This recipe comes from my pal, Jamey Fader, culinary director at Marczyk Fine Foods. It works.

Hanukkah often follows quickly on the heels of Thanksgiving, so let’s fashion some latkes using up leftover sweet or mashed potatoes.

Combine any number of oohs and aahs from everyday roastings past and altogether they do not equal those that grace this recipe and us on Christmas (or Christmas Eve) night.

This is a very long recipe (it can take three days to make); it is complicated, though the ingredients are commonplace; and it necessitates using only the best. That said, it is a dish that, if you’re successful in making it, will wow anyone eating it as few dishes could.

A rich turkey or chicken stock, made days ahead of Thanksgiving Day dinner, is a significant foundation to that day’s meal.

A serving of swordfish braised in tomatoes, capers, and sweet olives—in the Sicilian way.

Sure, the raw oyster is delicious, but cooking it is delicious once more. Photo by Ben Stern on unsplash.

One of summer’s last green gasps, Quick-Pickled Green Tomatoes.

One bread pudding recipe uses any “quick bread”—such as banana bread or zucchini bread—while the other uses up stale panettone, the Italian brioche-like bread studded with dried fruit.

Way more delicious than dorm-room ramen is a close-to-scratch Homemade Ramen.

A twist on broth or stock made with a carcass saved from a turkey or chicken dinner—Vietnamese pho.

Scotch-Irish barley broth uses both lamb meat as well as corned beef.

Not necessarily Thanksgiving Day dinner-driven, but a great recipe for any leftover “stuffing” or bread mish-mosh.

The can opener doesn’t necessarily open a can of worms; it might open a can of possibilities.

Cioppino, the fish and seafood stew made famous in San Francisco in the 1800s, is a terrific cool-weather dish.

This dish is best made a day ahead and refrigerated until service so that the flavors develop. Also, it freezes well.

An old recipe in Jewish Rome and a delicious turn on zukes. Photo by Popo le Chien.

This mildly sweet cornbread is an unexpectedly delicious alternative to pancakes or waffles.

Polenta has been a mainstay food in Italy ever since Columbus brought back to the Old World the maize that he found in the New. Photo from Laura Adai on unsplash.

Quit thumping and start sniffing.