Not quite the catch ...

[hookup]

But one heck of allot of work

Cold, damp, rivers up, lakes chocolate milk - so to keep busy I decided to make some tamales

Been looking for good tamales in the area for years.  Find some, but they are mostly masa.

So did some research yesterday @ work because it was slow & found these two recipes

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/34512/real-homemade-tamales/

http://www.deliciousdays.com/archives/2007/03/27/grandma-salazars-tamales/#

And read all the comments.  

These, in addition to some lessons from an 80+ year old mexican woman to many years ago to remember I hit the grocery store after work.

So yesterday, simmered a 5# pork roast for 4 hours, then put the dutch oven in the oven for another 6 hours at 300dF.

This morning, shredded the pork, then put all the juice from the dutch oven in a blender.  Made the masa, soaked the corn husks and after about 4 hours today have these to steam up & eat.  Will make a sour cream style gravy from the sauce in the bowl.

Bunch of work, but will be well worth it.  Finally, real tamales

 

[Jig Man]

Man, love me some tamales. Good thing about living in west Texas, neighbors make um all the time...

 

[Hawnjigs]

Dang that looks tasty! Might have had a few in Hawaii Mexican eateries but none were memorable. Have had some awesome pasteles tho. For the unfamiliar, a Puerto Rican tamale with green bananas partially or fully substituting corn masa wrapped in banana leaf instead of corn husk. And of course pork, with PRs favoring fat belly chunks.