About a year ago, my life changed in a big way. I discovered this recipe for no-knead pizza dough that yields my favorite kind of restaurant-pizza crust, right out of my home oven. It’s thin in the middle, chewy and bubbly around the edges, and a total cinch to make. I’ve been talking it up to friends and family (come on, Dad–try it! I know you’ll love it!), but somehow we haven’t talked about it here since my initial discovery.
Well, let’s change that! Let’s talk pizza today. We’ll definitely use my go-to dough and I’m thinking some garlicky sautéed broccoli rabe, spicy Italian sausage, and ricotta cheese sound like awfully good toppings for this chilly evening. A bottle of red? Maybe a movie? Good, I’m glad you’re on board.
In December, cooking demands a lot of you. You’ve got to plan ahead, come up with elegant menus for holiday entertaining. You’re making a million trips to a thousand different grocery stores for just the right ingredients and forcing yourself to bake cookies uniform and cute enough to be giftable. 
Real-deal homemade lasagna is a wonderful thing. Imagine thin sheets of homemade pasta, layered with silky béchamel and rich meaty Bolognese sauce, stuck together with melted cheese…what could be better?
Bolognese sauce ranks pretty high on my list of favorite things to cook in the dead of winter. It’s the ultimate comfort food–hearty, homey, and warming. Plus, it requires you to spend a slow-paced afternoon in a toasty kitchen with an open bottle of wine. What more could you ask for?
Every home cook needs a soup like this in their arsenal. It’s the perfect thing to whip up when you feel a cold coming on, when the weather is frigid, or you’ve just got the blues and need to sit on the couch and slurp up some comfort.