Whether you're a newbie baker or a pro who wants to take it easy, Mary Berg has recipe hacks to raise your baking game. Mary's Chocolate Chip Cookie Cupcakes feature a sneaky surprise center thanks to a roll of cookie dough from the refrigerator aisle, and store-bought pie crust is the perfect texture for Blondie Pie with apricot jam filling. Hummingbird Cake is an impressive dessert that tastes as if carrot cake and banana bread had a baby. Mary jazzes it up with canned pineapple, cream cheese peanut butter frosting and crunchy Peanut Butter Feuilletine-like topping made from breakfast cereal.
There's nothing like turkey day -- unless you're Jeff Mauro! Jeff's all about the day after Thanksgiving, and the wonderland of leftovers just begging to be made into sandwiches. After a raucous Thanksgiving meal with the whole Mauro clan, Jeff grabs a bunch of leftovers and heads home for seconds ... and thirds! He does the classic Thanksgiving on a Roll one better by using stuffing as the bread! Then he makes a spicy barbecued turkey hero, paired with tangy cranberry barbecue sauce. To finish up, Jeff tries to replicate his mom's amazing mashed potatoes -- with a few of his own special tweaks, of course.
Guy Fieri's seeking out some signature dishes. Chef Shirley Chung finds some fusion with her Ms. Chi's Jumbo Cheeseburger Potstickers and rolls up some of her favorite Vegan Scallion Pancakes. Chef Lorena Garcia plies us with her Pineapple Chicarita cocktail, makes our tongues wag with her Wagyu Short Rib "Asado Negro Style" with Arepitas and charms us with Chocolate Marquesa Cake. Chef Traci Des Jardins doesn't disappoint with a delectable Duck Breast with Rhubarb, Spring Onions and Blistered Fava Beans before warming our hearts with her Warm Bread Salad with Roasted Baby Artichoke and Marinated Crescenza.
Tom Papa visits the brash and brainy cities of Boston and Cambridge to find their best baked goods. Steps from Harvard, he learns how to make a lobster roll served on a jet black bun at Pagu, and he finds hamburgers and buns that are so decadent that only 18 can be made each night! At Maria's Pastry Shop, Tom helps bake massive, flaky, cream-filled pastries called lobster tails, and then he heads to Santarpio's Pizza to bake Italian bread and grill hot Italian sausage. Finally, Tom learns the secret to perfect pie crust from a Harvard-educated baker and helps her craft her take on everyone's favorite toaster pastry.
The Kitchen is baking up nothing but sweet treats! Geoffrey Zakarian shares an easy recipe for a Quick Caramelized Apple Tart, and Katie Lee includes a surprise addition in her Secret Ingredient (Miso!) Chocolate Chip Cookies. Baker Samantha Seneviratne swings by to share her recipe for Maple Cream Pie, and breakfast turns into dessert when Sunny Anderson makes her Easy Cinnamon Roll Bread Pudding. Of course, there's cake too, and Alex Guarnaschelli makes her decadent Cannoli Filling Rum Cake. Plus, the hosts blend up their favorite milkshakes: Chocolate PB and J Shake, Thin Mint Milkshake, Peanut Butter Banana Milkshake and Rum Raisin Toasted Marshmallow Shake.
Eating mouthwatering meat for cheap is Rahm Fama's mission in this episode, as he sets out across the country in search of unbelievable, meaty deals. His first stop is Las Vegas where he rolls the dice at Agave and comes up with a lamb taco & a BBQ duck quesadilla for under five bucks. Next, Rahm heads to New Orleans to Dong Phuong, a French-Vietnamese bakery where three dollars gets him a delicious, hand-ground, pork sausage po-boy sandwich served on homemade French bread. Finally our meat-man stops off at Urban Cannibals Bodega & Bites in Atlanta where the chef is serving a gourmet, Reuben sandwich made with slow roasted Berkshire pork. It's a meaty score for less than eight bucks.