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Weekend company meal prep starting. Today... Tamales!

Hayabusa Rider

Hayabusa Rider

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Well, started the other day really when I nixtamalized 5 lbs of yellow dent corn and ground it to a paste consistency. Yesterday I cooked the pork shoulder and today I'll shred, make up the sauce for the pork then warm it together. I'll whip the lard into the masa to make it like buttercream frosting (and floats in cold water), assemble and steam. My guess is 60-90 finished pieces. I made enough masa for fresh corn tortillas for tacos and my wife is making chicken enchiladas

An immovable feast 😀
 
IronWing said:
Sounds delicious, I’ll forward my shipping address. We make green corn tamales in season.
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HappyPuppy if you remember him shipped me some after Christmas for a couple of seasons. Once a year wasn't enough so I rolled my own. Crisco? Canola OIL? Perish forbid!!!!

Lard is all things wonderful.
 
Hayabusa Rider said:
HappyPuppy if you remember him shipped me some after Christmas for a couple of seasons. Once a year wasn't enough so I rolled my own. Crisco? Canola OIL? Perish forbid!!!!

Lard is all things wonderful.
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Happy Puppy is alive and well...at the site which shall not be named... 😎

Tamales are one of the few things I miss about living in California. Around Christmas, almost every Mexican family made tamales...plenty of them made extras for sale. $1 each, 12/$10...and they were (usually) hella good, much better than those in restaurants or grocery stores.
 
My mother in law makes the Nicaraguan version of these fairly often called Nacatamales.

I'm not a big fan of them. I just don't like that much of the corn stuff and not a fan of eating something full of mixed food that has bones in it.
 
purbeast0 said:
My mother in law makes the Nicaraguan version of these fairly often called Nacatamales.

I'm not a big fan of them. I just don't like that much of the corn stuff and not a fan of eating something full of mixed food that has bones in it.
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Yeah, I’m not huge fan of steamed tamales either. It tastes ok but there are lot of other Mexican food I rather eat before tamales. Whenever I’m in Mexico and I see tamales wrapped in banana leaves at the breakfast buffet, I pass and move to the next station.
 
BoomerD said:
Happy Puppy is alive and well...at the site which shall not be named... 😎

Tamales are one of the few things I miss about living in California. Around Christmas, almost every Mexican family made tamales...plenty of them made extras for sale. $1 each, 12/$10...and they were (usually) hella good, much better than those in restaurants or grocery stores.
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Damn I need to check in and talk to the old bastard 😀
 
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