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Home | Recipes | Honest Entertaining® | Page 2

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 scoop of creamy baked mac and cheese with crunchy topping being lifted from a casserole dish.

Creamy Baked Mac and Cheese

1 hr 30 mins

A white gratin dish filled with a creamy zucchini gratin, topped with goat cheese, on a plate with a fork on the side.

Zucchini Gratin with Fresh Herbs and Goat Cheese

1 hr 15 mins

Four pieces of pan seared salmon in a sweet tahini sauce, topped with pomegranate and pine nuts.

Pan Seared Salmon with Sweet Tahini Sauce

50 mins

Pieces of chicken Marbella in a white serving dish with prunes, olives, and capers, garnished with fresh thyme and a serving spoon on the side.

Modern Chicken Marbella

9 hrs 30 mins

A rectangular fresh cherry tart with cream cheese filling on a white surface with a knife and a small bowl of jam on the side.

Fresh Cherry Tart with Cream Cheese Filling

1 hr 10 mins

A Bundt banana bread on a white serving platter and individual slices on two plates.

Banana Bread with Pudding Mix

1 hr 30 mins

A loaf of braided cinnamon bread drizzled with vanilla glaze resting on a wire rack.

Braided Cinnamon Bread

3 hrs

A white oval platter topped with sherry-braised chicken with artichoke hearts

Sherry-Braised Chicken with Artichoke Hearts

1 hr 30 mins

A Kentucky butter cake on a white plate with a slice cut from it on a plate in the background

Kentucky Butter Cake

1 hr 45 mins

An oval platter containing sliced pork with chanterelles and apricot jam sauce

Pork with Chanterelles and Apricot Jam

55 mins

A raspberry almond crumble cake, with a slice on its side on a circle of parchment paper

Raspberry Almond Crumble Cake

1 hr 20 mins

a white casserole dish of roasted fennel with rye crumble

Roasted Fennel with Rye Crumble

1 hr 5 mins

A plate of porcini beef ragu

Porcini Beef Ragu

1 hr

Three plates, each with an easy cinnamon knot on it

Easy Cinnamon Knots

2 hrs 15 mins

A white platter with beef Bourguignon, filled with beef, carrots, and mushrooms

Jamie Oliver’s Beef Bourguignon

1 d 5 hrs 45 mins

A plate with a leg and though of Mediterranean chicken with fennel and green olives sitting on a bed of mashed potatoes.

Mediterranean Chicken with Fennel and Green Olives

1 hr 25 mins

A coupe glass filled with a revolver cocktail, garnished with orange peel.

The Revolver Cocktail

5 mins

A wooden cutting board with two pulled pork sandwiches in crusty buns and topped with coleslaw, with a bottle and glass of beer in the background.

Pulled Pork Sandwiches

13 hrs 30 mins

Three sweet and spicy tacos on a white plate with wedges of lime alongside.

Sweet and Spicy Tacos

30 mins

Sliced skirt steak on a wooden board with tortillas, lime wedges, cilantro, jalapeno, and pickled red onion.

Grilled Skirt Steak Tacos

2 hrs 30 mins

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