The Short-Cut Cook: Make Simple Meals with Surprisingly Little Effort

Jacques Pépin, America's favorite French chef, makes your cooking easier with 150 timesaving recipes.

• Make crackers by spritzing wonton wrappers with oil and bake until golden.
• Use frozen butternut squash for quick soup.
• Freeze salmon and cream cheese appetizer rollups for easy slicing.
• Prepare cheese straws appetizers with frozen puff pastry.
• Need an elegant entrée in record time?
  Sauté pork cutlets with prunes and steak sauce.
• Spoon a rich-tasting sauce of wine, ketchup, and mustard over grilled steak
• Mix melted chocolate with whipped cream for quick chocolate mousse.
• Fill a store-bought, hollowed-out pound cake with quick food processor lemon buttercream.