Heck, there is a big difference between Calif and what I get in Tenn when it comes to tacos and burritos.
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.
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. :)
What’s “masa”?
A buddy of mine in gradeschool...his dad married a mexican girl after his divorce. She used to make tomales from scratch. They were basically a lump of damp unleaven corn bread with a pinch of cheese and a chili pepper inside...all wrapped up in a corn husk.
THEY WERE DELICIOUS
She called them “cheese tomales”. They made them from scratch from whole ears of sweet corn. They bought it with the husk on it and saved the husks for the wrap. When she made them, it would be a two day event with 4 or 5 women and they would make a whole pickup truck load of them.