Three Things

Go-to holiday cookies, a winterized salad pizza, and what I'm watching

Greetings eaters and readers! Hope you had a great weekend and checked off a few boxes on the holiday gift list. Big news: Our pork ragu made its winter 2023 debut on Friday night — atop polenta instead of pappardelle, but a debut nonetheless! We made it for our friends Adam and Craig along with a fruit-studded kale salad and Negronis and I must say, the meal delivered on coziness even more than usual. (P.S. Subscribers might recognize this menu as The Winter Classic from last year’s Dinner Party Series.) In other news, on Sunday morning Andy decided it was important to try the homemade jelly doughnuts up the street at Orwashers — where they pipe the filling into the doughnut right in front of you — and I’ll bet you’ll be shocked to hear that they were out of this world. Speaking of sufganiyot: chag sameach, to those lighting the candles on Thursday. Here are my go-to latkes and here are your Three Things…