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**jobberone** · 02-09-2013

Good Morning Pops and all. Phil have a great time. Glad momma is happy. Guo nian hao to all my Chinese friends. Today is the Chinese New Year and we wish everyone happiness, long life and good health, and may you all be prosperous. So guo nian hao or Happy New Year to all. Keep those in the NE safe and warm. And welcome Angus.

**ABQCOWBOY** · 02-09-2013

Morning Pops. Morning Fellas. Good Morning to any who might drop in this way.

Phil, sounds like you are having a blast. I would not be to terribly disappointed if I were hanging out in South Beach, drinking deadly little cute pink drinks and the Wife by my side, very happy. Sounds perfect to me old buddy. Certainly worth a little sun burn on the old dome.

Enjoy it for all of us land locked unfortunates please.

Everybody, have a great day.

LeonDixson · 02-10-2013

Morning Cbz. Morning Y'all. Have a blessed day today and root for Tony in the Pebble Beach Pro/Am today.

Phil and family, have a ball, gang!

ologan · 02-10-2013

Morning Pop's and all regulars who stop by! Reporting in after a semi long hiatus of travel and what not. Stay safe,all!

**justbob** · 02-10-2013

Afternoon Pops and good people (not referring to Phil )

**ABQCOWBOY** · 02-10-2013

Good Afternoon Pops. Afternoon fellas. Hope everybody is having a great Sunday.

Green Chile Stew today. Gotta go start chopping stuff up.

Take good care everyone!

**jobberone** · 02-10-2013

Good afternoon Pops and all. Eat some chili for me ABQ. You guys enjoy your day.

LeonDixson · 02-11-2013

Morning Cbz. Morning folks. Let's get this week off to a good start by smiling at everyone you meet. Have a great day.

**justbob** · 02-11-2013

Morning Pops and Morning crew----get out there and kick Mondays butt---but be quite,I'm going back to bed...

**ABQCOWBOY** · 02-11-2013

Morning Pops. Morning Folks.

Was a nice weekend for me. Hopefully, the week will be along the same lines.

Everybody, have a great day!

**justbob** · 02-11-2013

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Originally Posted by ABQCOWBOY

Morning Pops. Morning Folks.

Was a nice weekend for me. Hopefully, the week will be along the same lines.

Everybody, have a great day!

I need your soak the chillis tamale recipe Q

juck · 02-11-2013

Who is Pops if I may ask?

**ABQCOWBOY** · 02-11-2013

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Originally Posted by justbob

I need your soak the chillis tamale recipe Q

Take Chile Pods (dried red chile) de-stem them and soak them over night. Take the chile, put them into a blender, add water, fresh cloves of garlic, cumin, salt, pepper (add honey if you want to make them a little sweeter) and blend them well on puree.

Take a pork roast, slow cook it well until it is tender (overnight works). Take a fork and shred the roast once it's done. Then take your chile and mix in well.

I recommend you buy the Massa or order it if you can't get it in your neck of the woods. It's a lot harder to make Massa then if you just order it. Here is a link to something called Maseca. This generally works pretty well but it's not as good as Massa that is already made.

http://www.mexgrocer.com/2445.html

You will need to get corn husks as well. Once you have the Chile and Pork made, take your Massa and spread it over the corn husks. You will need to put the Corn Husks in water. Cover the husks on one side completely. Once you have done this, fill the husk with meat, role it up, folding the bottom part of the husk over and tie it if you have to. You can roll it in such a way as to tuck the bottom in but I can't really explain it to you. Would probably have to show you, which is tough.

Continue this process until you have rolled as many as you want. Once you are done making you Tamales, put them in a steaming pan. Be sure not to cover the bottoms of them with water. Just enough water to steam with. cover them and cook them until they are done. 45 minutes is usually sufficient but you will know when they are done. The massa will have turned to something like cornmeal and it will bind together to make the tamale once you have unrolled the tamale.

Good luck Amigo!

**ABQCOWBOY** · 02-11-2013

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Originally Posted by juck

Who is Pops if I may ask?

Pops is a former MOD/Member who passed away in 2009. His real name was Weldon. He went by Cbz40 on this board but many who new him called him Pops. He was older but he was older in that kind of way that makes you wiser, if you know what I mean. He was a school teacher by trade. Taught Band among other things. If you knew him, he was the sort that never had a negative way of doing things. Even when he might be correcting you, it was never in a way that made you feel as if you were being punished. He spoke to you in a way that would make it easy for you to understand what it was that was wrong and most times, you would be happy to correct the problem of your own accord. He just had a way of making you feel human about the whole thing and he made you want to be better.

That's kind of hard to visualize on a message board, I know, but that's exactly the kind of person he was.

This is why this thread is still alive. It's not only the memory of him, it's also what he brought out of a person that this thread is about. You don't ever see people treating one another poorly or without respect in this thread. You don't see the back and forth on issues and the arguing that goes on in almost any other thread. This thread is more about living up to the example Pops showed us.

Anybody is welcome to post in this thread, regardless of if you knew Pops or not, so long as you want to be a part of his example.

He was a good friend and a good person and he is missed.

**justbob** · 02-11-2013

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Originally Posted by ABQCOWBOY

Pops is a former MOD/Member who passed away in 2009. His real name was Weldon. He went by Cbz40 on this board but many who new him called him Pops. He was older but he was older in that kind of way that makes you wiser, if you know what I mean. He was a school teacher by trade. Taught Band among other things. If you knew him, he was the sort that never had a negative way of doing things. Even when he might be correcting you, it was never in a way that made you feel as if you were being punished. He spoke to you in a way that would make it easy for you to understand what it was that was wrong and most times, you would be happy to correct the problem of your own accord. He just had a way of making you feel human about the whole thing and he made you want to be better.

That's kind of hard to visualize on a message board, I know, but that's exactly the kind of person he was.

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Exactly --well said ABQ...and thanks --

-going to snow tomorrow and I just might make my first tamale attempt...If not I make a killer carne guisada. Got the massa --we make our on corn tortillas and I grind my own wheat for whole wheat flour tortillas. ABout how many chilles do you soak