Portable food that's delicious, healthy, fun and easy to make. That's what’s on Ellie's menu as she cooks up a fabulous Lime, Peanut and Noodle Salad to take to work. Back home she's cooking an indoor picnic of Crispy Chicken Fingers with Honey Mustard Sauce, Crunchy Green Apple and Carrot Salad and Chocolate Dipped Strawberries on a fruit skewer to share with her daughter and some friends. It's anytime, anywhere, any generation food.
Light the fire, grab the mistletoe and snuggle up for a sensational Semi-Homemade Holiday with Sandra Lee. Join Sandra, her family and friends for a festive hour of holiday cheer filled with delicious quick, semi-homemade recipes like Dinner Roll Wreath, Herb Crusted Prime Rib, Hannukah Meringues, and White Chocolate Dipped Cookies. The difference this holiday will be in the details: decorative delights and wonderful ways to wrap up your delicious gifts.
Ellie plays culinary cupid and shares her favorite romantic recipes: figs with ricotta pistachio drizzled with honey, green herb dip with crunchy crudites, heart-shaped portobello panini, cherry almond chocolate clusters and you-and-me chicken pot pies. Finger food and food to share that’s irresistible and good for you.
For years certain foods have been out in the cold - but now it’s out of exile for nutrition no no’s like chocolate, eggs, nuts, wine, coffee and cheese. Ellie comes up with great healthy recipes for triple chocolate cookies, scrumptious scrambled egg, spiced almonds and a fabulous Buffalo chicken salad with a classic creamy blue cheese dressing. Plus her handy dandy guide to how much, how often and why these foods have come back with a vengeance
Gooey butter cake started out as a baker's mistake, but turned into a St. Louis specialty adored by one and all. Iron Chef Michael Symon heads to the Gateway City to get his fingers sticky and settle a feud between Park Ave. Coffee and Gooey Louie's, two places that use old family recipes to make that famous confection. Helping Michael along the way are pastry instructors from the L'Ecole Culinaire school, Missouri natives and lovers of all things goo. In Cincinnati, the ice cream may be cold, but this rivalry is steaming hot! Graeter's and Aglamesis have been churning out chocolate chip ice cream the old-fashioned way for over 100 years, and the good people of Ohio are divided. Take a step back in time as Michael Symon learns the techniques that give each hand dipped scoop that unmistakable flavor and he crowns a champion of the chip!
Fire up the counter top grills for a night of poker and paninis. What could be simpler than having the guests make their own mouth watering grilled sandwiches, while the host stars with Caesar salad made right at the table. Double down!
Gameplan
Day Before Panini Poker Party:
Make Biscotti for dessert
Buy fresh dough from local pizza restaurant
Morning of Panini Poker Party:
Make Pizetta’s
One Hour Before Panini Poker Party:
Cut bread for panini sandwiches
Prepare trays for three different kinds of panini sandwiches
Assemble ingredients for Mozzarella & carrozza tray
Assemble ingredients for PLT tray
Cook pancetta for PLT tray
Assemble ingredients for Ham & Teleme tray
Assemble ingredients for Caesar’s salad tray
Set up stations with ingredients near electrical outlets for panini grills
Panini Poker Party:
Serve red zinfandel and pizetta’s
Everyone makes their own panini’s
After dinner make pain au chocolate panini
Heat up pistachio’s and pour port wine for guests
Wine Recommendation
Red Zinfandel
Our favorite comfort foods the low carb way—it can be done! Chef George Stella creates several sinfully satisfying low carb dishes: "beefed-up" meat loaf with a layer of prosciutto and provolone, onion rings, Southern fried chicken, "mock" garlic mashed potatoes, and a quick chocolate almond ice cream. Go ahead, indulge without the guilt!
Top 5 Tips
1. You can eat onions on a low carb diet. Avoid them the first few weeks, but in moderation, they're fine.
2. Use a mixture of parmesan cheese and eggs in place of breadcrumbs. They'll bind just as well as their carb-laden counterpart.
3. Soybeans are already toasted and have a tendency to burn when you deep-fry them. This is why we finish the chicken in the oven, rather than in the oil.
4. Cauliflower is low in carbs and absorbs the flavor of any ingredient you put with it.
5. Use a plastic baggie for the dessert if you don't own a pastry bag. Fill baggie with your mock ice cream, snip off a corner, and pour mixture into tall glasses.