Honest Entertaining®

A cheater's version of homemade barbecue potato chips that will have you hooked for life. Taste 'em and get back to us.

Unlike painting your domicile, painting summer berries with simple syrup demands little precision and even less prep work.

The tempered sweetness of this spectacular strawberry ice cream relies on in-season strawberries rather than obscene amounts of sugar for flavor.

Blender drinks don't get much boozier than this rendition of that raid-the-liquor-cabinet classic. Umbrella optional.

Simple and stunning. That's what we expect outta any side that we pull off the grill. These artichokes deliver all that—and then some.

Stop your scoffing. This may not be conventional chili, but it's no sissy imposter. It's just a little subtler, soupier, and smokier.

Entertaining gets no simpler than this rich, creamy, indulgent, elegant cheese spread made from three ingredients. Tasting is believing. Go on.

You've not "made it" until you've an eponymous cocktail all your own. Witness the Fatty Daddy, a sweetly surprising number that packs a punch, just like our own dear David.

Boozy bananas are lavished with a cheater's caramel sauce made with butter, brandy, and brown sugar in this outrageously simple riff on a Southern classic. No flames required.

When you want just a taste of seduction and intrigue, rather than the full hangover, try this little number.

These subtly flavored, relatively healthful (shhhh!) sliders are the sleeper hit at The Meatball Shop. Not hard to understand why.

Savory little somethings with a surprise for those of you unfamiliar with the flamboyant flavors of Latin America.

Yup. We went there. To that homemade Cheez-It place. Go ahead. Admit it. You're awfully glad that we did.

Some things are so simple as to seem almost plain—until you taste them. Hollandaise is one such perfectly simple staple.

Dubbed Company's Comin' Coconut Cake, this beauty of a pound cake will have you dreaming up excuses to bake dessert. Even if for no other reason than you want it.

A little sugar, a splash of bitters, and a lotta booze—your grandma's go-to drink. (Oh wait, was that just our family?!)

A boozy, much-ballyhooed cocktail of absinthe, brandy, bitters, and sugar that you can mix a blissfully short stumble from your couch.

Created during Prohibition, this collision of Cognac, orange liqueur, and lemon isn't for the faint of heart—nor for the slight of tolerance.

Fancy schmancy mac and cheese canapés? Why not? Plop these lovelies on a silver platter alongside flutes of Champagne or tuck them into a lunch box.

Pecans. Chocolate. Bourbon. Dunno about you, but that's sufficient to make us forget all about that other traditional Thanksgiving dessert. Pumpkin who?