Why You Can Enjoy Olive Garden Restaurant Recipes In The Comfort Of Your Home

Have you ever wanted to eat restaurant-quality food without paying through the nose (and still have to wait in line for two hours)? Nowadays, this is possible - more and more restaurant recipes are being revealed and published in cookbooks as well as the internet.

Why Should You Care?

Simple! The better quality cookbooks and recipe websites have clear and detailed steps on how to cook restaurant recipes, even the recipes of America's famed Olive Garden Restaurant. That means even you can prepare these recipes at home, paying only for the cost of the ingredients.

The last time you ate at Olive Garden (or a similar restaurant), wasn't the food wonderful and the atmosphere great? But what about the one-hour drive and two-hour wait in line? And don't forget the hassle of getting everyone together and in the car? It was probably a major pain in the butt for you, too. Men always end up having to wait for the women, and then they have the gall to tell us, "Drive faster! We're going to be late for our reservation!"

Getting your wife (or Mom) to cook Olive Garden's secret recipes at home is sure starting to sound better and better, isn't it? Heck, more than once I've whipped up a simple dish of pasta or even pizza for myself at home - especially when there's a game I want to watch on cable TV.

But Why Are All These Secret Recipes Being Exposed?

It seems that some of these secret recipes aren't quite so secret after all! Some restaurants publish their "secret" recipes for publicity. After all, most people really eat at famous restaurants for the atmosphere... and to impress other people and be seen by their peers. Think of it as the gourmet version of keeping up with the Joneses. The famous restaurants know this, so they use this as an excuse to push their name in front of their potential customers.

Honestly? In a blindfold taste test, most normal people can't tell the difference between Mom's home-cooked pasta and the pasta from Olive Garden's kitchen. Of course, if we see the two dishes side-by-side, we know that Olive Garden's pasta is the one which looks a lot more presentable. The fancy garnishing is usually an obvious clue.

Sometimes a restaurant's recipes are published by chefs who leave or get fired, sometimes a rival restaurant exposes the recipe, and quite often an experienced cook and food lover eats at Olive Garden and successfully reverse-engineers his favorite recipe.

At the end of the day, why should we care whether the recipe is word-for-word the same as what your favorite chef uses. What really matters is that when Mom cooks Olive Garden Restaurant recipes, it tastes the same as the restaurant. We really don't mind that it doesn't look as pretty, do we? So long as its cheaper and more convenient.

By: Ray S. Tarrant

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