| Satisfying your loved ones' palates by whipping up a | | | | restaurant staff itself. Lately, however, consumers |
| tasteful meal can be both challenging and rewarding. | | | | have displayed increased interest in learning how to |
| Many of our fondest memories revolve around | | | | cook those clone restaurant recipes at home. To |
| mealtimes. Catching a certain familiar scent during the | | | | feed that demand, there are now sites that sell |
| day can unexpectedly send us back to a time in our | | | | these formerly top secret cookbooks. When you do |
| past. We perhaps for a moment become a child | | | | decide to re-create one of your favorite copy cat |
| again, sitting at grandma's kitchen table as the smell | | | | recipes, I am here to encourage you that yes you |
| of apple pie wafts through the air. | | | | can compete with the great tastes of your favorite |
| Fast forward to reality: full time jobs, soccer games, | | | | restaurant! Yes you can begin a kitchen legacy. How? |
| hectic lifestyles in general for just about everyone. Is | | | | Plan it! I know. Sounds too easy. But think about this: |
| it possible to leave a similar kitchen legacy for our | | | | Many people wind down a bit on Sunday afternoon. |
| children's children to remember us by? The facts are | | | | If you are really new at this, take just five or ten |
| stark: we humans manage to eat an average of | | | | minutes this coming Sunday afternoon to look up a |
| three meals every single day - that's an amazing | | | | recipe. Make it something simple that will smell really |
| twenty one meals per week! (I'll stop there with the | | | | nice. Baked apples, maybe? Perhaps the only thing |
| math; taking it any further becomes downright | | | | you accomplish that first day is deciding on the recipe |
| daunting.) How can anyone today make the time to | | | | and printing it. Next, plan on when you will make that |
| always properly feed their family - to say nothing of | | | | recipe. Maybe next Sunday afternoon? Make it a |
| creating good looking, great smelling meals 'from | | | | family affair. Remember, kitchens seem to be one of |
| scratch'? Are you kidding? | | | | the best places for creating good memories. |
| Often, one solution to a busy family's schedule is to | | | | During the week when you're at the grocery store |
| dine at a local restaurant. Whether the restaurant of | | | | anyway, pick up what you need for that recipe. The |
| choice becomes Applebee's, T.G.I. Fridays, KFC, The | | | | only thing left now is to make it! Hey, if the kitchen |
| Olive Garden, or your town's Mom and Pop eatery, | | | | gets messy and the kids have flour on their faces, |
| often you will become attached to one or two of | | | | take some pictures! Memories in the making. |
| their dishes, and secretly wish you could take home | | | | Upon the successful completion of your first 'from |
| those favorite restaurant recipes. | | | | scratch' recipe, think about moving up to one of your |
| Unlike Grandma whose favorite recipes were handed | | | | family's favorite restaurant recipes. Like I stated |
| down from her mother, written on little pieces of | | | | earlier, you can do it! With the right tools (ingredients) |
| paper and kept in an old cookbook, today we have | | | | and the right map (recipe), you have the power to |
| the luxury of the Internet. There are many sites to | | | | be 'Chef of Your Home', and begin your kitchen |
| choose from to obtain great tasting recipes. The | | | | legacy. And by using your favorite copy cat recipes, |
| dishes from our favorite restaurants, however, have | | | | you already know your family will love the results. |
| been top secret recipes; known only to the | | | | |