Saturday, April 23, 2011

Top Secret Restaurant Recipes

Have you ever wondered how chefs create some of your favorite dishes when you're eating out? Do you wish you could make some of these same dishes at home, but aren't sure where to start? There are lots of sources you can refer to, including Top Secret Recipes, in order to get top secret restaurant recipes that you can use every day at home, so you can save money on eating out, and you can have as much of your favorite foods at you want at a fraction of the cost.

When you visit the Top Secret Recipes website, you can sign up to get a weekly recipe reminder, so that recipes will be sent to your email each week to give you new ideas for what to cook for dinner each night. This way, your family won't mind not eating out as much, because everyone will be able to help in the kitchen to create family favorites at a fraction of the cost.

When you search the Top Secret Restaurant site, you can find great recipes like the macaroni and cheese from Cracker Barrel, which will be a welcome change from boxed pasta dishes. You may also want to try the apple salad that is a favorite at Ruby Tuesday; since the restaurant is well known for the salad bar, you can create this salad bar at home so that you and your family can add their own veggies to their plate and create some combinations that you may not find in the restaurant.

If you are looking for a fun, easy dessert that you can make with your kids, you find a top secret restaurant recipe on the site like the M&M Snickers bar that even small children can make with you. Other kid-friendly recipes are posted on the site as well, so you can work with your son or daughter to make them more comfortable in the kitchen, which teaches self-sufficiency.

Once you go to the Top Secret Restaurant site, you can watch videos that will give you all the instructions you need for creating great recipes that may become a stable in your home. You'll also get the latest news on which companies are going to be selling cooking tools that will make it easier for you to replicate your favorite recipes at home. There are also a number of cookbooks on the Top Secret Restaurant site that you can purchase to get more ideas for making dinner interesting, in addition to spices you can buy from the site that will make your food taste just like 'the real thing.'

Be sure to check the site often, since new recipes are always being added. Happy cooking!

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Healthy, Delicious Rotisserie Cooking Using Your BBQ Grill

By Stephen Daniels

Mankind has been enjoying the tender, juicy results of turning meat over a smoldering blaze ever since man discovered fire. Twenty first century man is still cooking on a spit over a fire but the fire is likely to be an enclosed gas, electric, or briquette fired grill with an electrically powered spit rotating at precisely the correct height above the heat source. Today, the mouth watering scent of a savory roast or chicken on the rotisserie carries on the breeze across backyards and patios all over the world.

Today's health conscious cooks favor rotisserie cooking not only for the flavor it imparts, but also for its health benefits. Little did our caveman forebears know (or care) that they created one of the lowest fat methods of cooking meat that is known! This is due to the fact that no extra fat is needed for searing or browning the outside of the meat. Any excess fat produced during cooking drips into a tray below as the meat is turned.

Rotisserie cooking over the grill is a healthy and delicious method of preparing almost any meat. It is a preferred preparation method for such inherently fatty meats as lamb, beef or pork ribs or hams. Tougher cuts of meat such as shoulder, rump or chuck roasts are also favorites for the slow cooking on a spit over a grill. Juices are held inside the meat while the outside becomes browned and flavorful.

Rotisserie cooking is an indirect method, unlike grilling on a BBQ or over an open flame. On a spit that turns slowly a safe distance from the head source, meat browns slowly and evenly but never burns. This prevents the carcinogens that are produced when meat is charred through other cooking methods.

Rounding out the meal with vegetables is another healthful choice. Some vegetables can be skewered directly on the spit while others are best cooked in a special vegetable basket. All develop the healthy and delicious flavor typical of rotisserie on the grill as they slowly turn over the fire.

As simple grilling is increasingly being replaced by roasting on a spit as the most preferable cooking method, most new grills come with a rotisserie attachment or have them available as an add-on option. The majority of older grills can usually accommodate an attachment with a spit. Adjusting the distance of the spit above the grill for more or less browning is easy.

The cook's job couldn't be easier than when rotisserie cooking over a grill; skewering the meat on the spit, adjusting the grill heat to low and setting a timer is all that is needed. Most chefs also insert a meat thermometer to assure the desired degree of doneness before removing the meat for slicing and serving.

Marinades, seasoned rubs or broth injections all can add additional flavor to meats, as can special BBQ sauces or treated chips for adding wood smoke flavor. Seasoning methods are limited only by the imaginations of creative chefs, and all will help produce a healthy and delicious meal.

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Getting Restaurant Food From Your Own Home

By Michael Clatter

Famous restaurant recipes are made available to you, you just need to know how to find them. Which means that you can cook your favorite restaurant foods from your favorite location, your home. This helps to reduce the price down extremely, which can help you to cut down on your budget.

Still, you wont feel deprived due to the fact that you still get to eat your favorite foods. You can find many of these recipes offered right on the web by using one of the recipe databases. First you need to find one, then type in the name of the restaurant and the name of the recipe, and soon you will be in your kitchen cooking up these dishes.

Now, if you are looking for other recipes, you can find loads of the best restaurants offering their recipe versions. If you love a really good burger and good portion of French fries, you shouldn't have to settle for anything less than that? There can't be anything better than a classic, homemade American apple pie? Maybe, if you top it with a scoop of ice cream!

If you would like to locate any of these delicious recipe dishes the good news is that there are loads of databases on the internet that offer these recipes. You get to pick from meats, seafood, pasta dishes, and vegetables. Even desserts are available. You can find restaurant recipes that are in this category as well.

The same thing goes for spicy Mexican food. One of the greatest things you can do when it comes to Mexican type of cuisine is to find a high quality spice blend that screams Mexican! There are a lot out there that you can easily pick up, bring home and apply in your dishes to recreate a restaurant recipe or to assist you in coming up with that recipe that you remember your grandmother making when you were still a kid. You can locate recipes to help you prepare these recipes as well.

These days, it is very costly to go out to a restaurant for a delicious meal. The more in your group, the more outrageous the prices are. No matter, for a lot of people, there is oftentimes a craving for that particular plate or that perfect dessert.

If you are one of the many that has this issue, not a problem anymore. There are thousands of online recipe websites where you can go to, to find the top restaurant recipes out there to entice your taste buds in your own kitchen.

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Sunday, January 31, 2010

The Things To Know About Waffles

By Ben Cook

If you are reading through this article, then you are probably wanting to learn a little more about waffles and how to keep the treat interesting for you and your family for years to come. So through these paragraphs, I hope to detail a few common ways to prepare them and how you can switch things up to always keep them interesting.

You see, waffles themselves were designed to be delicious. If you just think about the way that they look, then you can better understand why this is true. Consider all of the rivets throughout the waffle itself. These were designed to be filled with all kinds of flavors and substances.

But what is the very best way to prepare them? The world over, people have found unique and equally tasty ways to prepare this dish. The trouble is, they all think their way is the best way, and so it really boils down to personal preference. Over the next few paragraphs, I am going to reveal a few of the most popular ways they are eaten, so you can keep the idea fresh.

As far as I can tell, the most common and enjoyed method of preparing and eating a waffle is through the use of any of a plethora of available syrups. While I might lean you towards maple syrup out of personal preference, there are plenty of flavors and varieties that you could choose from to really keep your waffle experience interesting.

If you were at a restaurant in the United States, then you might get a completely different waffle experience. Surely enough, you are going to have an option of syrups. What make it different, is that often these treats are served with a variety of fresh fruit on top. This makes them especially delicious, and also provides even more variety for you and your waffle eating.

The world is more and more on the go. Everyone seems to be in a hurry, and so naturally making up waffles from scratch and throwing them into a waffle iron is out of the question to contend with your busy schedule. So its time to get some ready made waffles that are designed to place into your toaster and enjoy in matter of a minute or so.

So hopefully you have a better idea of what makes a waffle so unique, and the differences in the methods of preparing them to keep them a part of your diet for years to come.

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Saturday, January 30, 2010

Learn How To Make Tomato Gravy The Old Fashioned Way

By Susanne Myers

Like most comfort foods, Tomato Gravy was developed out of necessity. In other words, we ate what we had on hand. When times were hard, we foraged in our pantries and gardens and came up with dinner. Big pots and skillets bubbled away on the stove, biscuits baked in the oven, and we sat down and ate as a family.

Perhaps that's why certain foods make us feel good. Even if we don't remember hard times like our parents or grandparents did, we sat at the table with these family folks eating the comfort foods from their youth, and it became our comfort food.

A good Tomato Gravy takes on as many forms as there are cooks. Depending on the season, we might use fresh or canned tomatoes, green peppers, onions, or anything else we can forage. Diced, fresh tomatoes are my preferred choice, but in the middle of the winter, diced canned tomatoes will do just fine. Once we get the oil and flour cooking, the rest is decided with what we have on hand.

Tomato Gravy starts with a good, golden roux. Every cook knows you need a thickener to begin your tomato gravy dish and that thickener should be a mixture of oil and flour cooked until it's slightly golden in color - in other words, a roux. If you are afraid to let your roux get golden color, you will end up with a flour taste in your finished dish. You can use a combination of butter and oil for extra flavor, but don't use only butter as it tends to burn rather easily.

You can serve tomato gravy as a main dish or a side dish. Spooned over some homemade biscuits with a little salad on the side, you have a great lunch. Grill some fish and serve some oven fried potato wedges with tomato gravy drizzled on top and you have a filling dinner. Tomato gravy can be spooned over hot vegetables or mixed into pasta or rice for a delicious, and satisfying meal anytime.

Even if you don't happen to have an old family recipe for tomato gravy, there are plenty of resources to find one. Any good cookbook will have at least one recipe and the internet recipe sites will have plenty to choose from. You'll probably be overwhelmed at first because there are so many variations. Stick to the most simple recipes at first. You can always expand later, but even the simplest recipe of a roux, tomatoes with salt and pepper will taste great when you're hungry!

One thing to keep in mind when you're looking at recipes is that you'll see cooks using a cast iron skillet. I love my cast iron skillets too much to boil up tomato gravy in them. It looks pretty on the pictures in the cookbooks, but tomatoes are very acidic and will quickly destroy your cast iron skillet's patina. Use your regular pots and pans for this dish and save your cast iron skillet for frying up your chicken.

All it takes to serve a wonderfully filling comfort food is a few readily available ingredients - that's how all comfort foods are created. Treat your family to a simple and tasty Tomato Gravy made easily with ingredients you have on hand and warm your family inside and out with a heaping helping of this simple dish that's filled love.

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A Guide To Buying Digital Kitchen Scales And Also What To Look For

By David Staats

Digital kitchen scales come in various shapes, sizes and technical specifications which are why it is important that you know what kind of features are appropriate for you. Everyone is different and everyone cooks in different ways. One key feature for one person may be inconsequential for another.

One main difference in digital scales is their weight limits, i. E. The maximum and minimum values that they can weigh. The weight range will always be displayed upon the box or if on the internet then this will be displayed within the technical specification segment of the product details. You need to be aware of what kind of ingredients you will be weighing.

The statement above is particularly apt as the main reason for price differences between scales is due the weights that they can weigh. It would be silly to buy a cheap set of scales that only weighed up to 1kg when you are predominately cooking Ham Shanks, whilst it would be equally silly to buy a set of scales that weighed up to 10kg when you are only baking cakes and using a maximum of 1kg of flour. By knowing what you will be weighing will give you a good idea of which weight limit to go for when choosing scales thus reducing the cost to you or ensuring that you have spent enough.

Another key factor to look for is whether the scales come with a bowl and whether or not this bowl is detachable. My preference is to have a removable bowl as I like to use the bowl I'm mixing in to add ingredients as its saves me transferring anything. Another advantage of a removable bowl is it's at which to clean.

The next is a type of scale called an aquatronic, this type of scale allows for both liquid and dry foods to be weighed. The surfaces of these scales are usually made of glass to provide a not stick surface for the dry items, the additional advantage of this being that they are even easier to clean.

The Liquid items can be placed in the container of your choosing and then weighed but remember to weigh the container first, you don't want to cut out some of the liquid.

Digital scales aren't for everyone some people prefer to buy ready meals and some just don't mind how it tastes. Digital scales are for the passionate cook who appreciates the time and effort that goes into cooking.


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Sushi - The Famous And Luscious Yet Easy To Prepare Japanese Food

By Hector Milla

Sushi refers to a Japanese originated food of rice spiced with vinegar and topped with different spices and ingredients of uncooked or partially cooked seafood. Totally raw fish sliced alone is called sashimi. It will also be prepared as a roll of dried seaweed flavoured with herbs referred to as makizushi. The origin of the ambitious element of the Japanese food, sushi has to do with the curing and fermentation of acids in the vinegar. The chemical reactions of raw fish and the developed amino acids as a result of its breakdown are keys to the creation of the dish. The name itself is coined from a grammatical root of words translating into it's sour.

The best thing about Japanese recipes is that they are simple to made and always very luscious in their taste. Nowadays in several countries and especially in North America the Japanese Sushi is prepared by the mixture 2 recipes; it means Sushi is cooked by following the recipes of both American and Japanese sushi.

Perhaps the most ordinary Japanese food, sushi has developed several different styles and tastes despite maintaining a common principle of chemical reactions of vinegar and the delicious productions of these reactions. The reactions produce one of five basic taste sensations. Among the traditional forms of present-day Japanese food, sushi, or Narezushi has morphed into a more internationally accepted Edomae nigisizushi.

There is a huge disparity between the originally milk based acid fermentation of the rice-based dish and today's sushi. Generally persons wouldn't eat the rice part of the overall dish, only the fermentation generated fish part was eaten. Vinegar was also put in to the original dish, made by the natives close to Lake Baiwa, as a method of preservation, when the fishermen spent more time on the lakes catching the fish. The development of the dish has ever since arisen from strong tasting funazushi to oshizushi. Putting in vinegar brought out the flavours of the fish and rice.

These days kind of sushi is the creation of a mixture of theories of curing fish as well as trapping the flavours of the fermentation process. For the requirement to quicken the production of Japanese food, sushi has bbecome a well-liked dish among the Japanese for many years. It has also established reputation among those who have very little time to have a meal, especially when travelling or watching movies.

For most persons its a definite must on several gatherings and even lunch for the average Japanese is totally imperfect without a bit of oshizushi with extra vinegar and a piece of yakatori topped plus teriyaki as well as a bit of local fresh eel. It's much attractiveness even to the present day. However, it has become more of a delicacy across the world for those who don't seem to be totally accustomed to the Japanese traditions.

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