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Home | Recipes | Honest Entertaining® | Page 15

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.
White plate with steamed mussels in beer, topped with parsley, nearby lemon wedges and a bottle of beer

Steamed Mussels in Beer

15 mins

Plate with an slice of apricot tart filled with frangipane and topped with chopped pistachios.

Apricot Tart with Frangipane

4 hrs

A slice of plum almond cake on a brown ceramic plate.

Plum Almond Cake

1 hr 30 mins

A cooked cherry tomato tart with a herbed crust on a red plate.

Cherry Tomato Tart

2 hrs 30 mins

A frosty metal pan full of dark chocolate ice cream on a counter covered with sprinkles.

Dark Chocolate Ice Cream

5 hrs

A pan with two handles filled with a Southern peach cobbler on a baking sheet

Southern Peach Cobbler

50 mins

An ice cream scoop with a scoop of easy fruit sorbet resting on top of a container of sorbet.

Easy Fruit Sorbet

3 hrs

Glass bowl filled with garlic shrimp, sautéed with oil, butter, chiles pepper, and garlic.

Garlic Shrimp

20 mins

Three salmon filets on an oval platter in a soy caramel sauce, topped with cilantro and scallions.

Pressure Cooker Vietnamese Caramel Salmon

15 mins

Cucumber Gimlet

15 mins

A black bowl filled with green beans, peas, and butter lettuce.

Green Bean and Pea Salad with Buttermilk Ranch Dressing

35 mins

Tall glass of tinto de verano, a read wine with Sprite, and ice cubes.

Tinto de Verano

5 mins

A wooden bowl filled with golf-ball-size fried potato and chouriço balls on a wooden tray.

Chouriço and Potato Balls

1 hr 30 mins

A raspberry crostata--a rustic tart with the crust folded over a filling of raspberries--on a sheet of parchment.

Raspberry Crostata

1 hr 50 mins

A rectangular baking dish with a block of cooked feta in the center, surrounded by halved figs and tarragon leaves.

Baked Feta and Figs

25 mins

Four bottles of infused water prepared using the instructions on how to infuse water.

How to Infuse Water

8 hrs 5 mins

Big glass bowl of layers of vanilla wafer banana pudding topped with sliced bananas, Nilla wafers, and whipped cream

Vanilla Wafer Banana Pudding

30 mins

Ramekin with a parmesan souffle on a white plate, spoon, white tablecloth

Parmesan Soufflés

1 hr

A fruit-filled Puff Pastry Turnover with a corner bitten off and a spoon resting above the pastry.

Puff Pastry Turnovers

40 mins

Three glasses of ultimate margarita with lime wedges.

Ultimate Margarita

10 mins

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