Mexican Made Easy
Mexican Made Easy: Everyday Ingredients, Extraordinary Flavor is currently ranked number (5) on the bestsellers list for Mexican cookbooks at Amazon.com.
Mexican Made Easy was written by Marcela Valladolid, the popular chef and host of her own Food Network show of the same name, Mexican Made Easy.
From the inside flap of the front cover:
Why wait until Tuesday night to have tacos – and why would you ever use a processed kit – when you can make vibrant, fresh Mexican food every night of the week with Mexican Made Easy?
On her Food Network show, Mexican Made Easy, Marcela Valladolid shows how simple it is to create beautiful dishes bursting with bright Mexican flavors. Now, Marcela shares the fantastic recipes her fans have been clamoring for in a cookbook that ties into her popular show.
A single mom charged with getting dinner on the table nightly for her young son, Fausto, Marcela embraces dishes that are fun and fast – and made with fresh ingredients found in the average American supermarket. Pull together a fantastic weeknight dinner in a flash with recipes such as Baja-Style Braised Chicken Thighs, Mexican Meatloaf with Salsa Glaze, and Corn and Poblano Lasagna. Expand your salsa horizons with Fresh Tomatillo and Green Apple Salsa and Grilled Corn Pico de Gallo, which can transform a simply grilled chicken breast or fish fillet. For a weekend brunch, serve up Chipotle Chilaquiles or Cinnamon Pan Frances. Delicious drinks, such as Pineapple-Vanilla Agua Fresca and Cucumber Martinis, and decadent desserts, including Mexican Chocolate Bread Pudding and Bananas Tequila Foster, round out the inspired collection.
With 100 easy recipes and 80 sumptuous color photographs, Mexican Made Easy brings all of the energy and fresh flavors of Marcela’s show into your home.
Mexican Made Easy has also received a number of very positive reviews on Amazon.com:
I love Chef Marcela’s show and was exited about her book. I myself am Mexican and am so happy to see that she has brought my food memories to life and has made it easy for me to recreate the flavors of my childhood. This is truly delicious, authentic Mexican food!
- judy reyes
I am not a very good cook but I have to do it for my family so Chef Marcela Valladolid did a great job with this book because the recipes are easy, and you can find the ingredients anywhere so great job Chef Marcela!!!!!!!
- Dennise Petrini
This cookbook is fantastic! The pictures are beautiful and helpful! The recipes are easy and delicious! If you like authentic Mexican food, you WILL like this book.
- Emily
I love this book and love Marcela’s show. The recipes are simple, yet full of flavor and quick. This book is a nice change of pace from the standard cookbooks. I’m looking forward to more from Marcela in the future.
- Mella
My quick and short review: I like Mexican Made Easy. Actually, I just got my copy so I haven’t had a chance to spend a great deal of time with it yet. But from what I have read and seen so far, I would say the title fits.
The recipes I have tried were easy; they called for ingredients most of which I already had on hand – others I just had to go to our local supermarket, nothing weird or that I couldn’t find; and the flavors were extraordinary and authentic.
Also, something important to me – lots of nice color photographs. Something I think every cookbook should have but sadly many do not.
If you like Mexican cuisine and want recipes which are easy, don’t require you to spend the whole day in the kitchen, and call for nothing but everyday ingredients, I think Mexican Made Easy is the book for you. The more I peruse my copy, the more I like it.
Chef Marcela Valladolid is interviewed by Samantha Dudhnath.
Marcela Valladolid, chef and host of the Food Network show, Mexican Made Easy, makes homemade baked tortilla chips and a classic guacamole to go with them.
Chef and host of her own Food Network show, Mexican Made Easy, Marcela Valladolid makes Baja-Style Beer-Battered Fish Tacos.