First the tamales, then the peanut butter bread...

A while back, I posted about a cooking group that might be forming in the
Longmont CO area, and I know there are some RFC folks nearby. We've got our
first get-together planned, and it's going to be a tamale-making event. The
masa will be ready and the meat cooked by the time we get there, so it's
pretty much shredding the meat and assembling the tamales.

If anyone's nearby and interested, let me know and I'll put you in contact
with the folks who are running the show. If no one's interested, I guess
I'll just report back and let you know how it all works out.

Now for the bread.

I started with a basic white bread dough, and used about 1/3 of it for
tonight's calzones. Another 1/3 is in the fridge, waiting for me to do
something with it tomorrow. The last third, I added large dollop of creamy
peanut butter and some vanilla. Let it rise, then rolled it out and
slathered it with chunky peanut butter, dusted it with brown sugar and what
the heck, threw on some peanuts, too. Rolled it up, let it rise, baked it.

Waited until it was cool to slice it. Damn, it's good. I could eat the whole
loaf. The peanut butter smear might have been just a little overkill, but I
was originally thinking of doing rolls, like cinnamon rolls, but with
peanuts and peanut butter instead. Then I decided to just leave it as a
loaf.

The bread by itself is good. Maybe next time I'll skip the peanut butter in
the roll-up and just use the nuts and some brown sugar.

I think tomorrow I'll toast it lightly (in the toaster oven. I think it
would make a mess in a regular toaster) and put a little butter on it. Yum.

For fans of peanut butter and jelly, I suppose you could roll jelly or jam
in there, but I don't like that combo (yes, I'm weird.)

This is a recipe I'm going to tweak a bit, so next time I'll be measuring,
so I'll be able to post an actual recipe instead of "some of this, some of
that."

--
Donna

On Fri, 7 Apr 2006 21:44:28 -0600, "D.Currie"
> wrote:

>First the tamales, then the peanut butter bread...
>
>A while back, I posted about a cooking group that might be forming in the
>Longmont CO area, and I know there are some RFC folks nearby. We've got our
>first get-together planned, and it's going to be a tamale-making event. The
>masa will be ready and the meat cooked by the time we get there, so it's
>pretty much shredding the meat and assembling the tamales.
>
>If anyone's nearby and interested, let me know and I'll put you in contact
>with the folks who are running the show. If no one's interested, I guess
>I'll just report back and let you know how it all works out.
>
Wish I could be there. I am a great admirer of tamales and it isn't
anything I have tackled as I think it should really be a group effort.

If you have your masa and meats recipes, I'd love to see them,,
because one of these days, I am going to try this.

Boron

"Boron Elgar" > wrote in message
...
> On Fri, 7 Apr 2006 21:44:28 -0600, "D.Currie"
> > wrote:
>
>>First the tamales, then the peanut butter bread...
>>
>>A while back, I posted about a cooking group that might be forming in the
>>Longmont CO area, and I know there are some RFC folks nearby. We've got
>>our
>>first get-together planned, and it's going to be a tamale-making event.
>>The
>>masa will be ready and the meat cooked by the time we get there, so it's
>>pretty much shredding the meat and assembling the tamales.
>>
>>If anyone's nearby and interested, let me know and I'll put you in contact
>>with the folks who are running the show. If no one's interested, I guess
>>I'll just report back and let you know how it all works out.
>>
> Wish I could be there. I am a great admirer of tamales and it isn't
> anything I have tackled as I think it should really be a group effort.
>
> If you have your masa and meats recipes, I'd love to see them,,
> because one of these days, I am going to try this.
>
> Boron

They haven't actually talked about recipes, but I'm going to suggest
(demand?) that they have the complete recipes to hand out that night. One of
the women mentioned that she had a recipe for sweet potato tamales, which I
never heard of, but she said they were good. I doubt we'll be making those,
but I'm going to ask her for it when I see her.

Donna

On Sat, 08 Apr 2006 09:20:14 -0400, Boron Elgar wrote:

> On Fri, 7 Apr 2006 21:44:28 -0600, "D.Currie"
> > wrote:
>
> >First the tamales, then the peanut butter bread...
> >
> >A while back, I posted about a cooking group that might be forming in the
> >Longmont CO area, and I know there are some RFC folks nearby. We've got our
> >first get-together planned, and it's going to be a tamale-making event. The
> >masa will be ready and the meat cooked by the time we get there, so it's
> >pretty much shredding the meat and assembling the tamales.
> >
> >If anyone's nearby and interested, let me know and I'll put you in contact
> >with the folks who are running the show. If no one's interested, I guess
> >I'll just report back and let you know how it all works out.
> >
> Wish I could be there. I am a great admirer of tamales and it isn't
> anything I have tackled as I think it should really be a group effort.
>
I wish I could be there too... it sounds like a lot of fun and it's a
good way to learn how to wrap tamales!
--

Practice safe eating. Always use condiments.

On Sat, 8 Apr 2006 10:46:49 -0600, D.Currie wrote:

>
> They haven't actually talked about recipes, but I'm going to suggest
> (demand?) that they have the complete recipes to hand out that night. One of
> the women mentioned that she had a recipe for sweet potato tamales, which I
> never heard of, but she said they were good. I doubt we'll be making those,
> but I'm going to ask her for it when I see her.
>
Will they have the fixings for sweet corn tamales? Yummy stuff!
--

Practice safe eating. Always use condiments.

"sf" > wrote in message
...
> On Sat, 08 Apr 2006 09:20:14 -0400, Boron Elgar wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 7 Apr 2006 21:44:28 -0600, "D.Currie"
>> > wrote:
>>
>> >First the tamales, then the peanut butter bread...
>> >
>> >A while back, I posted about a cooking group that might be forming in
>> the
>> >Longmont CO area, and I know there are some RFC folks nearby. We've got
>> our
>> >first get-together planned, and it's going to be a tamale-making event.
>> The
>> >masa will be ready and the meat cooked by the time we get there, so
>> it's
>> >pretty much shredding the meat and assembling the tamales.
>> >
>> >If anyone's nearby and interested, let me know and I'll put you in
>> contact
>> >with the folks who are running the show. If no one's interested, I
>> guess
>> >I'll just report back and let you know how it all works out.
>> >
>> Wish I could be there. I am a great admirer of tamales and it isn't
>> anything I have tackled as I think it should really be a group effort.
>>
> I wish I could be there too... it sounds like a lot of fun and it's a
> good way to learn how to wrap tamales!


I can't wait. We're also talking about doing cabbage burgers, dim sum, egg
rolls -- all sorts of things that would be fun to make in a group. And in
the fall, we'll probably do some canning. They've got a commercial pressure
canner that we can use.

We're also talking about doing some kind of Iron Chef cooking contests,
maybe for charities. I think that would be a riot.

I'm just hoping we get enough people to sustain the group. If we get enough
at the first few gatherings, I figure people will tell their friends, and
we'll have a sizable enough group to keep it going.

Donna