I did it!  Woohoo!  After buying, cooking, shredding nearly forty pounds of pork.  After washing eight bags of con husks.  After de-steming and de-seeding and soaking four bags of dried chili pods.  After buying twenty pounds of masa, setting it out and mixing it with broth, by hand, several times.  After six hours of spreading masa on the corn husks.   And drinking two beers.  After steaming two HUGE pots which turned out to be nine dozen and being pants-ed while standing on a step ladder over the stove so I can see into the pots.  And finally done cooking them at midnight on Saturday, I’m proud to say my first year of making tamales was a success!  YES!

 Oh my tamales are PERFECT!  They look, smell and taste just like my grandma has been making them for the last 35+ years!   Mister even gave me props for perfect tamales on the first try!  Right on!

So after spending nearly fifteen hours in and out of the kitchen yesterday we’re heading out for the day.  We’re going to catch a 10am movie and then another.  Head to lunch and the finish Mister’s Christmas shopping.  I don’t want to be in the kitchen AT ALL today!