Customer Reviews

Cooking With Baja Magic : Mouth-Watering Meals from the Enchanted Kitchens & Campfires of Baja

5 star:		(7)
4 star:		(0)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

The student and traveler to Mexico often returns home craving the tastes they experienced in Baja California. Ann's cookbook will compliment anyone's kitchen. From the appetizers to the salsas to the carnitas to the margaritas, with a little musica norteña, una fría and this cookbook, you can have a 'virtual' visit to Baja California. Recommended.

The food in this book is excellent. As an almost-native San Diegan who has moved away, I depend on this book to help me make the Baja-style food that I love. I particularly like the Carnitas and the Chicken Enchiladas Verdes. Whenever I make carnitas, my guests just rave! The portions are somewhat large, so have a party or do what I often do - eat carnitas scrambled into eggs, made into quesadillas, etc. My only issue with this book is that there are a few technical mistakes(i.e. wrong page numbers, etc.). However, this is easy to overlook. Enjoy!

My husband stole it from me and read it from cover to cover! Then, on our next Baja trip, he went to the Calimax and bought food. Every night we were there he cooked for me from the book! Now that's my kinda cookbook!

I use this book often as we use to live in San Diego but moved away and purchased many copies to give as gifts up here in the Northeast. I absolutely love many of the recipies and the artwork as well. Ann Hazzard is the real deal, her recipies are collected over many years from family members and we are lucky enough thst she has shared them with us. Thanks Ann!

This book should be purchased in threes; one for your kitchen, one for your coffee table, and one to take apart so that you can frame the illustrations. The recipes are simple to prepare and the results are SENSATIONAL! It is truly a gorgeous celebration of the flavors of Baja California: gastronomic and cultural. Take it along as a guidebook, too, if you want to explore Hazard's inspirations.

This book should be purchased in threes; one for your kitchen, one for your coffee table, and one to take apart so that you can frame the illustrations. The recipes are simple to prepare and the results are SENSATIONAL! It is truly a gorgeous celebration of the flavors of Baja California: gastronomic and cultural. Take it along as a guidebook, too, if you want to explore Hazard's inspirations.

The receipes are great. The only care to take is that the portions are big. The stories are great.

Bought this book along another Baja cooking book, all i have to say is that here in Baja, we don't do cooking like this. The recipes in this book are too simple, and some just plain inventions from someone not familiar with our food. To be fair, theres some real Baja recipes in this book, for example: The gonzaga bay ceviche, albondigas soup, puerto nuevo lobster, and maybe a few more, but thats about it.

I was so disappointed in this book, especially after reading the reviews of others. Perhaps the author wrote the book for people who have no access to ingredients typically used in Mexican cookery, which 10 years ago might have been somewhat an excuse, but today, authentic Mexican ingredients are widely available. To those interested in real Mexican cuisine, there are much better choices, with this caveat; it's really too bad the author chose not to give us authentic recipes, as the cooking in this particular region of Mexico has not been covered well, and I have searched extensively.