Entry #2: What's This... a Tamale?

TAMALES! Boy oh boy! It's a sad feeling when you know it's not tamale season! So really, What is a tamale? They may look simple, but they are hard to describe. I'll try my best to describe them! Tamales are like burritos, but with meat in them, and other ingredients, and without a tortilla. What holds the tamale together is masa. I'll go into a brief session about masa, because I really want to stay on the tamale topic. But masa is a sort of flour recipe that forms into this thick like food product! Anywayyyyyyy back to tamales, tamales were actually made in Columbia and the significance was that tamales were made by women, during battles. The women were brought along to cook for the soldiers. Eventually the recipe started to spread and the recipe was altered to the culture it was in. For some cultures, tamales contain meat, corn and rice... basically everything you want in it. Some cultures just put meat and to be crazy with your tamale some put an olive in it. Soooo I mean, to sum up the tamale and the powers it has, you can put ANYTHING in a tamale, literally. You can put any kind of meat, or if your a vegetarian you can put no meat, and it's still called a tamale! However, for people who are scientific about their tamales they specifically put candy in their tamale... Like what?

The really amazing thing about tamales is you can customize and make a tamale to whatever you want! But to keep the name of tamales, you just need to wrap it in some sort of masa!

Curious on how to make your own tamale? It might be a challenge right now due to the season, because usually the time to make them are in December! Impatient? Here are two videos! One is advanced, and the other is more simple! Enjoy!

Here is the more advanced, I feel it is more advanced because it is not very specific!

Here is the other one, I feel like this is more explained! (Simple)

So a special thank you to the woman who prepared this during the Colombian age! Tamales are just plain out good! Hope you enjoy them just like me! So now you know what a tamale is! See Ya!