My wife incorporated her diet with bone broth, stock she makes from turkey necks and wings along with a split pigs trotter, and chicken feet for collagen oomph! Anyway, this past Thanksgiving we used the left-over turkey for tamales with red mole. The meat was...
Winter is coming. Time for tamales, more specifically duck-lard enriched masa tamales filled with meat. In the batch's below, Two kinds of corn were used. One came from a farmer's market. The other came from a native Iroquois source, which gave it a beautiful shade of...
Nixtamalization is the process to make masa using calcium hydroxide (also known as "CAL"). You boil and soak the corn in the CAL, then grind it. It's a method from the Meso-Americans that we enjoy in flat-corn tortilla, tamales, and many other south-of- the-border...
I like tamales. No, I love 'em. Playing with a steamed halibut special at work, I ended up complementing the dish with fresh corn tamales. I served it with roasted yellow grape tomato salsa, chipotle, ramps and tomato corn salad. Maybe I was channeling my...
Fall is the season for tamales, hallacas or humitas, three more treats from our South American cousins. I could eat any of these, year round. Made from corn meal mixed to a masa, they are filled with meat, vegetables and steamed for a comforting meal. Below are...
Hey all... just made it back from Christmas weekend with maman. Then a blizzard hits and I am out of food. All to say, it's a perfect time for making tamales! A few weeks ago I tasted a trio of tamales at Momofuku, a terrific Asian "noodle bar" on...
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