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Home | Recipes | Honest Entertaining® | Page 21

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.
Three chicken cutlets wrapped in prosciutto and covered in cheese in a skillet.

Chicken Saltimbocca

30 mins

Nine potato latkes with apple-date chutney and cinnamon sour cream on a wooden cutting board.

Potato Latkes with Apple-Date Chutney

1 hr 30 mins

An oval baking dish filled with a slow roasted lamb shoulder, surrounded by orange wedges and cinnamon sticks.

Slow Roasted Lamb

11 hrs

Pine nut brittle broken into irregular pieces on a large brown tray.

Pine Nut Brittle

1 hr 30 mins

Two hot turkey sandwiches, sliced in half on a tray with pieces of cranberry, avocado, and stuffing lying beside them.

Hot Turkey Sandwich

20 mins

A whole coconut carrot cake, covered in toasted coconut on a glass cake stand, covered with a glass dome.

Coconut Carrot Cake

3 hrs

Four smoked turkey legs on a wire rack on a wooden table.

Smoked Turkey Legs

1 d 4 hrs

A cooked cranberry apple crostata on a piece of parchment.

Cranberry Apple Crostata

1 hr 45 mins

Five hand pies on a parchment-lined baking sheet with a spatula lifting one off.

Hand Pies

1 hr 15 mins

A bottle half-filled with vanilla syrup and a couple vanilla beans inside. A cork rests beside the bottle.

Vanilla Syrup

40 mins

A whole simple roast chicken in a skillet, surrounded by grapes.

Simple Roast Chicken

1 hr 30 mins

A Northern Spy apple pie in a pie plate with one slice missing, with that piece on a plate in the background.

Northern Spy Apple Pie

6 hrs 20 mins

A tall aperitif glass filled with hanky panky cocktail and an orange twist on the rim of the glass.

Hanky Panky Cocktail

5 mins

Three orange madeleines in a medeline tin.

Orange Madeleines

2 hrs

Six iced tea popsicles on a silver platter.

Iced Tea Popsicles

1 d

A baked plum crumble pie with a serving cut from it and a knife on the table beside it.

Plum Crumble Pie

2 hrs 30 mins

A frozen tub of plum sorbet, with a scoop of sorbet and some sugar cookies lying beside it.

Plum Sorbet

5 hrs

A glass bowl filled with a poached nectarine half and raspberries with a spoon on the side.

Poached Nectarines

1 hr

A person holding an ice cream cone with 2 scoops of blackberry ice cream.

Blackberry Ice Cream

10 hrs

A sliced Texas brisket on a wooden board with a knife lying beside it.

Texas Brisket

18 hrs 30 mins

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