How to Cook Fancy Restaurant Dishes at Home

Cheers to more indulgent homemade meals in 2022. [Today On The Spruce]( [The Spruce Daily]( [To Becoming Someone Who Cooks Fancy Restaurant Dishes at Home ]( [To Becoming Someone Who Cooks Fancy Restaurant Dishes at Home]( [Mariana Gonzalez](, Food & Drink Email Editor I’m a nice dinner kind of girl. I’ll take an enticing menu, dark, moody lighting, and good drinks over pretty much any other kind of outing. The sound of endless, unintelligible conversations, that first bite of a dish you know will keep you coming back, sharing all of that with someone whose company brings you joy: I really can’t think of a better kind of sensory experience. Still. I want to dine at “nice” restaurants less this year. For lots of reasons: I want to save more money. I want to be safer. Also, the pandemic burst a bubble I didn’t know I lived in. The [restaurant industry doesn’t care about its workers]( enough, and the things I’ve read about these past couple of years have forever soured the way I think of the experience. Instead, I want to cook at home with good, quality ingredients. I want to learn new cooking techniques, and I want to learn them well. My eyes always lock on some kind of seafood on menus, so I want to make [fish]( that’s not salmon, perfect [scallops](, and [octopus]( (something I’ve never cooked before). I want to learn to cook [duck]( and better [steak](. I want to have elevated versions of things I cook all the time, like this [mushroom swiss burger with truffle aioli](. Cheers to new habits in 2022. [READ MORE]( [Today On The Spruce](#) Pure Indulgence [Herb Broiled Chicken]( [Herb Broiled Chicken]( [Slow Cooked Asian Beef Short Ribs]( [Spicy Seared Scallops ]( [Spicy Seared Scallops]( [Molten Lava Cake]( [Today On The Spruce](#) The Spruce Eats on YouTube [Teeny Tiny Food Habits for 2022]( [The Spruce Eats’ Teeny Tiny Food Habits for 2022]( [Watch & Learn]( [Today On The Spruce]( [Spruce Eats Banner]( Things We’re Reading, Loving, Pondering Grub Street published a story about something all restaurant workers know: the industry has always treated [sick workers]( with no remorse. More about [water scarcity]( and the plan irrigation organizations don’t have for responding to drought. Next, an exploration of the [dessert hummus]( trend. A federal judge sided with U.S. cheese producers who say [gruyère is still gruyère](, even if it doesn’t come from Gruyères. [Today On The Spruce](#) More from The Spruce Eats [Classic Crème Brûlée]( [Belgian Beer Steamed Mussels]( [Old Thyme Sour Cocktail]( [Today On The Spruce](#) Did somebody forward you this email? [Sign Up for The Spruce Eats Newsletter!]( Have feedback? Send us an email at contact@thespruceeats.com, subject line: Newsletter Feedback. [The Spruce]( [The Spruce]( Follow us: You are receiving this newsletter because you subscribed to The Spruce Eats newsletter. [Unsubscribe](page=spruceeatsprefnew) © 2022 Dotdash.com — All rights reserved. [Privacy Policy.]( A DOTDASH BRAND 28 Liberty Street, 7th Floor, New York, NY, 10005