Meet Food Network's newest chef, Marcela Valladolid of 'Mexican Made Easy'

If you consider "fine Mexican cuisine" what you get at your local Taco Bell, then meet the Food Network’s newest personality, Chef Marcela Valladolid. Her show Mexican Made Easy debuts tomorrow morning on the Food Network, where she blends traditional favorites with Mexican flavors she grew up with in Tijuana. It’s not uncommon to find her tossing a little hibiscus juice in caramel while creating peanut brittle, or preparing eggs Benedict with a chipotle hollandaise sauce. Now living in San Diego with her 5-year-old son, Fausto, Valladolid pulls many of the recipes she features on her show from her 2009 cookbook Fresh Mexico, and this is her biggest TV gig thus far, after stints on The Apprentice: Martha Stewart (she finished fourth) and her own show on Discovery en Espanol. Read below for my conversation with the bubbly chef, and check out a trailer for Mexican Made Easy.