Ina Garten swears by store-bought ingredients. There's one she couldn't make work for her new cookbook.
Ina Garten's new cookbook, "Simply Ina," includes many recipes that use store-bought ingredients, like Rao's marinara and premade mashed potatoes.
Ina Garten, known for her cookbook "Simply Ina," has always been a proponent of using store-bought ingredients in her recipes. Her latest cookbook features dishes like skillet pasta with Rao's marinara and a soup with refrigerated mashed potatoes. However, Garten discovered that there is one store-bought ingredient that simply does not work for her, no matter how hard she tries.
While testing recipes for her new cookbook, Garten experimented with various brands of mashed potatoes, from boxed flakes to refrigerated prepared potatoes, but found that prepackaged baking mixes were not up to her standards. She believes that the best dishes don't require hours of cooking and instead focus on a few good ingredients and thoughtful preparation.
Garten's philosophy evolved from thinking that complicated recipes were necessary for good food to believing that simple, well-prepared meals are the way to go.
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