Man, fucking tamales dudes. They can be so fucking good you don't even know. Unless you do and then welcome to the fucking tamale club (not the tamale fucking club though).
For those of you poor, ignorant, deprived savages that aren't familiar with the amazing tamale, it is a wonderfully diverse and adaptable edible parcel.
I mean, look at this tasty shit:
The defining feature of a tamale is that it's a pocket of masa de maiz, or corn meal dough that is wrapped either in corn husks or plantain/banana leaves and then steamed. They can be stuffed with delicious meats, or just vegetables, they can even be sweet instead of savory! They can be spicy as fuck or mild enough for spice babbies to enjoy. In other parts of south America they even use other types of leaves, like chard leaves that you can eat with the tamale instead of unwrapping it. Tamales steamed in plantain/banana leaves have a wonderful sweet, earthy flavor imparted to the masa and one version of Oaxaca tamales is chicken in mole sauce steamed in plantain leaves. So fucking good.
Are you fucking hungry yet?
Fuck bad tamales though. With their dried out masa, they are a crime against nature. But a good tamale with moist, succulent masa and delicious filling of your choice can be a wonderful thing indeed. Unfortunately good tamales are quite time consuming to make from scratch, so if you don't have purveyor of good tamales near you or a Mexican grandmother who is willing to slave away for hours for good food, you're pretty much shit out of luck. Sorry England, your loss.
Let's drool over tamales together.
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Enchiladas though;
That there is a tasty meal.
DAMALES IF YOU WILL
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Darn it
and ones that combine the two, like meat with chocolate
Those motherfuckers were amazing.
Come visit and we will get tamales.
I am now hungry you JERK
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tamales and beach volley ball
also peruvian green tamales
also an enchilada
cheese enchilada get in my mouth
I'm sorry, but all I can do today is point you toward some pretty good tamales downtown (as I'm assuming that's where you are).
http://www.yelp.com/biz/el-puerco-lloron-seattle
It's nothing fancy, but they make their tortillas by hand every day and the tamales are pretty good. Not the best, but better than most.
tamales.com
tamales are like the opposite of snobbery
they are steamed corn flour and pig
click 4 great tamales
my tamale grew 2 inches in just 4 weeks
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increase your tamale filling by 472%
No, that is your mother.
with all the great food the two of you keep promising to have me try i'm going to need a month off of work
is lard
like a buttload of lard
now you know
d...damn