Hi Again Texas Lady,
I also like your name as well, it sounds so lady like
And ladies "true ladies" are beautiful!!!
Your soup sounds delicious, you must post the recipe!
I love Mexican food and especially tamales, I was just reading about a new cookbook called "Tamales 101: A Beginner's Guide to Making Traditional Tamales" By: Alice Guadalupe Tapp. Guess that will wind up on my must have book list!
I go into a serious withdrawl mode if I do not have at least 2 meals a week that are Mexican cuisine! It's just like I develop a certain moodiness I just can't seem to shake, one bite of a burrito and I'm back to my normal self again
Fortunate for me I live in an area that has a healthy Mexican population and we can aquire much of the desired foods easily! Between my girlfriends here at work and I we go thru vast quantities of hot sauce per week.
This Christmas I had the Puerto Rican equivalent of a tamale: it is called a Pastelle and instead of being wrapped in a corn husk the pastelle is wrapped in a banana leaf than boiled. The masa is made from finely grated Yucca and Plantain Green Bananas. They have a very unique flavor and seem an awful lot of trouble to make
, but I have observed that many of the authentic Puerto Rican dishes involve quite a bit of labor intensive prep work! I do love being in the kitchen, but only to a point
LOL
Now have you ever eaten much Middle Eastern Cusine? I am here to tell you I for one love it! If you ever get a chance visit a restaurant that specializes in it and try an appetizer plate of Baba-Ganouji (pronounced bubba ganu), Hummus, fried flaffel, and fresh pita bread with tabouli salad. You will be in for a taste bud explosion!
Ther are so many wonderful foods the world over, and we are so fortunate to be able to enjoy that all!
I have never heard of comet rice. It must be a rice local to your area? I enjoy so many rice varieties, basamati being my all time favorite in the line of white rice. The yellow rice I mentioned earlier is simply a white rice flavored with saffron giving it a delicious flavor and yellow color. It goes well with seafood dishes, especially shrimp. Do you live near an area where you can get fresh Gulf Shrimp? There is no shrimp that tastes better in my opinion!
Cheers, CCCathy