Que Pasa @ the Graffiti Pit?

If you’ve been wondering what’s happening at the graffiti pit on Humboldt, near the Thrift Store Lofts, well wonder no more since I just found out. If you haven’t been wondering, there’s been some activity there with some concrete smashing and heavy equipment doing stuff. What for? Apparently another Young Nak parking lot. Because they can never have too many. Yeah, the cars are way in the back. I wasn’t about to get out of mine just to take a pic. As if!

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Tamale Maker

Next up in our continuing series of making tamales: buy yourself a tamale maker! Now that will make everything much easier!

Err, I’m just kidding, this looks gross. Don’t go pushing your tamal out of a lil’ tube.

Yet another fine contraption to stay away from.
Seriously, its not that hard to wrap them up on your own. I should have those instructions up by sometime this weekend. Give or take a week.

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Somewhere in South San Gabriel…

… a precious love story unfolds.

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How to Prepare Fillings for Vegetarian Tamales

I’m almost done! In this installment we proceed to gathering the items you will stuff into a tamal. For now, we begin with the classic tamal de rajas con queso. Soon I will add the soon-to-be-classic tofu con papas tamal that will sweep the world!

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How to Make Salsa for Vegetarian Tamales

All tamales require a salsa to make them whole. This here is my simple green sauce, a red one is coming sometime soon. Yes, I think I’m on track to actually finish this series very soon!

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How to Make Masa for Tamales

The next installment of making vegetarian tamales. In this step we turn our homemade nixtamal into a masa for said tamales.

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