Ina Garten swears by store-bought ingredients. There's one she couldn't make work for her new cookbook.
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Ina Garten's new cookbook, "Simply Ina," includes many recipes that use store-bought ingredients, like Rao's marinara and premade mashed potatoes.
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Ina Garten has always believed that store-bought is fine — most of the time.Mike Smith/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images via Getty ImagesIna Garten's new cookbook, "Simply Ina," features many recipes with store-bought ingredients.Garten has a skillet pasta with Rao's marinara and a soup featuring refrigerated mashed potatoes.But Garten learned that for one particular ingredient, store-bought really isn't fine!While testing recipes for her newest cookbook, Ina Garten wanted to prove her most famous claim: Sometimes, store-bought really is fine!"Truly delicious dishes don't require hours of hands-on time in the kitchen," Garten wrote in "Simply Ina," which was released on Tuesday. "They just need a little thought and a few good ingredients."Garten has a whole list of store-bought ingredients that she trusts, and they feature prominently in the new cookbook. The "Barefoot Contessa" star said she even tested every brand of mashed potatoes — "from boxed flakes to refrigerated…