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Home | Recipes | Honest Entertaining® | Page 24

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 round white plate with six slices of eggnog pie and a dish of whipped cream.

Eggnog Pie

1 hr 15 mins

Easy Chocolate Fudge

Easy Chocolate Fudge

4 hrs 15 mins

Tray of classic dinner rolls glazed with butter, bowl of melted butter with a brush

Classic Dinner Rolls

1 hr 45 mins

A pumpkin meringue pie in an orange stoneware pie plate, sitting on a cooling rack with a pie server.

Pumpkin Meringue Pie

3 hrs 15 mins

Bow Tie Cheese Straws on parchment angled up and to the right.

Bow Tie Cheese Straws

1 hr 20 mins

Four wine poached pears in a shallow white baking dish.

Wine Poached Pears

4 hrs 25 mins

An oval casserole dish filled with wild mushroom stuffing.

Wild Mushroom Stuffing

1 hr 30 mins

Several paleo pie crusts made from nuts, dried fruit, and vanilla.

Vegan, Gluten-Free, and Paleo Pie Crust

10 mins

Chai-spiced whipped Cream on top of a cupcake.

Chai Spiced Whipped Cream

5 mins

A four-layer German chocolate cake with a slice taken out on a white plate with a cake server nearby.

German Chocolate Cake

4 hrs 45 mins

People gathered around a cast-iron skillet on a wooden board with some spaghetti and red sauce.

Sugo di Pomodoro ~ Authentic Italian Tomato Sauce

45 mins

A slab of dulce de leche brownies, with five brownies cut from the end.

Dulce de Leche Brownies

2 hrs 45 mins

Three glasses of classic mojito, with two lime wedges and a jar of sugar beside them.

Classic Mojito

5 mins

A cake with a slice removed covered with white frosting on a striped plate.

Summer Squash and Banana Cake

4 hrs

A container of green avocado sorbet ona slate surface.

Avocado Sorbet

15 mins

Two glasses filled with Mexican blood Mary, some lime wedges, a mostly empty bottle of Corona, and a bottle of Tabasco on its side.

Mexican Bloody Mary

5 mins

Pasta alla Norma on a white oval serving plate with a spoon resting on the side.

Pasta alla Norma

55 mins

A coconut panna cotta topped with peanut brittle crunch on a white plate.

Coconut Panna Cotta

4 hrs 35 mins

An oval dish filled with roasted plums, topped with star anise.

Roasted Plums

25 mins

A batch of raspberry Linzer bars cut into nine squares, with one square missing and a knife in the background.

Linzer Bars

1 hr 30 mins

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