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Home | Recipes | Honest Entertaining® | Page 5

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 smoked prime rib sliced in half on a wooden board with a green-handled knife beside it.

Smoked Prime Rib

3 hrs

A tray of roasted Brussels sprouts with cranberries and pecans.

Spicy Roasted Brussels Sprouts

35 mins

Creole shrimp and grits in a white bowl, with a spoon above the bowl with a shrimp in it.

Creole Shrimp and Grits

1 hr 30 mins

An apple tea cake on a wire rack with three slices cut from it and one on a blue and white plate.

Apple Tea Cake

3 hrs

Jamie Oliver's Sunday roast carved and displayed on a wooden cutting board.

Jamie Oliver’s Sunday Roast

2 hrs

A thin sheet of pumpkin pasta dough draped over a person's hands.

Pumpkin Pasta Dough

45 mins

An apple coffee cake with one slice cut from it on a wire cooling rack with parchment underneath.

Apple Coffee Cake

2 hrs

A woman pouring maple syrup over a maple glazed turkey in a black roasting pan.

Maple Glazed Turkey

4 hrs 30 mins

A wooden bowl filled with roasted Brussels sprouts with guanciale.

Brussels Sprouts with Guanciale

45 mins

Two sweet potato puddings in white souffle dishes on a silver tray with spoons and a bowl of whipped cream beside them.

Sweet Potato Puddings

2 hrs

A loaf of cranberry orange pecan bread in the background with a halved slice from it in front

Cranberry Orange Pecan Bread

1 hr 30 mins

A grey ceramic bowl filled with Portuguese onions, chestnuts, and bacon, topped with an Italian parsley garnish.

Portuguese Onions, Chestnuts, and Bacon

30 mins

A person holding a spoonful of aligot potatoes over a copper pot.

Pommes Aligot ~ Cheesy Mashed Potaotes

40 mins

A tied roast pork with crushed grapes in a roasting pan.

Roast Pork with Crushed Grape Sauce

15 hrs 5 mins

Golden, rich gravy being poured over a plate of sliced turkey breast.

Basic Pan Gravy

15 mins

A bacon-wrapped pork tenderloin with a few slices cut from the end and a knife resting beside.

Bacon Wrapped Pork Tenderloin

45 mins

A slab of homemade Guanciale on a wooden board.

Homemade Guanciale

42 d

Four individual mushroom wellingtons with spinach and walnuts on a squares of parchment paper.

Mushroom Wellingtons with Spinach

1 hr 20 mins

A platter of rissois de Camarao--or Portuguese shrimp turnovers--with one turnover cut open resting on top.

Portuguese Shrimp Turnovers ~ Rissóis de Camarão

2 hrs

Three pieces of grape focaccia on a wooden board.

Grape Focaccia

2 hrs 30 mins

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