Tamales!

This morning, we had a lovely walk as a family. It was snowing and windy, however still enjoyable!
After coming home and having lunch followed by family worship, we went to the grocery store to buy ingredients for tamales. Our Aunt gave us the tamale recipe several years ago and we usually get a group of people together to help make them, but time is a big factor so we decided to just do it with the 3 of us (Big sister is working on research paper so she was not able to help she will get to taste the results) Here is a brief overview of how we make tamales.
First you make the meat (can be cooked chicken, pork, beef or turkey) , add seasonings of onion, cumin, garlic, oregano, cloves, and dried roasted chili's.

Then you put the masa in a corn shell and fill with meat...

and then you roll and cook in a steamer! The whole process takes about 6-7 hrs. The tamales are still steaming so we will have to show you the finished product tomorrow. good night - S.A.M.