The Kitchen has an epic football menu timed out perfectly for the big game. Katie Lee Biegel gets pregame started with beefy, cheesy Crunchy Taco Bites. Sunny Anderson preps a hearty main course recipe for a football crowd with her White Chicken Chicken Chili. At half time, it's time for a pick-me-up with Geoffrey Zakarian's Rum and Cherry Cola Cocktail, and the first ever Kitchen mascot makes an appearance! For the second half, Jeff Mauro has Ultimate Fudgy Brownies with fun toppings your visitors will love. Then, Sunny Anderson shares her tips for sending party guests on their way.
Jeff Mauro highlights The Kitchen's favorite treats for movie night and shares his best tips for having a movie night at home, including how to create theater snacks in the comfort of your own kitchen! Katie Lee Biegel layers on the heat with her Buffalo Chicken Nachos, and Jeff cooks up his Third Down Conversion Dog with beer cheese sauce and pickled jalapeno. Then, Sunny Anderson has the sweets covered with her Easy Brownie BonBons, and Geoffrey Zakarian makes a French Onion Fondue Dip. Plus, a Candy Cheese Ball is a decadent treat everyone will love.
The Kitchen is serving a week's worth of easy meals perfect for warmer weather, like Katie Lee's Mediterranean Grilled Chicken and Eggplant and Jeff Mauro's Thai Meatballs and Zucchini Noodles. Consumer advocate Janice Lieberman shares her tips for buying prepped ingredients at the supermarket and then uses them in a new spin on Chicken Salad. The hosts share their brilliant kitchen hacks to create a Steak Panzanella, plus Sunny Anderson creates an easy Shrimp "Boil" using only a sheet pan. Finally, the hosts guess which food trends are real and worth trying and which are fake.
The Kitchen kicks off a Labor Day barbecue with wings two ways. The hosts have easy solutions to common barbecue dilemmas and offer up recipes including Geoffrey Zakarian's No Cream-Creamed Corn, Marcela Valladolid's Grilled Corn and Poblano Salad, and Sunny Anderson's grilled Jumbo Shrimp with a 1-2-3 Glaze. Plus, desserts you can cook on the grill, using pickle brine to punch up flavor, and cool off with a Frozen Raspberry and Vodka Lemonade.
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Afterglow Cooking
Emeril Lagasse stops by to make a holiday Rack of Lamb with Apple Mint Puree, then take holiday parties up a notch with Katie Lee's Christmas Tree Cheese Ball and Marcela Valladolid's Snowman Cheese Ball. Plus, two ways to serve ham for the holidays, the quickest tricks to create a classic Yule Log Cake, and new tips on how to decorate a store-bought gingerbread house. Geoffrey Zakarian warms everyone up with Peppermint Hot Chocolate while carolers amp up the holiday spirit!
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Holiday Cheese Balls
Gingerbread House
Yule Log Hacks
The Kitchen officially enters the holiday party zone with time saving tips and great recipes to get you prepared. Katie puts her Thanksgiving leftovers to good use with a delicious Turkey Gumbo. Get prepped for the party with surprising and time saving uses for your slow cooker and the hosts give the scoop on the best info and features in the new issue of Food Network Magazine. GZ and Katie visit a local coffee shop and we'll show you how to spice up your coffee at home. Plus, Marcela's Enchiladas Suiza are an easy, go-to dish for your next holiday potluck!
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How to Caramelize Garlic in a Slow Cooker
How to Caramelize Onions in a Slow Cooker
How to Make Slow-Cooker Dulce de Leche
It's a Valentine's Day celebration with plenty of chocolate on this episode of The Kitchen. The hosts prepare a romantic meal with Geoffrey Zakarian's Dark Chocolate Mousse, a tender filet mignon with mushroom red wine sauce from Katie Lee, and two mouthwatering side dishes from Marcela Valladolid and Jeff Mauro. The Kitchen crew gets crafty with new ideas for valentines made out of chocolate, including adorable chocolate kiss critters and edible chocolate vessels. A master chocolatier joins in on the fun with a silky-smooth dark chocolate truffle recipe and out-of-this-world flavors to spice it up! Geoffrey caps it all off with his take on a chocolate martini.
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Strawberry Chocolate Bark
The Kitchen gives retro recipes some modern upgrades, starting with Geoffrey Zakarian's New-Style Steak Diane. The hosts put old-school kitchen rules to the test and share their own tips, and then Sunny Anderson makes her BK Currywurst Pull-Apart Pigs in a Blanket. The Casserole Queens, Sandy Pollock and Crystal Cook, stop by to spice up a classic with Lunch Lady Doris' Spicy Mac and Cheese. Jeff Mauro and Katie Lee re-create two ice cream truck favorites, Double Strawberry Shortcake Bars and Chocolate Peanut Butter Eclair Bars, before the hosts reveal viewers' choice throwback or comeback dishes and give them a retro refresh.
Carnitas hiss in lard and black beans bubble as Chef Gabriela Cámara talks tortillas. “I’ve been making them this way since I was eight,” she says, kneading the masa harina dough. She tests the temperature of her comal, a traditional tortilla griddle, with her bare fingertips without flinching. It’s only 10:30 AM in our studio kitchen, but Cámara needs no warming up before we begin shooting. And there’s no stopping her. She is, after all, chef-owner of nine restaurants in Mexico and one in the US. Cámara never intended to be a food tycoon. The restaurant industry practically fell into her lap while she was studying art history in Mexico City. She and her friends loved eating fresh grilled fish on the coast but noticed that the city was missing a seafood scene, so she opened Contramar. Diners gobbled up her fresh tuna tostadas and grilled fish slathered with a striking duo of red and green chile sauces. “I’m taking advantage of a hole," she says, "of a missing part of cuisine in a city where people are so obsessed with food.” From stuffing tacos to building a Mexican restaurant empire, Cámara is skilled at filling the gaps. In San Francisco, a city that’s notoriously hard to find steady waitstaff, she opened her latest restaurant, Cala, with staff consisting mostly of ex-cons who have come through job-placement programs and halfway houses. “In Mexico, I’ve had all these characters...They get it together because they see an opportunity,” she explains. “I didn’t want to use it as a publicity tool...I did not have that pretension.”Cámara certainly favors deliciousness over pretension in her cooking as well, and that's why she’s created her Mexican Street Food class with us. You’ll learn to griddle homemade corn tortillas that taste nuttier and softer than any store-bought version; they're a key component of Cámara's tangy shredded chicken tacos, Baja-style fish tacos, deep-fried quesadillas, and egg-stuffed breakfast, all topped with homemade tongue-tingling condiments from Yucatán-style pickled onions to fresh salsa verde. There’s even more antojitos (literally "little cravings") in this colorful cooking course, and as Cámara will show you, they’re just as craveable in your kitchen as they are off the street.Gabriela's Restaurants:Contramar (CDMX, Mexico) Cala (San Francisco, CA)
The Kitchen hosts are cooking up delicious recipes using ingredients from their very own pantries, in their very own kitchens! Katie Lee kicks things off with her Pantry Pull Pasta Puttanesca, then Jeff Mauro whips up a flavorful Crispy Skin Salmon Provencal with Charred Red Cabbage Salad. Two Iron Chef recipes use a pantry staple -- Alex Guarnaschelli's White Bean Dip and Geoffrey Zakarian's Three Bean Salad. Plus, Sunny Anderson makes Grilled Bananas Foster, and the virtual happy hour is complete with Geoffrey's Tequila Bumble Bee cocktail and Katie's Grape Lime Ricky mocktail.