Happy Western Calendar New Year and Happy Lunar New Year!  It’s good to be back.  And now that I’m again part of the 7.8% of the nation’s unemployed, I’ll have more time to do more you-food stuff. Lucky you! Alright, so as usual, I wanted to get this post out earlier closer to the new year, but owing to work (don’t have to worry about that now) and that it takes me way to much time by blog standards to write these these things, I present it to you now.

In honor of 2009, I present to you now, Tamales!
(A Chinese New Year Post is in the works)

Click on the image below for the whole enchilada (get it?):

Pork Tamales: one of the best ways to welcome the New Year.