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Do You Like Tamales ?
I like 'em OK, I guess. I'm not nuts about them but they do make a convenient meal sometimes. We buy tamales1 by the dozen, frozen. When you need a quick entrée, you just steam them for awhile. Add some beans and a salad and you've got a meal. You always hear about "hot tamales," like it's one word. There's that lame joke about the Mexican weather report, right ? "Chilli today, hot tamale." Ha, ha, ha. I have never had a hot tamale. I mean hot as in piquant, or picante. They're pretty mild. If you want them hot you put some hot sauce on them. I think that meme came from tamale vendors advertising that their tamales were hot as in steaming hot, still in the steamer, or tamalera.2 Tamales are a seasonal dish. There are two tamale seasons and right now, late Summer, early Fall, we're in the middle, between the two.
The first tamale season starts in late July and runs through August. That's when green corn tamales3 are made. Green corn tamales is the Gringo name. Mexicans call them tamales de elotes blanco, white corn tamales, or just tamales de elotes. Tamales are just masa,4 or corn dough, wrapped around a filling. Green corn tamales don't have much of a filling at all. The masa itself is the star. When the corn first comes in, before it hardens and turns yellow, it is sweet. Tamales made with this new corn just have some green chiles in them and maybe some cheese. Nowadays they make them year-round and add sugar to the masa to imitate the sweetness of the new corn.
The second tamale season, the big one, is around the Holidays5. Christmas tamales are usually filled with shredded beef in a red chile sauce, often with some chopped green olives thrown in. The idea is to have a ready meal around when friends or family stop by unexpectedly. They'll steam a couple more tamales and "put some more water in the beans," as they say. Making the Christmas tamales is a social big social event among the women, a tamalada. All the women in the family get together and make tamales on an assembly line. Each will have their favorite recipe for the masa or the salsa. The men are not invited into the kitchen. They will be sent out to buy ingredients and will talk among themselves outside. It's a time to catch up on family news and gossip and to talk about the absent husbands and boyfriends. It's a healthy thing, I suppose. Nobody beats the Mexicans for "family values" but they regard close families as both a blessing and a curse.
OK, another Tuesday, another Azazello CUA. What's goin' on with y'all ? You got any news, any cool links to share and ...
Do you like tamales ?
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Saturday, October 3rd
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4914 Rainier Ave. S. • Seattle
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Latest diary: S&PS Kos - It's Time for a Meetup!
by Chrislove ♥ for Houston Area Kossacks
Another Houston event! Great job, Chris. Photos below:
L-R: Chrislove, Delilah, scott5js, cosette & suesue
L-R: htowngenie, her son, Blood, JJR1971 and PIZZA!
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by smileycreek ♥ for Butte County kossacks of CA-01
12 Kossacks from California's large First Congressional District made the trek to downtown Chico for camaraderie! Led by CUA Lady Co-Diva, smileycreek!
L-R: side pocket, smileycreek & paradise50
L-R: teresa, jesterman, Everett, Alice & Chico David RN
L-R: voracious, paradise50, side pocket & FoundingFatherDAR
Please visit smileycreek's diary for many MORE photos! Enjoy! You can still REC it. You can join Butte County kossacks of CA-01 by sending a Kosmail to smileycreek.
navajo's Last Minute Trip to DC
by navajo ♥ for Connect! Unite! Act!
Here are two photos of the readers who took up a last minute invitation to join navajo for dinner or drinks, many thanks, what a pleasure to meet them all in real life!
Reston, VA - Thursday, August 13, 2015
L-R: Diana in NoVa, JamieG in Md, Elizabeth Amy Miller, Edward Adams, NinthElegy and navajo
Washington, D.C. - Saturday, August 15, 2015
L-R: navajo, mollyd, Edward Adams and mimi
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