Money Saving Meals by Cooking with Recipes from Famous Restaurants

With the state of our economy, coming up with money saving meals for family dinner ideas has become essential to parents everywhere trying to make the most out of every paycheck. In attempts to save money on food, people are cutting corners at the grocery store, buying less name brand items, and most of all avoiding restaurants for meals. With these decisions comes the added pressure of continually coming up with new and unique family dinner ideas that everyone will love. What many people have not realized is amount of money you can be saving by using recipes from famous restaurants to make restaurant quality food from home!


Provided your family has the money, who does not enjoy taking everyone out to restaurants for a meal? A night off from cooking, a fun family experience, and your favorite restaurant meals are all part of the package. However people are looking for money saving meals and the first thing cut out from the budget are all the trips to the famous restaurants you love. Well you may not be aware that many of the recipes from famous restaurants are available in recipe books and make for fantastic family dinner ideas. Recipes from restaurants such as the Olive Garden, Chili's, Applebee's, PF Chang's, Outback Steakhouse - even McDonald's, Taco Bell, and Burger King - are available for you to make right from your own kitchen.


Imagine the money savings on meals, service tips, beverage, and gas. You will save money, impress your family, and find great joy in using some of these recipes for your family dinner ideas. These recipes from your favorite restaurants include everything from full entrees, appetizers, dips, and signature beverages. The following is the recipe from TGI Friday's for their signature Jack Daniel marinade and dipping sauce. It goes perfect for chicken fingers, deep-fried chicken breast strips, steak, and anything else you love to dip. What a perfect way to spice up your typical family meal!


T.G.I. Friday's Jack Daniel Marinade and Dipping Sauce

Ingredients: 1/2 cup brown sugar, 1/3 cup teriyaki sauce, 1/3 cup soy sauce, 1/3 cup diced red onions, 1/2 teaspoon finely-diced garlic, 1/2 water, 1/3 cup white grape juice, 1/2 cup Jack Daniel's black label bourbon, 1/2 teaspoon Tabasco sauce

1. Place ingredients in medium to large sauce pan
   
2. Mix and stir after each ingredient is added
   
3. Place on medium heat and stir until entire mixture is boiling
   
4. Turn temperature down to low until mixture is on a continuous slow simmer
   
5. Cook sauce for additional 35-45 minutes and remove from heat
   
6. Place in bowl or brush onto your food and enjoy!
   

This recipe is so easy and simple but you and your family will surely love it - and so will your bank account! Many recipes just like this one are available in restaurant recipe books. You can accurately copy the recipes to make them exactly as you know or improvise on them to come up with your own creations. Try one or more of these for your next family dinner and enjoy all the advantages of saving money with homemade, restaurant-quality food! Your taste buds and your wallet will not be disappointed.


More Money Saving Meals and Recipes from Famous Restaurants

Family Dinner Ideas with Real Restaurant Recipes: PF Chang’s Lettuce Wraps Recipe

Continually coming up with family dinner ideas can be a challenging task for even the most chef-inclined household cook. So here is a new family dinner idea – using real restaurant recipes. Everyone in your family loves when you go out to eat, but that can a time-consuming, expensive hassle. The next time you need a family dinner idea, use Real Restaurant Recipes to impress your kids, your spouse, or whoever! There are literally hundreds of real restaurant recipes and copycat restaurant recipes floating around the Internet (though not all correct).

The following copycat restaurant recipe for PF Chang’s Lettuce Wraps is similar to those you would find in a real restaurant recipes cookbook and is perfect for family dinner ideas. If this specific copycat restaurant recipe does not suit your style, spend time looking for more real restaurant recipes that will save you time and impress your family and friends.

PF Chang’s Lettuce Wraps
Ingredients: Iceberg lettuce leaves, 8 Shitake mushrooms, 2 teaspoons water, 1 teaspoon soy sauce, 1 teaspoon corn starch, 2 teaspoons cooking sherry, salt, pepper, 1 ½ pound boneless chicken breasts (chopped), 5 tablespoons vegetable oil, 1 teaspoon ginger, 2 cloves minced garlic, 2 chopped green onions, 8 oz can bamboo shoots, 8 oz can water chestnuts, 2 small dried chilies, 1 package Chinese rice noodles

Ingredients for sauce: 2 tablespoons oyster sauce, 1 ½ tablespoons water, 1 tablespoon cooking sherry, 1 tablespoon hoi sin sauce, 2 teaspoons corn starch, 1 teaspoon sugar, 1 teaspoon sesame oil

1. Pour boiling water over dried mushrooms and soak for 30 minutes before draining.
2. Combine all sauce ingredients to create sauce
3. Mix together chicken, salt, pepper, water, sherry, soy sauce, corn starch until chicken is coated.
4. Heat in large skillet over medium/high heat and add 3 tablespoons of oil and fry for three minutes. Remove Chicken.
5. Add 2 more tablespoons of oil. Add ginger, garlic, green onions, and chilies and fry for 60 seconds. Do Not Overcook. Add the mushrooms, bamboo shoots, and water chestnuts and fry for 2 minutes.
6. Return chicken to skillet and combine all ingredients. Add rice noodles (broken into pieces) into mixture.
7. Add the chicken and sauce mixture to your lettuce wraps! (You may secure with a toothpick if necessary)

Hundreds of copycat restaurant recipes and real restaurant recipes similar to this one can be found in a number of places and for all of your favorite restaurants including PF Chang’s, Chili’s, Outback, Applebee’s, The Olive Garden, McDonald’s, Wendy’s, and many more. These real restaurant recipes make for fantastic family dinner ideas whether you use them exactly as instructed or to create dinner ideas of your own. There are a few copycat restaurant recipes floating around the Internet, but if you like the recipe above your best bet is to find a real restaurant recipe cook book. These books provide all your favorite recipes and are conveniently gathered and organized rather than searching all over the Internet for a single recipe. So what are you waiting for? Make your next family dinner idea a great idea!

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Using Recipes of Famous Restaurants for a Great Dinner Party

It’s Saturday morning and you want to host a great dinner party later in the evening, but you don’t know what to cook. The guests are coming in just a few hours and are probably expecting the same dishes you have made for years, but this time you really want to impress. Out of ideas? Use secret recipes of famous restaurants to not only provide great tasting food for your dinner party but to give them something they will remember for a long time!

Your times out to lunch or dinner with family and friends at restaurants may be some of your most enjoyable memories. Why not bring home the recipes of famous restaurants that everyone has grown to love to make your next dinner party a great dinner party? There are many secret restaurant recipe books that have hundreds of these famous recipes, and you could be cooking one of them in just a few minutes!

Consider the following two recipes of famous restaurants for your next great dinner party:

Olive Garden Chicken Marsala
Ingredients: 4 boneless chicken breast halves, ¼ cup flour, ½ teaspoon salt, ½ teaspoon oregano, 4 tablespoons vegetable oil, 4 tablespoons butter, 1 cup mushrooms, ½ cup Marsala wine

1. Pound chicken breasts until about ¼ inch thickness
2. Combine flour, salt, oregano, and pepper (optional) and mix with chicken
3. Heat oil and butter in frying pan on medium heat
4. Cook chicken on medium for two minutes, then turn over and add mushrooms
5. Cook chicken for two more minutes until slightly browned
6. Add wine to the mixture and cover. Continue to simmer for 10 minutes

Benihana Japanese Fried Rice
Ingredients: 4 cups cooked converted rice (1 cup uncooked), 1 cup frozen peas, 2 tablespoons grated carrots, 2 eggs beaten, ½ cup diced onion, 1 ½ tablespoons butter, 2 tablespoons soy sauce, salt, pepper

1. Cook rice by bringing 2 cups water to boil, then adding rice and salt. Reduce heat and cover for 20 minutes. Let cool in refrigerator.
2. Scramble eggs in small pan and separate into small chunks
3. Add peas, carrots, eggs, and onions to cooled rice in bowl
4. Melt 1 ½ tablespoons of butter in large frying pan over medium heat
5. When butter has melted, dump bowl of rice and other ingredients and add soy sauce. Cook for 6-8 minutes.

The preceding two secret restaurant recipes are just two from secret restaurant recipe books. There are literally hundreds more secret recipes of famous restaurants that you can find to help you host a great dinner party. These recipes save you money, time, and help to make you look like a great chef – no matter your skill level! If these two do not interest you, take time to look around the Internet for secret restaurant recipe books and impress anyone – including yourself – with great recipes of famous restaurants. There are secret restaurant recipes from Chili’s, Outback, Olive Garden, TGI Friday’s, even McDonald’s and Starbucks. They are fun, affordable, recognizable, and delicious!

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