In England we have Christmas pudding, mince pies and turkey. Well in Costa Rica a traditional Christmas food is called 'Tamales'. Well today (Sunday) we had the priviledge of making these with our Tico friends (Tico= Costa Rican person). On the campus there are a Costa Rican family: Donald and Erika and their two children Isaac and Nasaret. They maintain the campus, Donald is a carpenter and Erika is a cleaner. We made the Tamales with them, and Erika's Mama, on the campus grounds.
First of all you take a load of banana leaves and heat them up on a fire until they are soft and malleable. Then you cut them into squares, and clean them so their ready to put the food in. You put maiz dough in first, then put meat and various vegetables on top. Then you wrap it all up and tie it with a piece of string. 
They're bolied for about an hour then their ready to eat. Que Rico! (how tasty). We were making them for the Christmas party that we had the following day. We'd like to think we could produce such food back in England, but feel there is a slight lack of Bannana leaves lying around.
First of all you take a load of banana leaves and heat them up on a fire until they are soft and malleable. Then you cut them into squares, and clean them so their ready to put the food in. You put maiz dough in first, then put meat and various vegetables on top. Then you wrap it all up and tie it with a piece of string. 
They're bolied for about an hour then their ready to eat. Que Rico! (how tasty). We were making them for the Christmas party that we had the following day. We'd like to think we could produce such food back in England, but feel there is a slight lack of Bannana leaves lying around.
No comments:
Post a Comment