Tamales have become a tradition for Hispanic families in the United States never joined in their preparation and their absence in the table at Christmas.
“Making tamales at Christmas is always a special moment for us,” said Virginia Calsada-Medina, an expert on gourmet tamales in Southern California, Imperial County, Eph.
“Because not only have the opportunity to enjoy the delicious tamales, but also gives us an opportunity to celebrate our culture and spend less time with family and friends,” he said.
Calsada-Medina, director of Calipatria High School, and his family once a year until Grandma Lupe authentic tamales placed near the Tamale Festival in Indio, California.
“The consumption of turkey on Thanksgiving or Christmas tamales to eat something traditional, not only for Hispanic families, but for all American families,” said Calsada-Medina.
“When someone of Hispanic tamales will open doors for people to enjoy other aspects of our culture,” he said.
Calsada-Medina told her mother the art of preparing tamales and, unlike those of Central and South America, which are wrapped in banana leaves in cornshucks cooks around the chicken, pork, beef or cheese with cornmeal.
For the kind of sweet, made with pineapple and raisins and gourmet style tamales for christmas flowers mexico Eve are made with strawberries and cream cheese.
Maria Guadalupe Nunez Calsada, better known as Lupe’s grandmother immigrated to the United States from Mexico with her husband in 1954 and recalls that when many people in this country do not know what a Tamale and had be told that they had to eat out cornshucks.
“My daughter (Virginia) invented the strawberry tamales during the Christmas season, when he wanted to make candy”, 74, said Lupe. “And I said, we (tamales) with strawberries and strawberries purchased, reared in the corn flour and it worked.”christmas flowers mexico blogs .
Tamales are made with strawberries, corn flour and lard, which is mixed with strawberry puree with natural sugar.
Here is part of the mixture in a cornshuck in a middle seat a generous tablespoon of cream cheese, then wrapped Shuck looks Tamale, stays together “so that the flavor is not an escape,” then boiled .
Norma Castellanos Mexican immigrants, one of the grandparents customer Lupe authentic tamales, told Efe that likes to see that England, African Americans and Asians, wait three hours in line to buy and eat tamales Christmas freeze.
“On Christmas Day I also do my own tamales,” said Castellanos. “In that day the whole family meets in the morning around a table to make tamales we ate that night.”
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