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I found this recipe for Chickpea Masala a few days ago, and it's fucking delicious. Also, its time and effort is pretty low. I might be able to make it stoned. Not quite as fast and easy as microwaved, but pretty damn close. Faster than driving to fucking Applebee's and getting a table.
https://www.delish.com/cooking/recipe-ideas/recipes/a5543/masala-spiced-chickpeas-recipe/
Where does Applebee's get their potato skins?
I'll give you instructions for making potato skins.
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Since you referenced food from Applebee's, first you're going to need to wean yourself off whatever drugs you're on so you can tell the difference between food and what Applebee's sells.
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wash and dry some potatoes.
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pierce the potatoes several times, all around the outside with a fork.
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bake the potatoes in a preheated 400° F. oven until you can easily insert your poking fork all the way to the center of the potato (probably about an hour, depending on the potatoes).
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take the potatoes out of the oven and let them cool down.
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slice each potato in half
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scoop out the insides of each potato, leaving about a quarter inch thickness for the skins. Last time I did this, I used a melon baller and deep-fried all the potato balls.
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deep fry the scooped out skins at about 375°. I prefer beef tallow for frying.
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when they are golden brown, take them out and set them aside to drain.
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cook bacon until crispy, then ~~brake~~ break it up into small pieces.
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arrange all the fried potato skins on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
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season with salt, pepper, and garlic powder.
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fill each potato skin with shredded cheddar cheese, and sprinkle bacon pieces on top.
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bake in the oven at 350° until the cheese melts.
Serve with sour cream and chopped scallions.
OP asks for a source for the frozen food that restaurants microwave. Your response is a 14 step recipe to make potato skins.
Yep.
Sometimes the answer you need is to the question you didn't ask.
Edit: I'll add that I've tried buying restaurant branded potato skins from the grocery store, and they were absolute crap, worse even than the frozen ones that the restaurant was microwaving.
I don't think there's going to be any way to buy what the restaurants purchases, unless you're able to buy in bulk, or find someone who's willing to sell you some that "fell off the truck"
find someone who's willing to sell you some that "fell off the truck"
Yup. Need to find the truck first
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Not OP, but what do you do with the leftover potato scoops? Do you save it for eating later?
Not them, but mashed potatoes! You'll need to add more milk than if you boiled the potatoes, but that's good calcium you're getting. Could also be an ingredient for gnocchi. It would freeze fine, because you're gonna smoosh it around after thawing anyway.
You might as well cook the whole pack of bacon too, because frozen cooked bacon slices are convenient and keep well.
My wife would kill me if we wasted any part of the potatoes.
We've done a couple things with the insides. Sometimes we pan fry the bits in butter with some sauteed onions to have at breakfast the next day.
Last time was the first time I used a melon baller.
When we saw the almost perfect potato balls, it was almost automatic to deep fry them, add a little salt, and just eat them like that.
Yum! I'll be right over!
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Look at the boxes outside the back of the restaurant.
Any decent restaurant will be cooking a fair bit of their food, even if they’re using Restaurant Supply’s fried chicken mix.
Applebee’s potato skins you probably can’t get directly because it’s probably only available to franchisees. But with some digging you might be able to buy a skid of the generic stuff from the manufacturer.
Once, I got a box of frozen microwaveable dessert. We ate so much… every day… it was a big box.
Please go to any local restaurant or pub and have better food that's probably not microwaved at least to the extent of Applebee's
You could batch cook the things you like from healthy ingredients. That way you too can microwave your food right from the freezer and have your own private restaurant. Welcome to Chez Moi!
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Many places in the US get their supply from Sysco: https://shop.sysco.com/
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You actually should.
If the only restaurant you go to is applebees and TGI Fridays's and the like, sure. They're already available in store.
You mentioned TGI Fridays.
When I was in college, we'd go to Fridays all the time, and the food was incredible.
Then, over the years, it turned to shit. We stopped going.
One day, we were craving the memory of what it was and decided to give it anorher chance.
When we sat down, the manager stopped by our table to thank us for coming in and informed us that they had changed their process. She said that in recent years all their food was being prepared off-site, frozen, and just microwaved to order at the restaurant. However, they recently went back to doing all the prep from scratch in their kitchen.
The food was incredible! Exactly what we remembered. We started going back.
Then COVID hit. The Fridays that we would go to shut down.
The last time we went to a Fridays, the restaurant was empty, the staff was disinterested, and the food was shit.
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Same in Canada, especially since covid, a couple of restaurant chain are offering their food in the frozen aisle of supermarket
Its called a supermarket
I don't think that's really the spirit of the question. Not all frozen food are made equal. The stuff in restaurants is higher quality frozen food than what you typically find in the frozen foods section of your local supermarket.
I thought they were referring to the restaurant branded food you can buy from the supermarket snd make at home. Like these two chain restaurant items that I have purchased and consumed.
https://www.walmart.com/browse/food/on-the-border-salsa/976759_976787_1001393_7109351_7154555
There are some frozen ones too, but don't remember which ones.
Most of the time those branded items are only using the name and the product is not the same. I get the Taco Bell hot sauce bottles, but it is not the same as in the packs.
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Higher quality seems like a stretch based on the last times someone dragged me to a crappy national chain.
Higher salt and fat content definitely, because that shit tastes good. At the grocery store, you're far more likely to shop for things that seem healthy, and the restaurant meals would have insane nutrition labels (especially if they were honest about restaurant serving sizes).
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Shitty restaurants just microwave their food. Real restaurants actually cook the food. You could cut out the middle man by making your own food from raw ingredients.
Takes time, effort and skill. Occasionally, you may prefer to pay someone else to take care of all that + dishes. I think the middle man is actually doing something useful, so you pay for the food and the convenience. If it was just food and nothing else, cutting him out would make a lot of sense.
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