If you are anything like me, you LOVE a good meal out with your Bae, the Family, or with Friends! Right? Now, while you are enjoying that meal, or on the ride home, does something "click" in your brain that says, "I CAN MAKE THAT AT THE CRIB"? Well if your mind does not "click" like that, let's take a trip into my crazy mind. :-)
My first "serious" attempt at "knocking off" a dish came when Timetha and I were living in Laurel, MD, and we ventured out on a "kid-free"" night for a meal at Ruby Tuesday. ( our first date was at Ruby Tuesday in Greenbelt, MD...ummm I had to say that...she is standing beside me with a strange look on her face ) :-) So like most of us reading this blog, we were huge fans of their New Orleans Seafood dish. So we sat and flipped thru the menu, while thinking, "I don't know why I'm looking at this, because I want New Orleans Seafood, Salad Bar, and a drink"!!! The waiter approaches us and does his best to explain the "NEW MENU ITEMS". One item caught my attention...he said, "we are now serving a "Cajun Jambalaya Pasta"!! Long story short...I went with the waiters suggestion, and Timetha stuck to her guns.. The food comes to the table, and both our eyes were pleased when we saw the "Cajun Jambalaya Pasta". Timetha's dish was good as usual, but the Cajun Pasta was AMAZING!! ( yall know she was all up in my plate..right?) :-)
In the middle of eating our dinner, my crazy mind IMMEDIATELY turned to "I CAN DO THAT"!!! and we began to break the dish down ingredient by ingredient! Honestly speaking, it took me 3 attempts to perfect it. I struggled with the sauce, but now I GOT IT!! PLEASE GO and check out the "Time to Eat" page for my Copy Cat Recipe of Ruby Tuesday "Cajun Jambalaya Pasta"! There's nothing like cooking a copy cat recipe at home, because you can really control the flavors, the spiciness, the amount of sauce etc.
There are a lot of "Restaurant Copy Cat" websites out there...However, I have grown to really like a few that I will share with you! www.food.com/package/copycat-recipes and www.allfreecopycatrecipes.com
( just type in the name of the restaurant in the Search Box and Have Fun )
I have had MAJOR success with a lot of the recipes from our Favorite Restaurants. The kids LOVE when we cook a copy cat meal. Their Fav is "Chipotle Night" !
Enjoy the Recipe, and get out there and eat, so you can go home and , "KNOCK IT OFF" (oh my..not sure if I should have said that...) :-) Talk to you all next week! Remember..."cook with LOVE and bring a smile to someone's face"
My first "serious" attempt at "knocking off" a dish came when Timetha and I were living in Laurel, MD, and we ventured out on a "kid-free"" night for a meal at Ruby Tuesday. ( our first date was at Ruby Tuesday in Greenbelt, MD...ummm I had to say that...she is standing beside me with a strange look on her face ) :-) So like most of us reading this blog, we were huge fans of their New Orleans Seafood dish. So we sat and flipped thru the menu, while thinking, "I don't know why I'm looking at this, because I want New Orleans Seafood, Salad Bar, and a drink"!!! The waiter approaches us and does his best to explain the "NEW MENU ITEMS". One item caught my attention...he said, "we are now serving a "Cajun Jambalaya Pasta"!! Long story short...I went with the waiters suggestion, and Timetha stuck to her guns.. The food comes to the table, and both our eyes were pleased when we saw the "Cajun Jambalaya Pasta". Timetha's dish was good as usual, but the Cajun Pasta was AMAZING!! ( yall know she was all up in my plate..right?) :-)
In the middle of eating our dinner, my crazy mind IMMEDIATELY turned to "I CAN DO THAT"!!! and we began to break the dish down ingredient by ingredient! Honestly speaking, it took me 3 attempts to perfect it. I struggled with the sauce, but now I GOT IT!! PLEASE GO and check out the "Time to Eat" page for my Copy Cat Recipe of Ruby Tuesday "Cajun Jambalaya Pasta"! There's nothing like cooking a copy cat recipe at home, because you can really control the flavors, the spiciness, the amount of sauce etc.
There are a lot of "Restaurant Copy Cat" websites out there...However, I have grown to really like a few that I will share with you! www.food.com/package/copycat-recipes and www.allfreecopycatrecipes.com
( just type in the name of the restaurant in the Search Box and Have Fun )
I have had MAJOR success with a lot of the recipes from our Favorite Restaurants. The kids LOVE when we cook a copy cat meal. Their Fav is "Chipotle Night" !
Enjoy the Recipe, and get out there and eat, so you can go home and , "KNOCK IT OFF" (oh my..not sure if I should have said that...) :-) Talk to you all next week! Remember..."cook with LOVE and bring a smile to someone's face"