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Home | Recipes | Honest Entertaining® | Page 28

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 deep baking pan filled with baked ricotta.

Baked Ricotta

35 mins

A woman holding a silver tray with a coupe glass in it with a red bourbon drink.

Fatty Daddy Cocktail

45 mins

A white plate of pan-fried bananas with brandy that have been drizzle with coconut cream with a fork resting on either side.

Pan-Fried Bananas with Brandy

25 mins

Cosmopolitan shot in a small glass.

Cosmo Shot

5 mins

Two ground chicken meatballs on slider buns with a toothpick skewered through them.

Ground Chicken Meatballs

45 mins

Eight beef empanadas on a rectangular platter with a bowl of relish on the side.

Beef Empanadas

1 hr 50 mins

A pile of cheese crackers on an old metal grater.

Cheese Crackers

25 mins

A dish of classic Hollandaise sauce on a white plate with a whisk resting on the dish.

Classic Hollandaise Sauce

20 mins

A Brown Betty Bakery coconut cake on a decorative white cake stand.

Brown Betty Bakery Coconut Cake

1 hr 20 mins

A highball glass filled with classic old-fashioned cocktail and large ice cubes.

Classic Old-Fashioned Cocktail

5 mins

A Sazerac cocktail garnished with a twist, sitting on a bar beside a spoon and a bottle of rye whiskey.

Sazerac Cocktail

5 mins

A sidecar cocktail, ice cubes and a dried cherry garnish, in a highball glass with a sugared rim.

Sidecar Cocktail

10 mins

A grey plate half-filled with mac and cheese canapes, with a few resting beside the plate

Mac and Cheese Canapés

40 mins

A chocolate pecan pie in a ceramic pie plate with one slice missing on a linen napkin.

Chocolate Pecan Pie

55 mins

Sage brown butter with a crispy sage leaf in a small glass.

Sage Brown Butter

5 mins

A maple pecan pie in a metal pie plate with one slice missing and forks, plates, and a bottle of rye whiskey beside the pie.

Maple Pecan Pie

2 hrs 30 mins

A slice of sweet potato pie on a large metal plate with a napkin and a knife.

Southern Sweet Potato Pie

2 hrs 30 mins

Two bowls of pureed celery root soup topped with cubes of caramelized apple.

Celery Root Soup with Caramelized Apples

50 mins

Tray of roast chicken pieces with pancetta, olives, and garlic cloves.

Roast Chicken with Pancetta and Olives

1 hr 30 mins

A partially sliced loaf of chocolate bourbon banana bread.

Chocolate-Bourbon Banana Bread

1 hr 30 mins

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