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Piñatas finished, and making tamales.

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We worked long into the night finishing the Piñatas and the tamales for the posada party.

Our good friends Tom and Alfa came round, and helped us - then (finally - after getting a bit lost) Michaela arrived to lend a hand too.  The 5 of us worked hard - mixing the dough, making the mole & salsa roja, constructing the tamales and finally getting them cooked. 

But even after everytone left, Jacqui and I stayed up, finishing the tamales and putting finishing touches to the Piñatas.  While waiting for the tamales to finish, I also made several batches of Fairy Cakes (or cup cakes - same thing I reckon).   Hard work, but absolutely worth it.

Here's some photos of the preparation.  I'll do another post after this one with some images from the posada proper.


The Piñata; complete. Isn't it beautiful?


Tom getting his hands messy - making the tamale goo (thanks tom!)

 


Mole - delicious chocolate & chilli sauce.  Goes in the tamale.



These are the corn husks.  Yes, in a laundry basket :)



Combine everything with some chicken, wrap and you'll have some of these little beauties.


The tamales are then steamed in the biggest steamer we have - actually an inducstrial sized pot with a veggie steam in the bottom. 



It took two batches to cook them all, but by 6am, they were finally cooked.  Yes : I said 6am.
Don't believe me? Check out the sunrise on Saturday morning:






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