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On 5/19/2021 7:55 PM, wrote:
> On Wednesday, May 19, 2021 at 5:44:13 PM UTC-5, wrote:
>>>
>> I hope they turn out well! I haven't made enchiladas (beef or
>> otherwise) in ages. IIRC from the recipe I used the corn tortillas were
>> dipped in the enchilada sauce to soften them. Do let us know how they
>> turn out.
>>
> They were ok but when I make them again I'll definitely leave out the green
> chilies. I just don't care for that 'dill pickle' flavor even if they aren't pickles
> they have that twang.

I hear ya' about the pickled taste thing. Do they still sell little
cans of Old El Paso chopped green chilies? The ingredients are chopped
green chilies, water, salt. No vinegar, no pickled taste. I'll have to
look for some.

>> I've been craving tamales. (Talk about a chore and an assembly line if
>> you make them from scratch! It's an all day process and while
>> delicious, not one I care to repeat.)
>>
>> Jill
>>
> I've made tamales once and yes, they were work but quite good.
>
Labor intensive what with boiling the meat with lots of spices, cooling
it down, saving the highly seasoned broth, then shredding the meat.
Soaking the corn husks, preparing the masa. Spooning out spreading and
rolling them up. I think I made about 80 tamales and I had no idea what
I was doing. This was around 1995 so the "internet" as we know it was
not populated with recipes and how-to's at our fingertips. No such
thing as a youtube video or a step-by-step how to blog.

Rec.food.cooking wasn't even on my radar back then. But I did have some
Mexican neighbors. They didn't speak much English but we managed to
exchange a little information so I felt pretty confident about how to
deal with the masa dough. I steamed the rolled tamales in a deep pot
over the spicy broth that was created when boiling the meat with the
herbs and spices. The resulting tamales were absolutely delicious! (I
froze most of them in my then only refrigerator top-freezer).

It's just one of things, one day I got a wild hair and decided I'd like
to try to make tamales from scratch because hey, I hadn't done that
before! The venture was a success. Not likely to be repeated.

Enchiladas, OTOH... yep, might do that.

Jill

Jill
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