The Kitchen is back with a menu refresh that includes spring flavors, tips and trends! Sunny Anderson starts with her recipe for Quick Onion and Garlic Shrimp with Pasta then Food Network Magazine's Maile Carpenter reveals how often we should be cleaning our kitchen's trickier tools and appliances. Jeff Mauro freshens up traditional Caprese Salad with chicken and a sweet-and-tart pomegranate glaze. Next, renowned cookbook author Mark Bittman stops by to make his crispy Potato Fennel Pizza and Geoffrey Zakarian turns cake on its head with his moist-and-fruity Rhubarb Upside-Down Cake.
Noah Cappe heads to Pacific Northwest for the Washington State Spring Fair to take in the seafood scene with the Seattle Crabby Dog loaded with cream cheese, sauteed onions and native Dungeness crab, plus Bowtie Prawn Pie -- an alfredo prawn pizza topped with farfalle pasta. Then, Noah stops and smells the flowers at the Meriden Daffodil Festival in Connecticut. Local Italian Americans carnival-fy family recipes to create perfect comfort foods like the Italian Chili Dog that tops a classic Italian sausage with pasta e fagioli and Lasagna Nachos that deep fry lasagna sheets covered in parmesan, mozzarella and marinara. For dessert, Noah grabs the Lemon Meringue Funnel Pie, a classic funnel cake loaded with tart lemon curd, buttery shortbread and crunchy meringues. Finally, it's off to the Four States Fair in Texarkana, Arkansas, for rocky road-ified fries and the Mud Bug Roll -- a sushi roll stuffed with local crawfish wrapped into spring roll and deep fried.
Craving a cheeseburger but want to make it fancy? Rachael Ray's French Dip Cheeseburgers on Brioche Rolls use the elements of French onion soup to take a cheeseburger to the next level. Rachael pairs her burgers with Crispy, Buttery Crushed Potatoes.
Tyler cranks out the ultimate bistro menu with recipes for the ultimate French Onion Soup, Strip Steak Au Poivre with Brandied Mushrooms, and Potatoes Gratin.
There's no better way to enjoy summer than outdoor eating and gathering, so the Kitchen hosts are serving up perfectly packable eats for the beach, park, pool or a hike! Jeff Mauro fries up an iconic Picnic Fried Chicken with Honey Giardiniera Butter, and Geoffrey Zakarian puts his Iron Chef spin on Pasta Salad with Tomatoes, Cucumbers and Grilled Green Onion-Crushed Olive Vinaigrette. Katie Lee Biegel whips up Curried Chickpea Salad Pitas to bring to the picnic, and Sunny Anderson shares tips and tricks for feasting in the great outdoors. Finally, Alex Guarnaschelli freshens up the outdoor feast with her Chilled Melon, Cucumber and Mint Salad.