Tamales!

 Since my parents weren’t able to come over for Christmas due to the El Paso /Juárez border being closed, we had to make the tamales without them. As the girls get older, they get more and more involved in the process. This was the first year my mother-in-law offered her help. She said that now she has more appreciation for them because she knows how much work goes into them.

There were one hundred and twenty six tamales in the first batch before we ran out of meat. Today we will finish the second batch which should go a lot smoother because we already have the masa ready (leftover from yesterday).