Over the years, I’ve discovered there a couple of very important procedures you must follow if you want to present your family with an amazing roast turkey on the table this Thanksgiving.  If you follow these two top secret steps taken from the best restaurant recipes, you’ll be guaranteed to have what everyone wants on Thanksgiving, a stunningly beautiful and perfectly browned roast turkey which is still bursting with juice and flavor when you cut into it.
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Chef Pablo’s Restaurant Quality Roast Turkey Recipe

There’s only a few things associated with Great Britain more the wonderful taste of fish and chips.  It seems, everywhere you go in England you find numerous fish and chip shops or “chippers” or “chippy’s” as they’re called.  Most of the time your food is prepared to go and given to you wrapped up in the previous days newspaper.  It’s typically wrapped into a cone, filled with some “chips” or French fries and then topped with the wonderfully crisp fried cod.  On top of this is a dash of malt vinegar and then a generous sprinkling of salt.
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Authentic British Fish and Chips Recipe

There is an old book that was called “Real Men Don’t Eat Quiche” which was very popular back in the 80’s.  Today, everybody loves a great quiche, including my fellow men.  There aren’t that many restaurant recipes for quiche, because not that many restaurants have perfected something unique they can call their own.  Most of them are serving up basic quiche Lorraine with a fancy name.  So, instead of giving you 13 different recipes from every restaurant out there, I’m giving you the best recipe I have and letting you comment below to adapt this to your favorite restaurant recipe.
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Restaurant Quiche Recipes

Chipotle Mexican Grill describes their Barbacoa as a spicy shredded beef slowly braised in a chipotle adobo, cumin, garlic, cloves and oregano. It’s a delicious and flavorful beef that will can be used for a number of entrees including tacos, enchiladas and more.

In Mexico, barbacoa is traditionally cooked in a pit and buried for hours with moist dirt.  It’s often part of a wedding celebration and will be made with goat meat.  If you want a nice twist on one of my favorite restaurant recipes, substitute pork roast for the beef.  You can actually make them at the same time and offer up a nice variety.
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Chipotle Mexican Grill Barbacoa Burritos

I’ve been offering Ron Douglas’ digital book “America’s Secret Recipes” on my restaurant recipes website for a few months now.  If you’ve visited other recipe websites, you’ve probably seen ads for the book and wondered if it’s of any value.  I decided it’s time I gave my honest review of the book.  The things I like, didn’t like and whether you should spend your hard earned money on it.

Many readers of this site have purchased the book and nobody has asked for a refund.  In fact, based on emails, all are very happy with the results. Here’s just one of many email comments:

Greetings:

I would like to thank you very much for the “America’s Secret Recipes” that I received in the mail a few days ago. I’m looking forward to trying out some of these recipes, especially the ‘Chili’s Southwestern egg rolls and ‘Hooter’s Buffalo Wings’. These always go over great for football games, especially the Super Bowl.

Thanks again for putting together this wonderful cook book of yours.

Mary McLuckie

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Honest Review of America’s Secret Recipes

The secret to this recipe is finding the right wine. Finding restaurant recipes is one thing, finding all of the right ingredients can be the biggest challenge.

When making this pasta from The Cheesecake Factory™, don’t just buy any Madeira wine you find.  Make sure you’re using the deep red Madeira wine which has a nice sweet flavor to it.  There are some pink and white Madeira wines with a completely different flavor.  Don’t make the mistake of using those in this pasta dish.  You’ll definitely be disappointed.

Many cooks have experimented with this recipe and I believe I’ve brought together the best of all of them to create a very close copycat of the restaurant recipe. Please comment below if you think this is missing something or could use some improvement.
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The Cheesecake Factory™ Pasta Da Vinci Recipe

This is one of the more affordable restaurant recipes.  This is great for a busy weeknight dinner especially if you start marinading the night before.

Grilled chicken breast topped with bacon, honey mustard sauce, sautéed mushrooms, Monterrey Jack and Cheddar. Normally served with Aussie Chips.

You can also turn this into their delicious Alice Springs Chicken Quesadilla.  Simply slice thin and place inside of a flour tortilla along some bacon, honey mustard sauce, sauteed mushrooms and Mexican cheese blend.  Grill until crisp and serve with some additional honey mustard sauce.
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Outback Steakhouse™ Alice Springs Chicken Recipe

The most sought-after restaurant recipes tend to also be the most popular dishes at a restaurant and that definitely holds true for The Cheesecake Factory™ Chicken Madeira.  Many people will confuse this with their Chicken and Mushrooms in Marsala sauce. There are several differences, but it really comes down to using Madeira rather than Marsala wine.

This is an amazing blend of sauteed chicken topped with asparagus and melted cheese.  This is all topped with mushrooms in a Madeira wine sauce.  The Cheesecake Factory™ serves this with a generous portion of mashed potatoes.
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The Cheesecake Factory™ Chicken Madeira Recipe

This is probably the most secret of all of the restaurant recipes out there.  As a matter of fact, Colonel Sanders build an entire restaurant chain based on his original recipe chicken with 11 secret herbs and spices.

This all started in the little town of “Corbin, Kentucky”.  That’s where Harland Sanders opened up Sanders Cafe, which eventually became Kentucky Fried Chicken™.  For a time in the 90′s they started branding the initials KFC™.  The company has now returned to Kentucky Fried Chicken™, but most people still call it KFC™.

It’s not too tough to recreate the taste of that special coating, but it is difficult to match the juiciness of the chicken.  That’s because Kentucky Fried Chicken™ uses pressure cookers to fry their chicken.  This cooks the chicken fast, reducing the “greasiness” as well as locking in the juice from the chicken.

The recipe below is as close as you’ll ever get at home.  Obviously Harland Sanders didn’t use Italian Dressing or tomato soup packets in his original recipe, but this will give you the exact same flavor.
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KFC™ Chicken Original Recipe

This is what started it all for Ralph Rubio in San Diego, CA.  This is also what started my quest for restaurant recipes for me.

When you say the words “fish taco” to anyone who’s never had a real Rubio’s™ Fish Taco, you’ll usually get a grimaced look on their face and a very loud “Ewwwww”.  Honestly this was my first reaction to the thought in the late 80′s when Rubio’s opened in Mission Beach.

For some reason the combination of a warm corn tortilla, a crunchy hot piece of mild fish and the crisp freshness of shredded cabbage is a mouth tantalizing sensation.  Add to this the mild zing of Rubio’s™ white sauce and some smokey flavored hot sauce and you’ll be craving these yourself.

Before you get to the recipe, let me make a couple of notes for you.  The tortilla is critical to the taste.  Most tortillas you buy in a grocery store are thin, dry and tasteless.  If you want the authentic taste of a real tortilla, I HIGHYLY recommend Porkyland brand tortillas. Last I knew, this is the same company Rubio’s™ uses to make their tortillas.  They have a special recipe but, you can still get your hands on these amazing tortillas through MexGrocer.com.
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Rubio’s™ Fish Tacos Recipe