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Home | Recipes | Honest Entertaining® | Page 27

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 parchment lined baking sheet filled with rows of round peanut butter cookies with chocolate centers.

Peanut Butter Blossom Cookies

40 mins

Several glasses partially filled with limoncello on a silver platter, with a bottle of limoncello in the background.

Limoncello ~ Lemon Liqueur

22 d

A tall glass mug filled with Irish coffee with whipped cream on top and a tumbler or whiskey in the background.

Irish Coffee

10 mins

A scalloped round sugar cookie with a heart-shaped windowpane cutout hanging from a tree branch.

Windowpane Cookies

40 mins

Two tall glasses of cranberry margaritas rimmed and sugar with sugared-cranberry garnish.

Cranberry Margarita

45 mins

One French sable cookies on a white background

French Sablé Cookies

3 hrs 30 mins

A wooden bowl filled with mashed potatoes and topped with a melted square of butter.

Make-Ahead Mashed Potatoes

45 mins

A rectangular tart with wedges of pear baked into it in a rectangular tart pan.

Pear Almond Tart

2 hrs

A pork loin roast, tied and seasoned with salt and pepper, on a foil-lined sheet pan with a wire rack.

Pork Loin Roast

1 hr 35 mins

A baked hot buttered rum apple pie on a wooden board.

Hot Buttered Rum Apple Pie

4 hrs 25 mins

All the fixings for a New England clambake - lobster, clams, potatoes, corn, lemon - scattered on a white surface.

New England Clambake

30 mins

A rack of slow cooker ribs on a cutting board with four single ribs cut off.

Slow Cooker Ribs

6 hrs 45 mins

A sliced jerk chicken breast on a round cutting board, with a man's hand holding a cleaver above it

Jerk Chicken

2 hrs 25 mins

A carved wooden bowl filled with barbecue potato chips.

Barbecue Potato Chips

20 mins

Various berries and fruit dipped in sugar on a sheet of parchment.

Sugar-Dipped Fruit

10 mins

A little girl scooping strawberry ice cream into bowls.

Strawberry Ice Cream

4 hrs

A wine glass filled with frozen Long Island iced tea, garnished with an orange slice on an umbrella.

Frozen Long Island Iced Tea

10 mins

Three grilled artichoke halves, some lemon wedges, and dip on a wooden peel

Grilled Artichokes

1 hr 40 mins

A yellow Dutch oven filled with white bean and chicken chili, topped with pieces of bacon.

White Chicken Chili with Beans and Bacon

1 hr

A parchment lined deep baking pan filled with baked ricotta.

Baked Ricotta

35 mins

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