Guy Fieri celebrates citrus as Chef Shirley Chung starts off with an excellent Endive and Blood Orange Salad before charming us with Ms. Chi's Orange Chicken. Chef Lorena Garcia shares a citrusy Shrimp Ceviche Tostada and plates up Pluma Iberico with Meyer Lemon. Chef Traci Des Jardins stirs things up with a Salted Kumquat Tequila and Soda, then shines with a simple yet beautiful Sea Bass with Celery Root and Meyer Lemon. Chef Jonathan Waxman goes old-school with Whole Liberty Duckling with Sauce Bigarde and warms our hearts with his Wood Roasted Grapefruit Salad with Tangerine Dressing.
Alex loves cooking for her friends. She makes one of her favorite dishes from the restaurant - a pan-fried pesto pizza with mozzarella and parmesan. Alex serves the pizza with a colorful bibb radish salad topped with bacon dressing. For appetizers, Alex serves beer battered shrimp wrapped in basil and topped with just the right hint of salt. She'll toast with her friends over a chilled apple cider drink with sparkling Cava wine.
Big Daddy's Deli is open for business! First, there is nothing like a perfectly brined and roasted Homemade Patrami to make a killer sandwich. And it comes with Big Daddy's very special Thousand Island dressing! Big Daddy's isn't skimping on the sides, either. Make room for a ridiculously good Grilled Potato Salad with Parsley Pesto and a Smoky Shrimp Slaw that'll have you coming back for seconds in seconds! Deli Done Right, right at home!
While Ladd's feeding cattle and wild horses, Ree Drummond is getting a jump on the day by making Spicy Stewed Beef, Pimento Cheese and Bacon Grits and a hearty side of Roasted Broccoli Salad with Sour Cream and Parsley Dressing. With dinner in the fridge, she's preparing for a future breakfast with a Mason Jar Pancake Mix perfect for knocking out a great meal any time or if a passing rancher drops by.
Ree Drummond is getting ready for two busy days by preparing a variety of make-ahead marvels! For day one, she's making Maple Sausage Breakfast Burritos for the guys to eat at a big cattle working and a Cobb-Wedge Salad Kit with Thousand Island Dressing to throw together for supper. For day two, there's a great get-ahead dinner kit that includes Chicken, Red Pepper Sauce and Roasted Green Vegetable Medley.
Pat and Gina show you that an easy meal can also mean an elegant one. Pat gets started with Grilled Salmon with Triple Citrus Glaze which will go perfectly with an Arugula Salad with Bacon and Pecans with Tomato Ranch Dressing. Then add some Roasted Garlic Potatoes and you've got yourself an easy, elegant meal. But save room, because Pat and Gina pulled out all the stops with their Peanut Butter Pie.
The chefs must make use of ingredients that are usually thrown out, for being imperfect, overripe or stale. For example, the first basket includes juicer pulp and tea bags. Then in the second round, the competitors have to get creative with a little bit of salad dressing and some paltry scraps of poultry. And the finalists get some often-tossed portions of a fruit and the peels of a veggie to work into their desserts.
The chefs struggle to make composed, elegant dishes with green goddess salad dressing in the first round. The second round brings about a reversal of fortune, when the competitors impress the judges with what they can do with fortune cookies and brazino. Two finalists go full steam ahead into the last round; but when the chefs realize they are making the exact same dessert, using sourdough bread, will either competitor change course?
It's eggs all the way in an incredible master class, featuring them both soft boiled and in the dressing of a fantastic Caesar Salad with Blue Cheese and Bacon. Egg whites are whipped to perfection for a Pavlova Fruit Tart, then there's foolproof Truffled Scrambled Eggs. She makes Eggs Benedict with an Easy Hollandaise Sauce just like a pro, and super chef Jose Andres reveals the secret of his perfectly fried eggs.