| Making delicious, restaurant quality dishes in your own | | | | sauce." |
| kitchen is easier than you think. Many of us are | | | | 4. Make notes of the menu description. |
| tightening our belts and don't go out to dinner as | | | | 5. If you are perplexed by anything, ask the waiter. |
| much, but we still want to enjoy the dishes we love. | | | | Often they can ask the chef or may have observed |
| I worked in the restaurant business for years and | | | | a certain technique in the kitchen. |
| learned to cook when I learned to clone restaurant | | | | Another way is to go to the restaurant's website |
| recipes. There are a few different ways to find | | | | and see if they post recipes or will respond to an |
| famous secret restaurant recipes and make them at | | | | email. This is not very likely in some cases. |
| home. | | | | You can also use your current cookbooks to find |
| One way is to make notes when you are at the | | | | similar recipes and then "doctor" them up. This can be |
| restaurant enjoying your favorite dish: | | | | very difficult to make the dish taste exactly the |
| | | | same. |
| 1. Write down all the flavors you taste, even if you | | | | Sometimes the most difficult part of cloning recipes is |
| can't say exactly what it is, for example: " a flavor of | | | | technique. Technique is something you must learn and |
| coconut, but there is no shredded coconut in the | | | | having visual or written instructions is the best. |
| dish" | | | | Best way of all is to find a collection of recipes and |
| 2. Note the obvious things you see, like: "mostly | | | | techniques that have been tested so we don't waste |
| romaine lettuce, twice as many almonds as raisins, | | | | our time and ingredients guessing at restaurant |
| almonds are shaved, not slivered" | | | | secret recipes. Sometime you can find one or two |
| 3. Make notes about any description the waiter may | | | | good recipes online, but to find a whole collection of |
| have given, such as "finished with a sherry cream | | | | secret restaurant recipes is even better! |