{"id":134,"date":"2014-12-20T14:45:31","date_gmt":"2014-12-20T14:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/?p=134"},"modified":"2025-04-21T13:27:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T13:27:01","slug":"tinsel-tamales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/?p=134","title":{"rendered":"Tinsel + Tamales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Preparing food for the holidays is quite tedious when you&#8217;ve got a lot to do and you don&#8217;t want to invest in all the things required to pull it off. I&#8217;ve used both <a title=\"Central Market Holiday\" href=\"http:\/\/www.centralmarket.com\/catering.aspx#\/holidaymeals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Central Market<\/a> and <a title=\"Whole Foods Holiday \" href=\"https:\/\/www.wholefoodsmarket.com\/shop\/LMR\/2145\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Whole Foods<\/a> for holiday meals and both stores did a great job with them. \u00a0Central Market was a bit less flavorful, but was also a little less expensive, while Whole Foods seemed\u00a0to use more\u00a0varied\u00a0and interesting ingredients for robustness. Of course, Whole Foods had a higher price point. \u00a0I don&#8217;t think there is any shame in turning to prepared foods. It is not too difficult to add your personal touches to the meals. Less stress. Less mess. Better happiness.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/holidayMeals2014.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-135 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/holidayMeals2014-197x300.png\" alt=\"holidayMeals2014\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/holidayMeals2014-197x300.png 197w, https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/holidayMeals2014.png 353w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Want something amazing? \u00a0Order tamales from my hometown <a title=\"Delia's Tamales\" href=\"http:\/\/www.deliastamales.com\/ordereze\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tamale store<\/a>: hint =\u00a0chicken and cream cheese.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preparing food for the holidays is quite tedious when you&#8217;ve got a lot to do and you don&#8217;t want to invest in all the things required to pull it off. I&#8217;ve used both Central Market and Whole Foods for holiday meals and both stores did a great job with them. \u00a0Central Market was a bit less flavorful, but was also a little less expensive, while Whole Foods seemed\u00a0to use more\u00a0varied\u00a0and interesting ingredients for robustness. Of course, Whole Foods had a higher price point. \u00a0I don&#8217;t think there is any shame in turning to prepared foods. It is not too difficult to add your personal touches to the meals. Less stress. Less mess. Better happiness. &nbsp; Want something amazing? \u00a0Order tamales from my hometown tamale store: hint =\u00a0chicken and cream cheese.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1,13],"tags":[34,33,36,35],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-desserts-and-pastries","category-dining","category-entertainment","tag-central-market","tag-holiday-meals","tag-tamales","tag-whole-foods"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3125,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions\/3125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}