Puebla is a beautiful city! We've loved exploring and getting to know our way around the last few weeks. Last Saturday we spent the day in the city center browsing the street vendors and trying different foods.
This week we learned how to make true, homemade Mexican tamales!
Avelina Flores is the secretary at the Employment Center and we have become good friends. She found out that I (Laur) love to cook and that I especially wanted to learn how to make tamales, so she had us over for a "tamalada" or a Tamale making party. Her mother, who is 83 years old, is the true expert at tamale making and she taught me all her tricks!
We made 4 different kinds of tamales; mole, salsa verde, salsa rojo, and dulce. We made everything completely from scratch, including the dough, using dried corn kearnals. It was so awesome! We made about 300 tamales which we cooked in steamers like this one:
That's all for now! We are loving life in Mexico; we're working hard, playing hard, and having a great experience!Keep blogging everyone! We love reading what everyone is doing!
GO PACKERS! :) (Just for you Kirsten)
im not okay with the fact that we stopped skyping each other. lets chat some time!
ReplyDeleteum... you're definitely teaching me how to make tamales when we get home. for now, you can just send some to me. i'd like 10. and as for the packers.... they played a good game, and were better that night. i still love my steelers though. (this is me attempting to be a gracious loser).
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