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Home | Recipes | Honest Entertaining® | Page 19

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 glass gobelet filled with an Adonis cocktail and an orange twist garnish, in front of a painted background.

Adonis Cocktail

5 mins

Bibimbap in an enamel bowl with sections of sprouts, noodles, spinach, carrots, meat, cucumber.

Bibimbap

1 hr

A bowl of creamy crab soup drizzled with cream, and sprinkled with pepper, with a crab leg sticking out of it.

Creamy Crab Soup

3 hrs 30 mins

A blue background with a white bowl filled with sliced peaches, tomatoes, red onions, basil, and chunks of bread.

Tomato and Peach Panzanella

1 hr

A black platter with several grilled chicken tacos with fruit salsa, a few cherry tomatoes, and a wooden board with cut chicken, halved plums, and queso fresco.

Grilled Chicken Tacos with Fruit Salsa

6 hrs

Three Champagne cocktails with a Champagne cork an a plate of sugar cubes beside the drinks.

Champagne Cocktail

5 mins

A rum cake in a grey bowl.

Rum Cake

1 hr 30 mins

Braised chicken with olives and orange in a cast-iron skillet on a wooden table.

Braised Chicken with Olives and Orange

1 hr 30 mins

A hexagonal rhubarb pie with a lattice top crust on a pink linen cloth with a pie server resting beside the pie.

Rhubarb Pie

1 hr 55 mins

A glass bowl filled with Sriracha mayonnaise and a typed label underneath.

Sriracha Mayonnaise

5 mins

An oval dish filled with Baharat spiced chicken pieces and a bowl of couscous and plate of couscous and chicken on the side.

Baharat Roast Chicken

2 hrs 10 mins

The makings of beef fajitas on a wooden board - tortillas, steak, guacamole, salsa.

Beef Fajitas

4 hrs

A pile of barbecue pickles next to some barbecued meat and a fork.

Barbecue Pickles

10 mins

A person squeezing North Carolina barbecue sauce from a plastic bottle onto a sandwich.

North Carolina Vinegar Barbecue Sauce

1 hr 15 mins

A whole smoked pork shoulder.

Smoked Pork Shoulder

22 hrs 15 mins

A plate and a bowl of asparagus risotto with a fork resting beside the bowl.

Asparagus Risotto

40 mins

Two ancho fish tacos in a metal dish with lime wedges and chipotle mayo on the side.

Ancho Fish Tacos

40 mins

Four fillets of baked fish with almonds, lemon, and bread crumbs on a rimmed baking sheet.

Baked Fish with Lemon Bread Crumbs

30 mins

A white bowl filled with stir-fried lettuce, topped with sesame seeds on a white wooden surface.

Stir-Fried Lettuce

15 mins

A bowl filled with zucchini risotto and a spoon resting inside.

Zucchini Risotto

2 hrs 15 mins

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