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Home | Recipes | Honest Entertaining® | Page 25

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 patterned plate topped with a Moroccan salad made with sliced oranges and tomatoes, black olives, and sliced red onion.

Moroccan Salad

15 mins

A cooked apricot galette on a piece of parchment paper with a metal spatula beside it.

Apricot Galette

2 hrs

Eight homemade Milano cookies in a metal loaf tin.

Homemade Milano Cookies

4 hrs

A spoon resting in a dish of cornmeal drop-biscuit peach cobbler.

Old-Fashioned Peach Cobbler

1 hr 45 mins

Homemade potato chips on a crumpled piece of parchment paper and a bowl of sour cream.

Homemade Potato Chips with Pecorino

30 mins

A punch bowl and several glasses filled with strawberry sangria, whole strawberries, and orange wheels.

Strawberry Sangria

5 hrs 30 mins

A pitcher and two glasses of blue margarita on a grey woven placemat.

Blue Margarita

10 mins

A piece of Jim Lahey's no-knead bread with three pieces of butter and a sprinkling of salt on top.

Jim Lahey’s No-Knead Bread

15 hrs 30 mins

A tray of brownies for a crowd with one brownie missing.

Brownies for a Crowd

1 hr

A tumbler half-filled with homemade Irish cream and an ice cube, and a bottle of cream in the background.

Homemade Irish Cream

1 hr 25 mins

A person holding a plate with a slice of basic chocolate cake on it.

Basic Chocolate Cake

50 mins

Several palmiers on a wire rack.

Palmiers

50 mins

Chocolate Whipped Cream

Chocolate Whipped Cream

1 d 35 mins

A whole espresso cheesecake on a silver tray with two slices cut from it.

Espresso Cheesecake

1 hr 30 mins

A plate with two shucked oysters on ice, with microgreens, a lemon wedge, and a small dish of mignonette sauce on the side.

Raw Oysters with Mignonette Sauce

5 mins

Two Champagne flutes filled with Campari fizz.

Campari Fizz

5 mins

A two-tiered platter with rum balls on each tier.

Rum Balls

1 hr

A whole gingerbread cheesecake on a white platter with a slice missing from it.

Gingerbread Cheesecake

3 hrs

Three stuffed portobello mushrooms

Stuffed Mushrooms

30 mins

Bacon peanut brittle in shards, in a mug lined with parchment paper.

Bacon Peanut Brittle

1 hr 5 mins

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