When your client schools you in your own kitchen
Michelle shows up for our Sunday session carrying a grocery bag that definitely wasn't workout gear. "We're making tamales today," she announces, already unpacking masa and corn h…
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Tamale tutorial gone wrong
Michelle texted this morning asking if I could teach her how to make Abuela Rosa's tamales. 'How hard can it be?' she said. Famous last words. Two hours later, my kitchen looks li…
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Masa disaster protocol
Jake announced this morning that he wanted to learn how to make tamales. Not the easy kind from a box, actual tamales with masa from scratch. I should have been suspicious when he…
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Masa and mayhem
Carmen knocked on my door at 10 AM with a grocery bag full of corn husks and a determined look. "Today's the day we finally do this," she announced, dumping everything on my kitch…
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Long distance love
Sarah's mom sent a care package yesterday - twelve frozen tamales wrapped in enough aluminum foil to build a small spacecraft. We've been talking about missing home cooking since…
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Tamale disaster zone
Carmen showed up this afternoon with a bag of masa harina and complete confidence that we could recreate her mom's famous tamales. "It's easy," she said. "Just spread, fill, fold.…
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Assembly required
Carmen texted at nine this morning: "Bringing everything for tamales. Clear your counter." By ten-thirty my kitchen looked like a masa explosion had gone off, and somehow we'd rec…
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Kitchen experiment
Carmen showed up this morning with a grocery bag full of corn husks and her grandmother's handwritten tamale recipe. "How hard could it be?" she said, spreading everything across…
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