Find restaurant secrets at Top Secret Recipes
Friday, February 9, 2007 at 09:40AM Lifehacker: Find restaurant secrets at Top Secret Recipes
Want to make a cherry Slurpee in your own kitchen? How about California Pizza Kitchen’s famous BBQ Chicken Pizza? And homemade Cinnabon for dessert? You can find these recipes and hundreds more at Top Secret Recipes.
The site organizes the recipes by brand, starting with Applebee’s and ending with Z’Tejas Southwestern Grill. In between you’ll find not only restaurants, but also individual foods and drinks: AriZona tea, Bisquick, Mrs. Dash and so on. Each recipe includes comments and user ratings, most of which are overwhelmingly positive. The site promises a new recipe each week, and although there’s no RSS feed for easily tracking them, you can subscribe to a once-weekly e-mail newsletter.
I have to say, browsing this site made me feel like a kid in a Mrs. Fields store (yes, her storied cookie recipe is here). However, while some of the recipes are free, most will set you back 79 cents. But if you love to cook (or just want to save money on dining out), that’s a pretty small price to pay. — Rick Broida
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