Bobby Flay shares that his three favorite things about Kentucky are the derby, bourbon and hot browns. Joe Castro is the executive chef of the Brown Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky, where the Kentucky Hot Brown was first invented. Joe and his brother, John, share their Kentucky Hot Brown recipe. Their classic recipe includes Texas toast, cheese sauce, tomatoes and turkey, baked then topped off with bacon.
Tyler Florence prepares to make pizza margherita by adding some extra-virgin olive oil to a preheated pan. He adds four cloves of chopped garlic, and about two tablespoons each of fresh Mediterranean oregano and thyme. He then uses food scissors to cut up canned whole tomatoes before adding them to the pan and stirring. He seasons with salt and fresh cracked pepper. While the sauce cooks, he kneads his homemade dough and stretches it into an oblong shape, like a flatbread. A sheet pan is heating in an oven set to 450 degrees F. He removes the sheet pan from the oven, coats it with extra-virgin olive oil and lays the pizza dough on top, where it begins cooking immediately. Tyler uses a ladle to add the Neapolitan sauce on top of the dough. He uses the ladle to drain some of the liquid so it doesn’t make the dough soggy. He then adds chunks of buffalo mozzarella to the pizza. Tyler tops it all off with whole basil leaves, a drizzle of extra-virgin olive oil and some salt and fresh cracked pepper. After baking for 15 to 20 minutes at 450 degrees F, the pizza margherita is ready.
Ree Drummond decides to make old-fashioned patty melts for last-minute dinner guests. She seasons ground beef with salt, black pepper and Worcestershire sauce. After kneading the ingredients together, she divides the beef into four equal-sized patties and flattens them so they will cook quickly. She adds them to a preheated pan with melted butter, where the patties will cook through after three to four minutes per side. Next, she spreads softened butter on one side of slices of rye bread. She puts the bread slices butter-side-down on a heated griddle then tops them with slices of Swiss cheese, the cooked patties and sauteed onions. Ree adds another slice of cheese to each melt and tops them off with more butter-side-up slices of rye bread. The bottoms have toasted nicely, so Ree flips over the melts to give the cheese time to finish melting while she wraps up dinner prep.
Giada stuffs manicotti with sweet Italian sausage and peas, smothers it with melted cheese and then bakes it to perfection. You'll need manicotti pasta, sweet Italian sausage, peas, a shallot, garlic, whole milk, heavy cream, white wine, ricotta cheese, mozzarella, fresh basil and a jar of marinara sauce to get started on this easy-to-make classic comfort food recipe.
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