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Home | Recipes | Honest Entertaining® | Page 14

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 small reck crock of easy chicken liver pate, nearby a baguette and and a hunk of bread smeared with pate

Easy Chicken Liver Pâté

30 mins

A cooked medium-rare salt-crusted beef tenderloin sitting in a pan of salt

Salt-Crusted Beef Tenderloin

1 hr 30 mins

Four plates of rum pecan pie in a flaky crust, topped with whole pecans and vanilla ice cream.

Rum Pecan Pie

1 hr 30 mins

TTwo eggnogs in glasses with a gingerbread star on the lip and a rim of cinnamon.

Easy Eggnog

5 mins

Ten whole, plus one broken butter cookies on a piece of crumpled parchment paper.

French Butter Cookies

2 hrs 30 mins

A chicken, sweet potato, and bacon casserole in an oval dish, topped with melted cheese.

Chicken, Sweet Potato, and Bacon Casserole

1 hr 20 mins

A person whisking gravy with a large metal balloon whisk in a metal roasting pan.

Classic Turkey Gravy

20 mins

A whole roast chicken on a platter with a bowl of roasted root vegetables nearby.

French Roast Chicken ~ Poulet Rôti

1 hr 50 mins

A ceramic oval dish of baked spinach mornay with cream sauce, sliced onion, and browned top.

Baked Spinach Mornay

1 hr

A chipped pot filled with apple pie moonshine, apple wedges and whole spices with a tray of glasses filled with the moonshine beside it.

Apple Pie Moonshine

10 hrs 30 mins

A black platter with golden brown herb butter chicken, roasted onion, a lemon wedge, and sprigs of thyme and oregano by Dorie Greenspan

Roast Chicken with Herb Butter

2 hrs

A bowl of apple cider steamed mussels topped with parsley, fries on the side

Apple Cider Steamed Mussels

50 mins

Shrimp Risotto

Shrimp Risotto

1 hr 45 mins

A white plate with cavatelli past topped with a roasted tomato sauce, fork on the side

Roasted Tomato Sauce and Pasta

35 mins

A white bowl filled with peach, burrata, and basil salad.

Peach, Burrata, and Basil Salad

15 mins

Far Breton French Custard Cake on cake stand with a cup of tea.

Far Breton ~ French Custard Cake

1 hr

Two blue glass plates with scoops of Turkish coffee ice cream, and a spoon

Turkish Coffee Ice Cream

3 hrs 30 mins

A bowl filled with Southern potato salad with a wooden spoon ad a scoop of salad on the side.

Southern Potato Salad with Duke’s Mayo

30 mins

Vegan chocolate cupcakes, half frosted with vegan chocolate frosting, on a wire rack beside a bowl of frosting.

Vegan Chocolate Cupcakes

4 hrs

Three scoops of watermelon sorbet in a white serving dish.

Watermelon Sorbet

20 mins

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