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Home | Recipes | Honest Entertaining® | Page 22

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 dark chocolate cream pie partially covered with whipped cream and a knife and a bowl of whipped cream on the side.

Dark Chocolate Cream Pie

2 hrs 30 mins

A metal serving tray with two apricot daiquiris with stir sticks, a juiced lemon, and a pot with poached apricots.

Apricot Daiquiri

2 hrs 30 mins

A sliced grilled hanger steak with raita in a bowl next to it on a wooden cutting board.

Grilled Hanger Steak with Raita

5 hrs 45 mins

A plum kuchen on a sheet of parchment with three slices cut from it and a collection of forks, a spoon, and two coffee cups nearby.

Plum Kuchen

4 hrs 30 mins

A large wooden cutting board with 3 tacos on it, each filled with grilled fish and peach salsa. A jar of salsa and a spoon are next to them.

Peach Salsa

50 mins

A hand squeezing lemon over a platter of crispy fried whole belly clams and French fries, with bowls of tartar sauce and ketchup.

Fried Clams (Whole Belly, Clam Shack Style)

25 mins

A bowl filled with seven-layer dip with a spoon resting inside and a plate with tortilla chips, dip, and a lime wedge on the side.

Seven Layer Dip

1 hr

Four carrot hot dogs filled with assorted garnishes.

Carrot Hot Dog

3 hrs 30 mins

A saucepan filled with lettuce soup on a wooden table, with a dish cloth and a pile of toasted croutons beside it.

Lettuce Soup

45 mins

Four salmon summer rolls on a metal sheet with a piece of scallion and a bowl of dipping sauce.

Salmon Summer Rolls

1 hr

A sheet of parchment paper topped with chocolate truffles and a sifter of cocoa powder on the side.

Spiced Chocolate Truffles

2 hrs 30 mins

A bowl of South Carolina slaw on a wooden table with a fork and knife on the side.

South Carolina Slaw

15 mins

A bluebarb pie with one slice missing and two forks resting beside the pie.

Bluebarb Pie

3 hrs

A cardboard food container filled with barbecue beans surrounded by ribs, pickles, and shredded meat.

Barbecue Beans

7 hrs 15 mins

Rhubarb vodka splashing over ice beside a glass pitcher and cocktail tools.

Rhubarb Vodka

28 d 15 mins

A metal baking pan of gluten free brownies with one piece missing

Gluten-Free Brownies

45 mins

Endive Roquefort salad in a blue speckled bowl, garnished with walnuts.

Endive Roquefort Salad

20 mins

A sliced piece of braised brisket with red wine and honey laying on a cutting board with a large knife and covered with braised onions.

Braised Brisket with Red Wine and Honey

5 hrs

A round flourless almond cake on a wooden baking paddle with almonds scattered around it

Flourless Almond Cake

1 hr

Two slices of brownie pie on plates.

Brownie Pie

4 hrs

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