Social media maven Kardea Brown is taking food pictures worth a thousand bites! To start off, she makes a Steakhouse Burger with frizzled onion, thick-cut bacon and blue cheese dressing, and she serves it with Crispy Home Fries topped with a pimiento aioli. Then she arranges Roasted Fennel with Apple Cider Reduction and saves the best for last, Bananas Foster Upside-Down Cake.
The judges are eager to taste the chefs' cod filet appetizers, but the super-short first round proves to be a challenge for some of the competitors. Cottage cheese and an unusual Chinese snack food are two of the ingredients that the chefs must incorporate into their entrée plates. Then, a colorful cake and a fruity sauce must find their way into the finalists' desserts.
Ree Drummond is full of the holiday spirit and preparing small bites for the big day. There are festive Mini Peppermint Rolls, perfect as a treat for Santa. Then, a trio of simple, seasonal savories: very Christmassy Crispy Cauliflower Cakes, cowboy favorite Steak Bites with Spicy Blue Cheese Cream and beautiful Charcuterie Board Bites. It's all about amazing, easy apps and fun finger food.
Ina Garten is entertaining, and she's taking the pressure off with all make-ahead dishes. She starts with two easy appetizers, Mustard and Gruyere Batons and Warm Dates with Blue Cheese and Prosciutto. Her main course is Moroccan Lamb Tagine with Steamed Couscous, and she whips up a Decadent Chocolate Cake for dessert. Ina also shakes up a classic cocktail with the Dukes Cosmopolitan.
Ina Garten is baking up a storm and feeling good as she prepares a marvelous make-ahead Truffled Mac and Cheese that's all dressed up for company. She puts a new spin on a decadent, elegant Bittersweet Chocolate Cake that everyone adores, and she kick-starts the day with a dramatic Apple Cinnamon Dutch Baby. Finally, she turns up the volume on Salted Pistachio Meringues that are absolutely astonishing.
Chef Bobby Flay gives makeovers to some of his favorite All-American dishes. First up, it's dessert for brunch with Bobby's Carrot Cake Pancakes with a Maple-Cream Cheese Drizzle and Toasted Pecans, followed by a Harlem classic -- Wild Rice Waffles and Fried Chicken with a Pink Peppercorn and Honey Sauce. He tops off this American-inspired brunch with a Strawberry Shortcake Shake topped with a Homemade Biscuit Crumble.
Noah Cappe gets things started in Florida at the Okeechobee County Fair where he samples the Hot Wing Grilled Cheese, the Sweet Bacon Devil Burger and the made-in-Florida Strawberry Margarita Funnel Cake. Next, he's off to the Scarborough Renaissance Festival in Waxahachie, Texas, to indulge in ooey-gooey Pasta Roses before finishing things off with the Lords of Hogtown -- homemade cinnamon rolls made even better with bacon!
The Neelys get started with an Old Fashioned Glazed Ham W/ Pineapple & Cherries that will remind you of the good ole days. Next up, a sweet treat with their Cane Syrup-Glazed Sweet Potatoes W/ Marshmallow Streusel. It keeps getting sweeter with Red Velvet Cone Cakes W/ Cream Cheese Icing that truly is a Neely remix. The Neelys are going to show you how sweet life's cravings can really be!