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Home | Recipes | Honest Entertaining® | Page 26

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 layer of toasted, spiced pumpkin seeds.

Spiced Pumpkin Seeds

45 mins

A shallow white dish filled with coffee creme brulee, with a spoon resting inside.

Coffee Crème Brûlée

2 hrs

Spiced cider with a cinnamon stick and orange zest, in a stemless wine glass.

Spiced Cider

20 mins

Four phyllo crisps lined up on a plate

Phyllo Crisps

1 hr

A black skillet with figs in Port wine and a spoon on the side.

Figs in Port

15 mins

An apricot tart with high sides and a crumble topping, sitting on a metal cookie sheet.

Apricot Tart

2 hrs 30 mins

Four pieces of salmon banh mi wrapped in paper in a box.

Salmon Banh Mi

2 hrs

Three glasses filled with rosé sangria, lime wheels, nectarine wedges, watermelon cubes, and raspberries.

Rosé Sangria

4 hrs 15 mins

Two pork tacos filled with shredded pork, radishes, jalapenos, salsa, and sour cream on a plate.

Pork Tacos

9 hrs

Three glasses of sweet tea cocktail on a wooden table.

Sweet Tea Cocktail

5 mins

A whole sweet cherry pie with a lattice crust on a baking sheet on a wood table.

Sweet Cherry Pie

3 hrs

A cardboard bowl filled with easy potato salad an a plastic fork resting on top.

Easy Potato Salad

2 hrs 20 mins

A skillet filled with pan seared scallops cooked in butter

Pan Seared Scallops on the Stove

15 mins

A blue enamel roast pan with a maple roast chicken, trussed and stuffed with lemon halves, sitting on a bed of fingerling potatoes. Glasses of red wine and salt and pepper in the background.

Maple Roast Chicken

1 hr 40 mins

A white baking dish filled with easy rhubarb crisp and a spoon resting in the center.

Easy Rhubarb Crisp

45 mins

A cedar plank with 3 eggs Florentine, one with spinach, one with tomato, one with ham.

Eggs Florentine

30 mins

A cheeseburger sitting on a countertop, with a sesame bun, melted cheese, a beef patty, lettuce, bacon, and pickled zucchini.

Bacon Manchego Cheese Burger

30 mins

A white porcelain bowl filled with cassoulet and a fork rests on the side.

Slow Cooker Cassoulet

10 hrs 45 mins

Blood orange and prosecco cocktail, in a coupe glass, on a small tray.

Blood Orange and Prosecco Cocktail

15 mins

Korean chicken wings piled around a white container of dipping sauce.

Korean Chicken Wings

1 hr

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