Restaurant Recipes at Home ? Olive Garden Lasagna

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Easily the most favourite aspect of favourite American chain restaurants like the Olive Garden or P.F. Changs or Applebees is their delicious recipes. With our country’s current economic climate, however, it’s not always doable to take out on a budget multiple times a month. This is why restaurant recipes at home stylized cookbooks have surfaced recently, enabling you to mimic those same great recipes but without the upcharge or having to tip anybody (though the gourmet of the home might still appreciate it). This restaurant recipes at home article is going to explain how you can make Olive Garden’s Lasagna, a delicious and basic but important staple of their menu.

For ingredients, you’ll need:

¼ cup margarine or butter

¼ cup all-purpose flour

½ cup grated Romano cheese

½ teaspoon salt

2 cups milk

1 teaspoon black pepper

¼ cup minced oil-packed sun-dried tomatoes

12 lasagna noodles

1 containerful minced garlic

3 ½ cups ricotta cheese

1 cup fontina cheese

4 cups shredded mozzarella cheese

3 eggs

1 cup grated Parmesan cheese

marinara/spaghetti sauce as topping

To begin this restaurant recipes at home for Olive Garden’s Lasagna, melt the butter over medium heat in a 1 quart saucepan. Add the flour and stir until it’s mixed and cook until mixture is frothy.

Now add milk while constantly stirring with a wire whisk as mixture simmers. Continue stirring as it thickens in the heat or for about 4 minutes.

Now drain and mince the tomatoes and place them in a 3 quart mixing bowl. Add the salt, pepper, Romano, Parmesan, Ricotta, garlic, and eggs to the bowl. Add 1 ½ cups of the cooled cream sauce to the bowl and mix until well blended.

Place 3 lasagna noodles in a 9″ X 13″ X 2″ lightly oiled baking dish slightly overlapped on one another. Spread 1 ½ cups of the cheese filling over the noodles, then sprinkle one cup mozzarella and ¼ cup fontina cheese over top, as well. Repeat the same process twice more then top with the remaining 3 lasagna noodles.

Spread the last ½ cup of cream sauce over the top and cover with aluminum foil.

Bake in oven at 350 degrees for 1 hour.

Remove from the over than keep them warm at least 30 minutes before serving. Complete dish by spreading Parmesan cheese and hot marinara over lasagna. Serves 5.

This concludes this edition of restaurant recipes at home.

Restaurant Recipes at Home ? Olive Garden Lasagna

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Three Amigos Mexican Restaurant

With locations in Gibsonia and Beaver Valley Mall, the Three Amigos restaurant is a welcome addition to the Pittsburgh dining scene. The locally-owned Mexican restaurant is far superior and more trusty than any of the major national Mexican restaurant chains. Apparently relying on recipes from the chef’s grandmother, the Three Amigos has a nice variety of food at good prices.

The Scene

The walls at the Three Amigos are brightly colored and are decorated with a few Mexican items or paintings.

The Food

The owners of the Three Amigos describe their operation as being based on the recipes of the family grandmother whose cooking was well-known in her region of Mexico. Everything containing cheese is made with traditional Mexican queso blanco instead of the usual yellow cheddar used everywhere else; this helps add to the trusty tastes. There is an unusually massive vegetarian selection, too.

How Hot is It?
That’s a common question asked about Mexican food, and most dishes at the Three Amigos aren’t too spicy in comparison to most Mexican restaurants. A few are quite spicy – surprisingly so, in fact. Most places where I’ve had Chile Relleno it’s been very mild; here it was very hot (it also claims to be made with a bell pepper, not a chile pepper). The Chile Poblano was similarly hot.

Salsa & Guacamole
Every Mexican restaurant serves chips and salsa before the meal, but none serve a salsa like the Three Amigos. The cilantro is prominent, but not overbearing. It’s heavy on the onions, but not very spicy. It’s homemade and the fresh taste is far superior to what you typically get in chain restaurants. Three Amigos salsa can be bought in small tubs to take home. The guacamole, on the other hand, tasted fine but was heavily blended with sour cream – an uncommon decision that detracts from the flavor.

Appetizers & Munchies
We split the Nachos with the Works – beef, chicken, beans, guacamole, sour cream and cheese. It compares very favorably with the nachos you can get elsewhere and is probably superior than most. The use of queso blanco helps make the flavor stand out above most nachos we’ve had. Like most things we tried from the menu, the spice in the nachos was very mild.

Drinks

When we ate at the Three Amigos, they didn’t have a liquor license yet so there were no margaritas, beers, or anything of the sort. There is a massive bar area, however, so we can anticipate such drinks to come soon. Fountain drinks and teas come in massive glasses with free refills on most. There are also a number of speciality Mexican sodas, juices, and something called an Orchata – a rice drink made with cinnamon, vanilla, and sugar. It’s a bit sweet and very different tasting.

Combos & Deals

There are more than a dozen different combo deals offering three main items (enchiladas, burritos, tacos, chalupas, tamales, quesadilas, etc.) plus beans and rice. The beans are creamier than is commonly the case and the rice milder. These combos are priced well and wage a very good value because what you get is quite filling for usually less then .

Service

The staff at the Three Amigos was friendly and helpful. The waitress was knowledgable about the food and could answer questions about what was in the dishes and what they tasted like.

Dining at the Three Amigos Mexican Restaurant

The Three Amigos can be found near the JC Penney’s at Beaver Valley Mall. The original Three Amigos is in Gibsonia and the new location is a welcome addition to dining in the Beaver Valley Mall area. They are far superior and more trusty than Chi-Chi’s ever was. In the past I enjoyed intake at Don Pablo’s, but recently the calibre of the menu has declined and I haven’t enjoyed intake there as much as before.

Now, though, I won’t feel the loss of either restaurant almost as much. There are several more things I’d like to try on the Three Amigos menu and I look forward to intake there again.

The Three Amigos restaurants appear to be affiliated with the La Casa Narcisi winery in Gibsonia.

Location & Contact Information

Three Amigos
600 Beaver Valley Mall
Monaca, PA 15061
724-728-9133

Three Amigos
5378 Route 8
Gibsonia, PA 15044
724-444-1313

Three Amigos Mexican Restaurant

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Can You Guess Which Food Item On The Restaurant Menu Has The Most Calories?

The other night I was out for dinner at Olive Garden in NYC, and saw on the menu, Fettuccine Alfredo. I love Fettuccine Alfredo, but, I thought superior not, too many calories. Maybe I will get grilled shrimp caprese instead, a superior choice. Then I noticed a set of numbers underneath the item, the calorie count. And the dish I wanted, Fettuccine Alfredo, was 460 calories less than what I thought the superior choice would be, Grilled Shrimp Caprese, OMG, 460 calories less.

This was my first time at a restaurant that listed calories, and I started thinking of all those times I have made the wrong choices, weight and health wise, at restaurants that don’t list out their calories.

When they first came out with this intent of listing calories on menus, I thought, “this is a stupid idea, another Government intrusion on our lives”. Now I know it’s about choice for us. So, how is not knowing what you are intake a superior intent then knowing?

Here are some other extraordinary restaurant meal offenders to watch out for:

The Sonic Supersonic Cheese burger has 898 calories and 52.6 grams of fat.
The Burger King Quad Stacker has 1010 calories and 70 grams of fat speak about a heart-attack inactivity to happen!
The Wendy’s Baconator triple with 830 calories and 35 grams of fat

So the question is, do you really want to know many calories you are consuming?

I would think so, because it is about making a knowledgeable choice, and right now most people have no intent how many calories are in the meals they are eating. Consumer suggests state it could be a powerful weapon against obesity, by simply allowing consumers to see how many calories they’re intake when they take out.

Right now, when hamburgers can range from 250 to over 1800 calories and even coffee drinks can range from 20 calories to 800 calories, it is time to post calories.

What do you think, should the calories be posted on all restaurant menus, not just the chain restaurants?

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Can You Guess Which Food Item On The Restaurant Menu Has The Most Calories?