Tamales, a Christmastime tradition

[@diana210789]

What a lovely family! Love my culture!

[@molivarez9006]

My mom is in her mid 80's and still makes tamales, thanks mom!!

[@user-uv4mp1jt1c]

What a wonderful family tradition! Love the last pic of all the hands around the bowl!

[@jorgerodriguez85]

300 dozen tamales made. Sometimes I feel my aunt would make me eat that many at one time.😋

[@michaelwertzy9808]

Now that's a Tia you have to love!

[@magrlop9456]

wow, this could be my family at Xmas!! every Mexican American family can relate to this story. for us, we are a family of 5 siblings, 7 grandkids, my parents and this year I have calculated that to make 40 pounds of masa for tamales, me and my Mom spent a total of 23 hours in total from beginning (shopping, prep, etc)...this is from scratch. There is a HUGE difference from buying the masa "prepared". I would never ever trade doing from scratch that is what makes all the difference for us. Mom never measures either but I try to write it down and video it as much because her recipes are to be treasured for generations to come in our family.

[@gentleraine480]

mag rlop Have diverse friends and begged for a recipe-No restaurant can compare to home cooking...Still trying but traditions are fun!

[@mitchellcorona8]

Did you ever read "To Many Tamales" as a kid?

[@mariofalfan2997]

The Xmas music, in a mariachi theme, love it !

[@LaBucci]

Reminds me of my moms Mexican Tamales 😭🇲🇽 nothing compares ❤️

[@EmersonContreras005]

Thumps up if your family belongs to the mesoamerica region👍🏼
None of those tamales can compare to my mother's tamales. I love you mom! Feliz navidad!

[@KarLuv]

Beautiful Tradition!!

[@AAP-ml2fy]

Seeing those hands around tamales gives me a sense of what it means to be Mexican, and it also lets me know that Mexicans can be all colors we can be white, black, brown, yellow, or blue!!!!

[@rgdssd]

I ❤️ tamales and love that our Mexican-American families continue this tradition!
We are 4th generation and teaching the kids to make tamales. ❤️

[@gentleraine480]

This is mouthwatering and awesome!!! Hungry with tears of JOY!!!❤️

[@wdh47211]

That is so nice that they get together for a tradition ....Mo...Please bring back your show Grandma's kitchen or whatever it was called.

[@Smileyyy21]

That's amazing imagine if all families did this.

[@wpl6661]

Christmas is about 1,600 years old. Tamale making is 7,000 years old.

[@Nickhehehe]

If anyone can get me in touch with the Ruiz family... I'm trying to come for next years christmas. Lol.

[@teleopinions1367]

That's what Latinos call "Family Values." I think it is incredible that those traditions have been passed on from generation to generation for hundreds if not thousands of years. Home made food, not already made and bought or frozen makes family bonds stronger. It also keeps that culture alive. The cubans, Puerto Ricans and Nicaraguans in South Florida do similar gatherings for Christmas as well.

[@daniellozada3408]

That’s what all ppl do not just Latinos

[@ReisWorld]

Dang they be using tools we just use a spoon lol.

[@KenRayes]

Great Video that I use in my English Composition class to illustrate the way food reflects our culture. Thanks to Mo Rocca!

[@abcragabc6466]

I'm from the northern mountains of New Mexico and my family has been making tamales for many, many generations. It runs deep in our blood, in our culture. I will say our tamales are made a bit differently and look a whole lot better. I'm so thankful for my mother, her mother and mother's mother and so forth. It's traditional to make dozens of tamales for Christmas but we also eat them year round.

[@newvibes789]

Beautiful!!!! Great job Mo!

[@kamikazekid94]

Sweet story

[@Flecha57]

Reminds me of the Puertorrican pasteles. They take a lot of work to make, but they are simply delicious.
This was a great story. Mo was great as always. :))

[@gardenchef8298]

I miss pastries, they don't make them in California. My friend from college, mother,aunts and grandmother made them for me and they will always be in my heart. I make them for my family at least once a year.

[@gardenchef8298]

Have to spell check, pasteles 😃

[@samimotag]

I wish them the best! I would love to try bean tamales. In my area, it's meat tamales, sweet corn, or green chile.

[@minarosered6699]

I know I was raised on meat tamales. Need to eat less meat. 😥

[@ignatiusbisko2716]

Yay.... Tamales!

[@minarosered6699]

Tamales, a great tradition for Christmas Eve! Everyone makes them differently. Ours have to have the perfect ratio of spicy meat to well-flavored Masa dough and they have to be very moist, cooked in spicy broth not steamed. No dried-out ends or bland tasting tamales allowed!

[@kaylawalker312]

We always had chicken tamales at Christmas.

[@rumination608]

I remember my Abuela would make tamales for Christmas. Good memories!

[@rugus722]

Love tamales, Viva Mexico!

[@lasenoritacometa1977]

That’s what we did (my 4 sisters + me) and special guest my mother ❤️ and we made 70 dozen tamales 😋

[@CarterKey6]

I’m just American but my grandfather loved his tamales

[@christelheadington1136]

An army of cooks would help.My husband loved tamales.I decided to make them from scratch for him,ONCE.I think a full turkey dinner w/all the trimmings.is easier.

[@ariannaazevedo6987]

Christel Headington yeah it’s so much work! That’s why we only make them once a year! Lol

[@antoniams4510]

Tamales are a prehispánic food that they use to give when someone died, (funerals?) With the years it became more versatile. This is very popular quick meal when people is hurry going to work or in the weekends; also at the traditional ofrenda de Día de muertos.

[@MrGmed1990]

3:18 what kind of bean are you? 🤣

[@RemnantCult]

Forget turkey and stuffing. I had tamales for Christmas!

[@navindavoodi6065]

“What kind of bean are you?”
“I’m a tamale”

[@joshw6993]

Green chile chicken tamales are my fave...and I can eat a dozen without thinking.....SO DAMN GREAT

[@randystone6781]

Those look so good, especially the bean!

[@timevampire83]

Now I want tamales!

[@mariocisneros911]

It was fun making tamales with the family during the holidays. Of course some turned out skimpy while others turned out fat

[@yoliehines4399]

Tamales are 😋😋😋

[@kopec82]

Awesome

[@user-vm5ud4xw6n]

That looks like a blast! Can I come?

[@crytala2467]

Tamales mmm the best!!!

[@brianbullard8291]

Nice story😊

[@TheRickluna]

No tamales for Trump, and no wall either!

[@starbuono3333]

Well , My family and I are MEXICAN and ALOT of our MEXICAN FRIENDS LOVE PRESIDENT TRUMPand WE WILL TAKE OUR GREAT PRESIDENT SOME TAMALES AND HELP IN BUILDING THAT WALL TOO !!

[@rgdssd]

TheRickluna he can stay eating his taco salad, fake Mexican food for a fake, corrupt President! 😂

[@rgdssd]

Star buono I'm so sorry you have such low self-esteem- loving someone who hates you. It's like a wife who has been physically abused by a husband but still loves him.
That's a shame.

[@cherrygarcia1]

@@starbuono3333 build the wall with tamales...if he loved Hispanics so much he wouldn't put us all in one group ..you know the group where he talks about rapist and murderers..

[@samimotag]

Amen to that!

[@moniquewrites9046]

This would be a great food drive!

[@aldoaguilar1364]

it’s such a great meal.

[@ColoringKaria]

I like my mother’s tamales much better.

[@tinalaplaca6638]

l think this is total delicious. l love tamales. Xmas is a great season for this

[@chrisreal1541]

My immediate family did not make tamales but my paternal aunts did and they were delicious.

[@80sruler]

Mmmmmm tamales - I always get one ala cart if not part of my meal

[@maryholeman5976]

Homeade tamales are delicious!

[@ectoplasmicentity]

00:31 not this year

[@mariocisneros911]

My mama 1 year wanted made the tamales wrapped in aluminum foil , they weren't moist. SHE WENT BACK TO CORN LEAVES AFTER THAT.

[@MBest12]

if they were my friends i would weigh 900lbs

[@ninakupchenko5744]

I want Mexico tamala. 😋

[@theeyeinthesky3854]

All Latinos we eat tamales or in Puerto Rico pasteles.but in a universal word are tamales.

[@daniellozada3408]

There’s a difference

[@2006TJS]

Oh my god we eat that everyday in Mexico March July aug all the time lol in USA November threw January only

[@bigbaddawg104]

Tamales in Austin. Lol. Now I've seen it all.

[@AuroraGonzalez77]

My mom's Tamales are the best

[@gloriataylor6868]

Viva las tamales !!!

[@sincerelyAdri]

What kind of bean are you?
I’m a tamal

[@deenapaul6935]

In our province We call tamales "boboto"..

[@ghettopopfilter6914]

3:18 so what kind of bean are you

[@acajudi100]

Use vegetable oil and not lard. Chicken and not pork.

[@mariocisneros911]

Marry a Mexican girl who learned to cook from her mama

[@nini1957]

Yo tengo tamales

[@JustPeople]

Ugh, Mo Rocca. Mr. Lucky.

[@AnnA-ve7im]

It's definitely a wrap for me so tired of tamales for now over did

[@edyann]

My vegan tamales are the best. ♡♡♡

[@stevensonjc21]

Why he butcher yolandas name like that. Smh

[@CarterKey6]

The lesbian “journalist” is so cute