"Followed the advice of others in the reviews and upped the bechamel to 4 tablespoons butter, 3 teaspoons of flour and 2 cups of milk. Omitted the panchetta because it was Lent. Family liked it (I couldn't partake because of the gluten-filled noodles. Made it ahead of time and baked it off a day later - cooking time will be longer and make sure ""

"This is a solid sugar cookie recipe. It works every time and isn't fussy. My favorite part is that you can roll some of the dough a little thicker for the decorated cookies and then the rest of the dough very, very thin (I use a fluted round cutter) for un-frosted wafer-type cookies (baking time is quite reduced).""

"I just keep going back to this recipe. It's easy, bulletproof, and just works.

I salt a few days out rather than brining but otherwise follow the recipe as written.

I particularly like to contrast this with the year I made a recipe that included flipping the turkey halfway through cooking. Seriously, have you ever tried to flip a really hot tu""