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Home | Recipes | Honest Entertaining®

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 slice of burnt Basque cheesecake with pomegranate on a plate, garnished with pomegranate seeds and a spoon.

Basque Cheesecake with Pomegranate Molasses

3 hrs

A partially sliced boneless leg of lamb on a platter with rosemary sprigs around it.

Slow Roasted Boneless Leg of Lamb

1 hr 50 mins

Sliced skirt steak topped with salsa with a bowl of salsa and charred lime halves on the side.

Seared Skirt Steak with Salsa

50 mins

A flourless chocolate cloud cake topped with billows of whipped cream on a metal platter.

Flourless Chocolate Cloud Cake

1 hr 15 mins

A whole roast chicken on a platter with a bowl of roasted root vegetables nearby.

French Roast Chicken ~ Poulet Rôti

1 hr 50 mins

A slice of Hershey's chocolate cake with chocolate frosting on a yellow plate, with the remaining cake on a stand in the background.

Hershey’s Chocolate Cake Redux

55 mins

Pieces of browned chicken topped with garlic and rosemary leaves on a white oval platter.

Roman-Style Chicken Cacciatore

1 hr 30 mins

A roasted fresh ham on a platter with roasted carrots and a bottle of red wine in the background.

Roasted Fresh Ham with Maple-Spice Glaze

5 hrs

A skillet with three chicken thighs on top of a mixture of leeks, rosemary, and cannellini beans.

Rosemary Chicken and Beans in a Creamy Cider Broth

1 hr 30 mins

Two slices of brownie pie on plates.

Brownie Pie

4 hrs

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

Three pieces of roasted bone marrow sprinkled with salt in a metal roasting pan.

Roasted Bone Marrow

12 hrs 30 mins

Two bowls of coq au vin on a table with sliced bread and fresh herbs.

Julia Child’s Coq au Vin

1 hr 30 mins

An oval casserole dish filled with potatoes dauphinoise, with a silver spoon resting in it.

Potatoes Dauphinoise

2 hrs 30 mins

A saucepan filled with roasted garlic mashed potatoes with a pat of butter on top.

Roasted Garlic Mashed Potatoes

1 hr

Two plates of pecan pie cobbler with a scoop of ice cream on the side.

Pecan Pie Cobbler

1 hr 45 mins

A whole roasted dry brined turkey on an oval platter on a bed of herbs with side dishes around it.

Dry Brine Turkey

1 d 4 hrs 20 mins

A bowl of cheesy mashed potatoes, topped with scallions on a table with turkey and cranberry sauce.

Cheesy Mashed Potatoes

45 mins

A Dutch oven with braised chicken thighs and olives, and a single thigh and three olives on a white plate.

Braised Chicken Thighs

A large yellow Dutch oven with a roast chicken on a bed of cooked shallots, topped with lemon zest and herbs.

Dutch Oven-Roast Chicken and Shallots

3 hrs

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