Feliz Navidad
It is a tradition amongst families of Hispanic heritage to have tamales at Christmas. If you do a search on Google for tamales at Christmas you will find stories, poems and recipes all relating to this tradition.
After a rather bizarre Italian Christmas where I ate a lot of fried whitefish I realised there had to be something more ethnic and regional, and more importantly tasty, here in Tejas. That was the first year I tried Tamales from the Dallas Tortilla & Tamale Factory. Beef with jalapeno is my favourite. They also have pork & chicken. They have a number of locations, including Greenville Avenue near Ross & Marsalis Avenue at 8th St. down here in sunny Oak Cliff. Git you some.
gracias for reminding me of the yummy goodness of the Tamale House. Picking up two dozen today!
I too shall be going later today. It’s a shame they are closed for Christmas but El Jordan on Bishop has, IMHO, the best salsa in Dallas. Super fresh & tasty. Nothing like hot tamales and chilly, zesty salsa.
I need some firm avocados too. But don’t we all?!@#
Good news on good tamales. Aparicio’s in Plano usually lays the smackdown on other tamale places but this year’s crop is kind of blah. Such a disappointment.