This show kicks off with one of Food Network's most searched recipes: Potato Salad! The hosts have some fun new uses for your kitchen tools. Katie makes a No Bake Dessert Strawberry Fool and they cover foods with a bad rap. The gang answers viewer questions via The Kitchen Helpline and the hosts have five delicious ways to put an egg on it. Geoffrey Zakarian makes Mexico's national cocktail while the hosts talk about the food trends they're into!
Late spring in Vermont can only mean one thing -- maple syrup. Gesine Prado is baking up a big brunch with what remains of last season's maple syrup harvest while her husband, Ray, is in the yard tapping the trees for this year's crop. His mom, sister and niece are coming to town, so Gesine bakes up a sweet brunch with a Maple-Glazed Bundt Cake, Sunrise Biscuit Casserole and Maple Flower Cookies. Ray brings Gesine a fresh batch of maple syrup to top her Heart-Shaped Pancakes.
Kardea Brown invites Aunt TC over to help plant a container garden in the backyard while Kardea cooks up a fresh veggie and herb-inspired meal. First up, Veggie Soul Rolls are stuffed with collard greens, carrots, cabbage and rice. Then, Kardea grills Lamb Chops with a Mint Pesto and prepares a Fresh Tomato and Feta Salad. To finish off a beautiful day, nothing sounds better than keeping the oven off, so Kardea makes a no-bake Carolina Mud Pie.
Boot camp has been transformed into a circus fairground complete with a wall of cotton candy! The recruits begin with a blind cotton-candy tasting before the opposing teams go head-to-head in a cookie dough pop challenge. There's no clowning around in the main bake challenge, however, as the recruits tackle one of the most difficult pastries -- pate a choux. Those who make show-worthy cream puffs get to stick around while the bottom two get sent home.
Summer is in full swing and the Kitchen is preparing a week's worth of easy meals that include Geoffrey Zakarian's Orecchiette with Shrimp and Corn as well as Katie Lee's Grilled Chicken and Kale Greek Salad. Sunny Anderson shares a Supermarket Fix to make Chicken Cheesesteaks and Donal Skehan drops by to make a Spicy Steak Noodle Bowl. Geoffrey finishes off the week by making Swordfish Kebabs with Summer Vegetables and Jeff Mauro makes a No-Bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Pie for dessert.
Five of the most talented cookie makers in America strive for the spotlight when Eddie Jackson presents the most difficult decorating challenge of all -- the dreaded slice-and-bake. The design must be baked into the cookie itself, and judges Vivian Chan, Ree Drummond and Dan Langan decide which baker makes the cut. Then the competitors have to create showstopping centerpieces made of cookies, but there's a catch: They have to use herbs and spices like sage, thyme, tarragon and cumin. The table is set for a sensational sugar-filled scrap for the $10,000 prize.
The seven bakers left in the competition are tasked with putting their own spin on kuchen, the official state dessert of South Dakota. The featured flavor is cookies, and they have to serve their kuchen with a side of ice cream. The competitors in the bake-off challenge must do a switcheroo with Minnesota's scotcheroo bar, making a new dessert using its classic ingredients of chocolate, peanut butter, rice cereal and butterscotch. Host Carla Hall and judges Gesine Prado and Jason Smith decide which baker to send home.
The Kitchen hosts are ready for the unofficial start of summer! Sunny Anderson brings in the season with her Gigante Red Margarita Bowl and Lamb Gyro Burgers. Next, Alex Guarnaschelli makes Honey Garlic Soy Grilled Chicken, and Geoffrey Zakarian pairs it with his Smashed Cucumbers and Fennel Chili Crisp Walnut Salad. Katie Lee Biegel and Dairy Queen host a delicious summer celebration, and then Katie bakes her Double Chocolate Strawberry Cookies. Finally, Jeff Mauro puts together the summer quintessential Sunshine Daydream Salad using yellow tomatoes, corn and yellow squash.
The Kitchen is stirring up weeknight favorite recipes, like Geoffrey Zakarian's Mediterranean Steak and Potatoes. Jeff Mauro steps up the classic red sauce routine with a One Pot Super Easy Fusilli, and cookbook author Gaby Dalkin takes over taco night with a Taco Skillet Bake. Sunny Anderson spices up chicken and rice with some Grilled Sweet and Spicy Chicken Thighs and Rice, and Katie Lee adds a surprise to her dessert with Peanut Butter Cup Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookies. Finally, the hosts predict the coolest items to freshen up the freezer.
Ree Drummond is taking a trip down memory lane by sharing chocolate recipes that are special to her. First, Ree loved her family's Chocolate Cake with 7-Minute Frosting as a kid, and she loves it still. Then, Ree makes a Chocolate Rice Pudding that reminds her of her beloved grandma, and three favorite childhood cereals get rolled into Ree's Chocolate Cereal Treats, a chocolate lover's dream. Finally, Ree bakes The Best Mini Chocolate Chip Cookies, just like the ones she ate on family vacations in the old days.