There's a winter chill in the air! To keep things warm and toasty, Jeff Mauro brings the heat with his Hot Tub Chicken, while Marcela Valladolid and Sunny Anderson make two delicious fondue recipes. Geoffrey Zakarian makes a batch of French Onion Soup, and Katie Lee prepares Hot Chocolate Bread Pudding that's perfect for dessert next to the fire. The hosts show how to store winter necessities, and they toast to the season with a shot-ski!
The Kitchen is bringing good tidings and a great menu for holiday cheer. To start, Geoffrey Zakarian serves Beef Tenderloin with Jeff Mauro's Blue Cheesy Yorkshire Puddings. The sides are Sunny Anderson's Easy Garlicky Lemon Butter Green Beans and Katie Lee's Mashed Potatoes Gratin. Baker Josh Snyder stops by with his wife, actress Angela Kinsey, to decorate holiday cookies and create a Gingerbread House Cookie Cake. Geoffrey Zakarian toasts the season with a Mulled Cranberry Punch.
The recruits compete in an intergalactic scavenger hunt called "May the Course Be with You" as they race to retrieve ingredients for their next dish. The longer they take, the less time they have to cook! Then, chefs Jeff Mauro and Antonia Lofaso invite the teams to dive into the deep with squid ink seafood pasta. The two bottom recruits face a blind elimination challenge, where they must make fresh pasta and sauce to avoid getting lost in space.
The recruits embark on a mission as culinary spies and race through a scavenger hunt to uncover ingredients and piece together a mystery dish. Then, in the main dish challenge, chefs Jeff Mauro and Tiffany Derry teach their teams how to make elevated proteins and luxury desserts. But the pressure doesn't stop there -- the bottom two face off in a blind elimination cook-off to create a high-end hors d'oeuvre worthy of a secret agent's approval.
Order up! The Kitchen diner is dishing out ultimate comfort food classics. Alex Guarnaschelli's Western Omelet Stuffed Peppers are the new and improved diner staple, while Sunny Anderson's Disco Inferno Tots go for the burn! Then, Geoffrey Zakarian pulls out all the stops for his rich and flavorful Baklava Toast with Cottage Cheese, Jeff Mauro gets your mouth watering with Meatloaf Katsu Sando and Katie Lee Biegel returns to childhood with a Chocolate Peanut Butter Milkshake.
The Kitchen co-hosts are celebrating the amazing moms in their lives with recipes and crafts inspired by them! Geoffrey Zakarian toasts moms with his Rose Elderflower Sangria and whips up Savory Lamb Sliders. Jeff Mauro honors his own mother with Pam's Shrimp and Pea Pasta, and Alex Guarnaschelli makes her Fresh Griddled Flatbread. Sunny Anderson gets crafty with her DIY Mother's Day gifts, and Katie Lee Biegel shares her grandma's award-winning Angel Food Cake recipe!
The Kitchen delivers their best secret ingredients and techniques to instantly upgrade any dish. Jeff Mauro rethinks meat and potatoes with his Skirt Steak with Calabrian Chile Chimichurri & Crispy Parmesan Potatoes, while Katie Lee Biegel makes next-level Shrimp Tacos with Habanero & Peach Salsa. Then, Sunny Anderson kicks it up a notch with her Sweet & Salty Sesame Baked Chicken, Geoffrey Zakarian and the gang share their favorite fridge staples and Alex Guarnaschelli whips up a Kimchi Mayo.
Ditch the four walls, head outside, and get your fill of those portable powerhouses known as food trucks. Jeff Mauro gets happy about an angry lobster sandwich from the Happy Lobster Truck in Chicago. Sabin Lomac puts the pedal to the metal for The Bacon Truck's bacon mac and cheese bites in Boston, and nothing is going to slow down Ali Khan as he speeds towards the best food on wheels at LeRoy and Lewis Barbecue in Austin, Texas.
Kitchen Sink kicks off with a new way to weave bacon into every bite of breakfast, then Tregaye Fraser and Jeff Mauro take nachos to a new level with twists on the classic snack food. Inspired by the pizza pot pie, Fanny Slater wows with her combination of pizza and quesadillas. Finally, the Sink hits the streets to see one of the hottest dessert trends then shows how to make twists on ice cream cones at home.
To honor the wonderful women who raised them right, four famous Food Network cooks -- Ted Allen, Jeff Mauro, Jet Tila and Chris Santos -- compete with their moms! In the first round, the mother/son teams strive to manage their time and to carefully crack quail eggs. A large fish and some lovely lemons make up part of the second basket. Then, the final two family duos must find sweet ways to use blood oranges and walnuts.