Xmas Eve Tamale Making

I don't use an actual recipe - but my filling includes Spices, Beans, Potato, Onion, Garlic, Bulgar, and roasted chiles. 


Ortega Chiles are the best if you can't get fresh and roast them yourself.


Finished cooking everything - ready to combine it and start making Tamales!



The filling tastes MUCH MUCH better than it looks here..... :-)




When I make Tamales they are the meal sized ones (they weigh about 4 or 5 ounces.  This is because I'm lazy and don't want to fill/wrap hundreds of tamales.  Someday I will get a bottom steaming riser so I can steam them standing up - my Dim Sum top steamer works for now. 



Eating Tamales Christmas Morning!

Christmas Morning

My Christmas Presents (from my sis Zoe - Thanks Zoe!) - I also got a gift card from my folks that I used to get Sierra her Xbox
(we played with it last night) 

The Elegant Universe - Brian Greene

From chapter 1 - page 2.......

Even if you are willing to keep the deep interior of a black hole and the beginning of the universe shrouded in mystery, you can't help feeling that the hostility between quantum mechanics and general relativity cries out for a deeper level of understanding.
Can it really be that the universe at it's most fundamental level is divided, requiring one set of laws when things are large and a different, incompatible set when things are small?

My brain is either going to expand or explode if I actually get through this entire book.

I'm looking forward to the final result with great anticipation......... :-)