My mom just passed away yesterday... So I'm on youtube watching folks enjoy spending time with their mums. I guess this is my way of coping Edit* I'm happy I watched this. I love cooking, my mom loved cooking, and I feel a little more at ease. Thank you Arnie and thank you for sharing your delightful mum with youtube
Awwh, watching this make me really miss my sweet mama 🥲 Covid took her in late 2020. She was so knowledgeable about cooking our traditional Apache foods and taught all her daughters how to weave Apache burden baskets. Mom's are SO special! NEVER take for granted the time you have with your mom! She is passing on her tamale making knowledge to you and your audience. How precious is that❣You should do more episodes with her!
I love this. My daughter married into a Mexican family and my son-in-law's abuela cooks just like your mom with no written recipe. Tamales every Christmas is family time! Everybody gets together to help make them. I've actually gotten pretty good at spreading the masa on the hojas.
I wish I had seen this one before my dad died. We are from San Diego and he retired on the east coast. For months he was begging me to make them and I didn’t know the process. You can read a recipe but the nuances are in the process. He passed at 66 last November. So maybe I’ll make them today. ❤❤ 🥹 love the channel. Thank you!
To any cooking with repetition. That’s how you know they’ve done it so many times it’s just reflexes at that point. It also tells you people have requested it, because if it was bad you wouldn’t be asked to do it again.
My mom is Appalachian. They made tamales all her life. Her family was known around Knoxville for their Tennessee Tamales. Our family tamales are different from yours, but still delicious. Yours looks fantastic. Your Mama is a cutie. Thanks for sharing.
@@jamielovinitt I found an article online called "Hog and Hominy: The Tale of Knoxville Tamales" that was quite neat. Basic gist was a guy who worked in a carnival and traveled around a lot learnt how to make em and brought them to Tennessee out of his food cart
Your mom is amazing. She put both feet in them tamales lol. You can see the real love you and your mom have for each other. Cherish her while you have her. She's an angel.
Decades ago, a lady in our church made 31 different tamales. Each day had it’s special recipe. The first of the month was Blanco’s, unfilled tamales. The 31st was shrimp tamales. She filled those with chopped shrimp, and frozen peas and carrots. All were wonderful. Can’t wait to try these
Brings back alot of good memories of the past, During the Holidays, Mom used to get together with her sisters and make Dozens of tamales taking all day. My brother and I would harvest a Buck ( Deer) and mom would combine the meat with Pork to make Tamales. in the 1970's I visited my Grandmother and helped her grind white corn to make those Tamales of just Masa ( ? she had a name for them ? )they where spiced differently and she would use the green husks to wrap them. Those days (some of the Best ) are long gone but not forgotten..
6:22 an absolutely precious moment! You could tell Ernie loves getting that look from his mom like, “You big dummy!” I bet he been laughing like that since childhood, you just hear his youth come through in that moment. 😂
Arnie! This is by far your best video. You are so fortunate to have such a warm-hearted, humorous, and camera-friendly mother. It is great fun to see you and your Mom making faces at the camera, (like, "He doesn't know how to do this" 😉). I learned a lot today. Thank you! And remember: all good teachers go to heaven.
What a special video, every day with mom is priceless! I grew up watching my mom in the kitchen & learned alot. At 72 the tables have turned & i get to cook alot for her. Mom's are the most special people!
My family loves the thick masa because we use chile and homemade chicken broth in the masa. You will want more masa if you make it that way. This tamales are like a burger with a thin bun.
My Mum used to add some of her sauce to the masa. It gave it color and taste. She was never satisfied with the masa from the market. She would whip in lard until the right consistency was achieved. Usually dropping a pinch of masa in water to see if it floats. It was always pork too. That was the family recipe handed down for generations.
I think this is my most favorite episode - I’ve watched it several times just to master the masa spreading technique (so I can try to impress my own mom). Arnie’s mama needs to make more guest appearances, maybe even have her own channel, she is so funny. Love the bloopers at the end: “I used to roll some fat ones when I was younger” …. “I didn’t know WHY he was seeing UFOs, I just thought he was a scaredy-cat!.” Comedy gold right there. 😂🛸
Good morning just Love your MOM and you too. She know what she is doing . You have a beautiful MOM and she raised a great SON. I wish I could smell your food because it look very delicious home cooked meals. Just love your land too. Too bad you are not my neighbors. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year....
Just learned this from my abuela this past year after also not paying attention to how they were made. This video was like reliving the whole experience haha Valley grandmas are very patient teachers
What a blessing to see mother and son just loving each other in such an amazing way. Every mom and son should experience. Love you two. So refreshing!!!! GOD bless
I’ve never tried them on the grill but we’d always toast them on the comal. Great for breakfast with some frijoles and fried eggs. Love this video man. Your mom is hilarious. The end of the video had me laughing 😂
I love your mom, she's so cute! This was a super cool video. I absolutely love tamales and have even tried to make them, but your mom made it look less confusing than the instructions I was following. Of course, she's been making them all her life and that alone will make it look easy.
Hey Arnie, I love your Mom!!! She reminds me of my recently passed Mom, a little sassy and brassy, teaching her son what's up! I treasure the times I'd hang around the kitchen helping and her sharing how to "do it the right way"!!! I envy you, brother!!
My mom made the best tasting tamales her church ladies axillary made tamales I would sell about her tamales at work at lunch time most of the workers and management would buy them back 1983
@@ArnieTex This is why I said...Why do you need a probe, or beef injections for a brisket, Arnie. Your beautiful mother knows how to cook, by instinct, my man! Chuckwagon cooks never owned those things! And neither do I!
@@MrDoneboy hahah yessir but your forgetting how many times they and we screwed things up in the learning process, man i dried out a lot of chickens and over cooked plenty of steaks and my mom still does that on turkeys and chicken breast's omg! Over time yes we develop the ability to cook with out those tools but for newbies and beginners it's a great way to not ruin expensive meats and as far as me using them well i like toys hahaha. Thanks for your imput Don i sincerely do appreciate it.
@@ArnieTex Arnie, I am an electronic technician in my schooling history. But as a cook....I will cook a brisket on my Weber, with nothing but my remaining senses, my Texas brother!
Woww, I teared up and smiled watching this. My grandma passed 3 years ago and I used to make and spread tamales with her. I miss it so much but haven't made any since with her. I also had a laugh when Arnie put to much meat because she used to always get on me for doing the same. And he's right we would make 15-20 dozen because everyone wanted some. Thanks for the memories man, continue to make more and pay attention to her recipes because when there gone you'll wish you would've.
I love seeing your mom and you cooking ❤ I lost my mother in law to Covid. She was the sweetest woman you could ever know. She treated me and my boys so well and this video makes me happy and sad at the same time.
I’m amazed, flummoxed and bamboozled(?) that you put cream cheese on your tamales! Would never say it’s wrong, just amazed is all. 👍Love your Mom, too!
Dang, you guy's are taking me back to when I was a kid and being at my Mexican friends houses around dinner time. Must be why I love authentic Mexican food so much. Man I'd love to hang out with this guy.
Brings back so memories for me from when I made tamales with my mum:) my favorite mexican food by far, n making it with family always makes it taste even better♡
Love tamales!!!! Thank you for sharing this very traditional recipe. My family gets together every year before the holidays to make many dozens of these amazing food. Thank you for sharing!!!!
I just discovered your channel and I love it. I’m a Texan living in Oregon and it’s hard to find traditional TexMex. West Coast Tamales have a ton of thick masa and not much filling. Your mom is great! Love her. And when people find out I’m from Texas they’ll say “I’m gonna take you for the BEST bar-b-que you’ve ever had!” I just say “please don’t!”
Your channel makes me smile, your mom is absolutely lovely and I love her low-key sass. Tamales are my absolute favorite Mexican cuisine, gonna make this.
I would weigh 350lbs if this wonderful woman were my mother. Years ago, someone I know was stationed at NBC (Naval Base Coronado) and there was a regular troop of hispanic mothers and grandmothers that made these by the truckload (not exaggerating). They sold them 2/$1 to base personnel, and I'm not overstating when I say they probably sold two-thousand/day, six days a week. Thanks for sharing good times with you momma, Arnie. She's a peach.🍑
I worked in a Mexican neighborhood for 28 years & The Tamale Lady would come with fresh tamales in her car-this was every Weds. The guys in the warehouse always bought us office ladies some tamales. Sooooo delicious!
If to say a Prayer heavenly Father Bless the this mother hands, For touching so many lives' Showing so much love with her cooking ..love her son will always remember Grateful .. This Christmas we made about 60 Tamales So thankful to learn your mothers way
I just made my first batch of tamales alone and I’ve been watching tons of yours and your mother’s video. Thank you so much her instructions on how to make the Masa without a mixer . I used my hands so you know the texture and consistency are correct that was what really helped me thank you. Thank you so much. My tamales taste, so good I wish you could try them.😂 😊😊
Annie, my family used to have parties to make tamales and enchiladas for the holidays. We made them for our Fiesta on the weekend closest to Mexican Independence Day in September and then through New Years. My mom would mix course ground hominy in her masa. We made mostly tamales that were savory but she would have us make sweet tamales with fruit in the and white masa. These sweet ones where saved for Easter Morning and Christmas. I always tried to put to much filling in mine and to thick masa. Momma always had us sit the tails on the husks to tie the tamales husks. We actually collected corn in the husk from the field before the fields were harvested. Really kept the family close doing these group things.
I love spending time in kitchen with my mom, learning, taking on a few tips n stuff. It is more than just about food... You are a very lucky man, Arnie.
Oh yeah. That's BEAUTIFUL FOOD right there. I'm in. Thank you! I picked up a giant bag of masa at Sam's Club with the intention of making tamales, but then clean forgot until now. I'm doing this, have a freezer full of meat that's going to get cooked. I love you and especially your mom. Lol
Hi Arnie, I love when you cook with your Mom! She is so sweet and funny! I like how she jokes around with you! Thank you for showing us those yummy recipes!
God has truly blessed you Arnie to have your mother teach you how to make tamales, i make them but took a class on making them, and i cheat using a masa spreader, sometimes they will have them at HEB.it was invented by a woman in Corpus CHRISTI and it cut the time making them in half.
You're a blessed man Arnie. Savor those precious times with your mom and tell her thanks from many, as we will be making them sóon.. ! I gotta go roll a fat one myself
Arnie, I'd love a video with your mamma showing you (us) how to make restaurant style refried pinto and or black beans. Yummy! I've made them before-easily soaked in the instant pot. I know I used a chicken bone broth that had collagen in it so it was thick like gelatin. That made them so yummy and creamy. I finished them in a cast iron skillet. Unfortunately, I don't remember anything else about how I made them and I would love and appreciate a tutorial from your loving kitchen. Hoping you had a lovely day giving thanks, 2 days ago. Much adoration, C. R.
Many years ago I moved from N. Texas to S. California and I thought I’d never have good Mexican food again. Moved back to Texas in ‘95, thought I’d never have good Mexican food again. 😊 I think I’m very fortunate to have eaten some really good Mexican food everywhere I’ve ever lived.
Oh man, this hit me with childhood memories. I miss growing up in Corpus Christi and going over to my friends house while his gramma made tamales. Amazing video you two! You two are the cutest together and I was smiling the whole time. ❤❤
I love your step by step detail process. Also, I understand when your mom says about not measuring but you feel and taste it by eyeballing the amount. Experience cooks know the process and are amazing at eyeballing ingredients. I have seen so many tamale making videos and you guys definitely is the one I'm using to make my first few dozen of 🫔. I love just the work smarter work ethic that still has the same great taste.
I love all the love that goes into making this beautiful dish . When we lived los banos California a sweet lady would sell tamales 🫔 from her car and they were delicious, my son worked there bringing in the carts and helping people load up their groceries, he was 17 and she would give him tamales every time she was there. It gave him very good memories,what a kind way to show kindness. I’m going to try this thank you 😊
This video warmed my heart, you mom sounded just like my grandma, rest her soul. Makes my miss her so much. I am in Texas too, let me know when I can go over! 🥰
Thank you for sharing your mom's tamales with us I didn't pay attention to when Grandmother was making them I wish I did. We were little thank you looks delicious 💖🙏 🤗
May I ask, what kind of dried chillies were those? What kind of cheese? I go to the store and there are 15 varieties of chillies and all kinds of cheese. Obviously, I don't know what I am doing... Those tamales look really, really good.
Man Arnie, these look awesome! I've been wanting to try bbq tamales for some time, thanks to your video this is the year I'm doing this. Great to see you cooking with your Mom. I lost my my two weeks ago to covid, like you I learned a lot from my Mom. Those are learnings you'll always treasure! BTW not sure if you recall, a few years back you were doing a cook at West Side Grill in Katy (now it's Texas Star Grill Shop) on a Hasty Bake, you gave me a bag of Rockwood lump charcoal. Thank You! (BTW, you need to come back to Katy w/your Mom and make some tamales for us LOL)
Bless su madre!! I’m A California boy that has been cooking Texas style bbq for 15 years but also has authentic Mexican food all around me. I can’t wait to take abuelitas lessons and make bbq tamales for my family!!!
Oh my word! These look amazing I didn't have any luck convincing my mom to make non traditional tamales so I'm going to take a stab at this myself! Thanks for the step by step instructions this should really help me out. One thing though, does the chile puree go into the brisket as well? I don't want to mess this up and disappoint Mama Arnie.
I did not put the puree in the brisket for this video but from then on we do and also chop the brisket a little finer. Without the puree and with chunky brisket it tends to fall out while eating it, so the puree helps it stick together
I absolutely love Mexican food and can make almost any of it, except tamales. I was hoping to get a recipe from your mom. 😢 I can't even complain about it too much because I cook the same way 😂. I'm getting older so I have tried writing my recipes down but it's impossible since I don't really measure anything. The secrets die wih me I guess.
You can leave your recipes. Just write the ingredients and spices you used to make dish. They can figure it out by practice. I remember learning how to make certain dishes but did not always remember all the spices added or oils or powder or sodas. Thats what is important. All you used to make dishes taste like they should.
I love them. My stepdaughters made them for Christmas. However, I was working in Tennessee, before moving out west, we had a young woman who'd cater the factory I worked at. It was years ago and what she sold was about the only thing I could afford or get to for a daily meal. I promise I didn't know you weren't supposed to eat the husk.lol I did it for months before someone told me. It's doable.
No way no sauce for tamales lol. Just chopped the brisket then added to tamales. I do think now I would chop a little finer and sautee in the chili sauce then put them in the tamale but I wanted to try it dry first, it was sill very good.
Reminds me of Christmas in Texas. A mom and son used to sell tamales door to door in Houston when I was a kid. We would buy all we could afford and freeze them. I still make tamales every year now around Christmas. No one in Georgia makes authentic tamales. I’m going to try the cream cheese even though that’s not old school, but sounds good. I enjoyed the video! Thanks!
Believe me when I said it, my man. You will treasure this moment for a lifetime. (Edit: I wonder what it would be like if you reheated tamales in a smoker?)
My mom just passed away yesterday...
So I'm on youtube watching folks enjoy spending time with their mums.
I guess this is my way of coping
Edit* I'm happy I watched this. I love cooking, my mom loved cooking, and I feel a little more at ease.
Thank you Arnie and thank you for sharing your delightful mum with youtube
So sorry, condolences... B-KO
My condolences. she is in a good place, as she rest. god bless you and remember the happytimes, rejoice her life her love🙏🙌.
I’m sorry about your mom my condolences ❤
I am sorry for your loss..may JESUS the Comforter give you peace and comfort during this difficult time. In JESUS HOLY name I pray. ❤
Condolences 💐
Awwh, watching this make me really miss my sweet mama 🥲 Covid took her in late 2020. She was so knowledgeable about cooking our traditional Apache foods and taught all her daughters how to weave Apache burden baskets. Mom's are SO special! NEVER take for granted the time you have with your mom! She is passing on her tamale making knowledge to you and your audience. How precious is that❣You should do more episodes with her!
I love this. My daughter married into a Mexican family and my son-in-law's abuela cooks just like your mom with no written recipe. Tamales every Christmas is family time! Everybody gets together to help make them. I've actually gotten pretty good at spreading the masa on the hojas.
Tamales are the best food in the world.
I wish I had seen this one before my dad died. We are from San Diego and he retired on the east coast. For months he was begging me to make them and I didn’t know the process. You can read a recipe but the nuances are in the process. He passed at 66 last November. So maybe I’ll make them today. ❤❤ 🥹 love the channel. Thank you!
"i don't have measurements i just do by feel" is the key to "mom's" cooking
Right on buddy, thats the best way!
Yes,lol.
Amen brother 😆
To any cooking with repetition. That’s how you know they’ve done it so many times it’s just reflexes at that point. It also tells you people have requested it, because if it was bad you wouldn’t be asked to do it again.
Yes, I have no recipe! I go by: taste, feel and look! Learned this from my mom!
Your mama’s laughter is like music. ❤
My mom is Appalachian. They made tamales all her life. Her family was known around Knoxville for their Tennessee Tamales. Our family tamales are different from yours, but still delicious. Yours looks fantastic. Your Mama is a cutie. Thanks for sharing.
How do you make yours
I would love to hear more about these Tennessee tamales
They have to be mexicans.
@@jamielovinitt I found an article online called "Hog and Hominy: The Tale of Knoxville Tamales" that was quite neat. Basic gist was a guy who worked in a carnival and traveled around a lot learnt how to make em and brought them to Tennessee out of his food cart
Your mom is amazing. She put both feet in them tamales lol. You can see the real love you and your mom have for each other. Cherish her while you have her. She's an angel.
Thank you Thomas
SHE'S BEAUTIFUL IN EVERY WAY💯💖
I enjoyed watching you and your mom interact. She's so sweet.
Decades ago, a lady in our church made 31 different tamales. Each day had it’s special recipe. The first of the month was Blanco’s, unfilled tamales. The 31st was shrimp tamales. She filled those with chopped shrimp, and frozen peas and carrots. All were wonderful. Can’t wait to try these
Brings back alot of good memories of the past, During the Holidays, Mom used to get together with her sisters and make Dozens of tamales taking all day. My brother and I would harvest a Buck ( Deer) and mom would combine the meat with Pork to make Tamales. in the 1970's I visited my Grandmother and helped her grind white corn to make those Tamales of just Masa ( ? she had a name for them ? )they where spiced differently and she would use the green husks to wrap them. Those days (some of the Best ) are long gone but not forgotten..
Husks or banana leaves?
6:22 an absolutely precious moment! You could tell Ernie loves getting that look from his mom like, “You big dummy!” I bet he been laughing like that since childhood, you just hear his youth come through in that moment. 😂
Arnie! This is by far your best video. You are so fortunate to have such a warm-hearted, humorous, and camera-friendly mother. It is great fun to see you and your Mom making faces at the camera, (like, "He doesn't know how to do this" 😉). I learned a lot today. Thank you! And remember: all good teachers go to heaven.
Blessed are the ones who will be able to spend there last days feeling love!
I miss making tamales with my mom. Special times, you two remind me of us, thank you for the memories
What a special video, every day with mom is priceless! I grew up watching my mom in the kitchen & learned alot. At 72 the tables have turned & i get to cook alot for her. Mom's are the most special people!
My family loves the thick masa because we use chile and homemade chicken broth in the masa. You will want more masa if you make it that way. This tamales are like a burger with a thin bun.
My Mum used to add some of her sauce to the masa. It gave it color and taste. She was never satisfied with the masa from the market. She would whip in lard until the right consistency was achieved. Usually dropping a pinch of masa in water to see if it floats. It was always pork too. That was the family recipe handed down for generations.
And How would you know when the masa was just right ? Grandma shared the ultimate secret for that ! 😎
I think this is my most favorite episode - I’ve watched it several times just to master the masa spreading technique (so I can try to impress my own mom). Arnie’s mama needs to make more guest appearances, maybe even have her own channel, she is so funny. Love the bloopers at the end: “I used to roll some fat ones when I was younger” …. “I didn’t know WHY he was seeing UFOs, I just thought he was a scaredy-cat!.” Comedy gold right there. 😂🛸
lmaorof, yessir, thanks Hector
Good morning just Love your MOM and you too. She know what she is doing . You have a beautiful MOM and she raised a great SON. I wish I could smell your food because it look very delicious home cooked meals. Just love your land too. Too bad you are not my neighbors. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year....
@@ArnieTex 111¹1¹¹111¹¹11¹11¹1
Just learned this from my abuela this past year after also not paying attention to how they were made. This video was like reliving the whole experience haha Valley grandmas are very patient teachers
Dude, this made my heart super warm. Muchas gracias to you and your mom.
What a blessing to see mother and son just loving each other in such an amazing way. Every mom and son should experience. Love you two. So refreshing!!!! GOD bless
I’ve never tried them on the grill but we’d always toast them on the comal. Great for breakfast with some frijoles and fried eggs. Love this video man. Your mom is hilarious. The end of the video had me laughing 😂
We toasted the tamal in butter and top with a fried egg
Your mom is so sweet and funny! I wish I had a mom like that again.
Arnie, I love ya, buddy, but Mom stole the show!!! What wonderful, wonderful people!! Thank you so much for all of the wonderful recipes!!
I love your mom, she's so cute! This was a super cool video. I absolutely love tamales and have even tried to make them, but your mom made it look less confusing than the instructions I was following. Of course, she's been making them all her life and that alone will make it look easy.
Arnie, grew up in harlingen, this reminds me of home. Love your passion and respect for cooking and your mother. God bless
Hey Arnie, I love your Mom!!! She reminds me of my recently passed Mom, a little sassy and brassy, teaching her son what's up! I treasure the times I'd hang around the kitchen helping and her sharing how to "do it the right way"!!! I envy you, brother!!
My mom made the best tasting tamales her church ladies axillary made tamales I would sell about her tamales at work at lunch time most of the workers and management would buy them back 1983
nothing like mom cooking. my grandmom was the cook of cooks everything she made was out of this world
Your mom is a delight and a bit of a character I can tell. Loved this segment.
Man! This is my favorite video of yours I've ever seen. There's nothing like being with your Momma. Your Mom reminds me of my Abuelita.
Thank you Edward
@@ArnieTex This is why I said...Why do you need a probe, or beef injections for a brisket, Arnie. Your beautiful mother knows how to cook, by instinct, my man! Chuckwagon cooks never owned those things! And neither do I!
@@MrDoneboy hahah yessir but your forgetting how many times they and we screwed things up in the learning process, man i dried out a lot of chickens and over cooked plenty of steaks and my mom still does that on turkeys and chicken breast's omg! Over time yes we develop the ability to cook with out those tools but for newbies and beginners it's a great way to not ruin expensive meats and as far as me using them well i like toys hahaha. Thanks for your imput Don i sincerely do appreciate it.
@@ArnieTex Arnie, I am an electronic technician in my schooling history. But as a cook....I will cook a brisket on my Weber, with nothing but my remaining senses, my Texas brother!
Thank you, and God Bless us all!
That boy lives his Momma...makes me smile!
Woww, I teared up and smiled watching this. My grandma passed 3 years ago and I used to make and spread tamales with her. I miss it so much but haven't made any since with her. I also had a laugh when Arnie put to much meat because she used to always get on me for doing the same. And he's right we would make 15-20 dozen because everyone wanted some. Thanks for the memories man, continue to make more and pay attention to her recipes because when there gone you'll wish you would've.
🙏 be love to others in her memory!
I love seeing your mom and you cooking ❤ I lost my mother in law to Covid. She was the sweetest woman you could ever know. She treated me and my boys so well and this video makes me happy and sad at the same time.
This is so awesome. You are truly blessed to be able make a video like this with your mom. The tamales look great!
Yes i am blessed thank you
Lol oh man I was cracking up on the bloopers at the end 🤣
What a sweet relationship you have with your mama , reminded me of my granny and that pork looked delicious!
I’m amazed, flummoxed and bamboozled(?) that you put cream cheese on your tamales! Would never say it’s wrong, just amazed is all. 👍Love your Mom, too!
Those tamales look so delicious! I live in Texas, and you two are making us proud. ☺️
She makes this look so easy. Many years of experience. Brisket tamales are so delicious. I'll buy 3 dozen from you(lol). Totally awesome.
Thank you
Dang, you guy's are taking me back to when I was a kid and being at my Mexican friends houses around dinner time. Must be why I love authentic Mexican food so much. Man I'd love to hang out with this guy.
Favorite episode so far! Moms make it so much better, they know so much! I know you appreciate it as well!!
Brings back so memories for me from when I made tamales with my mum:) my favorite mexican food by far, n making it with family always makes it taste even better♡
Thanks for sharing your mom’s wisdom & sense of humor with us. She seems like a fantastic lady. God bless her.
Wow man. What a wholesome video. Your best yet probably. Wonderful to see you and your mom have a good time together and laugh about the UFOs 😂
Your mom is awesome!
Love tamales!!!! Thank you for sharing this very traditional recipe. My family gets together every year before the holidays to make many dozens of these amazing food. Thank you for sharing!!!!
I just discovered your channel and I love it. I’m a Texan living in Oregon and it’s hard to find traditional TexMex. West Coast Tamales have a ton of thick masa and not much filling. Your mom is great! Love her. And when people find out I’m from Texas they’ll say “I’m gonna take you for the BEST bar-b-que you’ve ever had!” I just say “please don’t!”
I never thought to use cream cheese. Can’t wait to try it! 😊
These look delicious! Is the chicken the only one you mix with the sauce?
Your channel makes me smile, your mom is absolutely lovely and I love her low-key sass. Tamales are my absolute favorite Mexican cuisine, gonna make this.
I would weigh 350lbs if this wonderful woman were my mother. Years ago, someone I know was stationed at NBC (Naval Base Coronado) and there was a regular troop of hispanic mothers and grandmothers that made these by the truckload (not exaggerating). They sold them 2/$1 to base personnel, and I'm not overstating when I say they probably sold two-thousand/day, six days a week. Thanks for sharing good times with you momma, Arnie. She's a peach.🍑
I worked in a Mexican neighborhood for 28 years & The Tamale Lady would come with fresh tamales in her car-this was every Weds. The guys in the warehouse always bought us office ladies some tamales. Sooooo delicious!
Tamales definitely don’t cost that much anymore. So sad. Especially not in CA
If to say a Prayer heavenly Father Bless the this mother hands,
For touching so many lives'
Showing so much love with her cooking ..love her son will always remember
Grateful ..
This Christmas we made about 60 Tamales
So thankful to learn your mothers way
I just made my first batch of tamales alone and I’ve been watching tons of yours and your mother’s video. Thank you so much her instructions on how to make the Masa without a mixer . I used my hands so you know the texture and consistency are correct that was what really helped me thank you. Thank you so much. My tamales taste, so good I wish you could try them.😂
😊😊
I hope you didn't add cheese, I've never heard of that
Annie, my family used to have parties to make tamales and enchiladas for the holidays. We made them for our Fiesta on the weekend closest to Mexican Independence Day in September and then through New Years. My mom would mix course ground hominy in her masa. We made mostly tamales that were savory but she would have us make sweet tamales with fruit in the and white masa. These sweet ones where saved for Easter Morning and Christmas.
I always tried to put to much filling in mine and to thick masa. Momma always had us sit the tails on the husks to tie the tamales husks. We actually collected corn in the husk from the field before the fields were harvested. Really kept the family close doing these group things.
I love this video of mom and son cooking together ❤️
Tamales look delicious 🤤🫔
I love spending time in kitchen with my mom, learning, taking on a few tips n stuff. It is more than just about food...
You are a very lucky man, Arnie.
Gotta love abuelites and their extremely precise hand measurements! Much love Arnie
Thank you
4 years later and still loving this video! Thanks for sharing the whole experience! I used to roll a fat one when I was younger too! hehehe
Those tamales look SO good! What a blessing that you got to share this time with your mother.😊
Oh yeah. That's BEAUTIFUL FOOD right there. I'm in. Thank you! I picked up a giant bag of masa at Sam's Club with the intention of making tamales, but then clean forgot until now. I'm doing this, have a freezer full of meat that's going to get cooked. I love you and especially your mom. Lol
Hi Arnie, I love when you cook with your Mom! She is so sweet and funny! I like how she jokes around with you! Thank you for showing us those yummy recipes!
Your mom is amazing bro. You're blessed. My mom used to make really good tamales too. Good memories.
Thank you
God has truly blessed you Arnie to have your mother teach you how to make tamales, i make them but took a class on making them, and i cheat using a masa spreader, sometimes they will have them at HEB.it was invented by a woman in Corpus CHRISTI and it cut the time making them in half.
I wouldn't say that's cheating. They use a plastic in some restaurants when they tamales.
@@SynnJynn thanks, the spreaders save alot of time.
Arnie, your Mom is so Kool to show us her way of making tamales, especially her technique of making & spreading the Masa ! Thank you both !
this is a great video, two pros going at it. of course mom won. I love tamales and toast them on the bbq pit too, make them crispy
yessir thats some good tamales like that
What a precious moment of time. Thank you for sharing this with us.
I loved this! I so wish my mom was still here to cook with, please keep the videos coming ❤
You're a blessed man Arnie. Savor those precious times with your mom and tell her thanks from many, as we will be making them sóon.. ! I gotta go roll a fat one myself
Arnie, I'd love a video with your mamma showing you (us) how to make restaurant style refried pinto and or black beans. Yummy!
I've made them before-easily soaked in the instant pot. I know I used a chicken bone broth that had collagen in it so it was thick like gelatin. That made them so yummy and creamy. I finished them in a cast iron skillet. Unfortunately, I don't remember anything else about how I made them and I would love and appreciate a tutorial from your loving kitchen.
Hoping you had a lovely day giving thanks, 2 days ago.
Much adoration, C. R.
Been planning a refried bean video soon, more like 2023, tnx
I love the dynamic you two have together. I've made tamales once many years ago for Christmas, this makes me want to make them again!
Thanks for including the out-takes. Made my day! Your mom is a crackup! :)
Im a Texan born and bred. But i have lived in Indiana for 14 years and i cant tell you how much i miss Texas and the food so much.
Many years ago I moved from N. Texas to S. California and I thought I’d never have good Mexican food again. Moved back to Texas in ‘95, thought I’d never have good Mexican food again. 😊 I think I’m very fortunate to have eaten some really good Mexican food everywhere I’ve ever lived.
Great video! Y'all need to do some more together!!! Love good tamales!!!
You and your mama are awesome.
There is nothing like cooking with our Mom's. I learned so much from mine.
Thanks Greg
That was how I learned from my mother-in-law, this much, that much, all by sight...what great memories.
Love y’all!! So happy to see your mom (my prima🤗). Missing y’all. Have a blessed Christmas 🎄 🥰
Thank you Nellie, miss yall too, Merry Christmas and hope to see you all next year.
Oh man, this hit me with childhood memories. I miss growing up in Corpus Christi and going over to my friends house while his gramma made tamales. Amazing video you two! You two are the cutest together and I was smiling the whole time. ❤❤
Please do another video showing how to prepare and flavor the Masa
I love your step by step detail process. Also, I understand when your mom says about not measuring but you feel and taste it by eyeballing the amount. Experience cooks know the process and are amazing at eyeballing ingredients. I have seen so many tamale making videos and you guys definitely is the one I'm using to make my first few dozen of 🫔. I love just the work smarter work ethic that still has the same great taste.
You're mom is wonderful thank you for sharing both your skills
The tomalleys look delicious
I love all the love that goes into making this beautiful dish . When we lived los banos California a sweet lady would sell tamales 🫔 from her car and they were delicious, my son worked there bringing in the carts and helping people load up their groceries, he was 17 and she would give him tamales every time she was there. It gave him very good memories,what a kind way to show kindness. I’m going to try this thank you 😊
We lived in Los Banos too. Worked at Pea soup! Now in AZ.
This video warmed my heart, you mom sounded just like my grandma, rest her soul. Makes my miss her so much. I am in Texas too, let me know when I can go over! 🥰
You always make me hungry, keep up the great recipes.
God bless you and your mother Arnie, true love and great video. Respect!
Thank you for sharing your mom's tamales with us I didn't pay attention to when Grandmother was making them I wish I did. We were little thank you looks delicious 💖🙏 🤗
Holy smokes, my grandma raised me. I have so many amazing memories of her teaching me how to cook, this video brought so many memories. Thank you.
Wow! That brisket looked so good!
Awesome mom. Reminds me
Of my mom. God bless her.
May I ask, what kind of dried chillies were those? What kind of cheese? I go to the store and there are 15 varieties of chillies and all kinds of cheese. Obviously, I don't know what I am doing... Those tamales look really, really good.
Your Mother is great she raised you right enjoy your mother while you can Arnie would love to meet you both.😎👍
Man Arnie, these look awesome! I've been wanting to try bbq tamales for some time, thanks to your video this is the year I'm doing this. Great to see you cooking with your Mom. I lost my my two weeks ago to covid, like you I learned a lot from my Mom. Those are learnings you'll always treasure!
BTW not sure if you recall, a few years back you were doing a cook at West Side Grill in Katy (now it's Texas Star Grill Shop) on a Hasty Bake, you gave me a bag of Rockwood lump charcoal. Thank You! (BTW, you need to come back to Katy w/your Mom and make some tamales for us LOL)
Hello Rob, sure do remember you, thanks for the nice words, very sorry for your loss my friend, prayers for you and your family.
Rob I'm sorry about your mom's passing, may she rest in peace.
Bless su madre!! I’m
A California boy that has been cooking Texas style bbq for 15 years but also has authentic Mexican food all around me. I can’t wait to take abuelitas lessons and make bbq tamales for my family!!!
Oh my word! These look amazing I didn't have any luck convincing my mom to make non traditional tamales so I'm going to take a stab at this myself! Thanks for the step by step instructions this should really help me out. One thing though, does the chile puree go into the brisket as well? I don't want to mess this up and disappoint Mama Arnie.
I did not put the puree in the brisket for this video but from then on we do and also chop the brisket a little finer. Without the puree and with chunky brisket it tends to fall out while eating it, so the puree helps it stick together
This is the best video ever love how she uses a reg pot with the coffee cup and reg pot thank you
I absolutely love Mexican food and can make almost any of it, except tamales. I was hoping to get a recipe from your mom. 😢 I can't even complain about it too much because I cook the same way 😂. I'm getting older so I have tried writing my recipes down but it's impossible since I don't really measure anything. The secrets die wih me I guess.
Lol I guess it is a Mexican thing not measuring... we go by feel😎
@@virginiawilliams8947a black thing too✊🏾
You can leave your recipes. Just write the ingredients and spices you used to make dish. They can figure it out by practice. I remember learning how to make certain dishes but did not always remember all the spices added or oils or powder or sodas. Thats what is important. All you used to make dishes taste like they should.
I love them. My stepdaughters made them for Christmas. However, I was working in Tennessee, before moving out west, we had a young woman who'd cater the factory I worked at. It was years ago and what she sold was about the only thing I could afford or get to for a daily meal. I promise I didn't know you weren't supposed to eat the husk.lol I did it for months before someone told me. It's doable.
😂😂😂 that alone would have stopped me from eating tamales...
Your mother is a treasure. These look amazing.
Did u use the sauce on the brisket or u just added chopped brisket to the tamales
No way no sauce for tamales lol. Just chopped the brisket then added to tamales. I do think now I would chop a little finer and sautee in the chili sauce then put them in the tamale but I wanted to try it dry first, it was sill very good.
@@ArnieTex oh okay yea I was wondering if you sautéed the brisket in the red sauce lol but thanks! I’ll try this tomrrow
Reminds me of Christmas in Texas. A mom and son used to sell tamales door to door in Houston when I was a kid. We would buy all we could afford and freeze them. I still make tamales every year now around Christmas. No one in Georgia makes authentic tamales. I’m going to try the cream cheese even though that’s not old school, but sounds good. I enjoyed the video! Thanks!
Believe me when I said it, my man. You will treasure this moment for a lifetime.
(Edit: I wonder what it would be like if you reheated tamales in a smoker?)
Reheating tamales in the smoker will probably give them a nice smokey taste.