Do you know what the mark of a great chef is? Do you know what it is that makes some chefs more renowned than others? All good chefs are able to make good meals, but great chefs tweak those meals to make them even better!

With secret restaurant recipes, you're going to actually be holding the results of that tweaking in your hands. In other words, the recipes that you're going to be looking at are the result of some great chefs taking existing recipes and making them even better by adding ingredients, changing the cooking process, or something else of that like.

While it might seem rather presumptuous for you to therefore take those excellent recipes and try to improve upon them yourself, if you ever want to take the next step that is exactly what you're going to need to do! Admittedly, these recipes may be close to perfect as they are, but who knows what you could achieve...

By adding some extra herbs and spices you might be able to accentuate the taste of a certain dish slightly. In fact, you might even be able to alter the entire taste of the dish itself if you want to really perform some drastic changes. Who knows what sort of amazing new combination of tastes you might be able to come up with.

On the other hand, if you alter the cooking process you might find that you're able to bring out more of the juices in your meat, or make it more tender, or perhaps even give a slightly 'crunchy' and fresh quality to your vegetables. These are the kinds of things that you should look into, and experiment for yourself in small doses here and there!

Go ahead and give it a go for yourself. Many people find that once they try experimenting, they find that it is more fun than they previously thought. In time, you may even become more and more passionate about cooking as a result, and that is going to put you firmly on the road to successfully moving on from simply following recipes and starting to write your own!

Maybe someday you'll even open up your own restaurant, or write your own cookbooks! Almost all the most famous chefs in the world started somewhere, and if you truly develop yourself as a cook you'll find that sooner or later you reach the stage where people crave your cooking simply because you're able to offer them something different with their meals!