Today, Alex is all about the little bites: hors d'oeuvres. She starts with pork spare ribs just glazed with a gooey soy and vinegar sauce that create the kind of finger licking you just need a million napkins for. Next, Chinese noodles mixed with a tangy dressing and topped with vibrant scallions. Alex calls this next dish her "oceanic french fry" -- fried squid and topped with a tangy lemon sauce. Plus, tender spears of asparagus blanched and tossed with sesame oil and sesame seeds. It's nutty, earthy, crunchy, and fresh.
Ayesha Curry is putting a grown-up twist on some childhood favorite foods for game night with her sister, cousin and childhood best friend. Ayesha swaps a plain old hot dog for a sophisticated Grilled Bratwurst with Brie and Spiral Apple Slaw, and she puts a colorful spin on french fries with her Rainbow Fries with a Grainy Mustard Aioli. It's not a game night without some sweets, so Ayesha reinvents a campfire favorite with her S'mores Doughnuts and whips up Spiked Chocolate Malted Milkshakes to get the party going.
For the first competition in the first ever Chopped Teen Tournament, four very talented young cooks compete for a chance to move on to the finale and win $25,000 and a culinary school scholarship. In the appetizer round, the cooks must work with lamb loin chops and kale chips. Perhaps surprisingly, the teen chefs seem less than happy to get French fries and cookies in the main course round. Then when the final two cooks open the dessert baskets to find a frozen treat, will they transform the ingredient into something new and delicious?
This trip, Guy Fieri's divin' into a smorgasbord of texture and flavor! A BBQ bistro in Sherman Oaks, Calif., is cookin' up eclectic riffs on the classics like sticky ribs with a Korean twist and the-bomb brisket noodles. There's an upscale diner from a husband-and-wife team in Cincinnati, doctoring up a dirty French burger with mouthwatering mornay sauce and platin' top-notch chili crunch chicken nuggets. And in Austin, Texas, a funky veggie-forward spot is firin' up from-scratch vegan patties with a chipotle pesto punch, plus a primo pasta margarita.
This trip, Guy Fieri's going from the-bomb breakfast to a taste of Italy! First, a brunch bonanza in Columbus, Ohio, is channeling Latin and Southern with their decadent dulce de leche pancake balls and a funkalicious fried chicken French toast sammy. Then, a Boston joint is doing locally sourced, elevated eats, like rock star rum baba and an amped-up, pepperoni-piled-high pie. Finally in San Luis Obispo, Calif., a lights-out Italian place is plating a punchy parmesan pasta in a righteous ragu and killer carbonara pizza.