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My Week of Eating In

March 1, 2010
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This past week I joined Cathy Erway in her Week of Eating In. When I first accepted the challenge, I figured it would be a piece of cake, since eating in is what I do best. What I hadn’t counted on was a work week from hell, and two full-day photo shoots, not to mention [...]

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Black Braised Pork Belly (video)

January 24, 2010
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I’m often asked why this blog is called No Recipes, when I post recipes to almost everything I make. In case you were wondering the same thing, the title refers to my predilection to just wing it, using ingredients that I have in the fridge. Still, it’s always been my intention to help you break [...]

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No Recipes vol. 17

December 27, 2009
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I hope everyone is having a good holiday season. I’m back at home in my frigid NYC condo reminiscing about the good food and company I had over the weekend in the SF Bay Area, and I wanted to share some of the choice morsels No Recipes style.

Uni with Butter on Crostini – Thin [...]

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No Recipes vol. 16

September 18, 2009
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It’s been a long time since I’ve done one of these and given the culinary rut I’ve been in the past few days I scoured my photo directory and found some morsels to share.
Whether it’s a recipe in progress, a hurried meal, or laziness that prevented me from documenting a recipe, this is where [...]

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No Recipes vol. 15 (Mitsuwa & Macarons)

June 29, 2009
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What do macarons and Japanese grocery stores have to do with each other? Not much, unless you happen to be making Pierre Hermé’s Macaron au Wasabi et au Pamplemousse, in which case you’ll need to find a fresh wasabi root and yuzu juice to add to the ganache.

Such was the case, last weekend when [...]

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No Recipes vol. 14

June 3, 2009
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This edition of No Recipes, features experimental Japanese food, a dessert revisited, and a No Recipes guest appearance on The Dairy Show. For those of you not familiar with these roundups, I use them as a place to show you my outtakes. Most of these dishes are either practice runs, left overs, or remakes of [...]

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No Recipes vol. 13

May 4, 2009
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It’s been ages since I last did one of these, so here are the “outtakes” from the past few weeks. The fact that they were outtakes shouldn’t dissuade you from making them, they just didn’t make the cut for various reasons, often because they involved leftovers.
Tonight marked the end of the epic sauerkraut and sausage [...]

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No Recipes vol. 12 (World Baseball Classic)

March 24, 2009
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In the US, it’s been my observation that there isn’t much focus on international competition (biannual Olympics aside). The major sports organizations like the NBA, MLB, and NFL seem content assimilating foreign athletes rather than opening up the doors to foreign teams. In other parts of the world, regional and global competitions are followed with [...]

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