Preparing Restaurant Quality Food At Home

By Michael Clatter

Most restaurant recipes are available to you, you simply need to know where to find them. That means that you can make your favorite restaurant foods from your favorite eating place, in your home. This will help to cut the price down enormously, which can also help you to trim your budget.

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

Still, 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, why settle for anything less? Could there possibly be anything better than a good old American apple pie? Yes, if you take a scoop of vanilla ice cream on top!

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.

Finding these recipes also goes for Mexican foods. One of the major things you can do when it comes to this 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 recipes to recreate a restaurant recipe or to assist you in coming up with that recipe that you remember your grandmother preparing when you were growing up. You can locate recipes to help you prepare these recipes as well.

Today, it is very overpriced to go to a fancy restaurant for a nice meal. And if you have more in your group, the more ridiculous the prices are. Anyway, for many people, there is almost a craving for that exceptional 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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Easy Chicken Recipes for Everyday Meals

By Laura Cokherell

When the work day is over and dinner time has arrived these time saving recipes can make meal planning fast and easy. Chicken is such a versatile ingredient and these simple recipes will have flavorful meals ready quickly and easily.

Store bought prepared chicken is a great quick meal item to have on hand or, if you prefer, simply cooking your own chicken and making extra for leftovers allows you to use these recipes and make quick dinner meals any day of the week. It's a real time-saver for the busy lifestyles we live and provides a healthy meal option with the addition of just a few fresh ingredients.

Each recipe makes 2 to 3 servings.

Cold Chicken Salad: You will need, 2 cups cooked chicken (cubed), 1/2 cup red bell pepper (diced), 1/2 cup yellow bell pepper (diced), 1/2 cup marinated artichoke hearts (roughly chopped - reserve the liquid), 1/2 cup low-fat mayonnaise or low-fat plain Greek yogurt, and 1 tbsp (or to taste) of the reserved liquid from the artichokes. In a bowl, combine cubed cooked chicken, red bell pepper, yellow bell pepper, and marinated artichoke hearts. In a separate bowl, combine mayonnaise or yogurt and reserved liquid from the artichokes. Add dressing to salad ingredients and toss well. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Serving Idea: Serve this simple salad scooped into Bibb lettuce leaves along with a side dish of warm couscous drizzled with a little olive oil and a squeeze of lemon juice.

Roasted Chicken with Citrus Coleslaw and Capers: You will need 2 cups of store bought roasted chicken (cut off the bone and cut into pieces), 1/4 cup lime juice, 1 tsp lime zest, 1 cup red bell pepper (medium dice), 2 scallions (thinly sliced on an angle), 3 cups packaged coleslaw mix, 2 cups mushrooms (sliced), capers, and olive oil. Prepare chicken and set aside. About an hour before serving time, combine lime juice, lime zest, bell peppers, scallions, and coleslaw in a bowl. Drizzle olive oil and salt and pepper to taste over ingredients and toss well. Allow mixture to marinate in the refrigerator for an hour, tossing occasionally. About twenty minutes before serving chicken, saute the sliced mushrooms in a little olive oil over medium heat until browned. Serving Idea: Place some of the cabbage mixture on each serving plate, top with roasted chicken and the sauteed mushrooms, then sprinkle with a few capers over the top. Serve chicken with warm rolls or garlic bread.

Chicken Salad with Apples and Ginger: You will need, 2 cups cooked chicken (cubed), 1 apple (cored and diced), 1/4 cup chopped walnuts, 1 tsp grated ginger, 1/2 cup low-fat sour cream, baby spinach leaves, and 4 red potatoes. Combine the chicken, apple, walnuts, ginger, and sour cream in a bowl and toss well. Serving Idea: Serve salad on a bed of baby spinach leaves drizzled with a little low-sodium soy sauce with a side dish made with red potatoes cut into chunks, steamed until tender, and tossed with olive oil, lemon juice, and salt and pepper.

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Laura Cokherell, a cooking enthusiast, shares a varied collection of budget friendly meal ideas from breakfast to dessert, including more dinner recipes, at Quick Salad Recipes.com. You will find a full range of quick recipes for healthy, flavorful, natural meals that require a minimum of ingredients, time, effort and clean-up for the time-pressed world we live in.