yea!! i am one of the few and elite who can cook tamales!!!! that is what the
@SusanShayAvon (1003)
United States
March 7, 2009 9:24pm CST
site that i got the recipe from says at the bottom of the page. after all the directions it says: congratulations you are one of the few, one of the elite people that can cook tamales. no, i do not think i am special i just thought it would make a good subject stater to this discussion.
we are in new mexico and have paid between $8-$10 for a dozen tamales. i love to cook so i decided to tackle the tamales. i found this really good site that tells you how to make them and went at it. they were so great. it really made me proud to because there is a lot of work in them. so, can you make tamales? i do not mean the ones in the can with all that red sauce which do not even touch what a tamale is, i mean the ones rolled in corn husks that you steam.
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@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
8 Mar 09
u are very smart to male tamales. i have heard how much work it takes. when i was a kid my mother use to buy them from a street vendor. they were so good. have a question for you. i bought a bag of frozen ones other day. could u tell me what would be the best way to fix them. all it says on the bag is to steam them would apprecaite any suggestions u could give me. thanks.
@SusanShayAvon (1003)
• United States
8 Mar 09
You will need a steamer pot to put them in. If you will steam the they will taste fresher than heating them up any other way. You can use a metal colander that will sit down in a pot and put water in the bottom and a plate and top of the colander and this will steam them it will just take longer than it would if you use a steamer pot. I did not know that you could buy them frozen. It does take work to make them but they are so good. I started a new batch last night and are steaming them right now. I made 72 of them. So I suppose that will be having tamales for a while. I will probably freeze some of them. Have a blessed day. Hope this helps you in some way.
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@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
8 Mar 09
thank you so much for the info. i had never seen them at the grocery before. i hope they are good. want be like yours i know. i use to have a friend who got together w/her family & they made tamales. she talked like it took all of them to get them fixed. don't know how u do it by yourself. thanks again for the info. take care,
@beachstarz (1092)
• United States
8 Mar 09
Hi Susan , and Congrats on your tamales !! Now all your family and friends will be expecting them on Christmas and Easter and every other holiday ! haha !
Here in the Yucatan , Mexico tamales are made different then the ones in
the States . They don't use corn husks . They use banana leaves, and they
are alot different . Still good, but different .
@SusanShayAvon (1003)
• United States
8 Mar 09
Banana leaves to wrap them in. Well that is different. I wonder if it gives them a better flavor. One reason that I decided to make them is because there are people back home that want them and even @ $8 a dozen that could get expensive. Quick. So I figured that if I learn how to make them that it would be a lot cheaper on me to make them myself rather than to buy them. And by the time I get there they would not be good probably. I live 18 hours away from here.
@TnWoman (1895)
• United States
8 Mar 09
hello susanshayavon
yum, i will take one of your delicious homemade tamales. i bet that they are delicious. and i hear ya about those gross tamales in the can like that. they are nasty. i have eaten some good tamales before at different mexican restaurants. but i do enjoy cooking and i will try anything once, but i have never tried to make any homemade tamales like that before. i do not know if my boys would even taste them or not. i know that my eleven year old son wouldn't taste them, but my eight year old son would probably taste them, and might even like them. i have seen everything that is needed to make the homemade tamales with in our local grocery stores here in town. i might have to try to make some tamales sometime soon.
take care and have a beautiful afternoon.
