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Home | Recipes | Honest Entertaining® | Page 6

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 peach berry sonker in a square baking dish with one serving missing.

Peach Berry Sonker

2 hrs 15 mins

A frosted coconut sheet cake cut into 12 squares on a piece of parchment with a person grabbing a piece.

Coconut Sheet Cake

2 hrs

A person squeezing lime juice over an open pulled pork taco.

Pulled Pork Tacos

1 d 3 hrs 30 mins

Six homemade English muffins in tins on a baking sheet and four empty tins.

English Muffins

3 hrs 30 mins

A person lifting the lid off a pot filled with chicken and dumplings.

Classic Chicken and Dumplings

2 hrs 30 mins

A steak and arugula salad with pesto vinaigrette in a white bowl, with a wooden board and sliced steak next to it.

Steak and Arugula Salad with Pesto Vinaigrette

25 mins

A platter of roasted carrots with a serving fork on the side.

Easy Roasted Carrots

55 mins

Six salmon cakes on rectangular platters with bowls of avocado spread and chimichurri beside.

Salmon Cakes

1 hr 15 mins

Five cranberry scones with two drizzled with white chocolate glaze on a parchment-lined rimmed baking sheet.

Cranberry Scones

50 mins

Pieces of bourbon buttermilk fried chicken on a metal background.

Bourbon Buttermilk Fried Chicken

2 d 4 hrs

Four roast chicken thighs with lemon in a cast-iron skillet set on a wooden board with a meat fork resting beside it.

Roast Chicken Thighs with Lemon

40 mins

A round white plate topped with sautéed green beans and spinach with bread crumbs sprinkled over the top.

Sautéed Green Beans and Spinach with Bread Crumbs

20 mins

Grilled peaches with honey and black pepper scattered on a piece of parchment paper.

Grilled Peaches with Honey and Black Pepper

15 mins

Two whole roasted branzino with lemon and shaved fennel salad on a blue plate with a fork, two glasses, and two grey plates beside it.

Whole Roasted Branzino with Lemon and Shaved Fennel Salad

40 mins

A tall plastic cup filled with frosé or frozen rosé on a wooden table.

Frosé ~ Frozen Rosé

11 hrs

A person removing a slice of fresh tomato tart with a lifter and a bowl of pesto and black pepper on the side.

Tomato Tart

2 hrs 15 mins

A round glass baking dish filled with peach nectarine cobbler and a spoon on the side.

Peach Nectarine Cobbler

1 hr 20 mins

Two jars of pickled shrimp on a wooden cutting board.

Pickled Shrimp

8 hrs 40 mins

A pile of lightly fried shelfish - fritto misto amalfitano - on a piece of newspaper.

Fritto Misto Amalfitano

40 mins

A southside cocktail on a napkin on a silver tray with a potato chip and sprig of mint beside it.

Southside Cocktail

5 mins

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