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Home | Recipes | Honest Entertaining® | Page 29

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.
Blueberry crumble with melted vanilla ice cream and blueberries on a grey plate.

The Best & Easiest Blueberry Crumble

50 mins

A whole herb stuffed baked salmon filled with bread crumbs and herbs and tied with kitchen twine.

Herb-Stuffed Baked Salmon

1 hr

A waffle topped with salted caramel sauce on a white plate

Waffles with Salted Caramel Sauce

45 mins

A newspaper-topped table strewn with crawfish, corn, peppers, and potatoes - a classic crawfish boil.

Crawfish Boil

1 hr 10 mins

A decorative bowl filled with a sphere of goat cheese and a few olives, topped with a thyme sprig.

Goat Cheese with Olives, Lemon, and Thyme

25 mins

Four glasses of michelada on a wooden board with a lime wedge in between them.

Michelada

5 mins

Sticky pork ribs cut into individual ribs on a piece of parchment with a knife.

Sticky Pork Ribs

13 hrs 10 mins

A silver spoon holding a large scoop of the milkiest chocolate ice cream in the world.

Milkiest Chocolate Ice Cream

45 mins

A bowl of five spice chicken wings.

Five-Spice Chicken Wings

40 mins

A plastic container filled with vanilla bean ice cream with a metal ice cream scoop resting in it.

Vanilla Bean Ice Cream

1 d 1 hr

Two skewers of grilled shrimp with piri-piri sauce in a dish on the side.

Grilled Shrimp with Piri-Piri Sauce

3 hrs

A golden orange Derby cocktail on a bar with a slice of lime on the rim.

The Derby Cocktail

5 mins

Six bowls of Easter egg dye with an egg in each.

Naturally Dyed Easter Eggs

45 mins

Three Passover brownies stacked on top of each other on a white plate.

Passover Brownies

1 hr

A spoonful of black coffee ice cream on the tip of a silver spoon.

Black Coffee Ice Cream

35 mins

A close-up of tender tagliatelle pasta coated in rich Marcella Hazan Bolognese sauce.

Marcella Hazan’s Bolognese Sauce

6 hrs

Diamond red chili and Cheddar crackers in a wooden bowl; a glass a wine and hunk of cheese

Red Chili and Cheddar Crackers

2 hrs

A classic, OG Manhattan cocktail in a stemmed glass with a twist of lemon.

Classic Manhattan Cocktail

3 mins

Three pieces of roasted bone marrow sprinkled with salt in a metal roasting pan.

Roasted Bone Marrow

12 hrs 30 mins

A pile of ribbon fries on a white surface.

Homemade Ribbon Fries

40 mins

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