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Home | Recipes | Honest Entertaining® | Page 17

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 spice-rubbed whole Instant Pot rotisserie-style chicken on a sheet of parchment paper on a wooden board.

Instant Pot Rotisserie-Style Chicken

1 hr

Five small tarts filled with orange curd and topped with candied orange slices on a cooling rack.

Orange Curd Tartlets

5 hrs 30 mins

Salted caramel ice cream in a loaf pan on a pattern baking sheet with a scoop and scooper on top.

Salted Caramel Ice Cream

17 hrs 30 mins

A green plate containing sweet potato puree, topped with 2 pieces of short rib. A Dutch oven is beside the bowl with more short ribs.

Maple Bourbon Braised Short Ribs

3 hrs 30 mins

A pile of charred greens--kale and spinach--on a white plate.

Skillet Charred Greens

30 mins

A bowl filled with Chinese chicken salad--greens, chicken, cilantro, and mandarin orange segments with chopsticks on the side

Chinese Chicken Salad

1 hr

A large bowl filled with fried arancini balls and a small bowl of red pepper sauce on the side

Paella Arancini

2 hrs 20 mins

A plate with a large piece of seared foie gras topped with watercress and apple puree on the side.

Pan-Seared Foie Gras

45 mins

a roll of butter flecked with minced parsley

Parsley Butter

5 mins

A layer of assorted nuts and rosemary sprigs on a sheet of parchment paper resting in a sheet pan

Candied Spiced Nuts

1 hr

A casserole dish with four halves of roasted winter squash filled with cheese-topped stuffing

Stuffed Winter Squash

1 hr 30 mins

Three crockery bowls filled with cooked shrimp with smoked paprika oil

Shrimp with Smoked Paprika

15 mins

A chocolate glazed chocolate bundt cake sitting atop a white cake stand with a dish of glaze on the side

Chocolate Sour Cream Bundt Cake

1 hr 30 mins

An elaborately decorated gingerbread house

How To Make A Gingerbread House

4 hrs

A pile of brown butter financiers baked in mini muffin molds.

Brown Butter Financiers

45 mins

Five round pistachio shortbread cookies with a few broken pistachios on the side.

Pistachio Shortbread Cookies

45 mins

A slice of pumpkin pecan pie on a plate with the remainder of the pie in the background.

Pumpkin Pecan Pie

1 hr 45 mins

A green dish filled with potato and celery root gratin and topped with toasted breadcrumbs.

Celery Root Gratin

1 hr 25 mins

A pile of grilled half-moon slices of butternut squash.

Grilled Butternut Squash

40 mins

A bowls of green beans gremolata with a small dish of gremolata on the side.

Green Beans Gremolata

15 mins

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