Los Barrios Family Cookbook: Tex-Mex Recipes from the Heart of San Antonio
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Manufacturer: Villard
Publisher: Villard
Author: Diana Barrios Trevino
Los Barrios Family Cookbook: Tex-Mex Recipes from the Heart of San Antonio Description
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5972
EAN: 9780375760976
ISBN: 0375760970
Label: Villard
Manufacturer: Villard
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 240
Publication Date: 2002-06-11
Publisher: Villard
Product Release Date: 2002-06-11
Studio: Villard
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5972
EAN: 9780375760976
ISBN: 0375760970
Label: Villard
Manufacturer: Villard
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 240
Publication Date: 2002-06-11
Publisher: Villard
Product Release Date: 2002-06-11
Studio: Villard
Editorial Review of Los Barrios Family Cookbook: Tex-Mex Recipes from the Heart of San Antonio
Since 1979, Los Barrios restaurant in San Antonio, Texas—the heart of Tex-Mex cuisine—has been serving up casero, or home-style, cooking that has charmed food critics and earned an impressive following. Founded with a small investment and a lot of spirit, Los Barrios built its reputation on the authenticity of its cuisine. The Los Barrios Family Cookbook offers these reputation-making recipes—from simple but impressive traditional Mex-ican dishes, many of which have been handed down and perfected through the generations, to modern Tex-Mex favorites—to fans of Southwest cuisine across the country.
Included are recipes for Mexican essentials: Homemade Flour Tortillas, Tamales, and Pico de Gallo; Barrios family specialties, such as Mama Viola’s Chicken Rice Soup and Acapulco-Style Ceviche; and the classics—Chiles Rellenos, Chalu-pas, and Enchiladas Verdes. All the recipes contain easy-to-find ingredients, and special cooking tips will help you prepare dishes at home that will be as delicious as those served in the restaurant. The Los Barrios Family Cookbook is a comprehensive and indispensable resource for food that explodes with flavor. ¡Buen provecho!
Included are recipes for Mexican essentials: Homemade Flour Tortillas, Tamales, and Pico de Gallo; Barrios family specialties, such as Mama Viola’s Chicken Rice Soup and Acapulco-Style Ceviche; and the classics—Chiles Rellenos, Chalu-pas, and Enchiladas Verdes. All the recipes contain easy-to-find ingredients, and special cooking tips will help you prepare dishes at home that will be as delicious as those served in the restaurant. The Los Barrios Family Cookbook is a comprehensive and indispensable resource for food that explodes with flavor. ¡Buen provecho!
Customer Reviews of Los Barrios Family Cookbook: Tex-Mex Recipes from the Heart of San Antonio
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Great Mexican Cook Book!
Review: Amazon provided a good price and fast shipping! I have been to this restaurant many times in S.A. The food is delicious and the book has many more dishes than I thought. I only wish they had pictures.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Los Barrios Family Cookbook
Review: I like this cookbook very much. I look forward to use it in the future.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Yum Yum Give Me Some & Make it Tasty Healthy
Review: I love this restuarant and it's always packed Monday thru Friday, I was living in Alexandria Virginia when the book came out being a San Antonian I had to get it little did I know it would change the traditional family way of making Texican (Texas Style Mexican Food). I now and will always cherish this book substitutes cabbage for tradition lettuce that is a very healthy twist and thats just one of many examples of the healthy twists in this book. If you are a vegan this book could really help you put some pazzaz in your food with some simple substitutions. One of my favorite dishes in the restuarant is Green Enchiladas made with tomatillos and that great recipe is in here just wish my cooking skills were up to the task. I would definetly give this as a gift. San Antonio is not all about the RiverWalk take some time out of the downtown area when visiting and do what the natives do eat at Los Barrios.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Excellent if its what you're looking for...
Review: I was looking for a cookbook that dealt in the basics (I had never prepared a poblano pepper for roasting before), but that also had some interesting dishes. I have never been to the restaurant so I didn't have anything to compare my results to ( not that I should anyway) and I wanted something that had a good feel to it.
Overall, I am impressed with the book for someone like myself, new to cooking actual meals, and have already created homemade corn tortillas, pico de gallo, eggs mexicana and the chicken breasts in creamy poblano sauce. My family seems pleased with the results (my tortillas were a bit thick), and I'm going to continue to use the book until I outgrow it (it may be a while).
If you are a more experienced cook, especially in Mexican or Tex-Mex dishes, then this may be a little simple for you, but if you are fairly new to the cuisine then please consider it.
Have you made nachos as a family meal but not your own pico de gallo? Then this is your book.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: A Waste of Money
Review: Robb Walsh's book is so much better! This does just seem to have been an attempt to capitalize on this family's moment in the limellight. Very dissapointing, unfortunately.
Review Summary: Great Mexican Cook Book!
Review: Amazon provided a good price and fast shipping! I have been to this restaurant many times in S.A. The food is delicious and the book has many more dishes than I thought. I only wish they had pictures.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Los Barrios Family Cookbook
Review: I like this cookbook very much. I look forward to use it in the future.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Yum Yum Give Me Some & Make it Tasty Healthy
Review: I love this restuarant and it's always packed Monday thru Friday, I was living in Alexandria Virginia when the book came out being a San Antonian I had to get it little did I know it would change the traditional family way of making Texican (Texas Style Mexican Food). I now and will always cherish this book substitutes cabbage for tradition lettuce that is a very healthy twist and thats just one of many examples of the healthy twists in this book. If you are a vegan this book could really help you put some pazzaz in your food with some simple substitutions. One of my favorite dishes in the restuarant is Green Enchiladas made with tomatillos and that great recipe is in here just wish my cooking skills were up to the task. I would definetly give this as a gift. San Antonio is not all about the RiverWalk take some time out of the downtown area when visiting and do what the natives do eat at Los Barrios.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Excellent if its what you're looking for...
Review: I was looking for a cookbook that dealt in the basics (I had never prepared a poblano pepper for roasting before), but that also had some interesting dishes. I have never been to the restaurant so I didn't have anything to compare my results to ( not that I should anyway) and I wanted something that had a good feel to it.
Overall, I am impressed with the book for someone like myself, new to cooking actual meals, and have already created homemade corn tortillas, pico de gallo, eggs mexicana and the chicken breasts in creamy poblano sauce. My family seems pleased with the results (my tortillas were a bit thick), and I'm going to continue to use the book until I outgrow it (it may be a while).
If you are a more experienced cook, especially in Mexican or Tex-Mex dishes, then this may be a little simple for you, but if you are fairly new to the cuisine then please consider it.
Have you made nachos as a family meal but not your own pico de gallo? Then this is your book.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: A Waste of Money
Review: Robb Walsh's book is so much better! This does just seem to have been an attempt to capitalize on this family's moment in the limellight. Very dissapointing, unfortunately.