Cookbook Book Club - June - Restaurant Food

Our June Cookbook Club's theme was

"Restaurant Food -- Copy Cat Restaurant Recipes"

And for the first time, we had no "assignments"

Because you were supposed to bring a recipe that you liked

from a restaurant that you liked

And the Potluck Gods smiled on us!

Belynda and Michelle were hostesses

A nice welcome

Appetizer:

 Southwestern Egg Rolls

Chili's

Belynda

She loves them, gets them every time she goes

But they were a little fussy to make!

We all pronounced them superb!

Main Course:

Bang Bang Shrimp

Bonefish Grill

Michelle and Belynda

Michelle and Belynda get this every time they go

But this was the first time they made it!

It was wonderful and we ate every crumb!

Salad:

Oriental Chicken Salad

Applebee's

Rita

She gets this salad every time she eats there.   She loves it!

We all thought it was tasty too.    And Rita said that the dressing was so good that she'll keep a jar in her fridge!

Vegetable:

Tiffany Attic's Carrot Casserole

Tiffany's Attic Dinner Theatre

Martha

Having eaten it at Tiffany's Attic, I found the recipe a few months later in the Kansas City Star.

But I never made it . . . . but every time I purged my clipped recipes, this always made the cut.

I cannot believe that it took me 40 years to make this dish!

Everyone thought it was really really good!

Desserts:

(Notice the plural)

Dessert Nachos

The Dog House

Angela

A small Mom and Pop here in our town -- and this was one of Angela's favorite dishes there.     She mourns the fact that they are no longer in business.

The nachos were good and the caramel dipping sauce . . . well it was just plain delicious!

S'mores

Girl Scout Cookies

Donna

There is nothing wrong with Girl Scout Cookies!    And these were excellent!

Samoas/Thin Mints

Girl Scout Cookies

Donna

They were perfect and if you didn't know better you would swear that they were "real" Girl Scout Cookies!

Red Velvet Bundt Cake

Nothing Bundt Cakes

Michelle

It was a good moist cake . . . and several of us took pieces home!

But that's not all!!!

I missed taking pictures of three of the dishes:

Baked Beans

Jack Stack BBQ

Donna

Some of us love the beans

Some of us make them and often

It was the perfect side dish to our meal

Panzanella Salad

Jasper's Restaurant

Rhonda

It was a great salad and went well with our other dishes.

Birthday Cake Ice Cream

Cold Stone Creamery

Sara

She even brought sprinkles and "mix ins" for us to add.

It was good ice cream and really did taste like

the restaurant version.

We had fun with this month's Cookbook Book Club --

it was a great theme

And we all made something new

But something that we were familiar with

(for that often is not the case)

Michelle and Belynda's idea of not having "assignments:

was a good one.

It's better to fix a dish that we've eaten and loved

than finding a dish that we've never tasted before.

As we always do, June's was THE BEST!!!

July's theme is "Beer" for we're meeting in our

local brewery and all food has to be made with beer!

I wonder what dishes we'll have!