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Recipe Makeovers - Complicated Recipes Made Simple

Recipe makeovers create new, simpler recipes from complicated old fashioned ones. From cake mixes to frozen vegetables, convenience foods are used to simplify difficult recipes.

A Tale of Three Recipes

The story of how three recipes came to be from one failed attempt. How to fix kitchen flops with creativity.

Recipe Makeover - Carrot Cake

A complicated recipe for carrot cake gets a makeover into a much simpler recipe that still tastes wonderful.

Transforming Recipes: Cabbage Tortellini Salad

See how I made over a layered main dish salad into a simpler combination salad with a few ingredient substitutions and changes.

Shrimp and Black Bean Salad

This delicious salad was created from a much more complicated recipe by using fully cooked shrimp and a purchased salad dressing for lots of flavor with little work.

Old Time Recipes and Their Updated Cousins

For a fun peek at the past, take a look at these recipes I've gathered from old cookbooks - and the updated versions that follow.

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