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Home | Recipes | Honest Entertaining® | Page 23

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 fancy Bundt Kentucky bourbon cake on a silver platter.

Kentucky Bourbon Cake

1 hr 5 mins

A white bowl filled with chili, with shredded cheese on top, and a spoon and two pieces of cornbread on the side.

Easy Chili

1 hr 30 mins

A whole baked rhubarb-ginger crostata on a piece of parchment paper.

Rhubarb-Ginger Crostata

50 mins

A partially carved mustard-glazed ham, cross-hatched and studded with cloves on a wooden cutting board.

Mustard-Glazed Ham

3 hrs

A flor de jerez cocktail in a coupe glass.

Flor de Jerez

5 mins

Three plates, each with a crème caramel on them with spoons resting on the side.

Crème Caramel

1 hr

A jar full of pickled red onions sitting on a counter

Quick Pickled Red Onions

4 hrs 10 mins

Several lemon madeleines next to a madeleine pan and a bowl of lemon glaze nearby.

Lemon Madeleines

3 hrs 30 mins

A tangle of fettuccine with scallops finished with lemon zest and chervil on a brown plate.

Fettuccine with Scallops

30 mins

Lotus Root Chips

Lotus Root Chips

25 mins

A whole spicy roast chicken on a rack set inside a baking dish with a brush lying beside the chicken.

Spicy Roast Chicken

1 hr 10 mins

An overflowing bowl of beer nuts on a wooden board with a glass of beer on a napkin beside it.

Beer Nuts

25 mins

A stack of chicharron chocolate chip cookies on a blue plate on a wire rack with a couple more cookies on the rack.

Chicharrón Chocolate Chip Cookies

2 hrs 30 mins

A cast iron pot filled with braised short rib chili with a bowl of diced onion on the side and a handful of cilantro.

Short Rib Chili

4 hrs 30 mins

A serving of roasted banana ice cream in a scalloped bowl with a spoon on the side.

Roasted Banana Ice Cream

2 hrs 30 mins

Two glasses half-filled with Kentucky coffee and an open bottle of bourbon between them.

Kentucky Coffee

10 mins

A cup of tea with milk in it on a brown background.

Spiced Milk Tea

10 mins

Molasses Spice Cake with a third cut out, on a metal plate with a knife next to it.

Molasses Spice Cake

1 hr 50 mins

A decorative white plate filled with irregular pieces of candy cane bark.

Candy Cane Bark

1 hr 30 mins

Roasted tzimmes on a large sheet pan.

Roasted Tzimmes

1 hr

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