Recipe Weekend: The Everything Restaurant Copycat Recipes Cookbook : 200 Easy Recipes to Re-Create Your Favorite Restaurant Dishes at Home by Kelly Jaggers

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Skip the pricey restaurant bill and recreate your favorite dishes right at home with these 200 fast, easy-to-follow recipes that are so good people will think it’s takeout!

Synopsis:

Visit your favorite restaurants…without waiting for a table or paying inflated prices for your meal! With 200 fast, easy, and delicious recipes, you can now recreate your favorite restaurant dishes without having to leave your house. You’ll find iconic recipes for every meal of the day, including:
-IHOP’s Original Buttermilk Pancakes
-Olive Garden’s Bread Sticks
-In-n-Out’s Double-Double Burger
-Pizza Hut’s Stuffed Crust Pizza
-Crumbl’s Classic Pink Sugar Cookie
-Southwestern Eggrolls from Chili’s
-The Pink Drink from Starbucks
-And more!

With these tried-and-true recipes, The Everything Restaurant Copycat Recipes Cookbook allows you to recreate popular restaurant meals as closely as possible—while still receiving the same rave reviews as the real thing—on a much smaller tab per serving.

Recipe:

This Applebee's Oriental Chicken Salad is a fav or our family- my mom used to make a similar salad that was made at the DH Holmes department store restaurants back in the 80s. This is a close match to it, and it's easy to add/make substitutions based on your family's likes (ie rice noodles vs Chinese noodles from the recipe), but the sauce is the winner of the recipe!

Review:

This is the perfect cookbook for those wanting familiar tastes, but on a budget. While some are super easy to figure out- Burger King Croissanwich for example, others give you the missing ingredient you might have not though about, like cream of chicken soup to act as the binder tin Cracker Barrell hashbrown casserole. We've already enjoyed the Longhorn Steakhouse Stuffed White Cheddar Mushrooms, Olive Garden Toasted Ravioli and Panera Broccolli and Cheddar Soup recipes- all were a hit and pretty close to the originals! I'm looking forward to using the sauce recipes from Wendy's Apple Pecan Salad and PF Chang's Bang Bang Shrimp for other recipes, now how to make them! Starbucks Pink Drink, Cinnamon Coffee Cake and Bacon and Gruyere Bites are next on our list to try! With included tips, essential know hows and restaurant history, this is a fun book to have at home and to give! 

About the Author:

Kelly Jaggers is a cookbook author, recipe developer, food photographer, food stylist, and founder of the recipe blog Evil Shenanigans (EvilShenanigans.com). She is the author of The Everything® Pie Cookbook, Not-So-Humble Pies, Moufflet, The Everything® Easy Asian Cookbook, The Everything® Dutch Oven Cookbook, and The Everything® Easy Instant Pot Cookbook. She is also a cooking instructor, personal chef, and caterer. Kelly lives in Dallas, Texas.