Food Maker, Chef, and Traveling Diner
That’s the way the holiday starts! Another year of Tamales and Pozole. I am so grateful that I could continue to share these amazing little delicious packages of yumminess with my family. It’s pretty amazing how many tamales I made and always make but when …
It wouldn’t be Christmas without a massive cooking extravaganza and that’s just what it was this holiday season. I was able to have time time off from teaching to just work on tamales and pozole and hang out with my family and enjoy every …
The year flew by and I hope each and everyone of you had a great set of holidays. I’ll be catching up on my blogging in the next week so please stay tuned. Thank you for your support and a healthy and happy 2013 to you all from my Unrivaledkitch to yours!
I’ve been working on tamales every year around Christmas time for about five years. Tamales are a very traditional Mexican/Spanish dish that involves masa, which is dried corn mixed with fat, broth and spices, filled with meat, sauce and/or cheese and are made in corn husks and then steamed. This year I made around 400 tamales for various family and friends. It was a long process, but very fulfilling. This year I made numerous types ranging from roasted green chile and cheese tamales, tomatillo and roasted chicken, salsa Roja and roasted pork to salsa verde and beef. The process takes many hours of hard work and lots of love, which is why I always love the tradition of making tamales. The broth takes time to develop all the delicious flavors and the ratio of meat to masa is always something that can be worked on.
I also made pozole for my family for Christmas morning, both chicken and pork. Pozole is a delicious soup that’s made of roasted and slow-simmered parts of pork or chicken and is made with simmered chiles and Mexican corn or hominy. The soup is topped with fresh cabbage, cilantro, green onions, Mexican organo and some red pepper flakes to taste. Everyone always enjoys putting their favorite toppings on their Pozole. It’s something that we all look forward to eating on Christmas morning before we open our presents.
Christmas was a wonderful holiday for our family. Maleeya really did score with Santa—she must have been a really good girl this year. We all can’t wait for next year to see what is in store for us all. I’ve been increasing the number of tamales I make by at least 100 each year, so we’ll see what happens in 2013.
I hope you developed some delicious holiday traditions with your family this holiday season.
Happy Holidays to each and every one of you!
Thank you so much for supporting Unrivaledkitch!
Cheers
-Unrivaledkitch
I don’t know about you, but I’m exhausted. This whole holiday season has been the most amazing, honest experience I’ve had in a long time. I love Christmas! It truly does bring out the best (and the worst) in people, but I think that it’s …
Hello, my sweet friends! I know most of my readers are from out of state or out of country even but I’d like to extend my culinary services to you all as well. Order your holiday Tamales and Pozole. Celebrate this joyous season with homemade, …
I hope every one is sharing these awesome days of happiness with the people you love and the friendships you cherish. I’m so grateful for you all and I hope you have an amazing end of the year and beginning of a new one!
I’ve been a super busy girl lately. Holiday food galore
I just finished cleaning a storm in my kitchen and I’m still cooking its 1.21 in the morning. Ah so worth it.
We had a beautiful Christmas eve dinner held at my brothers condo with his in laws and my family beautiful. I didn’t take pictures but I made stuffing, mashed potatoes, salad, roasted red pepper hummus, fruit salad, and scampi. We also had Prime rib, ham, and Vietnamese spring rolls. Delicious. I threw together most of the things i made in about an hour and a 1/2 cause i was in south gate with my mom sister Bachan to visit my moms mom my grandma Ruth and my great grandma tony who just celebrated her 96th birthday today, saw cousins and aunts and uncles i haven’t seen in a long time. It was awesome. And then we brought over the food to my brothers and all ate so much and sang a little karaoke on wii Such a wonderful day!
Tomorrow we’ll head to my mom and dads which may be one of the last Christmas mornings there because the family is sadly outgrowing my childhood home but I made it clear nothing was stopping us this year. So i have to be up early and get some stuff together for more family fun for the day.
I made Pozole and Tamales this year about 150 tamales actually and a gigantic amount of Pozole but its almost gone which is great. they both came out amazing and I do have recipes but those will probably be written in about a week but here’s a little preview.
Also I’ve been Baking more…
And tomorrow I’m doing sushi, croquettes, and wontons
Again Merry Christmas Guys <3
Pozole
I have to say this Pozole is one of the best things I’ve made… and making it takes about 5-6 hours but the end result is something out of this world
Chocolate Peanut butter Marshmallow crunch
Double Dark Chocolate Mint Cookies
