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Home | Recipes | Honest Entertaining® | Page 32

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 bowl filled with Ina Garten's rosemary cashews with a sprig of rosemary on the side.

Ina Garten’s Rosemary Cashews

10 mins

A golden-brown Thanksgiving turkey in the center of a table with napkins and bowls nearby.

Perfect Roast Turkey

1 d 6 hrs

A whole flourless chocolate vanilla marble cake on a plate with a knife resting on a blue napkin beside it.

Flourless Chocolate-Vanilla Marble Cake

1 hr 5 mins

A stack of five lemon, thyme, and sea-salt shortbreads on a wooden board with a dish of sea salt and a lemon beside them.

Savory Lemon Shortbread Cookies with Thyme

1 hr 20 mins

Baked mussels with breadcrumbs in a cast-iron pan with a serving spoon, on a blue tablecloth.

Baked Mussels with Crisped Bread Crumbs

40 mins

A person drizzling sauce over a steak au poivre on a white plate with sweet potato fries.

Steak au Poivre (Julia Child’s Recipe)

25 mins

Sweet and spicy roasted nuts in a large green bowl on a wooden table.

Sweet and Spicy Roasted Nuts

35 mins

A piece of oven-roasted halibut with cherry tomatoes and thyme on a bed of cooked cabbage.

Oven-Roasted Halibut with Cherry Tomatoes and Thyme

50 mins

A whole roast turkey on an oval serving platter with cranberries, fresh herbs, and orange slices tucked around it.

Simple Roast Turkey

2 hrs 30 mins

Lemon semifreddo in a pool of lemon sauce and garnished with a twist of lemon, sitting on a white dessert plate.

Lemon Semifreddo

6 hrs 45 mins

A glass of raspberry lemonade with tequila garnished with a mint sprig.

Raspberry Lemonade with Tequila

5 mins

Several blueberry cupcakes topped with whipped cream and fresh blueberries.

Blueberry Cupcakes

55 mins

Carrot crostata on a large black plate, with a white napkin on a wood table.

Carrot Crostata

2 hrs 25 mins

A garlic-herb pork crown roast on a square serving pedestal.

Garlic and Herb Pork Crown Roast

3 hrs 40 mins

A slice of cheesecake topped with cranberries on a silver cake lifter.

Cranberry-Orange Cheesecake

1 hr 15 mins

Barefoot Contessa fresh lemon mousse in a soufflé dish with the edges decorated with swirls of whipped cream and lemon slices.

Barefoot Contessa Fresh Lemon Mousse

45 mins

A cast iron skillet filled with bubbling baked fontina with garlic and thyme and a hunk of bread in the background.

Baked Fontina with Garlic and Thyme

25 mins

Two puffy, golden Parmesan and Gruyere Cheese Souffles in white bowls on a towel.

Parmesan and Gruyère Cheese Soufflé

45 mins

A pot filled with a chunk of corned beef, three carrots, cabbage, and potatoes.

Homemade Corned Beef

5 d 3 hrs

Three pasteis de nata on a slate background sprinkled with powder sugar.

Pastel de Nata ~ Portuguese Custard Tarts

2 hrs 30 mins

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