Last night we celebrated my mom & sister’s birthdays with Mexican food! It was delicious and may have to become a new January tradition. We had chips, salsa, and guacamole (of course) and a really fantastic shrimp cocktail appetizer. I may need to get the recipe and put it up on elliemay.com. Then, we made pork tamales for the meat-eaters and sweet potato tamales for the vegetarians. The sweet potato tamales were really good and easy to prepare because they didn’t have a filling; it was really just a sweet potato, masa, cinnamon, and chipotle chili dough wrapped in corn husks and steamed. They were really good served with a spicy green salsa. Other dishes included mexican rice, anasazi beans (the recipe for which which you can find on elliemay.com), and really good stir-fried green beans with garlic and lime. The sweet potato tamales and green beans were from a Southwestern Thanksgiving spread in a recent Sunset magazine so, if you have that issue, I highly recommend those two recipes. The highlight of the night was the crepes with dulce con leche and pecans. We aren’t usually a dessert-eating family but these were extremely delicious and will certainly be made again in the future. Yum!