Ina's got vegetable ideas for every day of the week, when you're stuck in a vegetable rut: Spring Green Risotto With Artichokes, Mustard-Roasted Potatoes, Broccoli Rabe With Garlic and Warm Mushroom Salad are a compilation of fantastic main courses, starters, salads and sides, plus the vegetable low-down from local farmers at Amber Waves, a fantastic farming local cooperative.
The chefs learn they will be expected to make a pizza perfect meal. In the first round one of the competitors takes a loose interpretation of the theme: How will the judges react? Then some unusual toppings must make their way onto the entree pizzas. And the finalists must make pizza for dessert, with candied mushrooms and salted caramel sauce.
Calling all cooks! The Neelys have a "Blue Plate Special" that's sure to put up the tickets! First, Pat's making his filing Chopped Steak With Mushroom and Onion Gravy. Then, it's creamy, Mashed Cauliflower and Cheese. Finally, a refined dessert you can bake at the drop of a hat, toothsome Chocolate Tartlets. Hurry, this "Blue Plate Special" won't last long!
Sunny Anderson welcomes special guests with new renditions on old classics. Her comforting Tuna Noodle Casserole gets spruced up with cremini mushrooms, sweet peas and a creamy cheddar cheese sauce. For dessert, her Loopy Lime and Lychee Gelatin Parfait, filled with sweet lychee fruit in vanilla vodka-spiked lime gelatin, is as fun to eat as it is to say.
It's one of the most heart-healthy nuts out there, and it's the featured ingredient in all the dishes in this episode - the almond. It's also a delicious compliment to just about any dish, so check out the amazing recipes for Sole Almondine, Mushroom Almond Pilaf, Phylly-Wrapped Brie with Almonds, Almond Baklava, and the most amazing Amaretto Stinger.
Damaris and one of her best friends, pastry chef Terra Nelson, rent a movie from their favorite video store and decide to whip up the perfect snacks to munch as they watch. On the menu: Hickory and Gorgonzola Popcorn, easy handmade Wild Mushroom and Cheddar Pork Sausages and no one can resist their Homemade Candy Bars With Chunks of Cookies and Caramel.