St. Sam's and St. Bede's Recipe Pages
                Bon Appetit!
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Hot Tamale Pie, according to this Coon-ass's cookbook:
 
Like all things Cajun, 
first you take a couple of onions, chopped, 
a large bell pepper, chopped, and 
a cup of chopped celery (known as the "holy trinity"), and 
one minced clove of garlic and 
saute the whole mess with 
2 pounds or so of ground beef in a big ol' black iron skillet.
 
Add one of those small cans of tomato paste (6 oz?),
season to taste (salt, red pepper or tabasco, chili powder).  
Add 1 cup of water and simmer for an hour or so.
 
Take one cup of corn meal, mix with about 3 cups cold water.  
Take the drippings from the meat and 
add it to the corn meal and salt to taste.
Cook it in a pan for about 20 minutes over low heat.  
 
Combine with the meat mixture and season to taste.  
Put the whole mess in a casserole dish and 
cook over a hot water bath for 2 hours.


- enjoy -
Andrew H. Auld; getting fatter in Largo 

From: "Andrew H. Auld"
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 
Subject: Re: Whatcha cooking?