I am visiting my family in Pennsylvania right now. However, yesterday, I put together a rather Mexican-inspired dinner, and, being pretty pleased with the effort, I thought I'd share. I don't make a lot (read: nearly enough) Mexican or Latin food. And I'd actually never made tamales before. However, there was a bag of masa harina tucked back in my parents' pantry that I knew they would never use, so I decided to rescue it. I will admit that I had been intrigued by the idea of making tamales ever since watching Isa and Terry make them. So I decided to use their recipe. They turned out delicious. I enlisted my mother to help me in tamale-husk-packaging, and it was actually kind of enjoyable and relaxing. I also made a simple fresh grape tomato salsa, chili-lime jicama salad (literally: jicama matchsticks + lime juice + chili powder), and Mole-Roasted Cauliflower from Swell vegan cookzine, a copy of which I received recently in the mail. All in all, a satisfying meal. And I'm snacking on leftover jicama slaw even as I type.
