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Recipe Tag: Mom Carter

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Gorditas is something we would eat in the winter months and usually with Athole or Champurada. When you think about it its a weird food to dip but somehow it works.

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Athole is a drink made from masa. The same stuff you use to make corn tortillas and tamales. Sounds weird, huh? It probably is really weird for someone who didn’t grow up dri

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Sopita is a childhood favorite. It is basically tiny shaped pasta cooked in a tomato based sauce. You can also use elbow noodles or small shell pasta. Its delicious and I have neve

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Our family has a special salsa that goes over tostadas. This is not a chips and salsa recipe. It does give tostadas a unique Mexican taste.

overnight

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This sauce is used for enchiladas, chilaquiles, tamales…  apparently a lot of different foods. It is a good staple to have in the freezer in case you have the urge to make o

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Chilaquiles always reminds me of Luke’s Diner in Gilmore Girls when Caesar is running the place he say… “Chilaquiles!” Makes me giggle.  Anyway this is a v

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The beef tamale filling is used in the same manner as the chicken. Be sure to time your tamale ingredients so they are ready at nearly the same time. This red beef filling is a fav

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The chicken tamale filling is my absolute favorite. This filling is not only good in tamales but it makes really tasty burritos or tacos. Be sure when you are making tamales that y

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Making tamales comes with a good deal of prep work. The first steps include soaking hogs (corn husk) and prepping the masa (the dough in the tamales). Because the masa is usually m