Got The Christmas Decorating Done. Tony that is.

Merry Christmas,
This is our very first Christmas in our new home in La Quinta. Tony has decorated the den and this carosel is the latest addition to our Christmas collection. We are almost done with the shopping, and most of the Christmas cards are sent. It's really pretty out here at night ..the people here really go all out and decorate their houses. It's a lot of fun to see as we are driving around at night.

TAMALES...TAMALES...EVERYWHERE TAMALES

Would you believe that there is actually a real live Tamale Festival in this world? Well there is. Indo, California has been hosting this wonderful festival for 15 years. We went, Tony, Angela and myself. We ate ourselves silly, ate tamales, elotes, tamales, sweet, blue corn
pork, chile and cheese, red chile and beef
we could barely walk back to the car. Not all the tamales were great, some were everything you could expect from Nana's kitchen..a tasters delight, some were ok but too dry while others were not cooked thouroughly enough, thus the massa was a bit mushy. The sweet green tamales were my favorite and Angela and Tony couldn't make up thier minds. Having helped my mother in law make them every Christmas I know how they should taste. Still today was a real culinary delight. Wow !!! Good!!