The Kitchen shares fun, cool recipes for the hottest days of summer! Katie Lee kicks things off with her Crunchy Cabbage Salad with Chicken and Garlic Orange Dressing. Sunny Anderson shares her cold and refreshing Easy Roasted Green Gazpacho, and Jeff Mauro makes a super fresh spin on a classic sandwich, his Strawberry Balsamic BLT. Then, Geoffrey Zakarian prepares his Grilled Swordfish with Mango Salsa, and Alex Guarnaschelli has the perfect summer dessert with her Watermelon Granita Parfait. Plus, the hosts share some great ways to cool down in the summer heat.
Sunny gets inspired by the food in a Brooklyn, New York neighborhood. Mild, beef-stuffed Cubanelle peppers and her Summer Corn Salad are brimming with Latin spices and herbs; crispy Cheese and Guava Pockets are bite-sized desserts.
Eddie Jackson greets the last three chefs for the big finale and tells them that they'll be preparing the ultimate summer party. In their first challenge, the chefs have 30 minutes to create three kabobs with summer party themes and one chef will get skewered early by judges Damaris Phillips and Jamika Pessoa, who are joined by barbecue experts Susie Bulloch and Cameron Treu. In the second and final heat, the two remaining chefs have 60 minutes to create an elevated dinner and dessert for the ultimate summer dinner party, but the only heat source they can use is the grill. In the end, one chef wins the Ultimate Summer Cook-Off and $25,000!
Alex Guarnaschelli takes on Stakeout's toughest carts and fishes for answers to how to create a surf-and-turf dish without the surf. Then it's anything but breezy as she tries to make a summer dessert with only five ingredients.
The Kitchen is keeping it easy and breezy for summer with recipes to make in a snap. Katie Lee uses the grill to cook a whole meal of Sesame Shrimp and Greens with Rice Foil Packs, and then the hosts pass the Stuffed Grilled Avocados loaded with their favorite guacamole ingredients. Geoffrey Zakarian makes a simple summer pasta, Fusilli with Arugula, Basil Pesto and Crispy Pancetta. Food Network's Christian Petroni grills up his Tenderoni Pizza, and Jeff Mauro dishes out an Atlantic Beach Pie for dessert. Finally, the hosts share their favorite new grocery store shortcuts for summer.
Marc Summers opens the secrets behind the easiest desserts with the history behind Jell-o, how Duncan Hines develops new cakes, visit the Jiffy factory & see how Mrs. Smith makes their pies with the secrets to making them seem like homemade.
Melissa d'Arabian makes a summery fish dinner that's ready in a flash and won't break the bank. Sauteed Flounder fillets are elegant alongside a colorful array of stuffed summer vegetables. Ginger-Mint Simple Syrup transforms watermelon into a light and refreshing dessert.
Summer movies are the best, and host Jesse Palmer uses Disney and Pixar's Inside Out 2 as inspiration for the bakers to design core summer travel memory desserts inspired by the core memories that help make people who they are. After bringing their emotions to life, the bakers create emotion cakes so that judges Carla Hall, Duff Goldman and Damaris Phillips can experience ALL the feelings before deciding whose cake doesn't bring joy.