Happy New Year

I had a little tamale party over the weekend...

Doug & Cathy Ricketts getting ready

Doug Ricketts and Melanie Fain preparing artistic tamales

Using a great recipe from Chef Bobby Flay, we had a lot of fun and, more importantly, a lot of great food.

Tamales are an integral part of holiday celebrations in South-Central Texas.  However, tamales have always been a bit mysterious to me. 

The traditional recipe takes a lot of time effort, and experience to get the masa just right, and lots of hands to assemble the delicious bundles.

Bobby Flay's take on tamales is lighter, and certainly user friendly.

It was fun to participate in the tradition of tamales, and of course, a great pleasure to share holidays with friends.

Cynthia

Comments

[Dina at Wordfeeder.com]

Cynthia, this looks like so much fun! I adore food parties. My would-be husband is a tamale lover too. I'm going to show him these photos as soon as he wakes up.

Thanks for the inspiration!

Dina

[Cynthia McKenna LPC, NCC]

Dina -
the tamales were Shrimp with Roasted Garlic Cream Sauce - a very simple corn & onion tamale - kind of like a dense corn bread, and the shrimp cream sauce went on top after the tamales cooked - They were really good.

We are thinking we'll keep trying the tamale recipes - the first was such a hit.

If I can get caught up - I'll write this up for Lemongrass
Cynthia