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Default Foods you wouldn't make at home

jmcquown wrote:
> "Nancy Young" > wrote in message
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>>For me it's Chinese food. And! I can't get good Chinese food takeout
>>Anything you wouldn't consider making for dinner?
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>>nancy

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> Tamales. Did that once; it took *hours* to do all inclusive cooking the
> beef, cooling the beef, shredding the beef, then make the masa dough and let
> it stand while seasoning the beef... and *hours* to roll up the tamales by
> hand in soaked corn husks then steam them over the remaining stock. They
> were delicious, but no thanks to all that work.
>
> Jill
>


I want to make tamales with my daughter between Christmas and New Year's
some year just to try it (once), but I agree that they are a *lot* of work.

Bob