Please join our table - "Copycat recipes …Take 2"

They say imitation is the best form of flattery and in most arenas that is true, but for chefs in restaurants and home cooks with secret family recipes, I’m not too sure that statement applies. Closely guarded restaurant specialties and family secret dishes handed down from one generation to the next are closely guarded secrets.
I find great pleasure in enjoying a dish at a restaurant and then, if the recipe is not shared by the chef, recreating it at home by trial and error. Yes, I usually have more error than I would prefer but oh, the satisfaction when the dish comes out tasting of the original! It is like I have a permanent souvenir from the restaurant or dinner at friends that when I make it again brings up delicious memories of the dining event.

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