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Polar-so I use about 1/2 lb of cayenne peppers or for an extra kick mix it with some scotch bonnets. You can use any hot pepper you like. I use fresh, but I think you can use dried.
-rinse them well with cold water and drain them.
-Next, put them in a saucepan and add water, just enough barely cover them. Bring them to a boil and then lower heat and cover them and let them simmer about 20 minutes.(About halfway through make sure to turn your peppers so all sides get soft.) Drain them and set aside to cool. Divide in half.
-In a blender put about 3 cups of water and one half of the peppers, 3 Tb of flour, 2 cloves of garlic, 1/2 tsp salt.Blend til smooth.
-put through a sieve to remove skins and seeds,
-repeat same process with the other half of peppers and there you go.
You can add this in your tamales before you cook them and/or put it on them when eaten.

Hope this helps and I hope I have explained it well. Its very good.
Tune in tomorrow for tomato bread and/or tomato pie. :)
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smeshque - thanks for sharing the tamale recipe. I've copied and saved it. Would also love to have the red chili sauce if you don't mind.

As for your invite to come over - that's awfully nice of you, but I don't think I live anywhere close to your place. And I would have to hire a helper to look after my mom while I'm gone and that would cost many many tamales. Haha.
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Susan- sounds sort of like my Moms Wilted Salad.

Becky- Congrats on being official

Pam- tell hubby to smoke some trout- quite delicious

Polar- I am going to have to try your recipe, thank you for sharing.
So basically for plain tamales not hot-
put your meat *roast or shoulder)in a crockpot and slow cook, hopefully getting a lot of juice of it that you will use.
When meat is done shred it and set juice aside
I use masa herina, 2 cups of masa , ½ cup of lard, dash of salt, and enough chili powder to taste, and to make the dough a little pink. Add broth a little at a time and sometimes as you go on you can add more broth to keep the masa from drying out. (I use a mixer to whip it all together, it seems that its better when the masa and lard are kinda light and fluffy)You can check your masa by dropping a little in cold water and if it floats your golden.
Add a little juice to your meat, not so much to be wet, but a little moist.
You would have already soaked your corn husks for about 30 min. and tear some to make ties.
So you put about 1/4 c of masa on husks and then roughly 2 Tb of meat. (You can choose to make them bigger, my Mom always made huge, I like a lot of meat she'd say")
Roll them up and tie and steam them about
1 1/2 hours.
Now if you like them hot, I make a red chilli sauce(can give you the recipe if you want also)
This is for meat, I also do a bean and rice for myself. But mostly people are pork fans.
Hope it makes since if not let me know if I can be of more assistance. And if it doesnt work out, you can come by and I will teach you. :)
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Oh Lordie, heart attack heaven, but sounds so good. 
You must be from the South. Ever seen the cookbook White Trash Cookin'? Anything's good in bacon grease.
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Polarbear - it's pretty awesome stuff, and SOOO easy.

Cook up a package of bacon, cut up small.
Remove the cooked bacon, leaving the bacon grease in the pan.
Dump in a package of pre-shredded cole slaw mix, or shred one head cabbage.
Add 1 tsp each of garlic and onion powders, as well as 1/2 cup chopped onion or 3 tbsp dried minced onion.
Cook cabbage until wilted down, stirring frequently.
Toss bacon back in and cook another 5-10 minutes.
Serve immediately.
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Susan - you had me at Southern - Bacon - Fried (anything). Sounds so good.
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smeshque - regarding pizza dough with garbanzo bean puree, I didn't use any recipe. It's my own concoction.

I use a pack of the instant yeast
3.5 to 4 cups of bread flour
1/2 pound of dry garbanzo beans, soaked, cooked and pureed with enough water
2 teaspoons of sugar
salt

I mix dry ingredients together, then mix in the puree beans, then add water just enough to kneed the dough to a smooth texture. Then I let it rise in the fridge overnight.

I would love to know how you make your tamales if you can share the recipe. I made tamales a couple of times, but they always came out dry and hard. I think I have to use fresh maize dough. I also have trouble with the sauce which didn't taste authentic.
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I was in the Medicaid class all day. We took the easy way out. PJ scraped the snow off the patio and had grilled chicken and green salad. I'm now officially able help complete applications for Medicaid.
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DD got us a Home Chef box,, hubs is in heaven in the kitchen making some chicken dish.. can't wait! We did Hello Fresh for a year, until travel got in the way.. and we just never got around to restarting it. Hubs has also recently bought a smoker,, and he has been smoking away.. but its a learning curve and some if it is too strongly smelling of smoke for me. He did do a great pork loin though.
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I made a batch of Southern Bacon-Fried Cabbage today and had a bit of it for lunch. YUM. Not sure I'll have it for dinner tonight but might have the leftovers tomorrow.

I have stuff in the freezer that's been in there for a few months...time to start using that up. Guess I'll be doing some cooking over the next few days.
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Along with his home sandblasting glass business, hubs is now the official cook (5 days a week-lunch) for our new neighbor (who is the boss of a very large cooperation). He is a friend of a friend of ours and now our across the street neighbor.
This man is single and eats out for every meal. Both he and hubs are loving it, as hubs loves showing off his cooking skills and the guy can relax and not have to eat out. We get the extra portions for our dinner.

Tonight's entree will be sautéed fish, beets, broccoli, garlic ciabatta bread and apple crumb pie.

Our neighbor likes to eat healthy so maybe hubs and I will loose a few pounds. (Wishful thinking!)
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Spaghetti dinner at the elementary school.
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Pineapple and cheese pizza. I am intrigued by the beans puree in dough, would like that recipe.
I love spicy v-8.
We make homemade tamales every few months. People order them from us as well. They are good. I makes beans and rice tamales for myself. Don't eat the meat ones.
Hope you all are having a good night.
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They are!!! Love them -a nice summer colour. Hmmm, R cleaned up very well after himself. This could get to be a habit.
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Golden those nails sound almost good enough to eat.😉
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I can't remember. I think it was a spoonful of peanut butter. Lawdy, I am getting old. R made himself a steak. I wasn't hungry and have resigned as cook. My new gel nails are a lovely shade of orange sherbert (with sparkles), and I want to keep them in good shape.
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Homemade pizzas. Made pizza dough from scratch with my daughter. She decided she wanted to eat healthier, so we mixed in 1/4 puree garbanzo beans in the dough. Didn't change the taste, not that I could tell. Less carbs more protein. So, that's all good. Next time, we'll try adding puree spinach and make green pizza dough.
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AliBo, your soup sounds delicious. Glad, I love spicy hot V8 and tamales-followed-by-mini-drumstick sounds like a winner. You folks are making me hungry!
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Ali, have you tried the spicy hot V8? It sure helps me!

Homemade tamales. MMMM! Not made by me. There is a man that comes by the office every few months, then delivers the next day. They were absolutely wonderful. Now for the Blue Bunny chocolate mini drumstick things. Have to have chocolate after Mexican.
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I made some tomato soup and added about eighth cup of (mildish, red) hot sauce plus extra water. I'm trying to burn out this little sweat & chills bug I've been experiencing. The soup was good, I added parsley and basil. I'll do this again in the future if I have a sick.
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Smoked sausage links with roasted potatoes and carrots.
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We were in class all day. Housekeeper did dinner for kids. PJ and I are at Ground Round for dinner. We're having taco salads.
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cdnreader - I go through phases like that too, where I just don't want to cook or am too busy, and dinner is often a can of soup, crackers and cheese, or just chunks of cheese with salami slices or such. Maybe some cottage cheese on the side or at most, a small salad.

Then there are days like Monday, where I get into a cooking frenzy - made crack slaw (which is like a low-carb hamburger stirfry with shredded cabbage, hamburger and stirfry seasonings), then made a good size batch of low-carb marinara sauce with meat and froze it, then cooked a whole chicken overnight in the crockpot and tossed veggies into it in the morning for some good broth and chicken.
I still have another package of shredded coleslaw mix, so I might make some LC bacon-fried cabbage. YUM.
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Hi Barb, The Moroccan chicken sounds so good.

Lately dinner consists of cheese and crackers. I will have to see what I can do for tonight.:-)
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DH had burger and fries, Mom and I split an Indian taco
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Moroccan chicken with ginger, cumin, cinnamon, garlic, onions, lemon and green olives.
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Becky, lol! Good they went with leftovers or you may have been cooking several entres. I making Swedish meatballs and oven roasted fennel/ anise bulbs.
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I made the mistake of asking a roomful of guys home from college for the weekend what they wanted for dinner. A bunch of different answers. Chicken and dumplings, creamed tomatoes with biscuits, fried chicken, burgers on the grill. My favorite - the kid who went in the kitchen yelled leftovers and started fixing himself a plate. The rest of them went to the kitchen and fixed plates. I think I'm off the hook. PJ and I might go out to dinner.
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Thai takeout. Yum.
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MsMadge,That was a fabulous dinner alright-Yum~
We had breakfast for dinner last night Becky...It was just so-so.I made a ham and cheese omelet,fried potatoes and waffles.My dH lapped it up,even said it was good surprisingly.
Tonight I made macaroni and cheese and leftover meatloaf sandwiches.
Easy and filling.
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