I hope I’m not alone in being completely taken by surprise at how quickly Thanksgiving arrived this year! Just over a week ago, the boyfriend and I were in Puerto Rico, and since it was my first real vacation in over five years (and certainly the first since starting grad school), I’d forgotten/not realized how many things there are to take care of both before and after a trip…and now all of a ...
tamales
Mexican Tamales Part II: Additional Notes
While I was at home in California over the holidays, where it was a balmy sixty degrees or so and there was none of this polar vortex business going on (thanks for the fifteen below/thirty below with wind chill welcome back, Michigan!), where I could go to the grocery store and not find that everyone got there before I did and had already cleared out the store's supply of, well, pretty much ...
Mexican Tamales with Guajillo-Pineapple Sauce
We recently took another cooking class – a tamale workshop at Sur La Table! It was a lot of fun (and the food was phenomenal!), but I had no idea how long it takes to make tamales. It’s definitely more of an activity to be shared and enjoyed with other people, rather than just a recipe to make for a meal. Because of the two-hour class schedule, the instructor had done a few of the steps ahead of ...