This book isn't exactly what I expected. I had heard about people making jam in bread machines, so I thought this book might be filled with recipes for gravies or casseroles that were actually cooked in the bread machine. Instead it has recipes where you bake the bread in the machine and then cook the rest of the entree on the stove or in the oven. A couple of the bread recipes were new to me, like Tomato Basil Bread, but I could have gotten the entree recipes somewhere else and substituted my own homemade bread. I didn't need a specialized cookbook to figure that out.