Restaurant meals you have cooked at home.

[Tashyboy]

Last week on me Jols I had a meal which was basically a lasagna but with male chicken instead of mince. Sweet lord it was Porn on a plate.
Ironically I have been out for a Greek meal tonight in Chesterfield. I had forgot about it. Anyway I have had it again but with Orzo pasta. It was delicious.
bottom line, I am having a go at cooking that One day at home.
I Did the same whilst once having a chicken breast done in haggis and white cream whisky sauce when in Edinburgh one New Year’s Eve.

So have you ever tried cooking a meal at home that you had in a restaurant.

 

[ExRabbit]

Only a lunchtime thing, but I love making a bacon and stilton sandwich after having one in a restaurant many years ago.

And a lot easier to make now that we have an air fryer.

Pork stroganoff is a main course I make on a regular basis after first trying it in a restaurant.

 

[pendodave]

Had this many years ago and regularly trot it out. The chilli sauce keeps for ages and is good with everything.

Grilled Scallops with Sweet Chilli Sauce & Crème Fraîche from The Sugar Club Cookbook by Peter Gordon

This dish – one of my all-time favourites – is now synonymous with the London Sugar Club. I first put it on the menu in July 1995, and it has only come off when storms prevented divers collecting s...

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Also (no recipe) an open lasagne with Bolognese sauce, bechemel and parmesan from a push Italian in North Berwick.

Grilled mackerel with rhubarb chutney.

Though I can't deny, I like to eat restaurant food that is far too difficult to cook myself (or there's too much Washing up to bother).

On a tangent, we should have a general cooking thread to record triumphs and disasters and other random discoveries.

 

[HeftyHacker]

When I went to Thailand I pretty much lived on chilli and basil chicken but whenever I've ordered it in the UK they've always tried to jazz it up and it just isn't the same.

I managed to find a recipe online and, providing I can get hold of the thai basil (which has more of an aniseedy taste), it really is superb and exactly like the one they make over there.

Gonna have to pop to the big tesco now and have a wander down the herb aisle.

 

[bobmac]

It's been years since I ate out/had a takeaway.
Being retired has the benefit of having time to cook and being single means not much washing up.
Fillet steak, onion rings home made chips and pepper sauce with a bottle of home made Reisling and strawberry ice cream for pudding all for under £10.
Yes please

 

[backwoodsman]

It's been years since I ate out/had a takeaway.
Being retired has the benefit of having time to cook and being single means not much washing up.
Fillet steak, onion rings home made chips and pepper sauce with a bottle of home made Reisling and strawberry ice cream for pudding all for under £10.
Yes please

Very keen of you to make your own Reisling, Bob. And ice cream too!

 

[bobmac]

Very keen of you to make your own Reisling, Bob. And ice cream too!

I do make the wine for £1.26 per bottle but I leave the ice cream to these chaps.

 

[D-S]

It's been years since I ate out/had a takeaway.
Being retired has the benefit of having time to cook and being single means not much washing up.
Fillet steak, onion rings home made chips and pepper sauce with a bottle of home made Reisling and strawberry ice cream for pudding all for under £10.
Yes please

Is the restaurant that you are imitating a Berni Inn?

 

[jim8flog]

There was a time in my life when I used to do a lot of 'special' cooking
One memory is of taking 4 hours to cook a full Chinese meal.
The assembled guests woofed the lot down in about 5 minutes flat. Lesson learnt.

 

[bobmac]

Is the restaurant that you are imitating a Berni Inn?

I prefer to think of an Argentinian Steak House but without the £50 price tag

 

[GB72]

As others have mentioned, most of the restaurant food I have had recently is far beyond my cooking talents. The small plate food at Skosh is jut sublime. They did, however, introduce me to plum Sake with desert and I was online ordering a bottle from the table.

Just bought a great, every day cookbook from a person who is, apparrenly, big on TicToc (I saw her on a Sorted YouTube show). Such a simple idea for a cook book, teach you how to cook a sauce or similar, then have a simple meal, a brunch and a posher dinner recipe using it. First cook book in ages that I have bothered working my way through. It is not complicated which is what I wanted as I do not have as much time as I would like to cook, nor do i want recipies with ingredients that cost a fortune and cannot be found in rural lincolnshire.

 

[Neilds]

If people are looking at cooking restaurant dishes at home, might be worth having a look on the web at Dishpatch.co.uk. They prepare top notch food and you basically just have to heat it up and put it together. It is not ready meals, they just do most of the work for the sauces, etc and you just do the final prep. You get full cooking instructions and the ingredients are all numbered so it is a doddle to put together. Delivered by DPD when you want it and we have never had an issue with them.

 

[BiMGuy]

It's been years since I ate out/had a takeaway.
Being retired has the benefit of having time to cook and being single means not much washing up.
Fillet steak, onion rings home made chips and pepper sauce with a bottle of home made Reisling and strawberry ice cream for pudding all for under £10.
Yes please

All that for under £10 is impressive, especially given the price of a good fillet these days.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Last week on me Jols I had a meal which was basically a lasagna but with male chicken instead of mince. Sweet lord it was Porn on a plate.
Ironically I have been out for a Greek meal tonight in Chesterfield. I had forgot about it. Anyway I have had it again but with Orzo pasta. It was delicious.
bottom line, I am having a go at cooking that One day at home.
I Did the same whilst once having a chicken breast done in haggis and white cream whisky sauce when in Edinburgh one New Year’s Eve.

So have you ever tried cooking a meal at home that you had in a restaurant.

Out of interest…which Chesterfield restaurant…?

 

[bobmac]

All that for under £10 is impressive, especially given the price of a good fillet these days.

Steak, £6-£7, onion rings 30p, chips 40p pepper sauce 30p, wine £1.26, ice cream 50p
£9.76
With the price of a taxi each way, you wouldn't get much change from £100 in a restaurant for that lot.

 

[TimShady]

Steak, £6-£7, onion rings 30p, chips 40p pepper sauce 30p, wine £1.26, ice cream 50p
£9.76
With the price of a taxi each way, you wouldn't get much change from £100 in a restaurant for that lot.

Intrigued why you go for fillet steak? Always found a fattier cut like a quality rib eye is much more flavoursome.

 

[Billysboots]

I do quite a lot of Thai and Indian cooking.

The Thai thing stemmed from going there on honeymoon - the best food I have ever eaten anywhere, and rarely replicated in restaurants here, so I had a go myself and, if I say so myself, I have turned out some decent stuff down the years.

And as I originally come from the East Midlands my love of all things you can eat at an Indian restaurant speaks for itself. I do regular curries and Indian dishes from scratch, but not generally the sort of dishes you get in restaurants.

 

[Bratty]

I had a cod dish once that I thought was amazing and ridiculously priced for what it was.
I reinvented it at home:
Put 2 fillets of cod steak in a piece of tin foil large enough to fold and wrap over like a tent and retain liquid, not touching the top of the cod if possible.
Chop some ginger into matchsticks.
1 stem of lemon grass
1 or 2 spring onions chopped
Pour a good glug of dry white wine, martini bianco or rossi or vermouth over the fish.
Add a touch of ground black pepper.
Bake for 20 minutes or so at fan oven 180°.
Serve with new potatoes amd brocolli or a side salad.
It's delicious and really healthy.

 

[RichA]

I do quite a lot of Thai and Indian cooking.

The Thai thing stemmed from going there on honeymoon - the best food I have ever eaten anywhere, and rarely replicated in restaurants here, so I had a go myself and, if I say so myself, I have turned out some decent stuff down the years.

And as I originally come from the East Midlands my love of all things you can eat at an Indian restaurant speaks for itself. I do regular curries and Indian dishes from scratch, but not generally the sort of dishes you get in restaurants.

Another east midlander and curry lover. A Pakistani friend shared his family recipe with me, which I've tweaked through laziness to use Patak pastes rather than faffing about with dry spices. Restaurant beating curries in under an hour.
Thai green curry is the easiest quick one. 10 minutes of prep and 15 minutes cooking for the freshest tasting curry I've ever eaten.

 

[GB72]

OK we need to start seeing some of these curry recipies.