Christmas Special Tamales

Ingredients:

Mass:
2 kilos corn breaking mass
1 1/2 kilos lard melt
1/2 kilo pork rib
1 goose of 1 1/2 pounds

Filling:
4 cups cooked rice
3 cans chickpeas
2 cans peas (petit pois)
1 jar olives stuffed
1 pound cooked carrot, sliced
1 k vainicas cooked
4 chilli peppers, chopped
60 plums

Preparation:

Mass:
Cook
meat with all the desired condiments, and sift the broth.
Add broth to the dough and mix well with wooden spoon.
Place in the fire and cook until it boils, while moving.
Add the lard melt and season with salt to taste.
Remove from the fire.

Place one tablespoon of the dough on banana leaves.
Decorate with all ingredients.
Wrap the tamale in the leaves and tie.

Cook tamales in a large pot with boiling water for 35 minutes.

Christmas Peppercorn Pork Medallions with Cranberry Sauce

Ingredients:

1 pound pork tenderloin
1 cup Spirited Cranberry-Apricot Sauce
3 tbsp balsamic vinegar
2 tbsp water
2 tsp cracked black pepper
2 tsp butter
1 tsp lemon pepper
1 tsp vegetable oil

Preparing:

Trim fat from pork and cut crosswise into 8 pieces.
Place each piece between 2 sheets of plastic wrap.

Flatten
each piece to 1/2-inch thickness using a meat mallet or rolling pin.
Sprinkle both sides of pork with pepper.

Cook the pork in hte oil for 5 minutes on each side, remove from the pan and keep warm.
Add vinegar and water to pan and cook for 1 minute stirring constantly.
Stir in the Spirited Crandberry-Apricot Sauce and butter and for 1 more minute, stirring constantly.

Serve sauce with pork.

Christmas Cajun Vegetables

Ingredients:

4 corn cobs
2 sweet potatoes, scrubbed but not peeled
2 tbsp butter, melted
2 tsp paprika
1 tsp ground cumin
1 tsp ground coriander
1 tsp ground black pepper
1/2 tsp chilli powder

Preparing:

Preheat the grill.

Mix all the spices together.
Remove the husks and silks from the corn cobs, then cut each one into 4 equal chunks.
Cut sweet potatoes into thick slices.

Brush the corn and sweet potatoes with melted butter and sprinkle with some spice mix.
Cook over medium-hot coals, turning frencuently for 15minutes.
Brush with more melted butter and srpinkle with extra spice mixture during cooking.