Complete Idiot's Guide to Cooking with Mixes

With the success of such cookbooks as The Cake Mix Doctor home chefs have found that they can overcome the quality issues in many convenience products, including soup mixes and cake mixes, and end up with a better dish than they could have made from scratch. Taking this new trend one step further, ward-winning author Ellen Brown shows readers how adding simple ingredients can turn mixes into culinary masterpieces--in half the time. Inside, readers will find fantastic recipes for broth, stocks, marinades, rubs, salad dressings, dips, spreads, soups, stews, salads, meat poultry, pastas, rice, cakes, cookies, and desserts.