Copycat Restaurant Recipes

The average American family eats out three or more times per week. Of course, part of that is because people don’t have the energy or time to cook at home. But a lot of the reason is because the food you get when you go out to eat just tastes so darn good. Most of us have favorite restaurants that we go to for our birthdays or other celebrations, and we even know what we’re going to order before we get there. That’s because the restaurant has trained us: we want that item fixed that way.

I’m lucky enough that I don’t have to cook at home—my husband does all the cooking. But every January I look forward to my birthday dinner of Capellini Pomodoro or Chicken Marsala at Olive Garden. My husband used to try to duplicate those dinners at home for me, but they never came out tasting the same.

Not until I found a complete book of copycat restaurant recipes! America's Secret Recipes have been developed to taste just like the food served in famous restaurants—and they do! Not only do they taste the same, but they’re an awful lot cheaper than going out to dinner.

My husband’s favorites are Red Lobster’s Shrimp Scampi or P. F. Chang’s Spicy Chicken. He’s trying to get me to cook for his birthday, but believe me, just having the recipes isn’t enough. I am just not a cook! Not even when I have a whole book of over 200 copycat restaurant recipes.