Book Review: Most Requested Copycat Dishes: 101 Homemade Versions of Your Favorite Restaurant Recipes
Most Requested Copycat Dishes: 101 Homemade Versions of Your Favorite Restaurant Recipes by Favorite Family Recipes
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
The cookbook leads with “Top Ten Tips for Creating your own Copycat Recipes.” which is a deep dive into solid advice to help you develop your own copycat recipes. I felt as if I was being accepted into a secret society of copycatters. There’s some fantastic stuff here; don’t skip it!
And there’s no skimping on recipes, either. There’s 101 of them and all are marvelously photographed. I found the “Lunchtime” section to be the most tempting. I’ll admit it, I love me some Arby’s, so I want to try the Arby’s beef and cheddar recipe, along with the Arby’s sauce – both with my own extra modifications to drive down the sodium and sugar.
Everyone has their own reasons for wanting to duplicate restaurant food at home. Some enjoy the challenge. Some don’t live within easy reach of a favorite restaurant. Some are trying to keep the cost down. And some, like me, need to eliminate as much sodium and processed sugar as possible. I’m always on the lookout for fun foods we can make without blowing up our diets. Cooking from scratch means I can easily leave out the salt, and I can swap out the sugar for one of the many excellent substitutes now available to us.
Subway’s “Homemade Footlong Bread” is definitely on my to-try list. Recently I’ve been attempting a copycat recipe for Jimmy John’s sub buns. We miss our Jimmy John’s fix. I haven’t yet found a recipe that works for us yet, though – maybe we should be looking at this Subway bread solution.
Now, confess. Let’s see a raise of hands from everyone who was hoping and praying for a copycat McDonald’s Shamrock Shake. You’re in luck – it’s here!
My thanks to Favorite Family Recipes, Shadow Mountain Publishing, and NetGalley for allowing me to read a digital advance review copy of this book. This review is my honest and unbiased opinion.
Lori Alden Holuta
Lori Alden Holuta lives between the cornfields of Mid-Michigan, where she grows vegetables and herbs when she’s not writing, editing, or playing games with a cat named Chives.
