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America’s Most Wanted Recipes At the Grill: Recreate Your Favorite Restaurant Meals in Your Own Backyard! (America’s Most Wanted Recipes Series)
- Author: Ron Douglas
- Publisher: Atria Books (May 6, 2014)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1476734895
- ISBN-13: 978-1476734897
- Cover price $16.00
Ron Douglas fires up his outrageously successful America’s Most Wanted Recipes series in this essential guide to recreating the most popular grilled dishes from the country’s most famous restaurants.
When it’s grilling season, Ron Douglas, the New York Times bestselling author of America’s Most Wanted Recipes, likes to do it up big. Not just a few burgers on the grill, but steaks, seafood, corn on the cob, and of course his favorite restaurant remakes. So if you’ve ever wanted to make the savory grilled dishes from your favorite restaurants in the comfort of your own backyard—and save money in the process—then you’re in for a treat!
Inside America’s Most Wanted Recipes At the Grill, you’ll find more than 150 copycat recipes from the most popular restaurants in the US, including Applebee’s Riblets with Honey Barbecue Sauce, California Pizza Kitchen’s Jamaican Jerk Chicken Pizza, the Cheesecake Factory’s SkinnyLicious Grilled Chicken, Famous Dave’s Pit Barbeque Ribs, KFC’s Honey BBQ Sauce, TGI Friday’s Jack Daniels Grill Glaze, and much, much more. Every dish has been tested and tweaked to taste just like the original. You’ll impress your friends and family with these copycat versions—or by putting a healthy twist on them and preparing the dishes exactly to your liking.
Also included in the book is a special grilling guide to help home chefs become the grill master their guests will be raving about all year long. So fire up the grill and get ready to taste your favorite restaurant dishes at home!
Ever gone to a restaurant and enjoyed a dish so much that you went home and couldn’t stop thinking about it? Maybe you even tried to make it. The resulting dish might have been good , bad or meh but one thing is for sure – it just didn’t taste like the one in the restaurant. This cookbook strives to help you overcome that.
Recipes in this cookbook are broken down by the restaurant they are inspired by. These restaurants include:
- A&W
- Applebee’s
- Arby’s
- Bahama Breeze
- Baja Fresh
- Benehana
- Bennigan’s
- Bob Evans
- Bonefish Grill
- Buca Di Beppo
- Burger King
- California Pizza Kitchen
- Carl’s Jr
- Carino’s Italian Grill
- Carrabba’s Italian Gill
- Cheesecake Factory
- Chevy’s Fresh Mex
- Chi Chi’s
- Chick-Fil-A
- Chili’s
- Chipotle Mexican Grill
- Claim Jumper
- Copeland’s of New Orleans
- Cracker Barrel
- Dave & Buster’s
- Denny’s
- Don Pablo’s
- El Pollo Loco
- El Torito Grill
- Famous Dave’s
- Fuddruckers
- Hardee’s
- Houston’s
- In-N-Out Burger
- Jack In The Box
- Joe’s Crab Shack
- Kenny Rogers
- KFC
- Krystal
- Lone Star Steakhouse
- Longhorn Steakhouse
- Luby’s Cafeteria
- Olive Garden
- Outback Steakhouse
- Panda Express
- Panera Bread
- PF Chang’s
- Planet Hollywood
- Ponderosa Steak House
- Qdoba Mexican Grill
- Red Lobster
- Red Robin
- Romano’s Macaroni Grill
- Ruby Tuesday
- Schlotzky’s
- Sizzler
- Sonic Drive-In
- Steak And Ale
- Steak N Shake
- Subway
- Taco Bell
- Texas Roadhouse
- TGI Friday’s
- Tony Roma’s
- Wendy’s
The beginning of the cookbook includes lots of information and tips about grilling – types of grills, different grill settings, foods that you grill, cooking tips, notes on ingredients, and much more. I just started grilling on my own this year and as a grilling novice I found it helpful. Then come the recipes.
All of the recipes are very easy to understand. I didn’t notice an exotic or unusual ingredients, it looked like everything would be stocked in a typical large local grocery store. I understand why recipes are grouped by restaurant instead of category. I sort of wish there was almost a second table of contents by category, otherwise you have to go through the index to see what’s where if you’re looking for something specific, like chicken for example. The recipes include a little information about the dish as well as tips for prep, cooking and storage. I love photos in cookbooks and it should be noted that this cookbook has no photos. Also missing are cooking and prep time, which I find invaluable when determining what recipes I’m going to make. A good number of these recipes have significant prep time and can’t be made quickly. This is not the kind of cookbook you just pick up and look for something to make at that time, you must be planning hours or days ahead to make best use of this cookbook.
This cookbook would be great for people that enjoy cooking, as well as those that enjoy dining out.
Kathleen Kennedy-Leon
Tuesday 2nd of September 2014
Well this will make a great Christmas present for my hubby--he loves to grill and these recipes look like winners for sure-there are some great dishes. Thanks for sharing!
Sarah
Tuesday 2nd of September 2014
My boyfriend eats at Cracker Barrel way too much. He has a thing for their biscuits. I'd love to get the recipe for them!
Crystal
Tuesday 2nd of September 2014
We love to go to El Torito when we are looking for something a little more caliente! I would love to save some money by making our favorite recipes at home.
Jenn
Tuesday 2nd of September 2014
What a great idea for a cookbook! I love the idea of recreating your favourite recipes at home! YUM!
Jen
Tuesday 2nd of September 2014
Sounds like this book has a ton of yummy recipes. I love copycat recipes!