Ree Drummond is making care packages for her two daughters in college. She sends them Homemade Breakfast Tarts, Nut and Seed Brittle, Salt and Pepper Crackers and Cherry Gummies for something sweet. Ree's sons get involved, too, shopping for fun treats to send to their sisters with love from home.
Trisha and her sister, Beth, are throwing a joint birthday party for each other at the local bowling alley. They keep it stress free and fun as they whip up an easy but delicious menu that includes Ranch Dressing Cheese Log, Mini Chicken Pizzas and Chocolate Cake With Divinity Frosting.
After visiting Nashville's replica of the Parthenon, Trisha Yearwood gets a hankering for Mediterranean food. She invites her niece, Ashley, over to help make Stuffed Collard Greens, Greek Fried Cheese and Beef Moussaka. For dessert, they go all out with Mint Pistachio Baklava.
When Trisha Yearwood's niece Ashley first moved to Nashville, she would text Aunt T for recipe ideas and ways to make meals that last on a college student's budget. They're demonstrating these recipes and showing incredible ways to meal prep for the week including shortcuts for making your next meal a breeze. Recipes include Chicken and Spinach Mac n' Cheese, Chop Chop Salad, Everything Soup and Cereal Ice Pops.
Trisha Yearwood invites her longtime friend, Julie, into the kitchen for a day celebrating all things bread. As they swap childhood bread-making stories, they create a menu that includes Creamy Tomato Soup, No-Knead Cheddar Bread, Hearty "BLT" Sandwiches and Chocolate Orange Bread Pudding to finish the amazing meal.
Trisha Yearwood loves to support her local community, so she stops by the local firehouse to visit her buddy, Gary, and see if he and the other firefighters would enjoy a comforting meal. To feed the hungry crowd without breaking the bank, Trisha whips up some hearty, comforting crowd pleasers, including Marinated Veggie Salad, Dutch Oven Garlic Braised Beef, Smashed Red Potatoes with Herb Oil and, for a salty-sweet dessert, Bacon Potato Chip Brownies.
Molly Yeh is making an easy and hearty lunch for the Hagen family farmers, and she's using some of her favorite pantry staples -- with a twist -- to fill them up on a budget. She starts by making cheesy Meatball-Stuffed Biscuits and a side dish with a little kick, Spicy Roasted Delicata Squash. Then Molly prepares Creamy Polenta with Crispy Bacon and Chard as well as Cinnamon Cookies and Cream Meringues that look like mini dessert clouds covered in tasty cookie soil.
Ree Drummond has been stocking up for four make-ahead meals that are as cheap as they are easy to make. There's inexpensive Slow Cooker Teriyaki Ribs with Quick Slaw, Tex-Mex Meatballs, BBQ Chicken Baked Potatoes and a Cheesy Rigatoni Pepper Bake.
Ree Drummond is sharing about the other men in her life and their favorite sweets, like her chocoholic dad and his love for Bartlesville Cream Pie. Her spirited brother-in-law Tim never says no to her Sweet and Sour Lollipops, and her father-in-law, Chuck, goes crazy for Lemon Bread Pudding with Bourbon Whipped Cream. Her brother even has his favorite snack named after him: Mike's Crispy Treats.
Chef Amanda Freitag, YouTube star Harley Morenstein and actress Anika Noni Rose preside over an all-pizza competition! Three courses of pizza begin with appetizers comprised of exotic looking mushrooms and a creamy Italian sauce. The fun continues as the junior chefs battle against some challenging dough and more sauce in the entree round. Then, the finalists tackle pizza dessert using cheese with a funny name and a wild assortment of fruit!
It's a friendly competition between friends, when the Chopped judges face off with baskets containing leftover ingredients. In the appetizer round, the chefs must turn tuna noodle casserole into something new. Rice left in a pan and soup saved for later are two of the ingredients in the entree basket. In the dessert round, leftover cake must be turned into something innovative and delicious.
In pursuit of $50,000, four Chopped champions are back at the stoves with renewed ambition, seeking to be named the best of the best! The appetizer round is as exciting as they come, and a fire extinguisher is used for the first time in Chopped history. Extreme examples of salty and sweet meet in the second basket, and a colorful, unconventional surprise in the dessert basket gets a "wow" from everyone, but can the chefs get it to work in their final plates?
Four Chopped champions come back fiercer than ever with their sights set on the tournament's $50,000 grand finale. The chefs create wildly different appetizers from a basket that includes black garlic. A novelty candy in the second basket requires a hammer and some culinary imagination, and plenty of competing flavors in the dessert basket leave the chefs with some decisions to make.
The judges grapple with how to chop champions when four talented winners return to the Chopped Kitchen for a shot at $50,000. In the first basket, the chefs face a delicacy from the sea. A fancy sauce and a plain vanilla treat are two of the ingredients in the mix in round two, and a giant, chocolaty surprise awaits the chefs who make it to the dessert round.
Four returning Chopped champions compete for a chance to make it to the grand finale to fight for $50,000. In the first round, the chefs contend with a basket that includes tiny, infuriatingly time-consuming eggs and a Moroccan meat. Red snapper in the entree basket must be filleted in a snap, and pastries and pops in the dessert basket challenge the two remaining competitors.
Four repeat champs are back for the Chopped Champions Grand Finale and the chance to make a $50,000 meal! The appetizer basket challenges the chefs with a seafood delicacy that requires a high degree of thoughtfulness. An in-your-face shocker in the second basket leaves the remaining chefs racing to make bold plates. And with the prize at stake, the two remaining chefs face off in a dessert round with a basket that is fittingly difficult.
Chopped champions return to the stoves, racing the clock and conquering basket after basket with the hope of moving on to the $50,000 finale. Watermelon weirdness in the first basket threatens to shake the champs' confidence, and a funky soybean product and an unusual cut of meat challenge the chefs to come up with wholly original entrees. Inside the dessert basket, the remaining chefs find a crunchy surprise that they must make work with a delicate fruit.
The chefs face baskets filled with some of the most bizarre ingredients imaginable. To start, a strange pig part is the bombshell in the appetizer basket. The competitors then open up their second basket to find a fuzzy vegetable and a shocking meat. Finally, the unusual ingredients in the dessert round include an eye opening, oddly named sweet treat.
The chefs are shocked to find out that in this special episode, bizarre foods will be found in all the baskets. In the first round, a strange bird part and a stinky young fruit are two of the surprises in the baskets. Then the three chefs who get a shot at the entree round must turn some very hot candies and some ugly offal into beautiful, balanced dishes. And something purple and something fermented make for a very difficult dessert round.
Chopped champions return to the stoves, racing the clock and conquering basket after basket with the hope of moving on to the $50,000 finale. Watermelon weirdness in the first basket threatens to shake the champs' confidence, and a funky soybean product and an unusual cut of meat challenge the chefs to come up with wholly original entrees. Inside the dessert basket, the remaining chefs find a crunchy surprise that they must make work with a delicate fruit.
The chefs face baskets filled with some of the most bizarre ingredients imaginable. To start, a strange pig part is the bombshell in the appetizer basket. The competitors then open up their second basket to find a fuzzy vegetable and a shocking meat. Finally, the unusual ingredients in the dessert round include an eye opening, oddly named sweet treat.
The chefs are shocked to find out that in this special episode, bizarre foods will be found in all the baskets. In the first round, a strange bird part and a stinky young fruit are two of the surprises in the baskets. Then the three chefs who get a shot at the entree round must turn some very hot candies and some ugly offal into beautiful, balanced dishes. And something purple and something fermented make for a very difficult dessert round.
Four repeat champs are back for the Chopped Champions Grand Finale and the chance to make a $50,000 meal! The appetizer basket challenges the chefs with a seafood delicacy that requires a high degree of thoughtfulness. An in-your-face shocker in the second basket leaves the remaining chefs racing to make bold plates. And with the prize at stake, the two remaining chefs face off in a dessert round with a basket that is fittingly difficult.
Chefs Kardea Brown and Amanda Freitag are joined by actor Andrew Rannells to judge a very fishy competition! Some sugary items in the first basket have the competitors wondering how to create balanced fish dishes, and time management issues create big problems for one junior chef and a difficult choice for the judges. Canned pasta and an extremely salty veggie are two of the entree round ingredients, then an injury in the dessert round puts one finalist in jeopardy of ruining their dish.
