It's pasta three ways in an inexpensive party featuring everyone's favorite Italian food served in ways you'd never expect! With recipes for Lasagna of Roasted Butternut Squash; Crispy Pasta Salad with Warm goat cheese and pancetta; Baked Pastina Timbale
Gameplan
1 Day Before Party:
Grind fennel-cinnamon spice mixture for Butternut Squash Lasagna.
Peel and dice butternut squash. Season and roast squash then puree for lasagna. Blend puree with cheeses and set aside in refrigerator.
Roast tomatoes and jalapeños for Pastina Timbale Sauce.
Dice roasted peppers for Pastina Timbale Sauce.
Cook lasagna noodles for Butternut Squash Lasagna.
Dice and sauté remaining ingredients for Pastina Timbale Sauce. Finish Timbale Sauce. Cool and store overnight in refrigerator.
Prepare and finish béchamel sauce for Butternut Squash Lasagna.
Assemble Butternut Squash Lasagna.
1 Hour Before Party:
Bake Butternut Squash Lasagna.
Cook pastina for Pastina Timbale.
Poach and sauté sausage for Pastina Timbale.
Sauté garlic and breadcrumbs for Pastina Timbale. Prepare bowl to mold Timbale.
Combine pastina with Timbale sauce, pour into bowl and rest until service.
Cook angel hair pasta and fry for Pasta Cakes.
Assemble and dress Pasta Cake Salad.
At the Party:
Un-mold Pastina Timbale.
Eat and Enjoy!
It's an American Thanksgiving tradition, country style. With recipes for Whole Roasted Turkey with Citrus Rosemary Salt, Roasted Winter Squash, and Autumn Panzanella
Gameplan 1 Day Before Party
Peel and dice butternut squash and chop herbs for Roasted Butternut Squash.
Blend and simmer brown butter sauce and toss with squash. Roast squash.
Blend Citrus Rosemary Salt for Roasted Turkey. Store in a container overnight.
Remove roasted squash from oven and and puree it. Cool, cover and refrigerate overnight.
Dice bread, toss with brown butter and cheese and bake croutons for Autumn Panzanella Salad. Cool, cover and store overnight.
3 Hours Before Party:
Season turkeys with olive oil and reserved Citrus Rosemary Salt. Roast turkeys. When finished, pull from oven and allow to rest before carving.
Sauté onions and vinegar and puree for dressing for Autumn Panzanella Salad.
Sauté mushrooms and thyme and add to Autumn Panzanella Salad.
Reheat prepared Roasted Butternut Squash.
Blend flour, butter and stock for gravy. Simmer a few minutes and serve warm with turkeys.
Assemble and dress Autumn Panzanella Salad.
At the Party:
Carve and serve turkeys with gravy.
Serve Autumn Panzanella Salad and Roasted Butternut Squash.
Eat and Enjoy!
Wine Recommendation 2001 Trefethen Cabernet, Napa Valley 2001 Adler Fels Gewurztraminer, Russian River Valley
Emeril knows there's nothing like the feeling you get when you find a new love. That's why he's created this top rate meal to help calm some of those first date jitters. Recipes include: Vodka-Vanilla Kiss-Me-Tini, Crispy Fried Oysters with a Chili-Corn Sauce, Herbed Spaghetti Squash, Simple Roast Chicken with Truffle Drizzle and Quick and Easy Puff Pastry Fruit Tart.
Join Emeril as he makes straight-A dishes in his kitchen. The kids from the Mahalia Jackson school in Brooklyn are his guests as he prepares food that is perfect not only for the classroom but for the dinner table too. Recipes include Fiesta Quesadilla with Simple Salsa and Holy Guacamole, My Kinda Salad, Mighty Meaty Meatloaf with Sugar and Spice Acorn Squash and Minty Green Peas and Seriously Chocolately Cheesecake.
Food Network searched for the Ultimate Comfort Food recipe. After a nationwide recipe contest, nine finalists competed in three rounds: Chili, Mac and Cheese and Sandwiches. A panel of food experts determined whose comfort food dish was the best. See who walks away the winner of $25,000!
COMPETITORS: Chili
Peg SchaeferRecipe: Mexitana Ancho-Lamb Chili Hometown: Bozeman, Mo.
Ray Isacsson -- Winner!Recipe: Spanish Influenced Chili with Collard Wrapped Pork, Chorizo and Sweet and Smoky Paprikas Hometown: Danbury, Conn.
Anne TegtmeierRecipe: Ultimate Veggie Chili
Mac and Cheese
Autumn ClementsRecipe: Black and Tan Irish Mac and Cheddar Hometown: Amelia Island, Fla.
Brett Greenberg -- WinnerRecipe: French Onion "Soup" Mac and Cheese
Jenny FlakeRecipe: Pepita Crusted Cheddar Jack Southwest Chicken Mac Hometown: Gilbert, Ariz.
SandwichIvan Aviles -- COMFORT FOODS GRAND PRIZE WINNER!Recipe: Boricua Plantain Sandwich Hometown: Holtsville, N.Y.
Anna Georgantonis-KeahRecipe: Squash Sandwiches Hometown: Austin, Texas
Michael GilettoRecipe: Germany's Version of the "South Philly Cheese Steak with a Twist" Hometown: Mickleton, N.J.