May 03, 2009

Chilly today, hot tamale

Be sure to check out the latest from Alton Brown on Monday night at 8 p.m. Tamales will receive the Good Eats treatment in "Tamale Never Dies." I love the James Bond reference.

I'm also very excited about this episode because I'm curious so how similar this recipe will be to AB's recipe from the Feasting on Asphalt 2 cookbook. I tried the tamales from FOA2 last year and they are excellent. The only issue I ran across was locating corn husks. I ended up using parchment paper like the one restaurant AB visited.

Rolling the tamales in parchment was difficult because I was guessing at the size. It will be nice to watch Alton roll a few so I can get the technique down.


They turned out pretty well and most importantly, they tasted great! The meat, I used beef, was awesome, spicy and tangy.

1 comments:

Gabriella Moonlight said...

Um...when will you be bringing these hot tamales to work? YUMMY!!! They look great! I love the "weather" refrence in the title too...LOL!