![]() My husband’s family is Italian, so we always do a big lasagna for Christmas Samin Nosrat’s big lasagna is a good one. I change up the sprinkles and colors year to year. These Italian ricotta cookies are so easy to make in big batches, but they are still festive looking and very delicious. One of my favorite holiday traditions is hand-delivering cookies and thank you notes to people around the neighborhood I interact with a lot throughout the year, like the pharmacist, the butcher, the ladies of the laundromat, the dog’s vet, the guys at the bodega … the list is long. Recipes: Garlicky Beef Tenderloin With Orange Horseradish Sauce | Steak Diane for Two 10. I buy a 4- to 5-pound tenderloin - half the recipe for our family of four - then freeze the other tenderloin half to slice into fillets for a no-kids New Year’s Eve dinner of steak Diane. The rich beef paired with the sharp, citrusy sauce is perfection. We don’t eat a lot of beef in our house, but Melissa Clark’s garlicky beef tenderloin with orange horseradish sauce is a Christmas tradition. Garlicky Beef Tenderloin With Orange Horseradish Sauce Best yet, they can be patted into patties the night before cooking. They are impossibly crisp, edging into hash brown territory, but have the purest potato flavor since they’re prepared without egg, flour or other fillers. ![]() These potato latkes from Joan Nathan are positively transcendent, and my first bite convinced me that there is no better way to consume potatoes fried in oil. Recipes: Brisket in Sweet-and-Sour Sauce | Classic Potato Latkes | Aunt Phillomena’s Pizzelle | Sweet Spiced Pecans | Doris’s Salty Hot Fudge 8. I give away spiced pecans or jars of Doris’s hot fudge. The rotation includes Joan Nathan’s brisket, Melissa’s latkes and a couple of different Christmas cookies, including linzer trees, and my aunt’s pizzelle, because it was the cookie Julia Moskin claims took me down when we did our cookie challenge 112 years ago. Recipe: Soft Sugar Cookies With Raspberry Frosting 7. But this year I’m especially excited to make Eric Kim’s homemade version! Love the addition of the freeze-dried raspberries to color and flavor the icing! SCOTT LOITSCH The holidays usually mean we have at least a couple packages of those grocery-store-soft-sugar-cookies in the house. Soft Sugar Cookies With Raspberry Frosting Recipes: Prime Rib Roast | Overnight French Toast | Crème Brûlée French Toast 6. ![]() Usually I do this brûlée one, but we are branching out! MELISSA CLARK I’ve got my eye on this overnight French toast by Samantha Seneviratne for this year’s Christmas morning. I make the leftovers into the best hash imaginable. I’ve been making Sam’s prime rib for the past few years for Christmas and it’s perfect. Recipes: Mark Bittman’s Gravlax | Real Sour Cream Onion Dip 5. (I added a little Hellmann’s too.) EMILY WEINSTEIN And we used to have a holiday party and I’d make a quadruple batch of Mark’s sour cream and onion dip and serve it with Cape Cod potato chips. I also love Melissa’s latkes and have made Mark Bittman’s gravlax many times. Recipes: Chocolate-Peppermint Shortbread | Malt Chocolate and Marshmallow Sandwiches | Pistachio Pinwheels 4. I need all the cookies I can get this year, so I’m springing for Sohla El-Waylly’s chocolate-peppermint shortbread, Yewande Komolafe’s malt chocolate and marshmallow sandwiches and Claire Saffitz’s pistachio pinwheels. I spice up our cookie roster every year by trying at least two of the newly minted NYT cookie recipes. Also incorporating Melissa’s latkes into our Christmas Eve soup dinner this year, which is very exciting for everyone involved. Sandwiches with leftovers the next day are a huge bonus. I love making Melissa Clark’s dreamy, crunchy-skinned porchetta, marinated and trussed the day before, then roasted in the oven, making my whole house smell like rosemary and garlic and pork drippings. Recipes: Chez Ma Tante’s Pancakes | Glazed Holiday Ham | Fannie Farmer’s Parker House Rolls 2. My Christmas starts with these ridiculously buttery pancakes, eases into a nap and then rises again for glazed ham, good mustard and Parker House rolls. (View our collections of Holiday Recipes including Christmas Recipes, Hanukkah Recipes and Kwanzaa Recipes. It was tough to pick just one recipe - most suggested a few - but the most common themes were latkes and, unsurprisingly, cookies of all kinds. Members of The New York Times Food department come across hundreds of new recipes every year, and these are the recipes they can’t live without during the holidays.
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