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Home | Recipes | Honest Entertaining® | Page 20

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.
Six tahini cookies on a piece of parchment with chopped pistachios on the cookies and on the parchment.

Tahini Cookies

45 mins

Honey-Dijon Vinaigrette

Honey Dijon Dressing

5 mins

A plate filled with spicy roasted cauliflower florets.

Spicy Roasted Cauliflower

1 hr

Four beef chili tacos and two lime halves in a basket, with bowls of pickled onions, slaw, and a beer on the side.

Beef Chili Tacos

2 hrs 45 mins

A skillet on a wooden board with a piece of salmon teriyaki in it and a metal spatula and two plates with salmon teriyaki and greens on the side.

Salmon Teriyaki

50 mins

Two plates topped with kimchi tacos with glasses of beer and a bowl of guacamole on the side.

Kimchi Tacos

1 d 30 mins

Several espresso chocolate chunk cookies in a paper container.

Espresso Chocolate Chunk Cookies

3 hrs 30 mins

Three blue bowls filled with ancho chile soup on a wooden table.

Ancho Chile Soup

1 hr 30 mins

King Ranch chicken in a large green casserole dish with a serving spoon and a portion missing. A plate, a dish towel and a bowl of spices next to it.

King Ranch Chicken

2 hrs

A pottery bowl of slow-cooker beef chili from Skinnytaste, topped with tortilla chips, cilantro, red onions, and cheese.

Slow Cooker Beef Chili from Skinnytaste

5 hrs 20 mins

A bowl of buffalo chicken wings with a bottle of beer, a shot glass of raw vegetables, and a cup of dip on the side.

Buffalo Chicken Wings

2 hrs 30 mins

Chili mac and cheese in close up, with breadcrumbs and melted cheese.

Chili Mac and Cheese

2 hrs 30 mins

A white oval casserole dish filled with duck confit legs.

Duck Confit

21 hrs

A wire basket lined with parchment and filled with sweet and spicy bacon with a glass of beer on the side.

Sweet and Spicy Bacon

45 mins

A serving of easy tiramisu on a white plate with a spoon resting on the side and a shot of espresso in the background.

Easy Tiramisu

4 hrs 30 mins

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

Paleo Vanilla Cake

1 hr

A pile of white chocolate curls

How to Make Chocolate Curls

5 mins

A spoon of golden-brown scalloped potatoes being scooped from a white casserole dish.

Scalloped Potatoes

1 hr 5 mins

A dish of macaroni au gratin on a white paper napkin on a white plate with a stack of plates beside it.

Macaroni Au Gratin

45 mins

A white platter filled with turnip and apples segments, topped with thyme sprigs.

Glazed Turnips and Apples

25 mins

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