Hack That Dish includes 101 restaurant copycat recipes. From Applebee’s delicious Spinach and Artichoke Dip to Jack Link’s Original Beef Jerky, all types of recipes are included. If one of your favorites are here, you can rely on these recipes to recreate the dish at home for a fraction of the cost of a restaurant meal.
However, this book is called Hack That Dish. Does it provide enough information to actually hack a recipe yourself? Yes, and no. The chapter explaining hacking is only three pages long. It contains some simplistic ideas that most people have already thought of. But each recipe that follows also includes a generic hacking strategy. Taken together, the advice is pretty comprehensive and should work. It just seems awkward to spread it throughout the book.
The recipes are where this book really shines. Using simple and easy to locate ingredients, most recipes are easy to follow. Rating their difficulty from easy to hard makes it simple to match your kitchen skills to a particular recipe.
There are a few drawbacks to what is essentially a cookbook. There is no nutritional information. Photographs are only occasionally provided. Mainly for these two reasons, Hack That Dish gets 4 stars from me.
If one of your favorite meals is located within this book, get a copy. You won’t be disappointed at the tasty results.
Thanks to NetGalley and Adams Media for providing me with an advanced review copy.