Can you believe this is the only picture I got!? I love tamales. Like seriously love them. I have had a recipe for them for years now and have never gotten around to making them because I don't have a steamer. So I googled if you can make them in the crock pot, and Ahhh (angels singing), you can!! I would suggest getting crock pot bags or the bags that you cook turkeys in and put the tamales in that because mine got a little dark on the bottom layer and to the sides, but nothing that changes the taste, the husk suffered the brunt of it. (I also have a broken lid on both of my crock pots, so my crock pots are ghetto anyway). These were oh o incredible. I made enough to stick some in the freezer for future use!!! And as a tip, make sure you pick out the larger corn husk pieces to use for your tamales. I found mine at Walmart. I looked at a few other stores first and couldn't find them. But they were in the international section of Walmart. I know the directions seem like a lot, but they aren't too bad. You don't have to prepare the meat the night before if you would rather do it the day of. But it is nice to get it out of the way.
