spinach tamale series

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Comment by Jen Staggs on July 30, 2011 at 2:21pm: Mmm! Tamale mail!! Arrived just in time for me to shop at the farmer's market with your readymade recipe! Thanks! And such a cool textile card, it made my day. Muchos gracias!

Comment by Holly Cooper on July 26, 2011 at 2:53pm: It's made with a corn meal paste kind of like polenta, and you spread it on a dried corn husk and spoon some filling in it. Then roll it up and steam it in the corn husk for about 45 minutes. You peel off the corn husk and eat it. (There've been some humorous incidents where a president has visited Texas and tried to eat the tamale without peeling it, not having had previous experience.) The filling is usually a spiced beef or pork and the corn meal paste usually has lard in it. So if you're a vegetarian like me, you're out of luck with traditional Mexican tamales. But they have started making them with chopped spinach filling, cheese and pablano peppers, beans, and other fillings. Also vegetable oil or shortening instead of lard. But we eat the candy ones too. In fact there's a grocery store here called HEB that sells and extra hot version of the candy ones. I've never found them anywhere else.

Comment by DKeys on July 26, 2011 at 2:50pm: tamale mail

Comment by DKeys on July 26, 2011 at 2:50pm: How weird is that? Holly and I don't even know each other. Cue earrie musica

Comment by 1cgqtuoblpeqc on July 26, 2011 at 2:39pm: i've had the candy ones, but i don't think they count!!!

Comment by 1cgqtuoblpeqc on July 26, 2011 at 2:39pm: i've never had one.

in fact.

i don't know if i've ever eaten a tamale.

i'm not really sure what they are.

Comment by Holly Cooper on July 26, 2011 at 2:25pm: Oh, no! I thought I was so original! They are really good tamales.

Comment by 1cgqtuoblpeqc on July 26, 2011 at 2:18pm

Comment by 1cgqtuoblpeqc on July 26, 2011 at 2:17pm: what's with all the texas tamale mail?

this is a new pop culture thing isn't it?

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