Making tamales might seem intimidating at first, but once you find your rhythm, it becomes a meditative and joyful process. The steps—preparing the masa, assembling the tamales, and steaming them to ...

The owner and chef of Gabriella Café, Paul Cocking and Gema Cruz, just launched new kiosk Gabrielita Tamaleria, located near Pizza My Heart on Pacific Avenue. The menu will focus on takeout ...

This recipe makes a lot of tamales so there’s more than enough to freeze. Plus, they can be frozen raw or steamed, which are an ideal make-ahead meal that’s wonderful for the holidays or a ...

This recipe makes a lot of tamales so there’s more than enough to freeze. Plus, they can be frozen raw or steamed, which are an ideal make-ahead meal that’s wonderful for the holidays or a rainy ...

Because while many Mexican American households also have turkey on Thanksgiving, and a ham for Christmas, many tables all but require a plate laden with piping hot, freshly steamed tamales.

Even if you aren’t religious, anyone is willing to believe that the baby Jesus would have wanted more tamales and more ...

Tamales exude fragrant steam, perfuming their space with the happy smell of masa, of meat, cheese, vegetables, fruit, herbs, chiles and so much more. The tamale is a tabula rasa — a blank page ...

each packed with six tamales. The packages include hand mixed corn masa wrapped around your choice of meat, steamed in a corn husk. They are served with half a pint of signature sauce. You can ...

Place the tamales leaning around this foil, seam side down and opening of the tamal up so that the contents do not spill out during steaming. Test the taste of the tamale prior to the whole batch.