The Breakfast Taco Book
It’s here!
We are excited to announce the The Breakfast Taco Book
The Breakfast Taco Book
- Hilah goes on a Breakfast Taco tour of Austin and eats WAY too many tacos.
- Hard-hitting investigative journalism reveals that Breakfast Tacos were actually invented by… COWBOYS?
- How to make all kinds of “taco guts” – even the kind with cactus!
- Why you should never mix breakfast tacos with handjobs!
And there are tons of pictures for those of you who don’t have time to read actual words. Here’s a peek inside…
So, it’s awesome and it’s only $2.99 and you don’t even have to kill any trees to read it. It’s an eBook so you can download it and read it at your job when you’re supposed to be working. Or take your Kindle or iPad with you to spread the Breakfast Taco gospel from coffeehouses, streetcorners or wherever else you like to go.
OR… GET A COPY FOR TOTALLY FREE!
Yep, you heard us right. As a special thanks to everyone who subscribes to our e-mail newsletter, we’ve made a special PDF version of The Breakfast Taco Book available for FREE! Just sign up below and you’ll get directions to a TOP-SECRET Bonus area of the site where you can download the book and get access to embarrassing videos that we decided not to release to the general public.
I create short-form, educational, and occasionally hilarious cooking videos geared towards beginner and intermediate cooks, as well as people who are just looking for simple, low-cost recipes. Everything is made from scratch, people! 
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Awesome job!
Thanks Greggo!
This turned out awesome, good work!
Thanks for helping with it, guys!
I haven’t read it yet, but apparently I’m required to leave a comment, so, hooray for breakfast tacos!
i love you! marry me!
We’d have to move somewhere that allows polygamy.
Awesome job, i cant stop watching your videos
I tip My Hat To Thee 
Whee! Tip thine hat, sir!
Good job o/t book/videos/site!
BTW, since you brought it up, my Comanche wife says her family tells a slightly different version of the encounter with the caballeros. Their version (which neither side told their wives) was that hostilities really broke out between the Comanche hunting party and the caballeros after an afternoon of horse racing, gambling and drinking. The conflict ignited over differences of opinion of the culinary merits of fry bread vs tortillas and buffalo meat vs cabrito in the recipe.
Thanks for that behind-the-scenes look into the real lives of Comanches and caballeros of yore. Leave it to the menfolk to get drunk and start a fight!
Hey, Hilah, I made the Chorizo in your Breakfast Taco book and the flavor is spot on. It’s great, You have the flavor without the grease.
Thank you very much, I don’t have to cook the grease out of chorizo before I use in a recipe anymore.
Bob
I’m so glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for taking the time to let me know, too!
THANK YOU Hilah for giving me the will to cook again!
I’m old enough to be your great…. aunt,,, and have been schlepping
around in the kitchen for 50 years hating every minute of it until I found your program! Now I have a reason to use my pots and pans, to mess up the kitchen and fill my larder with something else besides lard!
You are beautiful, fun, smart and a teriffic cook! I look forward to many more seasons of Hilah Cooking!
mmmmmwah!
Sooshie
Sooshie! That is wonderful news! I’m so, so glad you let me know — that’s the best compliment I could get. I’m looking forward to making more episodes soon!
hugs!
i love watching your show on my computer you great ideas.
i will try to make one or more of your recipes that i seen you make on the show
Great! I hope they turn out for you!
Thank you so much for a wonderful book! I love cookbooks that are more than just recipes. I’d have gladly paid to get it. I’m really looking forward to using it (especially the chorizo recipe) once I get the kitchen in my new apartment in order.
Wonderful, Randy! Thanks for taking the time to write!
What a fun idea! And how much hard work to get behind the fun!! Love it. Can’t wait to read it.
Thank you Amanda! I hope you enjoy it!
Thanks for the book! You need to cuss more in your videos, I miss that
You got it! I’ve been spending the summer coming up with new and better cuss words for this season!
Finally a cooking show with an unpretentious host who uses ingredients I can actually find at the market.
Whoohoo! That’s EXACTLY what I’m going for! Thank you!
We need 300 million more like you…
There would be me all over the place! The world crawling with me!
You got any plans to make this into a “real” book – like a print-on-demand lulu.com type thing or something?
Breakfast tacos for lunch in 1 hour. So sue me.
Hmm. Would you buy one?
Yeah, I would. Printing the pdf and stapling it together just isn’t the same as having a real, honest book. I could buy an iPad and use that on the counter, but I think a book would be less expensive and more forgiving if I spilled salsa on it.
wow hilah, there have been only 2 days since i started watching you YT videos and i must say i am beyond impressed. You are funny, you know what you’re doing in there and you make it look so easy.
Well i must say GIRL YOU ROCK so keep em coming. Hmmm when will you prepare some sea food dish? 
DFTBA Hugs
Alexandru! I’m so glad you found me. Mulţumesc!
Holly Molly! You said, well, typed Multumesc. WOW that’s so freaking awesome! SOOO awesome! OMG Hilah you just made my day. I heart you so so so so so so so so much.
oh yeah and btw, what gave my “Romanian roots” up, was it my “i’m to damn drunk to type” typing?
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No way! Never too drunk to type! I checked out your blog…
And also, yes! Seafood! I hear you on that, bro!
thanks for your generosity. great ideas for my meatless monday’s i want to start doing
You are very welcome, Matt! Meatless Mondays are a great idea.
Hey Hilah!
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I’m loving this breakfast taco idea. I live in Chile, so there isn’t much much of that going around. I was also wondering if you could make some videos on lean meat or chicken recipes (trying to shape up for summer
That’s wonderful, Francisco! Of course I will put your requests on the list, although I am totally jealous that we’re headed into winter while you’re headed into summer. Ah well. That’s the way the world turns. Literally.
Hilah, you rock! Those chefs on Food Network and Cooking Channel have nothing on you. I love Breakfast Tacos!
Thanks so much, Brady! I love breakfast tacos, too!
Love your podcasts. Watch them all the time!!!!!!
You should be a professional and have a tv show =. Good luck.!!!
Dad told me about your podcasts and ive been watching them since.!!!!!
Aw, thanks, Cooker! I’m glad you like the show. Tell your friends and maybe someday I will get a real TV show!
Awesome book thank you!!!
You are so welcome, Sheila! Hope you enjoy the recipes!
I had the worst breakfast tacos of my taco eating life yesterday from Taco Shack. Do things always suck there? I couldn’t believe it. I even emailed their Web site to notify them of the suckiness. Have you ever had a taco that sucked so bad as to elicit a written complaint? Just wondering.
I’ve had the same experience at Taco Shack. They are sloppy breakfast tacos, indeed. I would rank them behind Taco Cabana. But, to give them credit, Taco Shack makes some pretty good old-school Tex-Mex crispy tacos.
I don’t want to make this too Austin-centric, but for some really killer breakfast tacos, my vote is for Taco-Mex on Manor Road. They are gigantic, delicious and cheap.
Oh, that is unfortunate. Taco Shack has some problems, poor little old shack. I have never had a taco so bad that I had to write about it; that is a terrible shame. I agree with Chris above that Taco-Mex is great and I also love Jalisciences and Tacorrido.
Great article! Sadly one of my favorite parts of visiting friends and family in San Antonio is I get to have amazing breakfast tacos. Austin just isn’t quite there. Quick example: In San Antonio a fresh (well) home-made flour tortilla isn’t hard to find. After 6 years in Austin, I’m still trying to find a place that makes their own yummy flour tortillas for their breakfast tacos. I can’t even think of any flour tortillas here better than Chuy’s – that’s kind of sad. I dream of opening a Chachos in Austin and showing what great cheap San Antonio mexican food is like. I’ll keep trying places in the meantime
Hi Matt! I agree, the tortilla can make or break a breakfast taco. Have you tried Los Jalisciences? Their tortillas are super fresh and lardy; not sure if they make them on-site or not, though. And Amaya’s Taco Village makes their tortillas on-site; I am pretty sure they are open for breakfast.
I’ve been to Amaya’s a few times. Good food but their tortillas are unmemorable for some reason. I’ll have to try Los Jalisciences. Thanks for the suggestions!
Sure thing, buddy! Thanks for watching!
Hey Hilah! Just got yer e-cookbook fer breakfast tacos downloaded. You got some really great ideas in there! Imyself find that the more run down, and ‘forbodding’ the outside of the taco stand is, well…..the better the grub. We have alot of RV’s around town that have been converted to taquerias, and the make the most bomb-tatsic tacos known to man!!!! I know will go study yer book a lil’ more for some insight into yer style o’ cookin’…….Keep em’ comin’!!!! SB
Hey Shelby! I agree about the funkiest places often being the best for tacos. Also the cheapest! Win-win!
Hey Hilah – I wanted to let you know that we’re trying to keep it real up here in NYC. I had a brunch for 30 the other day and made your breakfast tacos and avocado salsa and people (after the confusion that they weren’t eating breakfast burritos) went nuts over them.
AND I have so many leftover tortillas, I can have breakfast tacos for the rest of the year. hollah!
Hi AC! I’m so glad you’re fighting the good breakfast taco fight in NYC! Whoot!
Wow, either I’m completely daft or the form isn’t working. I must have this e-book. The fate of several nations depends on it. World peace is at stake here folks.
OK truth be told I’m just a breakfast taco fanatic and I’m going to covet it like the One Ring. But please?
Hmm, you should have gotten an email with a link to download a pdf of the book after you signed up for the newsletter. I realize there’s a lot of with/of/for/afters in that series, but have you checked you spam folder yet for the email? Sometimes that happens. Lemme know!
Got it! Guess the Internet tubes were clogged up for a bit… Thanks for playing tech support girl. The many roles of a blogger.
I discovered your blackeyed peas video by accident last night and have now become addicted. I need more Hilah. can’t wait to start reading the book
Hooray! My plan has worked !
Let me know how you like the book, man!
Thanks for making this available, Hilah.
You are very welcome, Ron! I hope you like it.
–liked the fish Tacos. –am in dire need of alternative breakfast dishes & breakfast Tacos fit the bill perfectly!
Great, Frank! I hope you enjoy!
I’m making the fish tacos tonight. So glad I found your site, it’s great!
Great, Deb! Enjoy!
do you have a cocanut onionring recipie? or a plain batter recipie
Great idea! I’ll work on that for you!
Looks like a great book. I love breakfast. Love the web-site. Found you on You Tube/ searching how to season a cast iron skillet
Awesome, Diana! There’s another book out soon so keep checking the site! Thanks for writing!
Hilah, You are so funny, and such a good cook, I am a older man living by my self and really don’t know how to cook squat, but you have turned that around for me, What I love is you never know what your going to say next. you are hilarious. keep up the good work, you put all the big name TV cooks to shame. Ken
Hi Ken! I’m overjoyed that you have started cooking! And that I had anything to do with it! Makes me really happy, man. Really really. Thank you for writing. I hope to hear more progress updates from you!
-h
I live in Scotland, and until today hadn’t heard of you OR breakfast tacos. Now, thanks to you, I’m about to eat my first monte cristo sandwich in YEARS (I’d totally forgotten how much I love those!) and I’m totally ready to introduce the Austin delicacy of breakfast tacos to the fair city of Edinburgh!
It’s a revolution, girl!
In other news, you’re pretty and I’m sure I’d love you if I knew you!
great show! great stuff! great you! keep up the great cooking! i’m a total fan…
Yay! Thanks, Tom!!!
This is exactly the book I needed. I’ve been away from home for a while…about 2 years in NY from San Antonio…and it’s lonely without some of my favorite tex-mex. I made frito pie the other day and my boyfriend was amazed at the idea of putting chili on top of chips. Thanks for the breakfast taco cook book! I love me some chorizo!
Hi Katherine! Girl, I feel your breakfast-taco-missing pain. It’s baffling that NY has not caught on the the beauty that is breakfast tacos. I’m so happy you like the book! Thanks for writing.
-hilah
Sorry to post again, but had to tell you – we finally had breakfast tacos for the first time this morning, and OMG! SO good! Even my 2 year old had no trouble stuffing his face with the eggy, sausagey, salsa-verde-y, potatoey goodness, and my partner went back for seconds!
We may be starting to evangelise Edinburgh about the wonder of these things. But later. First, more tacos to eat. Mmm.
Hi Gill! No bother! I love hearing from people!
I am elated that you shall spread the gospel throughout fair Edinburgh. Breakfast tacos are and forever will be the greatest breakfast food know to man. You should be very proud for perhaps making the first breakfast tacos in Scotland!
Thank you for writing.
P.S. I love Edinburgh! I’mma come visit again and I’mma holla at you! XO
I’m too stuffed to be proud. Proud will come later, when everyone’s as stuffed as me.
As for Edinburgh – come on in, I’ll make you coffee…and tacos!
YES! Let’s make tacos together!
We make our grandchildren Spaghetti Taco’s all the time, even for breakfast. I’m a Texas girl at heart. Conceived in Arlington but born in Cali.. We enjoy your vids……
Pattidawn, PLEASE tell me how to make spaghetti tacos. Fertheluvvagawd! Go Texas!
Dude I just started watching your videos last night.They’re awesome…and it wasn’t due to the fact that I was totally wasted yesterday because I still like it today. Whooooo
Dude, Jesse. Yay! I’m glad you still like it even when you’re sober.
Just found your site today (looking for an al pastor recipe) and so glad I did! God bless you, Google search engine!
Loving the book – breakfast tacos are my favourite comfort food anytime of the day, and I’m glad to find recipes which seem to fit even my limited skillset.
But really, you had me at handjob.. ;o)
Hey Graham! Google does do good work, right? I’m so glad you found the site, too! And I’m pleased to meet another taco lover such as myself.