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Home | Recipes | Honest Entertaining® | Page 16

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.
3 Strozzapreti with butter sauce on a white plate with grated cheese on top.

Strozzapreti

3 hrs

Two glasses of rhubarb sour with lemon slices floating in them

Rhubarb Sour

30 mins

A cheese crusted grilled cheese sandwich in a skillet.

Cheese-Crusted Grilled Cheese

15 mins

Spicy beef taco bake with ground beef, beans tortilla chips, chopped onions, and lettuce in a white bowl.

Spicy Beef Taco Bake

2 hrs

Spring salad with shallot vinaigrette with sliced radishes, avocados, and chives on three plates.

Spring Salad with Shallot Vinaigrette

20 mins

Candied Kumquats

Candied Kumquats

50 mins

Four fillets of maple glazed salmon of a white square platter

Maple Glazed Salmon

9 hrs 15 mins

Person with a spoon digging into a glass jar of coddle eggs with potato puree underneath, slice of bread nearby

Coddled Eggs with Potato Puree

50 mins

Glass of spinach almond pesto with a spoon inside on a metal sheet strewn with almonds

Spinach Almond Pesto

10 mins

Medium-rare sliced standing rib roast on a cutting board

How To Make Standing Rib Roast

3 hrs 15 mins

Slow Cooker Shredded Pork

Slow Cooker Shredded Pork

12 hrs

Three bowls of fennel potato soup, one with a soup spoon, beside a small bowl of salt.

Fennel and Potato Soup

50 mins

Pieces of browned chicken topped with garlic and rosemary leaves on a white oval platter.

Roman Chicken Cacciatore (No Tomatoes)

1 hr 30 mins

Martini glass filled with yellow Bee's Knees cocktail--honey, gin, and lemon--with a lemon twist, a shaker on the side

Bee’s Knees Cocktail

25 mins

A white plate topped with endive, blue cheese, pears, and walnuts

Endive, Blue Cheese, and Pear Salad

20 mins

A bowl filled with mango chutney, with visible pieces of cinnamon and star anise

Mango Chutney

1 hr 20 mins

Two bowls filled with tortellini, peas, and spinach.

Easy Tortellini Soup

15 mins

A lemon pound cake resting on a round wire rack, drizzled with a white icing glaze

Lemon Pound Cake

1 hr 20 mins

A paleo vanilla cake stacked between two chocolate cakes on a wire rack.

Paleo Chocolate Cake

1 hr

Bowl of stir-fried clams with chopped shallots, garlic, ginger, and chili flakes on bamboo

Stir-Fried Clams

25 mins

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