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Home | Recipes | Honest Entertaining® | Page 12

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.
Two slabs of honey teriyaki ribs, one partially cut into ribs on a sheet of parchment.

Honey Teriyaki Ribs

3 hrs

An eggplant kebab on a tortilla with fresh spinach, garlic sauce, and cabbage.

Eggplant Kebabs

1 hr 30 mins

A glass filled with margarita granita, topped with a lime sprig and a spoon resting in the glass.

Margarita Granita

11 hrs

Two glasses of lime soda and one glass of angostura orange.

Lime Soda

5 mins

A sour cream mocha cake with espresso frosting on a cake stand with a slice cut from it.

Sour Cream Mocha Cake

2 hrs

A tray with 18 grilled chicken wings with maple bourbon sauce.

Grilled Chicken Wings with Maple Bourbon Sauce

1 hr 15 mins

An oval platter topped with Greek salad - sliced cucumber, tomatoes, red onion, peppers, and feta cheese.

Greek Salad

1 hr 15 mins

Two pieces of Korean style steak on a cutting board with a knife.

Korean Style Steak

35 mins

A canning jar filled with cherry liqueur and whole cherries, with a pot of liqueur and many cherry stones beside it.

Homemade Cherry Liqueur

2 d

A grilled cowboy steak with coffee rub on a wooden cutting board.

Cowboy Steak with Coffee Rub

1 hr 15 mins

A terrine of country pate with one slice cut and resting on a wooden cutting board with a knife beside it

Country Pâté

7 hrs

A black and white decorative platter filled with Tuscan roast pork and scattered with bay leaves

Tuscan Roast Pork

3 hrs

A grey platter of Italian-style chicken braised in wine with a spoon resting on top

Italian-Style Braised Chicken in Wine

1 hr 30 mins

A white plate topped with a pile of lemony salmon pasta, sprinkled with chives.

Lemony Salmon Pasta

40 mins

A plate of churros with a cup of hot chocolate in the background

Churros

40 mins

A tall glass of frozen margarita with a salt rim and lime wheel beside a bowl of chips and guacamole.

Frozen Margarita

10 mins

A cast-iron skilled filled with choriqueso, a cheese dip topped with queso.

Choriqueso

10 mins

A china plate with three slices of beef braised in red wine and sprinkled with parsley, and three roasted potatoes

Red Wine Braised Beef

3 hrs 30 mins

A bowl filled with Sichuan tofu noodles and a pair of chopsticks resting beside

Mapo Tofu Ramen

45 mins

Sixteen Sriracha deviled egg halves and a teaspoon on a parchment-lined baking sheet.

Sriracha Deviled Eggs

1 hr

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