Product Description
Like a blank canvas but much tastier, the ubiquitous corn or flour tortilla is the perfect vehicle for every sort of food. And taco-making-the art of filling tortillas with dozens of zesty and unexpected concoctions-turns the ordinary into the irrepressible. Victoria Wise and Susanna Hoffman, both life-long tortilla aficionados, fill them with Fiesta Ground Beef, Chicken Mole, Spicy Shrimp Salad, Green Olive Cilantro Salsa Ancho Chili Sauce, Pear Lime Salsa, and much more. Here are over 200 recipes for well-filled tortillas. Tacos from around the world-Portuguese-style Grilled Fish Taco, Oriental Stir-Fry Beef Taco, Thai-Style Shrimp Taco, add variety to the spice of such Cal-Mex favorites as Basic Beef Fajita Taco, Black Bean Taco, Chorizo Taco, Snapper Vera Cruz Taco, and Taco de Carnitas. Dessert tacos and tostada sundaes bring the most festive food into the most festive course. Whether store-bought or home-pressed (the recipes are here, for corn and flour), a stack of tortillas means delicious, down-home, fun food for any occasion-to eat with your fingers in messy splendor. Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club's The Good Cook Club. 250,000 copies in print.
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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. Illustrations throughout.
From the Back Cover
TOPPINGS AND STUFFINGS SALSAS Fiesta Salsa South American Jalapeno-Parsley Salsa Orange-Onion Salsa Salsa Verde TOPPINGS Well-Grilled Guacamole Pan-Grilled Chili Strips Deviled Peanuts and Coconut FILLINGS Carne Asada Genghis Kahn Pork and Corn Meatballs Zesty Ground Lamb Thai-Style Shrimp Scallops with Sauce Belize Black Beans with Mangoes and Fried Lemons FINALES Sweet Banana Tacos La Bamba Flautas Coffee Ice Cream Tostada Sundae 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.
About the Author
Victoria Wise, alumnus of the Chez Panisse restaurant and co-founder of Oakland's Good & Plenty Caf??, is a co-author of The Well-Filled Microwave Cookbook and Good & Plenty: America's New Home Cooking. Victoria also compiled and wrote the Smith & Hawken Gardeners' Community Cookbook. She lives in Oakland, CA.
Susanna Hoffman, alumnus of the Chez Panisse restaurant and co-founder of Oakland's Good Plenty Caf, is a co-author of The Well-Filled Microwave Cookbook and Good Plenty: America's New Home Cooking. She is an anthropologist and cook who has lived and worked in Greece on and off for more than thirty years, dividing her time between Telluride, Colorado and Santorini, Greece.
Susanna Hoffman, alumnus of the Chez Panisse restaurant and co-founder of Oakland's Good Plenty Caf, is a co-author of The Well-Filled Microwave Cookbook and Good Plenty: America's New Home Cooking. She is an anthropologist and cook who has lived and worked in Greece on and off for more than thirty years, dividing her time between Telluride, Colorado and Santorini, Greece.
