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Home | Recipes | Honest Entertaining® | Page 33

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.
Two ricotta calzones with sausage and broccoli rabe, one cut in half, the other whole, on a wire rack.

Calzones with Sausage and Broccoli Rabe

3 hrs

Escargot

Escargots ~ Snails with Herb Butter

2 hrs

A glass cake stand with four slices of chocolate marquise with brandied cherries on the side.

Ultimate Chocolate Marquise

6 hrs 25 mins

A broken slice of banana bread stacked on a white plate

Banana Bread by Cook’s Illustrated

1 hr 30 mins

A slice of frosted pumpkin cake on a plate with the remaining cake on a stand in the background.

Pumpkin Cake with Maple Cream Cheese Frosting

1 hr 15 mins

Butternut squash soup in a blue pottery bowl with a slice of rustic bread being dipped into it.

Butternut Squash Soup

3 hrs

Two mushroom strudels on a silver tray, one cut in half, with a knife resting on top.

Mushroom Strudel

45 mins

A red, white, and blue tart with a graham cracker crust, cream cheese filling, and raspberries, blueberries, and blackberry on top

Red, White, and Blue Tart

40 mins

Shrimp salad garnished with dill in a cardboard takeout container.

Shrimp Salad from Ina Garten

2 hrs

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

Coq au Vin from Julia Child

1 hr 30 mins

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