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Home | Recipes | Honest Entertaining® | Page 8

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 rhubarb brown sugar pie cut into 7 wedges with one slice missing.

Rhubarb Brown Sugar Pie

3 hrs 25 mins

A whole grilled beef tenderloin, partially sliced on a wooden cutting board with a knife, meat fork, and twine beside it.

Grilled Beef Tenderloin

1 hr 30 mins

A bowl mounded with potato salad with sweet pickle relish.

Potato Salad with Sweet Pickle Relish

1 hr 30 mins

A small white dish of gochujang, a Korean chile past with a spoon, jar, and bowl beside it.

Cheater’s Gochujang

5 mins

Strips of homemade red wine pasta on a wooden surface.

Homemade Red Wine Pasta

1 hr 45 mins

An oval plate with four pieces of Southern fried chicken wings.

Southern Fried Chicken Wings

1 hr

A partially-eaten chocolate souffle in a round white ceramic dish.

Chocolate Soufflé

1 hr

A pile of cream-filled macarons, each in a white wrapper.

Cream-Filled Meringue Cookies

2 hrs 30 mins

Cream being poured from a pitcher into a highball glass for a white Russian cocktail.

White Russian

5 mins

A serving of Portuguese sawdust pudding layered in a martini glass.

Serradura ~ Portuguese Sawdust Pudding

1 d 30 mins

Four slabs of BBQ oven ribs on a rack inside a rimmed baking sheet.

BBQ Oven Ribs

12 hrs

A classic flan de leche on a white plate, covered with caramel and a spoonful of custard missing from the flan.

Spanish Flan ~ Flan de Leche

2 hrs

Bowl of turkey chili surrounded by bowls of sour cream, tortilla chips, cilantro, and lime on a slab of wood

Turkey and Sweet Potato Chili

1 hr

Two white plates with tarragon chicken leg and thigh on each, sliced onion and tarragon on top

Tarragon Chicken

1 hr 15 mins

An asparagus and arugula salad topped with Parmesan on a teardrop-shaped plate.

Asparagus and Arugula Salad

25 mins

A round of farmers cheese resting on a piece of cheesecloth in a bowl.

Farmer Cheese

1 hr 30 mins

A best brined roast chicken in a cast iron Dutch oven surrounded by potatoes, mushrooms, carrots, and a halved head of garlic.

David Leite’s Best Brined Roast Chicken

1 d 1 hr 30 mins

Soft pretzels of assorted shapes and sizes on a wooden surface.

Soft Pretzels

10 hrs

Cast iron pot with braised new potatoes inside.

Braised New Potatoes

30 mins

Two classic martinis, each garnished with two green olives.

Classic Martini

5 mins

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