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Home | Recipes | Honest Entertaining® | Page 11

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.
Maple glazed carrots with bourbon and parsnips on a black oval platter with a dish of salt beside it.

Maple Glazed Carrots with Bourbon

45 mins

A high ball glass partially filled with an amber Sazerac cocktail without absinthe and an oversized ice cube.

Sazerac Cocktail Without Absinthe

30 mins

A bowl of chashu pork ramen, filled with braised pork, soba noodles, bean sprouts, peas, and bok choy, with a pair of chopsticks resting on top.

Chashu Pork Ramen

5 hrs 30 mins

A hand using a wooden spoon to lift a scoop of macaroni and cheese with zucchini out of a cast iron pot.

Macaroni and Cheese with Zucchini

1 hr 15 mins

A lobster roll in a cardboard sleeve with a little lettuce and a lemon wedge in the background.

Lobster Roll

35 mins

An assortment of pickled stone fruits in jars stacked on top of each other.

How to Preserve Stone Fruits

45 mins

A white cake stand with four spirals of pumpernickel bread, salmon mousse, and smoked salmon.

Salmon Mousse Pinwheels

20 mins

A wooden cutting board topped with two rack of smoked pork ribs.

Smoked Pork Ribs

4 hrs 30 mins

A black skillet filled with summer tomato pasta, sprinkled with fresh Parmesan cheese.

Summer Tomato Pasta

30 mins

Two slabs of bone-in smoked beef ribs.

Smoked Beef Ribs

8 hrs

A white serving bowl filled with sauteed spinach and bread crumbs.

Sautéed Spinach with Bread Crumbs

20 mins

A rimmed sheet pan with roast pork chops with peaches and cooked red onion.

Roast Pork Chops with Peaches

35 mins

A metal skillet filled with warm olives, rosemary, and lemon zest.

Warm Olives

10 mins

Espresso being poured over gelato in a cup to make affogato.

Affogato

5 mins

Grilled chicken thighs on a platter with a sprig of rosemary on top.

Grilled Rosemary-Garlic Chicken

1 hr 30 mins

Sautéed Shishito Peppers

How To Cook Shishito Peppers

15 mins

A grey plate topped with steak and quinoa salad with shaved carrots and mustard vinaigrette.

Steak and Quinoa Salad

1 hr

A pitcher of Pimm's cup, with a half-filled glass and a vase of flowers on either side of it.

Pimm’s Cup for Wimbledon

5 mins

Three homemade ice cream bars, coated with chocolate and sprinkled with almonds, coconut, and chocolate crumbs.

Homemade Ice Cream Bars

12 hrs

A glass of cold brew coffee with a French press and jar of cream in the background.

How To Make Cold Brew Coffee

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