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[pongoid]

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Yeah there are some women in Auburn who hawk tamales on Thursday and Sat. I love the Mayan banana leaf kind!

I'm originally from San Antonio and we give tamales at Christmas the way most people give tins of home baked Christmas cookies. I have already made close to 200. Most of them were eaten by my kids! They love the green chicken ones.

Wish I knew how to make the ones in the banana leaves.

Yeah we don't actually give them away but rather trade them to taste everyone else's versions. But yeah, its a tradition that horrifies my wife. She thinks they are so precious and that I am giving away what is rightfully hers, which is funny because her people traditionally have give-a-ways where they used to give away all their possessions but now go to the dollarstore and other bargain stores to give-a-way a bunch of stuff at important celebrations.

I made 9 dozen so that 108 tamales.

 

[T Hi]

Pongoid-

I live at the south end of Tapps! On the Church Lake end! I don't have chickens but I would love to trade you duck eggs! They are all we eat! We love tamales!!! My parents live in Puerto Vallarta and we only get "good" food when we go visit them!!! My personal favorite is chile rellenos!

Beautiful snow! But now it is melting and almost gone.

 

[pongoid]

Yes that would be a good trade! I have yet to learn how to make Chile rellenos, they are bit tricky to make. Someone I met recently promises to show me how. When I learn I will have more to trade!

I once ate a New Mexican version of chile rellenos with a corn and black bean relish filling, those were delicious.

 

[T Hi]

CL- Hope your DH is doing ok! We only got about 2 inches of snow and it is all pretty much melted. As long as we don't get some crazy massive freak storm I am still planning on Friday. Kind of getting excited!! I need to get out of this house bad!!!

 

[Imp]

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OK, sorry for my ignorance, but did the Mojave used to have trees? What kind? Suitable for logging? I used to go all the time as a kid and it's always been a desert, no trees that I remember.

thank you for asking this....I too was curious. Is it the Mojave desert because all the trees were logged off? Maybe they harvested rattlesnakes.

I think the Mojave desert used to be known as the Mojave Forest, until Rustler's grandad got there with that giant chainsaw.

Now trees are as rare as hen's teeth there. Kind of like Rustler's neighbor's chickens.

All this talk of food has me hungry. When we get a pot luck planned, sounds like a Mexican/Native American theme might be in order. I worked for a while years ago in an authentic mexican diner, learned how to make Chili Rellenos (At least one version of them)

Russ

 

[pongoid]

I don't know about the Mojave desert but I just read in Jared Diamond's book, "Guns, Germs and Steel" that if it weren't for the middle easts fragile ecosystem they would know be the dominant culture in the world due to their status as the crossroads for many civilizations and being a store house of much of the knowledge we have today. They chopped down all the timber and spoiled all the topsoil by overharvesting and large populations sizes in an area that could not keep up due to lack of rainfall.

So its possible the Mojave was a similar environment.

 

[jbear]

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is the snow almost gone at home? awwwWWWww...

boohoo! It was so pretty and quiet this morning as I was out taking care of the chickies and the goats. I wanted to stay home! Has anyone noticed how BRIGHT Venus is right now?? so pretty!

T-- you live right around the corner from us.

 

[hallerlake]

It is weird, but exciting. Hope you're not feeling too nauseous.


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Thanks....when I got to see the heartbeat it was pretty cool...just a white flashing "light" sort of...but still, a heartbeat...it's so weird to think that another person is GROWING in my uterus! LOL

 

[jbear]

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thank you for asking this....I too was curious. Is it the Mojave desert because all the trees were logged off? Maybe they harvested rattlesnakes.

I think the Mojave desert used to be known as the Mojave Forest, until Rustler's grandad got there with that giant chainsaw.

Now trees are as rare as hen's teeth there. Kind of like Rustler's neighbor's chickens.

All this talk of food has me hungry. When we get a pot luck planned, sounds like a Mexican/Native American theme might be in order. I worked for a while years ago in an authentic mexican diner, learned how to make Chili Rellenos (At least one version of them)

Russ

oh man yum! Authentic Mexican food.. is my FAVORITE. We were in Mexico some time ago, I had the worlds BIGGEST margarita and the very very best quesadilla. EVER. I think it was just cheese, tortilla and jalapenos. but I can't seem to replicate it at home. how silly right? I tried the queso cheese and everything. There was something secret in it.

maybe tequila? lol!

 

[pongoid]

Well a little research yields alot. Some label the whole area from Utah to Sonora, Mexico the Sonoran Desert but its typically divided into high and low deserts border by mountain ranges: Grand Basin, Mojave, Colorado and Sonoran deserts.

Though there was a cooler period in the 1800's, it wasn't much cooler, not enough for trees. The Mojave is bordered by pine forested mountain ranges so perhaps that is where your father lumbered.

The las time the area had significant water and cooler temperatures was 10K years ago.
http://sciences.unlv.edu/desertsurvivors/Pages/mojave.htm