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Home | Recipes | Honest Entertaining® | Page 30

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.
Three slice of medium rare standing rib roast au jus on a cutting board.

Standing Rib Roast with Jus

6 hrs

A clementine cake on a round silver platter with one slice on a plate beside it.

Clementine Cake

1 hr 30 mins

Lots of cinnamon rolls baked together

Cinnamon Rolls

3 hrs 15 mins

A close-up of the best broccoli casserole recipe served on a white plate next to sliced roast chicken, with a silver fork digging into the tender green broccoli, creamy blue cheese sauce, and crispy breadcrumb topping.

Broccoli and Blue Cheese Gratin

1 hr 25 mins

A poached pear with warm coffee sauce on a plate with a scoop of vanilla ice cream and a spoon.

Poached Pears with Warm Coffee Sauce

30 mins

Several plates with fluorescent glowing Jello molds.

Glow in the Dark Jell-O

11 hrs 35 mins

A tarte tatin on a white plate on a wooden table.

Tarte Tatin

1 hr 30 mins

A parchment covered counter with lines of raw peanut butter cookies and a meat-tenderizing mallet.

Crisp Peanut Butter Cookies

40 mins

Shrimp with three dipping sauces piled on a platter, beside a glass of ale

Shrimp with Three Dipping Sauces

40 mins

Half of a whole salmon on a cedar plank over glowing coals.

Cedar Plank–Grilled Salmon

40 mins

A plate with a trio of deviled eggs - horseradish deviled egg, truffled deviled egg, and smoked salmon deviled egg.

A Trio of Deviled Eggs

20 mins

Herbed ricotta dip with a cutting board covered with carrots, radishes, fava beans

Herbed Ricotta Dip with Spring Vegetables

20 mins

White bowl of fresh peas with mint.

Fresh Peas with Mint

15 mins

A whole asparagus tart on a piece of parchment paper.

Asparagus Tart

1 hr

Old-fashioned kettle corn in a bowl, sitting on a green polka dot tablecloth

Old-Fashioned Kettle Corn

10 mins

A person holding a wok for making wok popcorn in front of their face.

Perfect Wok Popcorn

5 mins

A perfectly roasted beef tenderloin with Madeira sauce on the side ion a copper pot

Beef Tenderloin with Madeira Sauce

1 hr 45 mins

Almond flounder meunière in a wooden serving dish topped with sliced almonds and lemon wedges on the side.

Almond Flounder Meunière

25 mins

A 12 layer chocolate torte by Trisha Yearwood with chocolate icing on a pink class cake stand

Trisha Yearwood’s Chocolate Torte

2 hrs

A slice of classic plum torte with a jammy fruit layer on a dark plate.

Plum Torte

1 hr 30 mins

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