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tortilla soup is my go to easy to make meal
 
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Ruby123 said:
What on earth is a tamale? I clicked on it and it looks like the thing corn is wrapped in. Is that correct??
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It's a rolled up thing like a burrito, but it has shredded beef in the center and the outside is more like suet than tortilla.

If you have a decent mexican restaurant around there, go try one. They're pretty good.
 
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Ruby123 said:
It sounds like when you put cooked mince meat in a cabbage leaf that is cooked, then fry it and then had tomato puree, olives and parmesan cheese. Yummy!!
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Well - you don't eat the husk - you remove the tamale from the husk during preparation.

You can cook/heat the tamale in the husk - but, then you remove the husk from the tamale before you add anything else to the dish.

After removing the husk, I have eaten them 3 different ways by adding:

~ sour cream and hot sauce on top

~ turkey chili on top and heat again (They come frozen. You have to heat them initially to thaw them enough to get the husk off.)

~ nothing (just the tamale itself)
 
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Lynx said:
It's a rolled up thing like a burrito, but it has shredded beef in the center and the outside is more like suet than tortilla.

If you have a decent mexican restaurant around there, go try one. They're pretty good.
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Most mexican restaurants around here seem to have only beef, only pork, or sometimes both.

The Texas Tamales varieties are made with: beef, chicken, pork, spinich, and black bean
 
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Wait... Are those all in a list of the different kinds of tamale fillings? Or do they use black bean in the outer layer? Because that would be awesome.
 
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Mesa Harina is the crucial thing for tamales. (Most are too thick with this stuff)
The filling can be anything from cockroaches to chocolate and of course meats.

Another pet peeve is that everywhere I go these things are swimming in red sauce and then cheese...because the tamales are without flavor otherwise.

Good tamales don't come in a can...they can sometimes be found on a food truck but not often.
When you don't need anything else but the tamale itself for it to taste good...then you got a good one. Otherwise nope.
 
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I was pleasantly surprised to see pork tamales with fire roasted salsa on the menu at 'Del Taco' about a mile up the street from us. Two for $4 ain't bad and on a scale, they're a 6-7.
 
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Lynx said:
Wait... Are those all in a list of the different kinds of tamale fillings? Or do they use black bean in the outer layer? Because that would be awesome.
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Yes - 5 different varieties.
 
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TabinRivCA said:
I was pleasantly surprised to see pork tamales with fire roasted salsa on the menu at 'Del Taco' about a mile up the street from us. Two for $4 ain't bad and on a scale, they're a 6-7.
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The mention of tamales in this thread just made you go out lookin' for 'em - didn't it...? :D
 
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GaryA said:
The mention of tamales in this thread just made you go out lookin' for 'em - didn't it...? :D
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I know where they're at alright, but now I'm fighting the urge to go get some when I had my lunch already planned out, lol.
 
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JohnDB said:
Mesa Harina is the crucial thing for tamales. (Most are too thick with this stuff)
The filling can be anything from cockroaches to chocolate and of course meats.
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Thank you! Your mention of that Miss Harina girl combined with my brain's strong word association and my memory of reading "wheat farina" on the cream-of-wheat box to give me the perfect way to describe it... Assuming Ruby has ever tried cream of wheat.

Ruby123 said:
What on earth is a tamale? I clicked on it and it looks like the thing corn is wrapped in. Is that correct??
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So imagine cream of wheat, but made from corn instead of wheat, and made thick enough that you can slice it. Make a tube of that and put something in the middle. That's a tamale.

I'm not real sure about his cockroach version, but the chocolate tamale is something I suddenly want to try.
 
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Lynx said:
Thank you! Your mention of that Miss Harina girl combined with my brain's strong word association and my memory of reading "wheat farina" on the cream-of-wheat box to give me the perfect way to describe it... Assuming Ruby has ever tried cream of wheat.


So imagine cream of wheat, but made from corn instead of wheat, and made thick enough that you can slice it. Make a tube of that and put something in the middle. That's a tamale.

I'm not real sure about his cockroach version, but the chocolate tamale is something I suddenly want to try.
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Just whatever you do...
Don't eat wedding cake. It's one of the foods that creates the most misery in men.
 
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