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Default Foods you wouldn't make at home

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

>>
>>
>> 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


If you would like my recipe, please let me know. It's on the other
computer. They were delicious but very time-consuming. I got some hints
from my (in the other apartment complex) Mexican neighbors.

Jill