Tamales are a delicious Mexican staple and come in a wide variety of savory styles. However, did you know you can also make ...

These homemade tortillas start with a dough made from whole-grain ... The resulting dough, called masa, is the basis for corn tortillas, chips, tamales and other specialty corn foods.

Yes, chocolate tamales are a thing. The easiest way to make them may be to mix some cocoa powder into the sweetened masa ...

then grinding it into a dough that can become a variety of traditional products. Tortillas and tamales might be the best known to us Americans, but the list goes on to include sopes, pupusas, tlacoyas ...

The history of tamales is almost as old as the history of Mexico and these lovingly-wrapped packages of goodness are part of ...

“If you haven't tried making cooked-masa varieties of tamales ... They are ready when the wrapper peels off easily and the dough looks firm. Tamales go in the steamer vertically.

I know the word “masa” means dough ... an alkaline substance to soften its hull and make it more nutritious, then grinding it into a dough that can become a variety of traditional products.