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Home | Recipes | Honest Entertaining® | Page 13

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.
Several opened mussels on a baking sheet, some filled with stuffing and a bowl of extra stuffing on the side.

Stuffed Broiled Mussels

40 mins

12 schnecken, pecan cinnamon buns, covered with pecan-caramel topping, and chopped pecans on a wire rack

Schnecken ~ Pecan Cinnamon Buns

4 hrs

A loaf of kulich topped with glaze and sprinkles on a round trivet

Kulich

7 hrs 55 mins

A rimmed baking sheet with 9 uncooked spinach and ricotta gnudi

Spinach and Ricotta Gnudi

1 hr 15 mins

A woman spooning a portion of slow cooker Indian butter chicken and rice into a white bowl

Slow Cooker Indian Butter Chicken

5 hrs 25 mins

Homemade hummus sprinkled with paprika and drizzled with oil swirled on a grey plate.

Homemade Hummus

1 hr

Two bowls filled with chicken biriyani on a blue cloth

Chicken Biriyani

10 hrs 50 mins

A white plate with striped edges filled with potatoes and lamb meatballs with tahini

Lamb Meatballs with Tahini ~ Kefte

1 hr 40 mins

Catalan lamb skewers on sliced cucumbers topped with a romesco sauce

Catalan Lamb Skewers

4 hrs 40 mins

Two loaves of no-knead artisan bread, one with two slices cut from it and a dish of butter nearby.

No Knead Artisan Bread

5 hrs

A tray of oysters Rockefeller with bacon--baked oysters topped with bread crumbs, bacon, and butter.

Oysters Rockefeller with Bacon

45 mins

Cutting board and knife with a salt and pepper rib eye steak

Salt and Pepper Rib Eye Steak

1 hr 50 mins

A person holding a platter of fried pork dumplings and bowl of dipping sauce.

Fried Pork Dumplings

1 hr 40 mins

Two seared duck breasts, one sliced, the other whole on a wood cutting board

Seared Duck Breast

1 hr 40 mins

A white serving platter filled with Portuguese rice pudding and topped with toasted pistachios and cinnamon.

Portuguese Rice Pudding ~ Arroz Doce

1 hr

Gray speckled bowl of beet salad with feta and pumpkin seeds, along with spinach and sliced red onions.

Beet Salad with Feta and Pumpkin Seeds

3 hrs 15 mins

A round vegetable galette, with one slice cut out of it.

Vegetable Galette

2 hrs

A bowl of roasted curried cauliflower mixed with onions and topped with cilantro.

Roasted Curried Cauliflower

1 hr

A rimmed sheet pan filled with truffles coated in confectioners' sugar.

Champagne Truffles

8 hrs 15 mins

Ten Stilton and walnut crackers arranged in rows on a sheet of parchment.

Stilton and Walnut Crackers

1 hr 10 mins

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