after5's Journal: What's Cooking?

So we're in Santa Paula now, visiting my main set of family. We're staying at Port Hueneme (why-knee-me) on the coast, making the daily trek inland to Ventura/Oxnard/Santa Paula through lemon groves and orchards. Oh, what a terrible few mile drive. (Incidently, we also pass the church seen in the last scene of The Rock, it's in Saticoy, not Fort Walton, Kansas)

Tonight we spent sitting around the table making tamales, and man, as good as they are to eat they are that time consuming to make. The masa has to be spread evenly on the ojas (husks) and then the chile is placed in that and rolled up and then steamed. We had a nice little assembly line going for a couple hours. We made probably about 200 of them. And that's a conservative estimate. We mexicans like our food.

On the plus side, I get to drink some wine. :) Which is never bad, so yeah, yay wine.

Hope everyone is relaxing back home. I hope to check back in before the X day. Bye now.

Also have many good stories re: zach, stay tuned.

Kathy lee???

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Were you sweating while making these Tamales? I can't picture a mexican assembly line... HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!!!!!