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Home | Recipes | Honest Entertaining® | Page 7

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.
Golf-ball size cheese balls with pretzel stems sitting on a wooden cheese board.

Blue Cheese Balls

2 hrs 30 mins

Pieces of Chinese roast pork in a black dish with chopped scallions beside it.

Chinese Roast Pork

5 hrs 20 mins

Fish fillets on a sheet pan with roasted tomatoes and black olives.

Baked Fish with Tomatoes and Olives

45 mins

A glass jar half filled with apple cranberry sauce, with a second jar of applesauce in the background.

Apple Cranberry Sauce

1 hr

White dish of a sugar-dusted individual peach souffle; in the bottom are peach slices

Individual Peach Soufflés

30 mins

A dish filled with Vietnamese grilled pork patties with rice noodles and an crunchy vegetables.

Vietnamese Grilled Pork Patties with Rice Noodles ~ Bun Cha

1 hr

Three pieces of cornmeal-crusted fried chicken on a white plate.

Cornmeal Crusted Fried Chicken

1 hr

Four grilled vegetable skewers with harissa-marinated halloumi.

Grilled Vegetable Skewers

30 mins

A platter of Nashville hot fried chicken with a jar of whipped butter in the background.

Nashville Hot Fried Chicken

55 mins

A cook demonstrating how to grill asparagus with several rafts of asparagus spears connected with wooden skewers.

How to Grill Asparagus

20 mins

A diner-style dispenser half-filled with blueberry syrup.

Blueberry Syrup

25 mins

A browned fennel potato gratin, garnished with rosemary in an oval casserole dish with handles and a glass of white wine on either side of the dish.

Fennel Potato Gratin

1 hr 45 mins

Pieces of bayou fried shrimp in a paper towel-lined bowl.

Bayou Fried Shrimp

1 hr

Two glasses of bacon bourbon with strips of cooked bacon in each glass and a bottle of bourbon in the background.

Bacon-Infused Bourbon

12 hrs

A piece of sea bass topped with soy glaze and cucumber salsa on a square shaped white plate.

Sea Bass with Soy Glaze and Cucumber Salsa

35 mins

A rectangular blueberry mascarpone tart with one slice cut from the end and a bowl of blueberries on the side.

Blueberry Mascarpone Tart

2 hrs

A salt-baked red snapper with all the flesh removed from the bones and a broken salt crust and knife beside the fish skeleton.

Salt-Baked Red Snapper ~ Lubina a la Sel

1 hr

A white bowl with some Memphis BBQ mop sauce and a spoon in it with a bottle of sauce on the side.

Memphis BBQ Mop Sauce

35 mins

8 crescent-shape blueberry fried pies with Meyer lemon drizzle sauce nearby all on a piece of slate

Blueberry Hand Pies

1 hr 40 mins

A cooked raspberry crumble tart on a wooden surface with a few raspberries lying nearby.

Raspberry Crumble Tart

1 hr 30 mins

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