Monday, June 13, 2011

Tamales

I've gotten several good lessons in Mexican cooking while being in the Spanish branch, but none as thorough as our recent tamale adventure. The camp director decided to have a fundraiser and make tamales. I was excited to learn and help. The orders kept pouring in and around 140 dozen we put on the brakes.
We worked non-stop for 12 solid hours at my house. We were up to our ears in big pots and corn husks and got 70 dozen made. So the next day I helped for a few hours, but then excused myself to go scrub down my kitchen. The kids were saints and very patient and cooperative. It was quite the undertaking, but we did it!
All involved agreed, we'll buy our next tamales too!



A majority of the time was spent preparing the sauces, meat, and masa.
The assembly, production line.

2 comments:

Deidra said...

Good thing you have your food handler's permit for the food service action! (Are those even still valid?) I imagine you're a pro now-- we might need lessons the next time we're together. Though I don't think I'll ever get that much practice in to perfect them!

Miranda said...

Dude. This is totally rad. I've been wanting to learn to make tamales for so long! Suddenly I'm thinking of dozens of reasons to field trip to your house!