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22 Sep, 6 tweets, 2 min read
I need a cooking challenge today but didn’t feel like bread or cake or pastry. Tamales it is! 🫔 I’ve only made these a few times but I read a dozen recipes so let’s goooooo!
Slow-cooking the pork now, so it can cool. Then will make the red chili sauce, then assemble tamales for steaming for dinner. Also slow cooking black beans as a side. My house already smells of cumin and it's amazing.
All the separate parts taste great, but I forgot that my cooking kryptonite is rolling tamales. 🫔 Even after watching a few YouTube videos, they’re still janky. 🤷🏻‍♀️
Taking a break after I finished a dozen and started the steaming. Am seriously considering punting on the tamales and making the remaining ingredients into empanadas or pupusas.
Made 16. Can’t do more. Tried to use my pierogie press for a pseudo empanada and that did NOT work. 😂
Welp, the tamales 🫔 themselves turned out reasonably well. The 12yo - who had requested them - proclaimed them “excellent!” and loved the pork filling. But the beans were disappointing. Behold my sad plating. 🥑

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(Trigger warning for gratuitous inclusion of photographs of violence being done to Black men.)
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upf.com/book.asp?id=97…
For the introduction, I'll highlight this endnote. This is not how the majority of anthropologists use the term "race."
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