Hello all, new to the group and am wondering what might be a traditional
Mexican holiday food that I could make for my son's 10 grade Spanish class?
Thanks so much for any and all help!

Jan wrote:
> Hello all, new to the group and am wondering what might be a traditional
> Mexican holiday food that I could make for my son's 10 grade Spanish class?
> Thanks so much for any and all help!

Forget the tacos, tamales, enchiladas and burritos. Who hasn't eaten
all that snack stuff? If you want that sort of thing, just car pool
over to Taco Hell.

Try making chili colorado, birria de chivo, mole poblano, pozole,
cochinita pibil, or costillas de puerco for a real sit down meal.

You can google up recipes for all those dishes on the www.

"Steve Wertz" > wrote
>
> Tamales are considered a Mexican tradition on Christmas. With
> everybody in the family helping to make them (tons of them,
> usually).
>
> -sw

Steve is quite correct. Tamales are traditional. I am not Mexican, but have
adopted the tradition of tamales and beans for Christmas eve dinner.

Charlie

On 3 Dec 2005 09:12:40 -0800, "CK" > wrote:

>
>Jan wrote:
>> Hello all, new to the group and am wondering what might be a traditional
>> Mexican holiday food that I could make for my son's 10 grade Spanish class?
>> Thanks so much for any and all help!
>
>Forget the tacos, tamales, enchiladas and burritos. Who hasn't eaten
>all that snack stuff? If you want that sort of thing, just car pool
>over to Taco Hell.
>
>Try making chili colorado, birria de chivo, mole poblano, pozole,
>cochinita pibil, or costillas de puerco for a real sit down meal.
>
>You can google up recipes for all those dishes on the www.


Very surprise you didn't mention chilies en nogada as a
recommendation. 'Tis the season.


jim

I second most of what has been said already: Tamales are truly tipical,
and should be had with some nice steaming cup of hot atole. For a more
formal kind of holiday dinner you may have Chiles rellenos or Chiles en
nogada with white rice. Also Chicken or Turkey mole or in Central
Mexico (Mexico City) they like Norwegian codfish (check this site:
http://www.elalmanaque.com/recetas/pascua/navmex.htm) is in spanish but
you can get some nice ideas there.

Raúl