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

Family-friendly recipes with authentic and traditional flavors and techniques, proven at a legendary restaurant. It makes "I have to learn how they do this" much more accessible.

All the good things here! Diana Barrios shares her experiences and wonderful recipes passed down for several generations. This is a lovely cookbook. You can’t go wrong with it. This is my third purchase of this book. I keep sharing mine with others!

A pleasure to read and an excellent source for authentic Tex-Mex cuisine recipes. Just bought another copy for family after we had a family get together. During the pandemic, we have recreated some of the recipes from various restaurants which are closed. From this cookbook, we had the Chicken Enchiladas, Enchilada Gravy and homemade corn tortillas as part of the meal. The Enchiladas were the centerpiece with everyone pitching in to help prepare. The teenagers learned how to make the tortillas from scratch and the adults took turns making the rest of the meal. Having all the family take part made the dinner bueno especial. We complimented the dinner with wine, Dos Exxis and Texas Sweet Tea.

Gifted to Husband who loves to cook. He has utilized the recipe’s to enhance his own! Yum!

Would be a good book if it had some illustrations!

This book is AMAZING! Easy-to-follow, delicious recipes that the whole family can eat!

I have watched this lady cook for a crowd of people...She knows what's going to light your fire. There's some really great recipes that are easy and quick in this book.

I give it 3 stars because the effort and organization put into the book. It's not bad, it is just not great. The recipes lack quite a bit and after living in SA for over 25 years, I know the basics. I was looking for more real family recipes but as others have stated, it seems she might have held back on the secrets. I was disappointed in the recipes but they do provide a base or starting idea for you to work off of. You want to add your own to it and looking for the basic idea, then this works.

This book is probably the best cook book you can get . we went to Los Barrios a few times when in San Antonio , ,This book is so simple to follow even i can make fantastic Mexican food . A must for the kitchen

As a chef working in a rural area I found sourcing some of the ingredients difficult, once that was done I did have fun.The hepfull hints section especially regarding tequila was very useful.I found this to be a well laid out clearly written book that once a stock of basic commodities has been built up easy to use. I did make straight for the chilli con carne so now know what the real thing tastes like.Some of the side dishes make good supper and light snack meals.I,m still working my way through the pages and am enjoying the process very much