Fresh cranberry salsa over whipped cream cheese, with no cooking at all. Serves 12, needs four hours chilling, and the salsa freezes on its own.

Restaurant Copycat Recipes!
Restaurant Copycat Recipes!

Fresh cranberry salsa over whipped cream cheese, with no cooking at all. Serves 12, needs four hours chilling, and the salsa freezes on its own.

Cream cheese, Monterey Jack and pepperoni chilled in a bundt pan, then rolled in parsley, almonds and sun-dried tomatoes. Serves 10, no oven needed.

Brie and cranberry sauce in frozen phyllo shells, baked for eight minutes. Fifteen bites, three ingredients, and they freeze unbaked for three months.

Twenty-five Taco Bell copycat recipes covering the burritos, tacos, sauces, sides, a drink and a dessert. Build a whole Taco Bell night at home.

The discontinued chilito, rebuilt: thick beef chili, refried beans and cheddar melted into the filling. Ten burritos in 30 minutes, and they freeze.

Crispy seasoned potato cubes, smoky chipotle sauce, lettuce and cheddar in a soft tortilla. Eight tacos, plus the salt step the original recipe misses.

Warm chips under refried beans, seasoned beef, nacho cheese sauce and sour cream in 15 minutes. Why the cheese has to be poured, not melted.

Refried beans, onion, cheddar and red sauce in a flour tortilla, in five minutes. Plus why the Mild packet is the wrong sauce for the job.

Blue Powerade, Mountain Dew and lemon-lime soda over ice in five minutes. The ratio that keeps it teal instead of murky green, plus the freeze version.

Seasoned beef, rice and chipotle sauce rolled up, then cheese toasted onto both faces of the tortilla. Four burritos, thirty minutes, one griddle.