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Book Review of A Cook's Book of Quick Fixes

A Cook's Book of Quick Fixes
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If your cooking skills aren't on par with Julia Child ... sweat no more! This book has a myriad of solutions for your cooking disasters. Perhaps it would be helpful to give you some of the dozens of items discussed:

- Rescuing overcooked cannelloni or lasagna
- Tired lettuce makes great soup
- Serving a sunken souffle with style
- Shred second-rate cooked meat for a zingy salad

- Uses for over-the-hill baguette
- Rehavilitating rhubarb that is overcooked or oversharp
- Ways of rescuing stodgy polenta
- Three easy ways of improving less-than-perfect stuffed pasta
- The perils of oversalting and scorching

Find what you need with the 10 categories, plus handy index:

- eggs,
- vegetables
- fish and shellfish
- meat
- poultry and game

- pasta, grains and pulses
- stocks and sauces
- fruits
- deserts
- baking

I found the solutions to be creative ... and they work!