Sean and I love rolling tamales. It is such fun and they are just so good. Well, for about 5 years now (coincidentally since having children), we have intended to begin the tradition of rolling tamales for Christmas eve. You do have to start somewhere with a tradition, and then of course, you have to keep it up to really keep in in the tradition category. Well, every year, we think we will do it and then every year we are just a bit overwhelmed with holidays and last minute gift making and tamales are the first thing to get punted off the list. This year, we were actually in a really good place on the Christmas front and we thought for sure we would get our tamales in, only to be thwarted once again by late shipping on the corn husks; you just can’t go buy dried corn husks in NH (go figure), so I had ordered them on Amazon (where you can get anything). Alas, we finally actually managed to roll the tamales we have been talking about for 5 years on New Years Day! What a way to kick of 2014! I kinda feel like we can accomplish anything this year after some seriously yummy tamales. Josette was eager to help us in the process too. I hope we can establish this tradition for many years to come. Happy New Year my friends and family! Thank you for following our adventures big and small on the blog!
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- Press the masa into the corn husk
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- Pound it down
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- Wrap it up
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- Pot of tamales
Happy 2014! Thanks for the awesome Holiday card!!