Tortilla Books
The Well-Filled Tortilla Cookbook
Like a blank canvas but much tastier, the ubiquitous corn or flour tortilla is the perfect vehicle for every sort of food. A passionate feast of tacos–as well as burritos, tostadas, quesadillas, chimichangas, and the big enchilada (Red or Green Chicken)–here are over 200 recipes for well-filled tortillas. Plus how to make your own corn tortillas, flour tortillas, and hominy tortillas. Includes side salads, menus, and tortilla party etiquette. Quesadillas, Burritos, Chimichangas, and the Big Enchilada. Tortilla passion from around the world. Illustrations throughout.
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101 Things to do with a Tortilla
101 Things to Do with a Tortilla takes this delicious and nutritious staple of so many countries and brings it into the mainstream with family-friendly recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and more. Tortillas are a no-fail recipe ingredient, and Stephanie Ashcraft and Donna Kelly show that tortillas aren’t just for Mexican food anymore! 101 Things to Do with a Tortilla features recipes such as Smoked Salmon Triangles, Southwest Egg Rolls, Tomato Olive Quesadillas, Italian Roast Beef Wrap, Tortilla Snowflakes, Green Chili Tortilla Soup In A Hurry, Guacamole Black Bean Salad, Green Chili Eggs Benedict, Southwest Lasagna, Tex Mex Meatloaf, Vegetarian Taco Casserole, Banana Quesadillas, even desserts like Chocolate Raspberry Burritos and Upside-down Apple Pie. Yummy!
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Tortilla Lovers Cookbook
What could be better than a fresh, hot, homemade tortilla? Featuring traditional southwestern favorites and exciting, innovative tortilla dishes, this cookbook spotlights the versatility of the tortilla in Southwestern dishes including appetizers, soups, salads, main dishes, and desserts. Over 100 tantalizing tortilla recipes.
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Authentic Mexican by Rick Bayless
This all-embracing cookbook offers the full range of dishes, from poultry, meat, fish, rice, beans, and vegetables to eggs, snacks made of corn masa, tacos, turnovers, enchiladas and their relatives, tamales, and moles, ending with desserts, sweets, and beverages. There are irresistible finger foods such as Yucatecan marinated shrimp tacos and crispy cheese-filled masa turnovers; spicy corn chowder and chorizo sausage with melted cheese will start off a special dinner; you will find mole poblano, charcoal-grilled pork in red-chile adobo, and marinated fish steamed in banana leaves for those times when you want to celebrate; and exotic ice creams, caramel custards, and pies to top off any meal. There’s even a section devoted to refreshing coolers, rich chocolate drinks, and a variety of tequila-laced cocktails.
If, like the rest of us, you have a growing love for Mexican food, the reliable recipes in this book and the caring, personal presentation by Rick and Deann Bayless will provide meal after meal of pure pleasure for your family and friends.
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Mexico One Plate at a Time by Rick Bayless
Rick Bayless is Mexican cooking’s great American voice. An award-winning chef and author of bestselling Mexican cookbooks like Authentic Mexican, he’s found a way to present honest recipes in a friendly, relaxed fashion that nonetheless touches every technical base. One Plate at a Time takes his approach a step further. Bayless offers more than 120 recipes, providing traditional versions of much-loved classics like Green Chile Chicken Tamales, modern renditions of the basic repertoire, and dish “anatomies.” These detail what a given dish should taste and look like, when it’s best served, and how American cooks should approach its preparation. This goofproof strategy will appeal to old cooking hands and culinary gringos alike.
Ranging from soups and starters to entrees, light meals, desserts, and drinks, the chapters present a wide range of dishes, from the simple (such as guacamole, updated with roasted poblanos, garlic, and tomatoes) to the more complex (a classic red mole with turkey, for one, followed by Roasted Cornish Game Hens with Apricot-Pine Nut Mole). Other winning recipes include Seafood in Mojo de Ajo (with toasted, slow-cooked garlic), Smoky Chipotle Beans with Wilted Spinach and Masa “Gnocchi,” and, for dessert, a definitive vanilla flan with instructions for preparing it in three versions: light, creamy, and rich. Throughout, recipes are followed by paragraph-long “postmortems” (is Mexican vanilla worth searching out, for instance) that further extend reader understanding. With 32 pages of color photos and an extensive glossary, the book is an inspired place to start or continue a Mexican cooking journey.
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Mexican Everyday by Rick Bayless
Bayless, popular Chicago chef and author (Rick Bayless’s Mexican Kitchen, etc.), jumps on the “everyday food” wagon with this lively collection of recipes designed to take no more than 30 minutes to prepare. Known for his painstaking approach to recreating the classics of Mexican cuisine, Bayless moves in a new direction here, substituting easy-to-find ingredients for exotic ones, streamlining complex sauces into a few steps and emphasizing nutrition. Purists may balk when they encounter more boneless chicken breasts than lard – not to mention a cheerful reliance on canned beans and peppers and, in a pinch, prepared salsas – but any time-pressed home cook will welcome this pragmatic approach to the complexities of Mexican food. Bayless’s confident, step-by-step recipes lead even the novice through a variety of twists on tacos and enchiladas, staples like tortilla soup and guacamole, and more ambitious dishes such as Grilled Red Chile Steak with Sweet Plantains, Red Onion and Chipotle Salsa. Even the notoriously complex mole tradition is reinvented with the foolproof Chicken in Oaxacan Yellow Mole. This companion volume to the fourth season of Bayless’s PBS series Mexican One Plate at a Time will rescue any Mexican food fan who’s ever been daunted by the prospect of serving more than chips and salsa.
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