"i don't have measurements i just do by feel" is the key to "mom's" cooking

@ArnieTex

2 жыл бұрын

Right on buddy, thats the best way!

@SynnJynn

Жыл бұрын

Yes,lol.

@Daniel-vf5oc

Жыл бұрын

Amen brother 😆

@mrgreanjeans

Жыл бұрын

To any cooking with repetition. That’s how you know they’ve done it so many times it’s just reflexes at that point. It also tells you people have requested it, because if it was bad you wouldn’t be asked to do it again.

@nancymoreno9955

Жыл бұрын

Yes, I have no recipe! I go by: taste, feel and look! Learned this from my mom!

My mom just passed away yesterday... So I'm on youtube watching folks enjoy spending time with their mums. I guess this is my way of coping Edit* I'm happy I watched this. I love cooking, my mom loved cooking, and I feel a little more at ease. Thank you Arnie and thank you for sharing your delightful mum with youtube

@wm.nabors4243

6 ай бұрын

So sorry, condolences... B-KO

@ZombieloverTX

6 ай бұрын

My condolences. she is in a good place, as she rest. god bless you and remember the happytimes, rejoice her life her love🙏🙌.

@veronicagonzales4781

6 ай бұрын

I’m sorry about your mom my condolences ❤

@veronicamoorman2645

6 ай бұрын

I am sorry for your loss..may JESUS the Comforter give you peace and comfort during this difficult time. In JESUS HOLY name I pray. ❤

@elle8hcim

5 ай бұрын

Condolences 💐

I love this. My daughter married into a Mexican family and my son-in-law's abuela cooks just like your mom with no written recipe. Tamales every Christmas is family time! Everybody gets together to help make them. I've actually gotten pretty good at spreading the masa on the hojas.

@jdos5643

7 ай бұрын

Tamales are the best food in the world.

Your mom is amazing. She put both feet in them tamales lol. You can see the real love you and your mom have for each other. Cherish her while you have her. She's an angel.

@ArnieTex

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Thomas

@valerieneal2747

Жыл бұрын

SHE'S BEAUTIFUL IN EVERY WAY💯💖

My mom is Appalachian. They made tamales all her life. Her family was known around Knoxville for their Tennessee Tamales. Our family tamales are different from yours, but still delicious. Yours looks fantastic. Your Mama is a cutie. Thanks for sharing.

@scottrawlins8165

9 ай бұрын

How do you make yours

Im a Texan born and bred. But i have lived in Indiana for 14 years and i cant tell you how much i miss Texas and the food so much.

I think this is my most favorite episode - I’ve watched it several times just to master the masa spreading technique (so I can try to impress my own mom). Arnie’s mama needs to make more guest appearances, maybe even have her own channel, she is so funny. Love the bloopers at the end: “I used to roll some fat ones when I was younger” …. “I didn’t know WHY he was seeing UFOs, I just thought he was a scaredy-cat!.” Comedy gold right there. 😂🛸

@ArnieTex

2 жыл бұрын

lmaorof, yessir, thanks Hector

@marymolina9801

Жыл бұрын

Good morning just Love your MOM and you too. She know what she is doing . You have a beautiful MOM and she raised a great SON. I wish I could smell your food because it look very delicious home cooked meals. Just love your land too. Too bad you are not my neighbors. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year....

@ardythclark7096

Жыл бұрын

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That was how I learned from my mother-in-law, this much, that much, all by sight...what great memories.

6:22 an absolutely precious moment! You could tell Ernie loves getting that look from his mom like, “You big dummy!” I bet he been laughing like that since childhood, you just hear his youth come through in that moment. 😂

Decades ago, a lady in our church made 31 different tamales. Each day had it’s special recipe. The first of the month was Blanco’s, unfilled tamales. The 31st was shrimp tamales. She filled those with chopped shrimp, and frozen peas and carrots. All were wonderful. Can’t wait to try these

Brings back alot of good memories of the past, During the Holidays, Mom used to get together with her sisters and make Dozens of tamales taking all day. My brother and I would harvest a Buck ( Deer) and mom would combine the meat with Pork to make Tamales. in the 1970's I visited my Grandmother and helped her grind white corn to make those Tamales of just Masa ( ? she had a name for them ? )they where spiced differently and she would use the green husks to wrap them. Those days (some of the Best ) are long gone but not forgotten..

@ivetterodriguez1994

Жыл бұрын

Husks or banana leaves?

Blessed are the ones who will be able to spend there last days feeling love!

That boy lives his Momma...makes me smile!

I would weigh 350lbs if this wonderful woman were my mother. Years ago, someone I know was stationed at NBC (Naval Base Coronado) and there was a regular troop of hispanic mothers and grandmothers that made these by the truckload (not exaggerating). They sold them 2/$1 to base personnel, and I'm not overstating when I say they probably sold two-thousand/day, six days a week. Thanks for sharing good times with you momma, Arnie. She's a peach.🍑

@sewingintrifocals-alisonde7778

Жыл бұрын

I worked in a Mexican neighborhood for 28 years & The Tamale Lady would come with fresh tamales in her car-this was every Weds. The guys in the warehouse always bought us office ladies some tamales. Sooooo delicious!

@eileengalindo4949

Жыл бұрын

Tamales definitely don’t cost that much anymore. So sad. Especially not in CA

Your mama’s laughter is like music. ❤

My Mum used to add some of her sauce to the masa. It gave it color and taste. She was never satisfied with the masa from the market. She would whip in lard until the right consistency was achieved. Usually dropping a pinch of masa in water to see if it floats. It was always pork too. That was the family recipe handed down for generations.

Arnie! This is by far your best video. You are so fortunate to have such a warm-hearted, humorous, and camera-friendly mother. It is great fun to see you and your Mom making faces at the camera, (like, "He doesn't know how to do this" 😉). I learned a lot today. Thank you! And remember: all good teachers go to heaven.

I’ve never tried them on the grill but we’d always toast them on the comal. Great for breakfast with some frijoles and fried eggs. Love this video man. Your mom is hilarious. The end of the video had me laughing 😂

@cabighorse

Жыл бұрын

We toasted the tamal in butter and top with a fried egg

Man! This is my favorite video of yours I've ever seen. There's nothing like being with your Momma. Your Mom reminds me of my Abuelita.

@ArnieTex

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Edward

@MrDoneboy

2 жыл бұрын

@@ArnieTex This is why I said...Why do you need a probe, or beef injections for a brisket, Arnie. Your beautiful mother knows how to cook, by instinct, my man! Chuckwagon cooks never owned those things! And neither do I!

@ArnieTex

2 жыл бұрын

@@MrDoneboy hahah yessir but your forgetting how many times they and we screwed things up in the learning process, man i dried out a lot of chickens and over cooked plenty of steaks and my mom still does that on turkeys and chicken breast's omg! Over time yes we develop the ability to cook with out those tools but for newbies and beginners it's a great way to not ruin expensive meats and as far as me using them well i like toys hahaha. Thanks for your imput Don i sincerely do appreciate it.

@MrDoneboy

2 жыл бұрын

@@ArnieTex Arnie, I am an electronic technician in my schooling history. But as a cook....I will cook a brisket on my Weber, with nothing but my remaining senses, my Texas brother!

@MrDoneboy

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, and God Bless us all!

I’m amazed, flummoxed and bamboozled(?) that you put cream cheese on your tamales! Would never say it’s wrong, just amazed is all. 👍Love your Mom, too!

nothing like mom cooking. my grandmom was the cook of cooks everything she made was out of this world

I never thought to use cream cheese. Can’t wait to try it! 😊

@linkay6

Жыл бұрын

These look delicious! Is the chicken the only one you mix with the sauce?

I miss making tamales with my mom. Special times, you two remind me of us, thank you for the memories

Just learned this from my abuela this past year after also not paying attention to how they were made. This video was like reliving the whole experience haha Valley grandmas are very patient teachers

If to say a Prayer heavenly Father Bless the this mother hands, For touching so many lives' Showing so much love with her cooking ..love her son will always remember Grateful .. This Christmas we made about 60 Tamales So thankful to learn your mothers way

Woww, I teared up and smiled watching this. My grandma passed 3 years ago and I used to make and spread tamales with her. I miss it so much but haven't made any since with her. I also had a laugh when Arnie put to much meat because she used to always get on me for doing the same. And he's right we would make 15-20 dozen because everyone wanted some. Thanks for the memories man, continue to make more and pay attention to her recipes because when there gone you'll wish you would've.

@heisrisen7961

Жыл бұрын

🙏 be love to others in her memory!

Those tamales look so delicious! I live in Texas, and you two are making us proud. ☺️

Lol oh man I was cracking up on the bloopers at the end 🤣

What a special video, every day with mom is priceless! I grew up watching my mom in the kitchen & learned alot. At 72 the tables have turned & i get to cook alot for her. Mom's are the most special people!

I love all the love that goes into making this beautiful dish . When we lived los banos California a sweet lady would sell tamales 🫔 from her car and they were delicious, my son worked there bringing in the carts and helping people load up their groceries, he was 17 and she would give him tamales every time she was there. It gave him very good memories,what a kind way to show kindness. I’m going to try this thank you 😊

@tomlindanachtmann8917

2 жыл бұрын

We lived in Los Banos too. Worked at Pea soup! Now in AZ.

I love seeing your mom and you cooking ❤ I lost my mother in law to Covid. She was the sweetest woman you could ever know. She treated me and my boys so well and this video makes me happy and sad at the same time.

Dude, this made my heart super warm. Muchas gracias to you and your mom.

What a sweet relationship you have with your mama , reminded me of my granny and that pork looked delicious!

My family loves the thick masa because we use chile and homemade chicken broth in the masa. You will want more masa if you make it that way. This tamales are like a burger with a thin bun.

Hey Arnie, I love your Mom!!! She reminds me of my recently passed Mom, a little sassy and brassy, teaching her son what's up! I treasure the times I'd hang around the kitchen helping and her sharing how to "do it the right way"!!! I envy you, brother!!

@davidortega357

Жыл бұрын

My mom made the best tasting tamales her church ladies axillary made tamales I would sell about her tamales at work at lunch time most of the workers and management would buy them back 1983

This is so awesome. You are truly blessed to be able make a video like this with your mom. The tamales look great!

@ArnieTex

3 жыл бұрын

Yes i am blessed thank you

Love this, bro is like 60 already and just learning how to make tamales.

Arnie, I love ya, buddy, but Mom stole the show!!! What wonderful, wonderful people!! Thank you so much for all of the wonderful recipes!!

More Momma!

I love spending time in kitchen with my mom, learning, taking on a few tips n stuff. It is more than just about food... You are a very lucky man, Arnie.

Gotta love abuelites and their extremely precise hand measurements! Much love Arnie

@ArnieTex

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you

What a blessing to see mother and son just loving each other in such an amazing way. Every mom and son should experience. Love you two. So refreshing!!!! GOD bless

Arnie, grew up in harlingen, this reminds me of home. Love your passion and respect for cooking and your mother. God bless

Wow man. What a wholesome video. Your best yet probably. Wonderful to see you and your mom have a good time together and laugh about the UFOs 😂

Awwh, watching this make me really miss my sweet mama 🥲 Covid took her in late 2020. She was so knowledgeable about cooking our traditional Apache foods and taught all her daughters how to weave Apache burden baskets. Mom's are SO special! NEVER take for granted the time you have with your mom! She is passing on her tamale making knowledge to you and your audience. How precious is that❣You should do more episodes with her!

Your mom is so sweet and funny! I wish I had a mom like that again.

Your mom is a delight and a bit of a character I can tell. Loved this segment.

Awesome mom. Reminds me Of my mom. God bless her.

Loving the now & then memories with your Ma!! Respectful ❤

Oh yeah. That's BEAUTIFUL FOOD right there. I'm in. Thank you! I picked up a giant bag of masa at Sam's Club with the intention of making tamales, but then clean forgot until now. I'm doing this, have a freezer full of meat that's going to get cooked. I love you and especially your mom. Lol

Annie, my family used to have parties to make tamales and enchiladas for the holidays. We made them for our Fiesta on the weekend closest to Mexican Independence Day in September and then through New Years. My mom would mix course ground hominy in her masa. We made mostly tamales that were savory but she would have us make sweet tamales with fruit in the and white masa. These sweet ones where saved for Easter Morning and Christmas. I always tried to put to much filling in mine and to thick masa. Momma always had us sit the tails on the husks to tie the tamales husks. We actually collected corn in the husk from the field before the fields were harvested. Really kept the family close doing these group things.

My grandma used to make tamales for my mom, we lost the recipe but I’m gonna use this to make my mom a surprise tamale batch. Thanks my guy!

Your Mother is great she raised you right enjoy your mother while you can Arnie would love to meet you both.😎👍

I treasure every video you post with your Mom, Jose!

I love your mom, she's so cute! This was a super cool video. I absolutely love tamales and have even tried to make them, but your mom made it look less confusing than the instructions I was following. Of course, she's been making them all her life and that alone will make it look easy.

My favorite video. Mom cooking at its finest!

This is just like my mom. Trying to recreate her recipes takes months of cooking it over and over again, adding things while measuring each step. It takes so long to get the recipes close, but it's still not the same.

Dang, you guy's are taking me back to when I was a kid and being at my Mexican friends houses around dinner time. Must be why I love authentic Mexican food so much. Man I'd love to hang out with this guy.

❤️ your Mom is in this video talking about not having measurements and doing it “Old School”!!!

I like the day after, get a hot griddle (comal) and get some char! Another flavor! WOW!!!

As a Honduran and Salvadoran our tamales are the same the only difference is that we use more masa, and we use banana leafs, and tin foil we also use carne and papas as well and also chicken, the rest we also use a big pan and add water to heat it up and make it moist!

God has truly blessed you Arnie to have your mother teach you how to make tamales, i make them but took a class on making them, and i cheat using a masa spreader, sometimes they will have them at HEB.it was invented by a woman in Corpus CHRISTI and it cut the time making them in half.

@SynnJynn

Жыл бұрын

I wouldn't say that's cheating. They use a plastic in some restaurants when they tamales.

@garythornbury9793

Жыл бұрын

@@SynnJynn thanks, the spreaders save alot of time.

Gracias Dios, I love love your mommie!! My abulita left the earth with out showing me how to make tamales, I'm so thankful for all my Tejano sisters and brothers on U tube answering my prayers to cook real Mexican family foods, thank you El Senor Hesus!! I love you brother Arnie thank you for sharing your beautiful mom, I'm so thankful and happy!! Bless you both, you are so a good son. 🌞🌞🌞🦜🦜🦜🧚🧚🧚🧚🧚

@ArnieTex

Жыл бұрын

Thank you.

My granddaughter is coming for a visit. My son will smoke us some pork and she and I will get after it! Thank you for making this so easy.

She makes this look so easy. Many years of experience. Brisket tamales are so delicious. I'll buy 3 dozen from you(lol). Totally awesome.

@ArnieTex

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you

This makes me miss home. "Tamale time" was a family affair every year, multiple times a year lol. We all met at the Nana's house and spent all day making tamales. I've watched two of your vids Arnie and you have a new subscriber. You are an OG man.

Those tamales look SO good! What a blessing that you got to share this time with your mother.😊

I love this video of mom and son cooking together ❤️ Tamales look delicious 🤤🫔

“Try to be a little bit more neat!” She told you Arnie. But this recipe looks amazing & I’ll try it out next week! Thanks for the recipe!

Shout out to Arnie Tex The Man :) Awesome Video :)

@ArnieTex

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Robert

Great video!

@ArnieTex

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you

Why do I feel sooo much ENVY for these two? And, why is this in my You Tube recommendations? Sheesh you guys!

Bless su madre!! I’m A California boy that has been cooking Texas style bbq for 15 years but also has authentic Mexican food all around me. I can’t wait to take abuelitas lessons and make bbq tamales for my family!!!

Brings back so memories for me from when I made tamales with my mum:) my favorite mexican food by far, n making it with family always makes it taste even better♡

Holy smokes, my grandma raised me. I have so many amazing memories of her teaching me how to cook, this video brought so many memories. Thank you.

Favorite episode so far! Moms make it so much better, they know so much! I know you appreciate it as well!!

Ever done “hot tamales” closer to the Mississippi delta? Instead of steaming them they are boiled and soaked in a hot chilie broth. Different take but still super good!

There is nothing like cooking with our Mom's. I learned so much from mine.

@ArnieTex

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Greg

I just made tamales today with my mom. Very nice recipe!

I LOVE this video SO much LOVE. Your Mamacita is amazing - so much to learn. My best friend David passed in 2016 and I had promised his mother that we would travel to Texas to learn how to make tamales. David's debate partner and my life long friend from the first grade and my wife went to Texas for 3 days to spend time with Celia (now my Mamacita) in July 2023 to learn how to make tamales the old fashioned way but very much like this video. These will be GREAT tamales just like the 70+ we made with a cooked and seasoned pork butt. There are so many crucial little details that matter as shown in this vid. How to check if you have enough oil (Crisco) in the masa. The back of Your hand after mixing should come out clean with a slight slimmer of oil. Thank you Arnie and Mamacita for sharing the techniques. Love your content. May your family have long and healthy lives!

Good stuff. Cherish your mother while you have her.

Your mother is a treasure. These look amazing.

I love tamales. In our town is a little Mexican store they sell tamales with cheese and ancho chilled and they are so so good.

My mom’s family is from Madeira Spain so I’ve loved Tamales since childhood… but I hope I can learn from your channel how to make tamales 🫔 ❤

Oh my goodness I’m going to have to try making these. I haven’t had good tamales for years.

Reminds me of Christmas in Texas. A mom and son used to sell tamales door to door in Houston when I was a kid. We would buy all we could afford and freeze them. I still make tamales every year now around Christmas. No one in Georgia makes authentic tamales. I’m going to try the cream cheese even though that’s not old school, but sounds good. I enjoyed the video! Thanks!

Living in Oklahoma tamales have been Christmas fare our whole lives. Best breakfast ever, two pan fried tamale and huevos.

I just made my first batch of tamales alone and I’ve been watching tons of yours and your mother’s video. Thank you so much her instructions on how to make the Masa without a mixer . I used my hands so you know the texture and consistency are correct that was what really helped me thank you. Thank you so much. My tamales taste, so good I wish you could try them.😂 😊😊

@HoneyBee-zh9zw

6 ай бұрын

I hope you didn't add cheese, I've never heard of that

I love how you and your mom cook Ernie.

Your mom is amazing bro. You're blessed. My mom used to make really good tamales too. Good memories.

@ArnieTex

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you

Omg when you said bbq + tomales, we just became best friends

I know Im late to the show here, but I just discovered your channel and have been binge watching it. Those tamales look insanely good and it makes me happy to see Im not the only one that tries different meats. Im a white boy that grew up in a Mexican neighborhood most of my life, and learned how to make tamales from my Abuela neighbor. One day I made some with some corned beef I made from scratch and blew everyone's mind. You should try that some day, its pretty amazing. Thanks for the channel and teaching me some new stuff!

You best listen to Mama, Arnie. Don't make a mess. LOL. 😂🤣. Blessings from Big Country Texas. 👍👍

I just discovered your channel and I love it. I’m a Texan living in Oregon and it’s hard to find traditional TexMex. West Coast Tamales have a ton of thick masa and not much filling. Your mom is great! Love her. And when people find out I’m from Texas they’ll say “I’m gonna take you for the BEST bar-b-que you’ve ever had!” I just say “please don’t!”

No Arnie..she said like you were 5yrs old😂😂😂so precious ❤

You're mom is wonderful thank you for sharing both your skills The tomalleys look delicious

Thank you! Awesome video. I’ll have to work up the courage to tackle this one…some day.

My mom made tamales once. The pot she used had a thin bottom, and between batches she let the water boil off. Next time she lifted the pot off the stove, the whole bottom stayed welded to the burner.

I love how your mom was just roasting you the whole time once you started doing stuff. ='D I'm dead. You literally said, I've never done this, but she still just roasts you. lololol. Good ol' moms. Gotta love em.

Your mom seems soo sweet!!