“<p>it's No Longer Necessary To Stand In Line For A Table At T.g.i. Friday's Or Red Lobster. You Can Make The Menu Items You Love Right At Home - With Ingredients From Your Local Supermarket. In This Unique Cookbook Todd Wilbur Re-creates More Than 100 Signature Dishes From America's Most Popular Chain Restaurants - Including Such Hot Theme Eateries As The Hard Rock Cafe, Planet Hollywood, And Dive!. Wilbur's Easy-to-make Knockoffs, The Products Of Years Of Research, Are Indiscernible From The Originals - And The Most Ingenious Way We Know Of To Cut Down On The Cost Of Eating Out. But Watch Out, Once You Start Cooking, People May Start Calling For Reservations At Your Dinner Table! Here Are Some Of The Best-kept Restaurant Secrets That Let You Eat In With The Great Taste Of Eating Out: Outback Steakhouse Bloomin' Onion, Chili's Fajitas For Two, Tony Roma's World Famous Ribs, T.g.i. Friday's Potato Skins, Pizza Hut Original Stuffed Crust Pizza, And Sizzler Southern Fried Shrimp. Plus You'll Find Out The Fascinating History Of Each Restaurant And Loads Of Food Lore...including How Ice Cream Sundaes Got Their Name. The Perfect Cookbook For Everyone Who Loves To Eat Out.</p> <h3>publishers Weekly</h3> <p>recognizing That Americans Spent $100 Billion In 1996 Dining At Full-service Restaurant Chains, Food Writer Wilbur (top Secret Recipes) Has Developed More Than 100 Knockoff Recipes From Such Leading National Chains As Applebee's, Denny's, Sizzler, Pizza Hut And Planet Hollywood. Convenience Foods, Simple Directions And Detailed Drawings Make These Largely High-calorie Offerings Relatively Easy For The Home Cook To Duplicate. Surprisingly, This Otherwise Comprehensive Collection Does Not Include Any Alcoholic Drink Recipes To Accompany Spicy Appetizers Like Nachos Grande (from Chi-chi's) And The Bloomin' Onion (from Outback Steakhouse). Some Recipes Are Just Basic Home Fare (e.g., California Turkey Sandwich, Cream Of Broccoli Soup And French Toast). Others Offer More Innovation (e.g., Thai Chicken Pizza, Sweet Bourbon Salmon And Spicy Cajun Pasta). Desserts (e.g., Key Lime Cheesecake And Mountain High Mud Pie) Round Out The Cookbook. Occasionally, Wilbur's Overview Of Each Restaurant And His Use Of Brand-name Ingredients Sound Suspiciously Like Advertising. But He Generally Maintains An Amusing Tone As He Reproduces Commercial Fare For Families Hoping To Bring Some Of The Food, If Not The Atmosphere, Of The Strip Into Their Own Homes. Doubleday Book Club Selection. (june)</p>
Includes bibliographical references (p. 307) and index
Contents: Table for two: the restaurant tale -- Applebee's® Neighborhood Grill & Bar. Quesadillas -- Pizza sticks® -- Oriental chicken salad -- Club house grill® -- Tijuana "Philly" steak sandwich® -- Benihana®. Hibachi chicken and hibachi steak -- Dipping sauces -- Japanese fried rice -- Bennigan's®. Buffalo chicken sandwich -- California turkey sandwich -- Cookie mountain sundae® -- Big Boy®. Cream of broccoli soup -- Original double-decker hamburger classic -- Club sandwich -- California Pizza Kitchen®. Original BBQ chicken pizza -- Thai chicken pizza -- Southwestern burrito pizza -- The Cheesecake Factory®. Bruschetta -- Avocado eggrolls -- Cajun jambalaya pasta -- Pumpkin cheesecake -- Key lime cheesecake
Contents (cont. ): Chi-Chi's®. Nachos grande -- Sweet corn cake -- Twice grilled barbecue burrito -- Mexican "fried" ice cream® -- Chili's® Grill and Bar. Grilled Caribbean salad -- Fajitas for two -- Peanut buttercup cheesecake -- Cracker Barrel Old Country Store®. Hash brown casserole -- Eggs-in-the-basket -- Chicken & dumplins -- Denny's®. Scram slam® -- Moons over my hammy® -- The super bird® -- Dive!® Carrot chips® -- Sicilian sub rosa® -- Brick oven mushroom and turkey cheese sub® -- S'mores® -- Hard Rock Cafe®. Filet steak sandwich -- Grilled vegetable sandwich -- Famous baby rock watermelon ribs® -- Orange freeze -- Hooters®. Buffalo chicken wings -- Buffalo shrimp -- Pasta salad -- Houlihans's®. Houli fruit fizz® -- 'Shrooms® -- Smashed potatoes®
Contents (cont. ): International House of Pancakes®. French toast -- Cheese blintz -- Banana nut pancakes -- Fajita omelette -- Lone Star Steakhouse & Saloon®. Amarillo cheese fries® -- Black bean soup -- Texas rice -- Sweet bourbon salmon -- Marie Callender's®. Famous golden cornbread -- Chicken pot pie -- Banana cream pie -- The Olive Garden®. Italian salad dressing -- Hot artichoke-spinach dip -- Toscana soup -- Alfredo pasta -- Outback Steakhouse®. Bloomin' onion® -- Gold Coast coconut shrimp -- Walkabout soup® -- Alice Springs chicken® -- Perkins® Family Restaurants. Potato pancakes -- Granny's country omelette® -- Country club omelette -- Pizza Hut®. Original stuffed crust pizza® -- TripleDecker pizza® -- Planet Hollywood®. Pizza bread -- Chicken crunch® -- Pot stickers
Contents (cont. ): Red Lobster®. Broiled lobster -- Scallops and bacon -- Stuffed shrimp and stuffed mushrooms -- Red Robin Burger & Spirits Emporium®. No-fire peppers® -- BBQ chicken salad -- Mountain high mudd pie® -- Ruby Tuesday®. Potato cheese soup -- Smokey Mountain chicken -- Sonora chicken pasta -- Strawberry Tallcake® for two -- Ruth's Chris Steak House®. Barbecued shrimp -- Petite filet -- Creamed spinach -- Potatoes au gratin -- Shorey's®. Country fried steak -- Slow-cooked pot roast -- Hot fudge cake -- Sizzler®. Cheese toast -- Chicken club sandwich -- Southern fried shrimp -- Stuart Anderson's Black Angus®. Cheesy garlic bread -- Western T-bone -- Whiskey pepper steak -- T. G. I. Friday's®. Potato skins -- Nine-layer dip -- California chargrilled turkey sandwich
Contents (cont. ): Spicy Cajun chicken pasta -- Friday's Smoothies® -- Tony Roma's A Place for Ribs®. World famous ribs -- Original baby backs -- Carolina honeys® -- Red hots® -- Western Sizzlin®. "Teriyaki" chicken breast
Wilbur, building on the popularity of his books revealing McDonald's Big Mac special sauce and Twinkies' filling, continues to plumb the shallows of chain-restaurant cooking. Here he tells the home cook how to make favorite dishes from such popular chains as Planet Hollywood, Hard Rock Cafe, and dozens more”
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 307) and index.”
2023-06-28 (ol_source: 2008-04-01, isbndb_scrape: 2022-09-01, ia_file_scrape: 2023-06-28, ia_source: 2011-02-18)
