Recipes - Entertaining
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One-Bowl Chocolate Fudge
This recipe comes from Kraft Creative Kitchens. It's incredibly flexible and quick to make the perfect home-crafted Valentine!
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Bacon-Wrapped Cornish Hens with Corn Couscous
Here's an elegant party recipe that's easy enough for two on a weeknight. Double or triple to your delight.
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Black-eyed Pea Salad
This salad with black-eye peas and ham is perfect for a New Year's Day lunch -- or any day of the year.
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Cranberry-Pineapple Stuffed Chicken Breasts
Here's a wonderfully simple, yet sophisticated entree for entertaining -- or any time!
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Marmalade-Glazed Ham
A glazed ham is a wonderful thing to have on hand for the holidays!
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Microwave Cashew Brittle
Here’s one of our fastest and favorite holiday food gifts. Think peanut brittle, only way better!
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Angel Slices from Joy of Cooking
This classic bar cookie from Joy of Cooking is Guest Blogger Liza Gyllenhaal's favorite Christmas confection.
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Mountain Apple Compote
This simple compote lets the goodness of apples flavor everything from pancakes to French toast to delicate crepes.
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Easy Spiced Stewed Apples
Every fall we start falling for apples all over again. After the pies are baked, we start looking for yet another recipe to make the most of this glorious bounty. This is it!
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Roasted Garlic Artichoke Dip
This is everyone's favorite artichoke-cheese party dip revved up a bit with roasted garlic. It's a YUM!
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Pan-seared Sea Scallops with Pear-infused Balsamic Reduction
When this recipe ran in our Desperation Dinners newspaper column we got tons of fan mail. This recipe will make you a star!
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Black Bean-Red Pepper Salad with Shrimp
Whether you serve it as a side dish or a main, this hearty, low-fat salad will hit the spot.
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Three-Cheese Broccoli Quiche
Lighter on the egg and emphasizing the trio of cheeses, our broccoli quiches will turn any brunch into a special occasion.
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Banana Bread Pudding
Banana bread pudding is a delicious combination of traditional bread pudding and another traditional dessert -- hot banana pudding. Serve this hybrid pudding warm with vanilla ice cream and our Rich Caramel Sauce.
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Classic Hummus
Prepared hummus is available in the deli of larger supermarkets, but it’s very quick (and more delicious) to make your own.
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Hot Fudge Sauce
This is ice cream parlor hot fudge sauce at its best!
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Peach Season Cobbler with Flax
Take advantage of summer's ripe peaches with this delicious and easy cobbler. The flax gives it a little something extra!
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Steak Diane with Egg Noodles
Traditional Steak Diane is prepared tableside in a flourish – butter, tenderloin, cream, brandy and a burst of flames. Here's a slightly lightened version that's quick and easy.
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Garlic Parmesan Pita Chips
Homemade pita chips are an easy and economical treat. The results are simply fantastic. Use them to scoop hummus or even to take the place of crackers.
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Ciabatta, Chicken and Cheese Sandwich “To Go”
This is our go-to sandwich when times call for “to go.” We’ve tried to cover all the bases – safety, health, transport and taste.
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Petra’s Guacamole
Guacamole recipes abound, but this is Alicia's personal favorite recipe because it came from a special friend in Mexico. To say this recipe is authentic is putting it mildly.
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Pineapple-Banana Frozen Salad Cups
Remember those frozen “salads” from the ‘50ies that combined fruit, nuts, sour cream and, more often than not, mayonnaise?
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Peachy Peach Daiquiris
From the TGIF department comes this amazing Fresh Peach Daiquiri. It's our newest "signature" after-work cocktail. Just add friends.
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Turkey Provolone Wraps
With or without the avocado, this turkey wrap is sensational.
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Crab and Artichoke Appetizer Pizza
This appetizer pizza is essentially topped with a jazzed-up version of an old Junior League cookbook standby – artichoke dip. It's decadent and delicious.
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Mango and Tomato Salsa
This quick salsa can go just about anywhere and go with just about anything.
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Amazing Steaks
A steak that has a man begging for it every week? A recipe that has three ingredients? In our Humble Opinion, it doesn’t get any better than this!
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Peaches and Cream Trifle
A mix of peaches and creamy pudding with cake and juicy fruit fresh from the orchard -- what’s not to love?
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Pineapple Salsa for Summer
There’s nothing like an exotic salsa to brighten up a meal. We especially like this pineapple version, adapted from Desperation Dinners!
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Sangria for Summer
A pitcher of sangria and a group of friends to share it with? Sounds like summer.
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My Original Mojito
Here's one recipe you won't mind perfecting -- and adding your personal panache. Let us know how it turns out.
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Pan-Seared Tenderloin with Bearnaise Sauce
Steaks already are special, but this Microwave Bearnaise Sauce sends them over the top.
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Crème Custards (Individual), with Berries
We never thought we could turn out the creamy smooth crème custards you find in restaurants until we tried this recipe, featured in Desperation Entertaining!
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Shoney’s Strawberry Pie
Alicia found this version of The Unofficial Shoney's Strawberry Pie in her grandmother’s recipe box. Making the glaze yourself is easy to master and so much better than store-bought.
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Banana Pecan Mini Loaves
The genius in Banana Pecan Mini Loaves is four loaves (three for gifts and one to keep) with just 20 minutes of mixing. Fresh banana bread from your own oven? A great gift!
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Hawaiian Chicken Salad in Radicchio Leaves
One stunning dish like this can take center stage for entertaining and it's easy to do most of the work ahead.
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Simple Mango Salsa
This versatile salsa works with grilled chicken, steamed vegetables, grilled or poached fish, and even chips.
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Greek Potato Salad
This salad from Debbie Moose's new book Potato Salad: 65 Recipes from Classic to Cool is tart and creamy, with the bite of feta cheese. A Greek friend said this was “just like Mom makes.”
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Old-Fashioned Southern Chicken Salad
Back when the very best drug stores all served lunch at the soda fountain, you could always count on marvelous chicken salad. We’ve recreated this Southern classic with lots of sweet pickles.
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Quick Chocolate “Fondue” with Strawberries
Built around an ordinary container of chocolate frosting from the supermarket, this spontaneous dessert can be is ready when you are.
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Banana Chocolate Chip Bread
Chocolate is the perfect compliment to banana and elevates this quick bread to dessert status without overwhelming the delicate nature of the bread.
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Thai-Style Peanut Sauce
Those who know Beverly well (and those who have read our cookbooks) know how much she adores peanut sauce. In her opinion, if a little peanut sauce is good, a lot is better.
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Grilled Shrimp Dijon
This is delicious over steamed rice and you won't miss a drop of the sauce. Add corn on the cob and salad for a sweat-free meal. Makes a great appetizer when entertaining, too.
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Six-Minute Cranberry-Orange Relish
Darn close to Alicia’s grandmother’s original Thanksgiving relish yet requires an embarrassingly short time. Compromise never tasted so good.
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Chocolate Gravy with Croissants
Is it breakfast or dessert? You decide and let us know!
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Apple Brown Betty
Apple Betty dates to Colonial days, and we suspect those Revolutionary cooks liked this dessert for the same reasons we do – it’s delicious and comforting.
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Peppermint Iced Tea for a Party
This is easy tea brewing, letting the microwave speed us through. But your guests will just enjoy the sweet delicious results. (Sugar is optional for anyone but a diehard Southerner.)
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Chocolate Bread Pudding
A friend once said our Chocolate Bread Pudding is "about as close to heaven as you can get while you're still alive." Very well said -- and perhaps even true. You decide!
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