We buy tamales from a Mexican woman that makes them in her home. But they are the bready kind with lots of masa. Filling though.
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Oh does that bring back memories of TAMALEMAN! growing up in Los Angeles. Guy used to come around the neighborhood in his little Chevy Luv pickup selling tamales his wife made. My dad swore this guy had the best tamales he’d ever eaten; all I know I was hooked on tamales by the time I was eight!
Oh yeah, and huevos rancheros covered in enough tabasco sauce to make an Occupy protester scream in terror. :)
I noticed that the tamales those guys sell are always warm. The tamale man carrys the tamales in an ice chest. I asked how they do it. I was told that they fill the ice chest with hot water before they put the tamales in. They pour out the hot water, put the tamales in, then they put cloth soaked in hot water around the tamales. I guess that I am lucky I have never gotten sick from eating that stuff.
Growing up in LA, you probably knew about El Coyote. Good food, but the best green corn tamales I’ve ever had!! :-d)