Kitchen Sink Cookbook

The authors of Make-a-Mix Cookery continue to strive for cooking efficiency and ease in this book, whose message is that cooks need not think of leftovers in terms of merely getting by; rather, they can use leftovers to wow family and guests. The authors offer strategies for using odds and ends in side dishes and desserts, explain the principles of big-batch cookerywherein Sunday's baked ham becomes the week's ham loaves, gougere, jambalaya and pithivierand finally unveil the ""Basic Nine'' recipes, any of which could clean out the refrigerator. In fact, one of them, Kitchen-Sink Cookies, is meant to take wilted salad, pasta, anything that can be pureed. Well done. (March)