- Shopping, because you didn't get all the ingredients ahead of time
- Rendering your own lard, because the recipe said to do so
- Fire-roasting tomatoes, onions, garlic and tomatillos whole over a hot griddle (turning them constantly with your fingers, of course)
- Sauteeing just about all the ingredients for mole in lard, including the raisins (ever tasted raisins sauteed in lard?)
- Making a double batch of mole negro, including burning the chile seeds separately from burning the dried chiles
- Steeping hibiscus flowers and reducing it to syrup for drinks
- Making chicken stock out of the chicken feet you got at the farmer's market
- Making turkey stock by poaching two very large turkey legs
- Grinding your own corn to make masa for tamales
- Washing, then cutting the banana leaves to size
- Roasting fresh peppers for chili later in the week
- Making packets of turkey tamales
- Steaming them for an hour
- Whipping together chile sauce from scratch
- Making avocado ice cream
Needless to say, we have incredibly patient friends -we finally ate the tamales at 9:30. Good thing the food turned out all right, especially since we have about 18 cups of mole now. Recipe posts to follow - we're both still exhausted from Sunday's menu, and it's already Wednesday.
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