked more.

As for her recipe. That's a hard one. There are no real measurements and until I actually watched her I could never get it. But here's the gist. (I can't find the notebook I wrote everything down in right now, but it's close.)

Boil the pork until cooked. Take pork out to cool and shred. DO NOT THROW OUT THE WATER. This is the key to a good tamale.

Make red chili and pour some in the shreded pork. Add tamale water until it's moist enough. (I like a lot of chili so I don't use much water.)

Soak your cornhusks while you make the masa.

Put some masa in a bowl. Add red chili powder until you can see a fair amount of specks in the masa. Add tamale water until the consistency of peanut butter. You should either be able to spred w/a knife/spoon or mush down w/your hand.

Take 2 corn husks and overlap a bit. Spread the masa leaving enough room to tie the ends. Going all the way to one edge, but leaving room at the other. Add a teaspoon or so of pork adn roll towards the empty edge. Tie the ends w/strips of corn husk.

Steam them and eat or throw them in ziplocks and freeze.

I usually spend a day a year w/a girlfriend making them. It is not worth the trouble unless you spend all day and make tons!

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CakeMakar Posted 5 Aug 2008 , 8:20pm
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I'm mexican, and have been making tamales all my life. My grandmother taught me. I don't know what a "tamale pot" is, but I guarantee you don't need one. Unless you just like kitchen gadgets. icon_biggrin.gif

Here is a great recipe for Chile Verde. Just shred up the meat when its done and stuff your tamales with it. Perfect. icon_biggrin.gif

http://www.elise.com/recipes/archives/006115chile_verde.php

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Jasmine33 Posted 5 Aug 2008 , 8:31pm
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I'll get back to responses soon but just had to post this!

No fancy smancy picture here, I just wanted to hurry up and eat it! mmmmmmm

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If Joe is lucky there may be some for dinner for him tonight! lol

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lanibird Posted 5 Aug 2008 , 8:39pm
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You're evil. icon_evil.gif


Gotta call DH.... icon_biggrin.gif

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Ironbaker Posted 5 Aug 2008 , 8:43pm
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This is not fair. Why don't I have a tamale person to order from? icon_cry.gif

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martmarg Posted 5 Aug 2008 , 9:05pm
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that is one big tamale. About the tacos ....alll I do is put a bit of oil on the comal (skillet) and put the tortilla on top . It just like dipping the tortilla in oil just less messy for me.

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TejasRebel Posted 5 Aug 2008 , 9:06pm
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icon_lol.gif It's funny to hear people calling us hispanics.. It cracks me up! icon_biggrin.gificon_lol.gificon_lol.gif I think one comedian, don't know who it was, but he said something like "there is no such place as Hispania, why are they calling us hispanics?!" It's so true and funny. Not to make fun of anyone using that word, it's everywhere! And I don't get offended at all.

I rather be called Latina, or simply Mexican. I'm sorry I'm just babbling on...I got tamales stuck on my head and I can't think straight....




I'm still laughing, Mariela. You're so right! But I've got it worse. My father was from Toledo, Spain and my mom's family is from Ireland. Does that make me Spirish?? hehehehee icon_lol.gif

Growing up, my godmother would make this HUGE pot of tamales for Christmas Eve dinner. They were so wonderful.

And I'm so hungry for them now!

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mariela_ms Posted 5 Aug 2008 , 9:09pm
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Spirish!!! LOL that's funnY!!!

My family makes tamales mostly in winter during the Christmas season. So we end up eating Tamales all the way to February! Everybody makes them and give you some, so the tamale season gets long...lol I love them though.

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roxxxy_luvs_duff Posted 5 Aug 2008 , 9:11pm
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that tamale picture is pure evil!!!! icon_cry.gif

My friend called her mom so she is gunna call the tamle ladies to see when they are making them again. hopefully its sometime soon icon_cry.gif

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martmarg Posted 5 Aug 2008 , 11:49pm
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I think they call us Hispanics because of the word Hispania which was the name given to Spain and other countries at some point. At lot of of us have spanish decendancy. I think that that is where they got it from. Don't quote me on that because I'm not very good with history. But it goes somewhat like that.

Anyway, I love being Hispanic, latina, chicana, mexican whatever, and especially love the food.

And i think it's funny that what some people might be foreign or delicacy to us is simply everyday food, such as tacos, carne asada, charro beans, tamales, etc.

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emrldsky Posted 6 Aug 2008 , 12:49pm
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I think they call us Hispanics because of the word Hispania which was the name given to Spain and other countries at some point. At lot of of us have spanish decendancy. I think that that is where they got it from. Don't quote me on that because I'm not very good with history. But it goes somewhat like that.

Anyway, I love being Hispanic, latina, chicana, mexican whatever, and especially love the food.

And i think it's funny that what some people might be foreign or delicacy to us is simply everyday food, such as tacos, carne asada, charro beans, tamales, etc.




When I took Spanish in high school, we were taught to call all people from Spanish-speaking nations Hispanic, because it was more polite and you were less likely to offend someone. My teacher then further explained that if you refer to someone from Puerto Rico as Mexican, you would be committing a HUGE offense, and it's just wiser to stick with Hispanic.

So, blame the Spanish teachers. icon_wink.gif

And as far as tamales goes...my mom LOVES them, but I never took a liking to them. Might be because I really just didn't want to eat them and said I didn't like them. I might have to try some somewhere, and see how they are. icon_smile.gif

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diamondsonblackvelvet13 Posted 6 Aug 2008 , 1:01pm
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I don't think I have EVER craved tamales this bad! My Tia would make some that would have you on your knees begging for one. Unfortunately, she cannot make them anymore due to arthritis. I guess I will have to wait for tomorrow to be able to buy some from the tortilla factory. If worse comes to worse, I'll have to break down and make some. Those pics just about made me cry!

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FrostinGal Posted 6 Aug 2008 , 2:50pm
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Oh, those tamales looked gooooood! We make them for Christmas or new year's. They are very labor intensive, and expensive, because if you want to have any left over, you have to make dozens and dozens! People will come crawling out of the walls when they are done! But you can't find anyone to help make them! There is a saying in our family, if you don't help, you don't eat!
We start with 20 lbs of masa, and get 10 more if we run out of tamales too soon.
We have a lot of fun, though, sitting around making them, laughing and talking. It's not the same when you make them yourself.

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mariela_ms Posted 6 Aug 2008 , 5:19pm
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Yeah I know...that's what they teach to call us. But I just find it funny. But of course much better than calling someone Mexican when they are indeed Puerto Rican or from other country. And it's not like we can tell each other apart anyways!!!
I've seen Mexicans that are blond hair blue eyes!!!

Doesn't matter. I love tamales. And tacos al pastor with pineapple, those are my favorite!!!!!!

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martmarg Posted 6 Aug 2008 , 5:56pm
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MMMMMM....tacos al pastor sound really good right now. Man, now that I'm dieting!!!!

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mariela_ms Posted 6 Aug 2008 , 5:59pm
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I live right on the border with Sonora...so I can go across and eat really good tacos any day. BUT, in May I went on vacation to Mexico City for the first time...and let me tell you... THE BEST AL PASTOR TACOS EVER!!!!!!! I fell in love once again.... the tortas, the bread...so so so good.

ok ok...we got to stop this thread. It can't lead to any good. I'm getting a craving now.... lol

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jnf1 Posted 6 Aug 2008 , 6:06pm
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yes I know I am in NC and can't find any

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CakeMakar Posted 6 Aug 2008 , 6:55pm
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You can call me whatever makes you happy...just hand over the tamales and no one gets hurt!

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Jasmine33 Posted 6 Aug 2008 , 7:13pm
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Yeah I know...that's what they teach to call us. But I just find it funny. But of course much better than calling someone Mexican when they are indeed Puerto Rican or from other country. And it's not like we can tell each other apart anyways!!!
I've seen Mexicans that are blond hair blue eyes!!!

Doesn't matter. I love tamales. And tacos al pastor with pineapple, those are my favorite!!!!!!




That is exactly why I said Hispanic. Cause I don't know if she is mexican, spanish, guatamalen, etc.

I, myself, am part spanish. Or maybe part spanish and part mexican. lol My dad explained it to me when I was very young. The feeling I get is his dad was mexican and his mom was spanish. Not exactly sure as they are all dead now.

My dad grew up in L.A., in a mexican environmentlhousehold. His mom and his aunt spoke spanish but he had some sort of speech problem as a child and didn't learn to speak til he was 5. (If I remember right.) He said he could understand spanish but never spoke it.

Most of my dads fathers side of the family lives in Northern cali so we didn't really grow up around them. I remember one aunt of his from his moms side but we seen her maybe around x~mas time. Both my dads sister and brother died pretty young so I wasn't around them much at all.

When I was about 10 I stayed at my grandmas and she taught me how to make flour tortillas. I lost the recipe then and kick myself now.

I have made my own flour tortillas many times but can't duplicate hers.

Any one has an awesome recipe let me know!

My mother was white(now passed on.) She made pots of beans and spanish rice and fried tacos were staples in our house. Enchiladas too! She was a very good cook but aside from some mexican food here and there we were pretty much raised white.

I look white and have red hair and brown eyes but I don't burn easily.

I cook all these foods as well. Tamales are just something I have never tried til now.

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Microwave?!?!?! COOL!!!! let us know how long please!!




My dd was cooking these tamales for 2 hours and I told her to toss one in the microwave for 2 minutes for me. She did it was good but dry! She said she ate one without microwaving it so I tried and indeed the tamales were already done. I guess they didn't need the 5 hours after all so I really cant say on microwave times as ours were already cooked.

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To soften the corn tortillas you heat a bit of oil in the frying pan and put the corn tortilla in. Just a few seconds on each side. This is how my grandma does it for her enchiladas.




Thanx. I have tried that too. No oil, tiny bit of oil, tiny bit of water etc. They still don't come out like the traditional soft taco. icon_sad.gif

lanibird

Maybe I should do mail order on ice!!!

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you dip the tortillas in oil then place them on a comal to warm them




Thanx. WHat is a comal?

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Microwave time varies depending on how many you are making and their size. My grandma makes them very small, which I love because the meat/masa ratio is good. Most tamales I have tried have too much masa. For her's I usually do it for a minute or minute thirty and then check. Just peel back a bit of the husk and if it still sticks it needs to be cooked more.....




Thank you so much for sharing all that with us. WHat we did was we bought a bag of dried red whole chiles. The guy we bought the masa from at the store said to use that certain kind. We cooked the pork in a crock pot with some onion, garlic powder and salt and peeper and that chile. (Plus an onion and potatoes.)

Next time we are making our own masa. I am used to working with from scratch mixes. I make my own bread all the time and flour tortillas every now and then. But this time learning something new I wanted toi make it as easy as possible. lol Kass did soak the corn husk but I don't know how long.

When I feel like it, I make my own enchilada sauce from scratch. I got it off the net.

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I got this recipe from by grmil who was born and raised in Mexico City. The secret to its flavor is the cocoa




It has chili powder and cocoa powder and I make up the dry seasonings and add tomato sauce and water later. Anyways. When The pork was done I told her to save the pork water and grab some of that seasoning and warm it up on the stove.

It turned out wonderful! I was surprised, it being our firt time and all and just winging it.

The only thing we didn't do was add chile powder to the masa. Just took it however they gave it to us from the store.

She put a ton of pork in there though! LOL

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I'm mexican, and have been making tamales all my life. My grandmother taught me. I don't know what a "tamale pot" is, but I guarantee you don't need one. Unless you just like kitchen gadgets




icon_lol.gif That is what has stopped me in the past from making these. The tamale pot. haha

I told myself where there is a will, there is a way. They sell them, a big pot with a steamer insert, at the store for like $20 and I don't mind spending the cash but I have so much stuff as is, and now with all the baking I do if anything I want more pans, not more pots! hahaha

We used our turkey roaster and flipped the metal brackets upside down. I do have a huge pot I really just need to get a decent steamer to put inside.

Thank for the recipe. I need to try it!

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martmarg

Yeah she put a ton of pork in it! lol I will have to try that again. It didn't work for me last time! icon_sad.gif

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hat tamale picture is pure evil!!!!




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My friend called her mom so she is gunna call the tamle ladies to see when they are making them again. hopefully its sometime soon




I live in Cali too. But it's nowhere close to Kerman,

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Hope you can get some soon!

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Anyway, I love being Hispanic, latina, chicana, mexican whatever, and especially love the food.




ditto!

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When I took Spanish in high school, we were taught to call all people from Spanish-speaking nations Hispanic, because it was more polite and you were less likely to offend someone. My teacher then further explained that if you refer to someone from Puerto Rico as Mexican, you would be committing a HUGE offense, and it's just wiser to stick with Hispanic.

So, blame the Spanish teachers.




Probably true. When I was in high school I had a black friend. I didn't know what to call her so I mentioned, "colored". SHe was highly offended and said I should call her black! icon_surprised.gif

Nowadays it is not "black", it is "african american". Okay so what if they don't consider themselves American? icon_lol.gif

You try so hard not to offend people and no matter what you say, someone somewhere will be offended. icon_sad.gif

You DO need to try some! They are awesome!

diamondsonblackvelvet13

Awww you poor thing. Maybe some of you realize how tortured I was when the tamale lady said "Tuesday" and Tuesday came and went. I about cried. My hubby said he would rather we make them cause we all love tamales and now we can have them on demand! icon_lol.gif

If any one makes some soon post the pics in this thread! We should make this our mexican food/pics/drool thread!

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h, those tamales looked gooooood! We make them for Christmas or new year's. They are very labor intensive, and expensive, because if you want to have any left over, you have to make dozens and dozens! People will come crawling out of the walls when they are done! But you can't find anyone to help make them! There is a saying in our family, if you don't help, you don't eat!
We start with 20 lbs of masa, and get 10 more if we run out of tamales too soon.
We have a lot of fun, though, sitting around making them, laughing and talking. It's not the same when you make them yourself.




Thanx. Yes we only made 35 and they are all gone!! I bought a bag of masa last night so maybe tomorrow we will make all the rest of the meat up.

Thankfully nobody knows we made any! LOL

Great rule about not helping and not eating! lol

mariela_ms & martmarg

  
Oh I know. I am in trouble right now between baked goods and mexican food! lol

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my brother moved to N.C. years ago and he comes out here and goes crazy! LOL

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Jasmine33 Posted 6 Aug 2008 , 7:15pm
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You can call me whatever makes you happy...just hand over the tamales and no one gets hurt!




ROFL! The fact that you have strawberry shortcake in your avatar makes that comment so much funnier. icon_lol.gif

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Jasmine33 Posted 6 Aug 2008 , 7:20pm
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Here is some beef chimichangas I made a few months back. I didn't use tortillas. I made pizza dough up so they would get humongous in the oven and so I wouldn't have to fry them either.

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You can see the home made salsa too. We used tomatillos in it also.

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