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Post by barrumundi on May 24, 2016 8:57:53 GMT -5
SMOKED TAMALES! I am in Bogota for a few days helping the wife with some personal family business. We are staying in her apartment near 134 and 19. She normally has the apartment rented out but it is currently vacant which actually has worked out well for us ........but the apartment is unfurnished except for a bed, three deck chairs and a small table. It's like camping in the city. We don't have a fridge but that is not really an issue because there are hundreds of various types of eateries within a couple of blocks. Yesterday we had been out and about most of the day and had been doing lots of walking so decided to grab a couple of tamales (cold) to take home for dinner later in the evening. No microwave and no big steamer pot so my darling wife puts the tamales, still wrapped in banana leaves in the electric oven on high for 45 minutes. I was happily chatting away with you guys here on the forum when I noticed the smell of smoke! The banana leaf wrap on the tamales was doing some serious smoldering and a steady stream of smoke was eminating from the oven. Anyway the tamales were now hot and they were delicious with a definate and distinct smokey flayour! Maybe when I am back in Pacho we can load up dandl93 's huge smoker with homemade Mexican 'smoked' tamales.
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Post by dandl93 on May 24, 2016 9:03:28 GMT -5
I got a new load of wood any time you want.
Mexican tamales are very differant to Colombian Tamales...Speaking of Mexican Tamales it is time my wife made some.
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Post by elexpatriado on May 24, 2016 9:07:55 GMT -5
Very interesting how tamales change shape colour, texture, size and ingredients throughout Latin America from Mexico into Colombia and further south. There are diferent types of Tamales in different arts of Colombia as well.
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2016 9:53:12 GMT -5
There's always calamities in our kitchen. Drops, spills, fires, scaldings and explosions. That's why God invented the telephone.
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Post by papitohead on May 24, 2016 10:38:19 GMT -5
I am with elexpatriado . Arepas are the same. Very different from place to place. In Cartagena they are with cheap ground beef and one egg deep fried. In Venezuela they look like a great big sandwiches, and in PR they are made with flour instead of corn meal and you can stuff them such as just shirmp, lobster, pulpo or just mariscos. They are all good in their own way. btw, the arepa in Cartagena is the meal I like most out all the stuff in Colombia.
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Post by billyb on May 24, 2016 16:40:10 GMT -5
I never used to, but now much prefer the Colombian tamales to the mejican or salvadorean ones.
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