The Kitchen is revealing the secrets to making favorite restaurant food at home, starting off with Geoffrey Zakarian's tips for a delicious Shrimp Scampi. The Kitchen Helpline is open to crack the code on your favorite restaurant dishes, then restaurant masters Deuki Hong and the Dos Toros Brothers stop by to share their recipes for Slow Cooker Korean Short Ribs and Steak Quesadillas. Plus, classic restaurant dessert with Pass the Molten Lava Cake and three ways to finish the meal with restaurant-quality coffee at home.
It's Beer Fest, and Michael Symon is ready with dishes that are perfect for enjoying alongside your favorite brews. First, he dives into Porter Beer Braised Beef Short Ribs with Salsa Verde, slow-cooked to caramelized perfection. On the side, Michael serves Wheat Beer Braised Potatoes that are the perfect beer fest companion. Finally, Liz mixes up a Garden Chelada with Rice Beer that combines traditional beer with watermelon, lime, tamarind and chamoy.
Top 5 Restaurants is tracking down the top spots for America's favorite food import -- the taco. Crunchy fish, succulent pork, savory slow-cooked steak: Everything tastes better wrapped in a tortilla and served up with passion. Meet a dedicated sister act in Texas, a one-man wonder staked out in an East Los Angeles parking lot, and a father and son institution in San Francisco, all dishing out food fit for a five-star restaurant.
The Kitchen hosts are sharing their best one pan plans for easy meals. Sunny Anderson makes a flavor-packed Easy Crispy Rice and Honey Sambal Salmon Cheat Sheet. Next, Katie Lee Biegel shows us her Slow Cooker Chicken Taco Bowls, and Alex Guarnaschelli shares her guide to making a quick, flavorful Easy White Wine Caper Sauce. Jeff Mauro uses a cast-iron pan to make his Pineapple Upside Down Cake, and special guest Scott Conant from House of Knives stops by to make his One Skillet Chicken with Basil Chimichurri.
The Kitchen is making a week's worth of easy dinner ideas and showing brand-new ways to use go-to kitchen tools! Katie Lee Biegel makes delicious set-it-and-forget-it Slow Cooker Pulled Pork Tacos. Geoffrey Zakarian whips up a quick Pasta Amatriciana using kitchen shears. The hosts share creative ways to amp up quesadillas. Sunny Anderson's Garlic Ginger Chicken Dumplings with Peanut Dipping Sauce comes together in a flash with a steamer basket. Jeff Mauro serves up his Chicken Tortellini Soup and shares his tips for using a box grater.
Why go out to a fancy restaurant to make your anniversary special when you can just stay home and make an easy, romantic meal? Sandra has created a sophisticated crystal lounge, and an elegant menu, to make a perfect anniversary party. It all starts with slow-cooked Hot Honeyed Spareribs with chili, garlic and some special shortcuts. Then it's Red Pepper and Tapenade Slices that are so light and crispy, you won't save them just for special occasions. Next up, an elegant White Pizza that works as an appetizer or a main course. For dessert, it's simple and scrumptious Oatmeal Rum Cookies. Then it's cocktail time with a Key Lime Martini.
Chef Robert must create upscale hors d'oeuvres for a fashion show on a New York City garden rooftop. He has eight hours to design a menu, shop and prepare food for 200 - which seems like an easy task but getting through city traffic to go shopping will eat up half of his time! If this isn't tricky enough, he is given two sous chefs that may or may not be all that helpful.
Where there's smoke, there's inspiration! The chefs must find a way to make a chewy fruit and meaty hors d'oeuvres work in their chocolate desserts. In the candy test, as they seek to combine a Middle Eastern dip with a desert delight, the chefs must be inspired by a Native American talisman. The final two chefs get biblical and try to stay afloat by making the best cake pairing their two mandatory ingredients.
The Kitchen officially enters the holiday party zone with time saving tips and great recipes to get you prepared. Katie puts her Thanksgiving leftovers to good use with a delicious Turkey Gumbo. Get prepped for the party with surprising and time saving uses for your slow cooker and the hosts give the scoop on the best info and features in the new issue of Food Network Magazine. GZ and Katie visit a local coffee shop and we'll show you how to spice up your coffee at home. Plus, Marcela's Enchiladas Suiza are an easy, go-to dish for your next holiday potluck!
The Kitchen is tailgating bright and early with a breakfast of champions! Sunny Anderson kicks things off with her Breakin' the Fast Burger and Katie Lee brings her breakfast MVP, a Slow Cooker Hash Brown Casserole. Jeff Mauro turns up the heat with his Crispy Buttermilk Popcorn Chicken and Waffle Bowl, then former pro football player Nick Mangold makes his touchdown dish, Ultimate Tailgate Steak and Egg Tacos. The hosts build some fully loaded Walking Cereal Bowls. Plus, we gear up for the game with a Double Duty Dessert Display and a game-changing Pull-Apart Cinnamon Roll Football.