[Sca-cooks] Tamales

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach Chris Stanifer:
>Here in South-Central California, we have our fair share of Hispanic 
>immigrants, several of which
>are very close friends of mine.  New Years eve we usually head over 
>to one of their homes for
>Tamales, and they rarely add anything other than a thin red or green 
>chile sauce on top.

Among some non-Mexican Latinos in New York, the New Year thing is 
pasteles. They appear to be fairly similar to tamales, except instead 
of masa harina, they use grated calabazo, which is similar to a very 
hard pumpkin.

>   Oh, and
>Menudo, too... they always have Menudo on New Year's Eve.

I thought menudo was for when you're hung over on New Year's Day.

>   Delicious hot...but I have a freind who
>eats it ice cold, with ice cubes in it.  yeah...he's Mexican, 
>but.....that's just wrong.

They have reality TV in Mexico?

Adamantius

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