On Easy Entertaining with Michael Chiarello, Chef Michael Chiarello offers his tips on the get-together. Get his recipes and watch videos on Food Network.
Four competitors think they're ready for whatever the Chopped kitchen might throw at them! In a dynamic first round, the chefs have a lot of ideas for their turkey legs and milkshakes, but they struggle to keep pace with the clock. Then in a drama-filled second round, the chefs rush to make steak work with a wacky candied surprise. When the final two chefs open the dessert basket and find a lot of frosting and a freeze-dried fruit, they must wrap their heads around the challenge in time to make terrific final plates.
Sandra prepares Smoked Salmon and Olive Blinis. Then Sandra shows us how to create Tea Sandwiches. Next, She whips up her Meringue Hearts with Raspberry Fondue. Finally, Sandra shows us how to make her trademark Cupcake Centerpiece Fall.
Ree Drummond is making four meals on four days, and they all have just five ingredients. For breakfast, she whips up Chilaquiles, a Mexican breakfast with Osage County style. Ree's lunch is Speedy Teriyaki Salmon, and she makes a fabulously fast Steak Sheet Pan Supper before wrapping things up with Midnight Toast that's the perfect cure for the munchies.
The chefs turn green trying to showcase a client's sustainable produce in a meal to impress organic buyers; a German financier engages the chefs to cook authentic cuisine for his Indian in-laws; and a repeat client presents the chefs with a challenge to cook a gourmet dinner without any carbs for her waistline-watching friends.
Willie steps in to help Lisa, owner of The Bayou in North Bellmore, N.Y. After 22 years serving up authentic cajun flavors, customers now seem to be disappearing. Willie soon discovers that a disillusioned leader and a staff that treats the place more like Mardi Gras than a restaurant, may be at the heart of the problem.