Recipe Please or Special Requests

Recipe, Please: Favorite Recipes from Colorado Restaurants

Author: Marty Meitus

Looking for an appetizer that will wow your party guests? Longing for the ultimate bread pudding? How about a breakfast torte for that special occasion? In Recipe, Please, you'll find 166 ways to please your palate. Gathering from Colorado's best chefs and restaurants, Rocky Mountain News food editor Marty Meitus presents the newspaper's most-requested recipes from the popular weekly column. Whether you want to duplicate the Cheesy Artichoke Dip from the Wynkoop Brewing Company or you're planning to master the intricacies of Potato-Crusted Halibut with Crisp Potato Cake, Creamed Spinach, and Red Wine Sauce from the Kevin Taylor Restaurant, you'll find winning taste treats in this delicious collection. Since 1997, Marty has been "arm-wrestling" Colorado chefs to bring readers the secrets of their favorite restaurant dishes. You'll find recipes from local and national favorites such as Strings, Racines, the Wellshire Inn, California Cafe, Maggiano's Little Italy, Wolfgang Puck's Grand Cafe and McCormick's Fish House. Many of the recipes have become part of her personal repertoire, including Lemon Squares from Pasta, Pasta, Pasta; Baked Summer Squash Casserole from the Black-Eyed Pea; Chocolate Chip Cookies from Palmetto Grille; Green Chili from Chopper's Sports Grill; and Sesame Chicken from the Imperial. Throughout the book, she offers tips to help everyone become a successful home chef. Recipe, Please makes dining-in a food lover's delight!

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Special Requests: 100 Favorite Restaurant Recipes from the Pages of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Author: Judy Evans

Over the past decade, hundreds of local chefs generously have shared their recipes sought by the readers of "Special Request," a column that appears each Wednesday in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. We've gathered 100 favorites here, all tested and adapted for home kitchens. You'll find pasta galore, fitting for a city known for its Italian restaurants. Readers love to replicate restaurant soups at home, so we've included a wide array. Ethnic restaurants thrive in our area, and you'll find specialties from many nations in these pages. Sadly, a few of the restaurants represented here are no longer in business. But their recipes live on. Whether you cook for family, friends or a restaurant full of customers, food is for sharing. Enjoy!