The Kitchen crew shares comforting and classic bar food recipes to recreate at home. Kicking things off with apps, Sunny Anderson creates Easy Loaded Nacho Skins, and Jeff Mauro fries Beer Battered Italian Mozza Balls. Then, Alex Guarnaschelli whips up a delectable Santa Fe-Style Burger with Cheesy Sauce and Fresh Chiles, while Katie Lee Biegel makes an indulgent Caramel Apple Bread Pudding. Plus, Geoffrey Zakarian pairs up some favorite pub drinks and snacks: Pilsner with Asiago Garlic Cheese Twists, Old Fashioned with Spiced Mixed Nuts and Citrus Marinated Olives.
Alex Guarnaschelli makes an Ice Cream Sundae Bar with Easy Butterscotch Sauce and shares some of The Kitchen's best late-night treats and fun ideas for midnight snacking. Katie Lee Biegel piles on the flavor with Chorizo and Cheese Loaded Fries, and Alex's Hot Dogs in a Puff Pastry Blanket with Everything Spice is a delicious spin on a classic. Then, the indulgent snack-fest continues with Geoffrey Zakarian's Pork Dumplings with Crispy Skirt, Jeff Mauro's White Hot Pizza Dip, and Sunny Anderson's Crispy Cheese-Wrapped Pickle Spears.
Christina Tosi, the incredibly creative, award-winning pastry chef and founder of the fabulous Milk Bar dessert empire, joins Ina Garten for a perfect day of cooking and conversation at the barn. Christina loves to snack, so Ina is making her Smoked Salmon Tartines with gravlax sauce to eat while they share incredible stories about life-changing career decisions, rising up through the pastry chef ranks, and dessert revelations. Then, Christina shares the secrets to assembling Milk Bar's legendary Birthday Cake and how to get professional bakery results at home.
Noah Cappe goes loco for Sunshine State snacks at the Manatee County Fair in Palmetto, Fla. There's lots of ooey-gooey goodness in the Pizza Supremo Burger and the Ulti-Melt Burger, but it's the Sandia Loca that has Noah flipping out. Then he's shaken and stirred by some Kentucky classics at Hillbilly Days in Pikeville, Ky., where old-fashioned favorites are served with a side of good humor and a shot of American whiskey in the form of Kentucky Mac and Cheese and Bourbon a la Mode funnel cake.
The Kitchen is going green for Earth Day with seasonal recipes and sustainable ingredients. Katie Lee Biegel starts off with a Meatless Monday dish, her Lentil Stuffed Peppers. The hosts create an Indoor Vertical Herb Garden, and Geoffrey Zakarian shares his Lemon Herb Compound Butter. Alex Guarnaschelli cooks stem to peel with her Broccoli and Broccoli Stem Salad, and Sunny Anderson dresses up her Green Goddess Mussels. Then, Jeff Mauro creates a rainbow with his Ratatouille Sandwich, Geoffrey finishes things off with his Kombucha Talkin' About cocktail, and the hosts try some upcycled snacks.
The Kitchen is honoring Earth Day with fresh finds for spring. Geoffrey Zakarian makes a Peruvian Seafood Stew with Cilantro Broth, and then Jeff Mauro goes green with his Italian Stuffed Artichokes. Cookbook author Lindsay-Jean Hard shares the secret to her stem-to-peel Banana Peel Cake, and Katie Lee takes on Meatless Monday with Asian-Style Eggplant "Meat"balls. Jeff and Katie go head-to-head in a competition using broccoli stalks for a special guest judge, Food Network’s Valerie Bertinelli. Finally, the hosts give some sustainable snacks a taste test.
Touchdown! For many families, Thanksgiving day means food and football! When host Jesse Palmer watches football, his must-have dish is 7-layer dip, so he challenges the bakers to create holiday 7-layer desserts inspired by his favorite snack. Then in the main heat, the games continue with the first ever Thanksgiving pie-off, where bakers go head-to-head baking the same flavor pie to win over judges Carla Hall, Duff Goldman and Nancy Fuller. The losing baker in each match automatically lands in the bottom.
For Father's Day, Guy Fieri brings three GGG winners back to compete against each other, but this time they're teaming up with their dads. First, Guy has the teams race to the register to determine how many ingredients they can use to make their childhood favorites. Then he brings things home with a classic game of bowling to determine which of his son's favorite snacks must be included in the teams' favorite dish for Dad. In the end, only one father-daughter team gets to shop Flavortown Market for up to $20,000.