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The New York Times Cooking No-Recipe Recipes: [A Cookbook]

by Sam Sifton

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A flexible guide to cooking without fixed recipes

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A flexible guide to cooking without fixed recipes

Sam Sifton’s collection organizes more than 100 meal ideas around improvisation rather than precise, step-by-step recipes. The dishes are designed to work with ingredients already at hand or picked up quickly, with room to substitute and adjust portions. Examples range from fried egg quesadillas and weeknight fried rice to roasted shrimp tacos and oven s’mores, giving the book a broad mix of savory meals and dessert. Vivid photography accompanies the ideas, while the overall approach centers on making everyday cooking adaptable to what is available.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Home cooks who want ideas for adapting meals to available ingredients.
  • Those interested in flexible, quick-and-easy approaches to weeknight cooking.
  • Cooks who prefer visual inspiration and room to adjust quantities or ingredients.

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Improvisational cookingIngredient substitutionWeeknight mealsFlexible portions

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Book overview

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The debut cookbook from the popular New York Times website and mobile app NYT Cooking, featuring 100 vividly photographed no-recipe recipes to make weeknight cooking more inspired and delicious--featuring a convenient flexibound format.

ONE OF THE BEST COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR: Vanity Fair, Time Out, Salon, Publishers Weekly

You don't need a recipe. Really, you don't.

Sam Sifton, founding editor of New York Times Cooking, makes improvisational cooking easier than you think. In this handy book of ideas, Sifton delivers more than one hundred no-recipe recipes--each gloriously photographed--to make with the ingredients you have on hand or could pick up on a quick trip to the store. You'll see how to make these meals as big or as small as you like, substituting ingredients as you go.

Fried Egg Quesadillas. Pizza without a Crust. Weeknight Fried Rice. Pasta with Garbanzos. Roasted Shrimp Tacos. Chicken with Caramelized Onions and Croutons. Oven S'Mores. Welcome home to freestyle, relaxed cooking that is absolutely yours.
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