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The Taco Tuesday Cookbook

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Tacos are one of my favourite things. You can do almost anything with them, even if I find myself quite often longing for the classic one. In Fuentes' The Taco Tuesday Cookbook' I managed to find all kinds of inspiration, however, for the days on which I very much want to explore and discover. With great flavour profiles and easy to follow recipes, this is an absolute winner. It was also much appreciated that pretty much all the recipes were customizable to accommodate for preferences/allergies and that vegetarian and gluten-free options were included.

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Filled with stunning photos that will be sure to have your mouth watering, this taco themed cookbook is everything you didn't know was missing in your culinary life! This book takes "Taco Tuesday" to a whole new level! I simply adored it, and MUST get a physical copy for my kitchen!

Thank you to NetGalley, as well as the publisher for providing me with a digital copy of this book, in exchange for an honest review.

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Love this! The photos are gorgeous, the recipes are creative but still easy to follow.
I recommend anybody that loves tacos to have this little gem in their repertoire!!!

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If my husband had his way, it would be Taco Tuesday every night in my house. I was excited to explore some different takes on tacos, as it can be a real slog coming up with meal ideas and recipes that the whole family enjoys. While I liked the author's approach, I personally didn't find any recipes that made it in to the regular rotation at my house. Thanks for the chance to review an early copy.

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Great cookbook with lots of pics and simple and delicious recipes. Makes me want everyday to be Taco Tuesday!

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I love Taco Tuesday and so do my colleagues after I started bringing some of the recipes featured in this book's pages to work!

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so unbelievably delicious! I honestly think I could just live on taco's for the rest of my life and with this many taco recipes my dream can come true! still so many more I want to try

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Thank you to NetGalley and Quarto Publishing Group – Fair Winds Press for The Taco Tuesday Cookbook by Laura Fuentes. This is a book of 52 taco recipes – one for every week of the year! The book has three main sections: The Essentials which includes salsa, sauces, tortillas, etc.; Tacos, Tacos, Tacos! Which includes recipes broken up by type – breakfast, chicken, etc.; and Refreshing Beverages. I really liked the essentials section the best because it gave recipes for the basic ingredients that are often just bought, like several kinds of tortillas. All three sections contain recipes that can be combined to create a whole taco experience.

I enjoyed the tacos I tried, but I wish there was a little bit more variety and bit more new and different. Tacos seem to be everywhere right now, so I felt like a lot of the recipes I had already seen. So I felt like even though the recipes were good, they were not anything I have not seen before. My favorite recipes were: Cilantro-Lime Dressing, Sriracha-Lime Dressing, Corn Tortillas, Flour Tortillas, Blackened Zucchini Tacos, Buffalo Chickpea Lettuce Cups, Chickpea and Butternut Squash Tacos, Buffalo Chicken Tacos with Homemade Ranch, Sweet and Spicy Sriracha Chicken Tacos, Slow Cooker Thai Chicken Lettuce Cups, and Korean Beef Tacos.

Overall, this cookbook is a solid collection of taco recipes that are very good and a great collection of recipes for the basics that go into taco making, but needed to go just a bit further in uniqueness to make it an excellent cookbook.

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While I haven't tried the recipes as the book expired in my adobe reader too quickly, I did a cursory flip-through upon download and I really liked what The Taco Tuesday Cookbook had to offer. Lots of variety and lots that I could easily modify to my gluten-free diet.

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My family loves tacos, but were not creative with ingredients. This cookbook has deliciously enlivened our own Taco Night choices with new ingredients and combinations -- thank you!

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Love, love, love!! The pictures were amazing and the recipes were super easy to follow along with. This would be an excellent addition to anyone's bookshelf.

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I received an ARC of this from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

A different taco recipe for every day of the week for a year? Yes please! What a genius idea and the cookbook is aptly named. I never really realized how versatile tacos can be. You can literally put anything in them. These recipes were so creative and very easy to do. The tacos that were photographed were so delicious looking that I was instantly hungry and craving tacos.

This is a great cookbook for any taco enthusiast and great for families looking to really integrate their family into the cooking experience.

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After several months of non-stop traveling, I was pretty excited to get home and test-drive “The Taco Tuesday Cookbook” by Laura Fuentes. There are lots of tasty recipes in this taco truck of a book, and plenty more inspiration to create your own! I’m not a fan of fruit in my tacos, so that put me off some of the mango/pineapple + meat combinations. Put there was plenty left to love. Among my favorites were the classic Chicken Fajitas, All American Beef Tacos, and the Slow Cooker Beef Roast Tacos. I was pleasantly surprised by the less classic, but no less delicious Huevos Verdes Tacos and Chickpea and Butternut Squash Tacos. (Untried, but intriguing is the Chipotle Beet and Egg Tostada!)

Fuentes offers up a calendar of Taco Tuesdays for an entire year, and its not hard to imagine putting these recipes into the regular weekly rotation at my house.

I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

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Fabulous, easy recipes for any fans of Mexican food. From fish to chicken, salads to sauces and coffee to cocktails there's a recipe to suit everyone.

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A wonderful cookbook for those who love everything taco. It contains great recipes for making your own taco shells, salsas and other stuffings. I tried a few and it was all delicious! It's also a great book as the photos are beautiful and it feels very personal.

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If you are like the author and are obsessed with tacos then The Taco Tuesday Cookbookwill be your go-to guide to creating a variety of tasty tacos. For those who have never tried tacos before, this guide will help you mix and match a wide variety of flavors and ingredients.

Beginning with a brief introduction, author Laura Fuentes encourages the reader to experiment with her recipes. Swap out some of the toppings or sauces and you can create even more recipe combinations.

The first chapter includes a brief description of the Taco Tuesday weekly party, followed by the information on how to mix it up with the ingredients, and taco basics.

The recipes themselves all include the yield, a brief description, and easy to follow instructions. Many have only a few ingredients, and while some may call for ingredients which are not included in your pantry at the moment, they are fairly easy to source.

The first chapter “The Essentials“ includes recipes that will be used often throughout the book. Guacamole, salsa, chimichurri are all here along with various types of tortillas.

Tacos, Tacos, Tacos! Is Chapter 2. This is the recipes chapter which is broken up into several sections:

Breakfast Tacos
Vegetarian Tacos
Chicken Tacos
Beef Tacos
Pork Tacos
Tacos Del Mar

Chapter 3 is Mas! Refreshing Beverages with staple drink recipes from Spanish and Mexican households.

Most of the recipes even include a full-page full-color photo which helps visualize the finished results. A weekly plan is included at the end of the book, followed by an index.

Impressive Variety

The sheer level of variety included in this book is quite impressive. The inventiveness and the interesting combinations of flavors ensure everyone will find something they will enjoy.

See the full review and the recipe for Sheet Pan Fajita Shrimp Tacos at The RecipesNow! Reviews And Recipes Magazine. This review is written in response to a complimentary hard copy of the book provided by the publisher in hopes of an honest review.

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Love this book!!! Nice recipes that can be ready in 30 minutes. A must have for anyone that loves tacos.Thanks to NetGalley, the author and the publisher for the ARC of this book. Although I received the book in this manner, it did not affect my opinion of this book nor my review.

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This is fun cookbook with lots of great recipes you will be dying to try if you love tacos! The premise of the book is Taco Tuesday, so the author gives us 52 different taco recipes, ensuring that if you so desired, you could make a different kind of taco every week for a year. She even offers a Weekly Plan at the back of the book with a suggested schedule to follow, and includes the page numbers where you can find each recipe. Every recipe is detailed, well written, and includes a full color, full page picture. Many recipes also include a "Laura's Tip" from the author, where she offers an alternative serving suggestion, or ideas for substitutions. The book is organized into logical sections: Breakfast Tacos, Vegetarian Tacos, Chicken Tacos, Beef Tacos, Pork Tacos and Tacos del Mar (seafood). And the recipes all look great. I have several I am going to try this weekend and next...But some of the best strengths of this cookbook go beyond the Taco recipes. The author also includes recipes and instructions for guacamole and salsas, sauces, tortillas, and beverages. And all the taco recipes included are so versatile, you can easily change or add one ingredient and make it a completely different taco--so this cookbook is so much more than 52 weeks of taco recipes. The author gives you the tools to make countless variations of tacos, along with the crucial seasonings, sauces, tortillas, etc that you need to accompany them. There's a terrific detailed table of contents at the beginning and an index--its super easy to find any recipe in this book. The only negative is the lack of nutritional information in the recipes, but that's very minor and doesn't detract from the value of this collection of taco recipes.

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Great cookbook with a wide variety of styles of tacos. Includes breakfast, vegetarian, and Asian tacos also. I love that it starts with recipes for tortillas, dressings, and seasonings, and there is also a short chapter with beverages. Really enjoy that there is a couple pages with a list of 52 of the recipes as suggestions for "Taco Tuesday" dinner. The recipes are all straightforward with ingredients that can be found at standard grocery stores, and there are some recipes included that are made in the slow cooker. Beautiful photography. Recommend this for people looking for a taco book.

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This is what you want in a cookbook: beautifully laid out, easy to follow, and a lot of interesting and honestly very healthy recipes. It's a cookbook you won't get bored of fast and most of the ingredients are very easy to source.

The book is broken down into these parts: The Essentials (guacamole, salsas, sauces, tortillas, seasonings), Tacos (breakfast, chicken, beef, pork, fish, vegetarian), and Beverages (horchatas, margaritas, sangria). Recipes include salsa verde, chimichurri, corn tortillas, black beans and queso breakfast tacos, blackened zucchini taco, southwestern tacos, quick carne asada tacos, food truck tacos, asian thai rib tacos etc. There really is a huge selection here from which to choose, spanning many cultures.

The book is quite well photographed, with nearly every recipe having an image, often full page. Each recipe gives servings, a brief intro, ingredients in bold print, and then directions in paragraph form. As a nitpick, I prefer directions in numbered steps that are easy to follow. But nearly every cookbook today does it in random paragraphs so that the recipes don't look like they are too complicated. On the plus side, at least with this cookbook, the paragraphs do make sense (often separating the tortilla or precooking from the major ingredient cooking. There is a suggestion table at the back for having a different taco meal every Tuesday and then an index.

I feel this is a cookbook you can have fun with but still feel like you are feeding your family well. I didn't see any recipea in there that were too onerous to cook nor were there a lot of unfriendly ingredients. Plus, it is so professionally and cleanly photographed that you will find a lot of inspiration within. Reviewed from an advance reader copy provided by the publisher.

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