Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Christmas Cooking Traditions

Fudge, candies, cookies, sweets.... all excellent baking traditions for Christmas, but none of them part of my family's tradition.

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The tradition in my family is to start a new tradition every year (none of which stick around for the next year). This year, I intend to start tamale making as our new Christmas tradition!

I stinkin' love tamales, but they're stinkin' expensive and I rarely find ones that are the perfect ratio of masa to meat. I've made them, successfully, a few times and think I'm about ready to give 'em another go.

They are a lot of work, but that's become a relative term, now. When you attempt to make all of your own bread, pasta, bagels, ravioli, sausage, and grow a lot of your own produce, suddenly the few hours spent making several dozen tamales doesn't seem like such a big deal, and the reward is oh so worth it.

So this week, instead of the typical powdered sugar and butter, I'll be elbow-deep in masa harina, lard, chiles and pork roasts.

What about you? What are your Christmas cooking traditions?

7 comments:

KristyB said...

This Texas is watering at the mouth...

priest's wife said...

yuuuummmmm...you are required to eat one for breakfast with a hot cocoa....yuuummm

Mrs. N said...

My side of the family always has clam chowder on Christmas Eve, because it can be made ahead of time and heats back up quickly and easily.  My husband's family doesn't leave out the traditional cookies and milk out for Santa, they leave pizza and a beer.

Farmer's City Wife said...

Yeah... they're pretty much that good ;).

Farmer's City Wife said...

Just one?? I might put away a half dozen, hehehe... but tamales with cocoa? Sounds like heartburn city :-D.

Farmer's City Wife said...

Were I Santa, I'm sure I'd appreciate your husband's family's custom ;)... .sounds awesome.

Kaleb and Lynn said...

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