Los Barrios Family Cookbook: Tex-Mex Recipes from the Heart of San Antonio

by Diana Barrios Trevino

Book Overview

More than 140 recipes from San Antonio's favorite Tex-Mex restaurant, featuring dishes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and dessert (plus cocktails ). Since 1979, Los Barrios restaurant in San Antonio,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0375760970
• ISBN13: 9780375760976
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: Villard Books
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.3" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Yum Yum Give Me Some & Make it Tasty Healthy

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.

Excellent if its what you're looking for...

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.

Amazing Recipes=Amazing Tastes!

My husband purchased this cookbook for me, because he was so impressed with how easy the recipes were. He knew of the restaurant, but we had never gone there. Now I want him to take us there! (We live in San Antonio, fortunately!) The recipes are amazing, because they require simple ingredients and do not require anything complicated. I already tried out the "Chicken Chiptotle" recipe, and my husband said it was one of the best things I have made, and I agree! It was so mouth-watering delicious! There are many other recipes in there that I want to try out. In all, the cookbook is a must-have in your kitchen! Some of the recipes may be a bit complicated, but MOST of them are very easy to do. There are appetizers, soups/salads, main entrees, side dishes, desserts, and beverage recipes. The personal comments that come with each recipes are heart-touching and makes you feel close to the author of the book. Again, a must-have cookbook!

Good, basic Tex-Mex

One of the people who reviewed this book below hasn't even read the book or been to the restuarant. Giving something one star under these circumstances makes no sense, and isn't useful to anyone.Anyway, I'm a San Antonio native (now in D.C.), and I like this book. It gives really easy, very basic recipes for simple, slightly north of the border cuisine. No, you won't get mango burritos or anything wildly trendy, but you will get easyrecipes for green enchiladas and fajitas-worth the price of the book alone. I've got a large collection of Mexican and Tex Mex cookbooks, and this one gets used often.

Mexican Food at its BEST!

If you have visited San Antonio, Texas then you already know that the finest Mexican food served in the world is in this multi-faceted city and without a doubt the finest Mexican food served in San Antonio is at Los Barrios. When word got out that Los Barrios was giving away some of their secrets, I couldn't wait to get my hands on it. The very best enchiladas, chiles rellenos and carne guisada are all here. This cookbook offers much more than recipes. It explains the 'how' and 'why' to some of the tastiest dishes around. If you love Mexican food, you have found the cookbook for your kitchen.