Woohoo! Tamale season began for me today

November 20, 2021, 03:43 PM

Pipe Smoker

Tamale season began today at Carmen’s Mexican Food. Will last until Christmas, or even New Year’s if I’m lucky. Just STUFFED with excellent carnitas. I like the masa as much as the carnitas.

Comes with rice & beans & sauce by default, but I order ‘em without rice & sauce.

November 20, 2021, 04:41 PM

Jimbo54

You're making me hungry for a good tamale or two. They are hard to come by here in eastern Wa.
We have a neighbor whose wife was born and raised in central Mexico and she makes a bunch of them for a church bazaar once a year and she gives us a bag of them when she does. A little bit of heaven right there.

Jim

November 20, 2021, 06:24 PM

thumperfbc

We are thick with tamales around here. It’s great!

November 20, 2021, 09:03 PM

Sportshooter

It’s always open season on tamales here in Texas.
You can throw a rock in any direction and hit a Tex-Mex restaurant. I used to have the waistline to prove it.

November 20, 2021, 09:05 PM

StorminNormin

I absolutely love tamales! When my wife goes home to El Paso, TX she brings home some from women who make them in her parent’s neighborhood. Anytime I go to South Texas, I buy them from Delia’s Tamales in Edinburg, TX and these are absolutely the best I have ever had.

November 20, 2021, 10:45 PM

LoboGunLeather

Just for the sake of accuracy, there really is no such thing as a tamale. One is a tamal, two or more are tamales.

All good!

November 20, 2021, 10:55 PM

46and2

Big fan.

November 21, 2021, 04:25 AM

OttoSig

My wife is fron Honduras, neighbor to Nicaragua, where they make a Nacatamale, which has olives and rice included and in banana leaves instead of corn. Pretty damn good, had a lot of Latin cuisine given my wife and friend's backgrounds...one thing I've never seen in latin cuisine is yellow cheese on ANYTHING. Call me skeptical on this place. Also, very rarely will you see lettuce on anything, it'll be finely shredded cabbage most likely. Or plain onions and cilantro.

This place is screaming tex mex to me.

November 21, 2021, 06:17 AM

Oaklane

Looks fantastic! We are fortunate to have a Mexican bakery the next town over that makes them once a week. I try and stop in when I’m over that way. They sell by the dozen so I’m usually in for at least one dozen when they have them

November 21, 2021, 09:45 AM

irreverent

quote:
Originally posted by OttoSig:
My wife is fron Honduras, neighbor to Nicaragua, where they make a Nacatamale, which has olives and rice included and in banana leaves instead of corn. Pretty damn good, had a lot of Latin cuisine given my wife and friend's backgrounds...one thing I've never seen in latin cuisine is yellow cheese on ANYTHING. Call me skeptical on this place. Also, very rarely will you see lettuce on anything, it'll be finely shredded cabbage most likely. Or plain onions and cilantro.

This place is screaming tex mex to me.

But if he loves it….who cares?

My mom was so excited to find a Mexican food truck in our town- every Thursday she’d go and buy dinner for the two of them and feel like they were really getting some True Mexican flavor in their life. I had it with them a few times.. iceberg lettuce, NO picante whatsoever, I could go on, ground hamburger.. True Midwestern/Scandinavian Mexican.. I do think they have cows tongue, though- she’d never ask, lol.
Just got back from Mexico, and they won’t even serve true picante sauce to us blondies (the green stuff

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November 21, 2021, 09:59 AM

architect

For those who are in parts of the country without a convenient tamale place, the recipe on the Masa bag is not terrible, esp. if you can source appropriate ingredients.

November 21, 2021, 10:44 AM

k5blazer

Just about time to go to Lupitas in Canutillo, Tx for tamales as backup to our homemade tamales. Come Holiday season we eat a ton of them.

November 21, 2021, 12:39 PM

p08

I buy corn husk wrapped tamales at the chili parlor. Cover them in chili bean juice and they are so damn good. But so damn bad for my weight!

November 21, 2021, 10:28 PM

OttoSig

quote:
Originally posted by irreverent:
quote:
Originally posted by OttoSig:
My wife is fron Honduras, neighbor to Nicaragua, where they make a Nacatamale, which has olives and rice included and in banana leaves instead of corn. Pretty damn good, had a lot of Latin cuisine given my wife and friend's backgrounds...one thing I've never seen in latin cuisine is yellow cheese on ANYTHING. Call me skeptical on this place. Also, very rarely will you see lettuce on anything, it'll be finely shredded cabbage most likely. Or plain onions and cilantro.

This place is screaming tex mex to me.

But if he loves it….who cares?

My mom was so excited to find a Mexican food truck in our town- every Thursday she’d go and buy dinner for the two of them and feel like they were really getting some True Mexican flavor in their life. I had it with them a few times.. iceberg lettuce, NO picante whatsoever, I could go on, ground hamburger.. True Midwestern/Scandinavian Mexican.. I do think they have cows tongue, though- she’d never ask, lol.
Just got back from Mexico, and they won’t even serve true picante sauce to us blondies (the green stuff )

Oh no I'm not saying good food isn't good food. Just pointing out like you how broadly the ingredients can get.

December 04, 2021, 07:40 PM

Pipe Smoker

quote:
Originally posted by LoboGunLeather:
Just for the sake of accuracy, there really is no such thing as a tamale. One is a tamal, two or more are tamales.

All good!

Thank you. I did not know that.

No carnitas at Carmen’s Mexican Food today, but my pork tamal was excellent!

Last week there were no tamales of any sort. Victor said that tamale season might be short this year.