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Home | Recipes | Honest Entertaining® | Page 10

Honest Entertaining®

Feeling as if you’re a failure unless you grind your own wheat, grow your own yeast,  raise your own beef? Expecting the impossible from yourself, all while cooking a sit-down dinner for 25? Well, relax! Take a deep breath. We’ve been there–and we ain’t ever going back. Honest Entertaining is as much of a state of mind as a way to cook.

It’s real food for real people for good times. It’s knock-it-out-of-the-park dishes that are smart, easy, and let you be a cook, not a domestic god/goddess. (You know what they say about false idols…)

An onion and blue cheese tart cut into wedges with crispy onions scattered around it.
A white platter filled with broccoli rabe, topped with roasted garlic and red pepper flakes.

Broccoli Rabe with Roasted Garlic

1 hr

A serving spoon of fried Brussels sprouts with walnuts and capers resting over a large metal bowl.

Fried Brussels Sprouts with Walnuts and Capers

30 mins

Prosecco being added to a Prosecco and Aperol cocktail, with two partially filled glasses behind it.

Prosecco and Aperol Cocktail

5 mins

A whole two layer spiced carrot cake on a white cake stand with one slice cut from it on a plate with a fork beside it.

Spiced Carrot Cake

1 hr 20 mins

A patterned bowl filled with lemony fettuccine alfredo on a white and gold plate with a glass of water and dish of Parmesan on the side.

Lemony Fettuccine Alfredo

35 mins

A cast-iron baking dish filled with fennel baked in cream on a wooden board.

Fennel Baked in Cream

1 hr 45 mins

Several jars of cilantro sauce and a few toasted bread rounds topped with the cilantro sauce on a wooden board.

Cilantro Sauce

10 mins

A partially sliced Barefoot Contessa company pot roast on a serving platter, garnished with thyme sprigs.

Ina Garten’s Company Pot Roast

3 hrs 45 mins

Wedges of roasted pumpkin on a rimmed baking sheet.

Roasted Pumpkin with Parmesan

1 hr 20 mins

Cranberry and orange relish in a white bowl on a baking sheet

Cranberry and Orange Relish

15 mins

A Portuguese roast turkey with two stuffings in white bowls with a spoon resting in one of the bowls.

Portuguese Turkey with Two Stuffings

3 hrs

A spoonful of sweet potato soufflé topped with brown sugar and pecan topping resting in a white bowl.

Sweet Potato Soufflé

2 hrs

Baked spiced pecans on a sheet of parchment that is resting on a wooden serving board.

Spiced Pecans

40 mins

A man holding a glass of Prosecco and a plate with three gougeres.

Prosciutto-Cheese Gougères

45 mins

Four pieces of classic chicken piccata topped with parsley and capers on a white oval serving plate.

Classic Chicken Piccata

45 mins

An oval gratin dish filled with butternut squash gratin

Butternut Squash Gratin

50 mins

A canning jar filled with pickled wild mushrooms and a sprig of thyme.

Pickled Wild Mushrooms

1 d 20 mins

A pistachio lover's pound cake on a wooden cutting board with a mesh bag of pistachios beside it.

Pistachio Pound Cake

2 hrs

A pile of Tabasco chicken wings on a white plate with some ranch dip.

Tabasco Chicken Wings

2 hrs 30 mins

An omelet with chanterelles in a metal skillet with two chanterelle mushrooms lying beside the skillet.

Omelet with Chanterelles

20 mins

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