THIS WEEK’S COOKING HIGHLIGHTS
SUNDAY
8:00 am FOOD Barefoot Contessa Crispy mustard chicken salad; frisee salad; tarragon shrimp salad; faro tabbouleh with feta.
8:30 am FOOD Valerie’s Home Cooking
Valerie Bertinelli treats her guests to a special day-after brunch.
9:00 am FOOD The Pioneer Woman Ree Drummond makes a Mexican-inspired family dinner on the grill, and Ladd pitches in with cooking.
9:30 am FOOD The Pioneer Woman Ree creates lemon rice pudding and marinade for grilled Tex Mex Chicken and Chicken Alfredo.
10:00 am FOOD The Pioneer Woman
Ranch hand sandwiches filled with pop pulled pork and a bunch of tasty fixins.
10:30 am FOOD The Pioneer Woman Alex is home from college and the cousins get together for a street taco feast; Texas braised beef.
11:00 am FOOD Girl Meets Farm Molly Yeh shares her favorite cozy recipes, like succulent Meatball-Stuffed Biscuits and Knoephla Soup full of chewy dumplings. She also loves her Tomato Squash Soup, creamy Spinach and Artichoke Chicken Casserole and flaky Spinach and Feta Rugelach. (N)
11:30 am FOOD Trisha’s Southern
Kitchen Trisha throws a graduation party for her nephew, whose favorite dishes include green bean casserole.
12:00 pm FOOD Barefoot Contessa Ina Garten revisits her most-flavorful recipes,
starting with Vanilla Rum Panna Cotta with Salted Caramel. Parmesan shines in her Orecchiette with Broccoli Rabe and Sausage, and balsamic vinegar boosts her quick Fig and Goat Cheese Toasts. (N)
12:30 pm FOOD Barefoot Contessa Ina Garten is turning up the volume on flavor, starting with the creamy hummus.
1:00 pm FOOD The Kitchen Seasonal dishes using pantry staples; chicken bolognese; popovers with sesame butter.
2:00 pm FOOD Holiday Baking Cham
pionship The bakers make Thanksgiving pies and stuffed cakes featuring seasonal ingredients.
2:30 pm * The 2020 James Beard
Awards Annual awards honor excellence in the culinary arts. (N)
3:00 pm FOOD Holiday Baking Champi
onship Seven bakers must make a dessert combining cranberry with another flavor of the season.
3:30 pm 1 Cook’s Country Blueberry jam cake; toasters; gooey butter cake bars.
4:00 pm 1 Confucius Was a Foodie
The noodle symbolizes longevity in Chinese culinary culture; Confucius birthday celebration.
FOOD Holiday Baking Championship
Inflatable holiday decorations inspire cream puff displays; bakers create handpainted eggnog cakes.
5:00 pm FOOD Holiday Baking Cham
pionship Five bakers have to update traditional rugelach with unexpected new flavors.
6:00 pm FOOD Holiday Baking Cham
pionship The bakers must use two key fruitcake components in a new dessert.
7:00 pm FOOD Holiday Baking Cham
pionship Three final bakers must create a cake that is decorated like a gift with a surprise inside.
8:00 pm FOOD Holiday Wars Five teams of cake and sugar artists must make a creation symbolizing Santa Claus as a world hero. (N)
9:00 pm FOOD Kids Baking Champion
ship (N)
MONDAY
6:00 pm FOOD Christmas Cookie
Challenge Eddie Jackson tasks five of America’s best cookie makers with creating Christmas character masks.
7:00 pm FOOD Holiday Baking Champi
onship
8:00 pm FOOD Holiday Baking Champi
onship
9:00 pm FOOD Holiday Baking Cham
pionship Host Jesse Palmer asks the 10 bakers to highlight a nut or seed in a holiday dessert. Then, the competitors must use a fundamental holiday ingredient in unseasonable desserts, like icebox cakes or fruit tarts. (N)
TUESDAY
6:00 pm FOOD Chopped Illeana Douglas, Ron Funches, Jonathan Sadowski and Julie White compete.
7:00 pm FOOD Chopped Bass and ice pops for the appetizer; a pantry ingredient in round two; cold treats for dessert.
8:00 pm FOOD Chopped A breakfast pastry and bland fruit; an altered pineapple; tower of cookies and tropical fruit.
9:00 pm FOOD Chopped Four competitors aim for bacon perfection as they attempt to advance to the grand finale of the Comfort Food Feud. The appetizer basket includes a Japanese condiment and a bacon-y bar food, and biscuit dough is part of the puzzle in the entree round. (N)
WEDNESDAY
6:00 pm FOOD Guy’s Grocery Games
Guy Fieri puts four chefs through three rounds of shopping and cooking from frozen foods section.
7:00 pm FOOD Guy’s Grocery Games
Winners of previous GGG spicy competitions are pitted against one another.
8:00 pm FOOD Guy’s Grocery Games
Burgers.
9:00 pm FOOD Guy’s Grocery Games
Some of Guy and Hunter’s favorite chefs grill up backyard burgers and steak dinners. (N)
THURSDAY
6:00 pm FOOD Beat Bobby Flay Fernando Ruiz battles Paco Garcia for a chance at Bobby Flay.
6:30 pm FOOD Beat Bobby Flay Michael Symon and Brooke Shields bring chef Carla Pellegrino and chef Idris Muhammad to compete.
7:00 pm FOOD Beat Bobby Flay Naplesborn Raffaele Ronca goes up against Italian expert Ken Vedrinski.
7:30 pm FOOD Beat Bobby Flay Past winner Anne Burrell gets ready to battle once again; she has to cook against Marcus Samuelsson.
8:00 pm FOOD Beat Bobby Flay Ype Von Hengst and William Wright compete to see which chef will take on Bobby.
8:30 pm FOOD Beat Bobby Flay Chef Dante Giannini and chef Eliza Gavin compete to wipe out Bobby Flay.
9:00 pm FOOD Beat Bobby Flay Alex Guarnaschelli and Chef Michael Voltaggio cheer on Jennifer Dewasha and Devin Bozkaya.
9:30 pm FOOD Beat Bobby Flay Damaris Phillips gets TV host Jaymee Sire to join her sing-along; Remi Granger and Elijah Milligan.
FRIDAY
6:00 pm FOOD Diners, Drive-Ins and
Dives In Duluth, an Italian market/restaurant serves up a homemade lasagna and muffaletta; a retro diner.
6:30 pm FOOD Diners, Drive-Ins and
Dives Smoked meat sensations; a spin on stroganoff; decadent bacon-gelato-toffee waffles.
7:00 pm FOOD Diners, Drive-Ins and
Dives Coffee lobster; Russian ravioli and chicken Kiev; ribs and lamb-stuffed plantains.
7:30 pm FOOD Diners, Drive-Ins and
Dives A family pizza-making tradition; griot, snapper and octopus; a spin on street food.
8:00 pm FOOD Diners, Drive-Ins and
Dives Crazy twist on burgers and chicken; bourbon bar that’s piling pork onto a patty.
8:30 pm FOOD Diners, Drive-Ins and
Dives Guy grabs some barbecue and Southern comfort, visiting Seattle, Wilmington, N.C. and Oakland, Calif.
9:00 pm FOOD Diners, Drive-Ins and
Dives
9:30 pm FOOD Diners, Drive-Ins and
Dives Guy Fieri hits up his favorite Italian joints.
SATURDAY
8:00 am FOOD The Kitchen Ted Allen, Christian Petroni and Martina McBride share Friendsgiving Turkey Day favorites.
9:00 am FOOD Giada’s Holiday Hand
book Polenta popovers with lemon butter; baked turkey parmesan; sweet and salty mashed potatoes.
9:30 am 1 Cook’s Country Classic roast beef tenderloin; tongs; lyonnaise potatoes.
FOOD Giada’s Holiday Handbook
Giada De Laurentiis feeds her guests with a brunch made from Thanksgiving leftovers.
10:00 am 1 Pati’s Mexican Table Catching giant sea scallops on the coast in Bahía Kino; a female butcher in Matape, Nere.
FOOD The Pioneer Woman 10:30 am * SoFlo Taste
1 Ciao Italia Grilled chicken with herbs; grilled veggie kebabs with zucchini, onions and red and yellow peppers.
FOOD The Pioneer Woman Fried chicken sandwiches with coleslaw; salmon and veggie grain bowl; Mercantile Snack Mix.
11:00 am 1 New Orleans Cooking With
Kevin Belton Crawfish and corn soup; turtle soup; oyster and artichoke.
FOOD The Kitchen (N) 12:00 pm J Cook’s Country Fried chicken; strawberry spreads; cheese biscuits.
FOOD Delicious Miss Brown Kardea Brown is keeping her favorite holiday, Thanksgiving, intimate with a special meal for Ma and Grandma. Grandma always brings the turkey, so Kardea is taking on the sides, with Candied Yams, 12:30 Oyster pm Stuffing 1 Martha and Cranberry Bakes The Custard almond Pie for can dessert. be used (N) in everything from milk to butter; blancmange. FOOD Turkey almond Day crunch Sunny’s ice cream Way Sunny cake; Anderson of Food Network is named Magazine; the first grilled guest editor turkey 1:00 recipe. pm Grilled (N) 1 striped Jacques bass; Pépin: clams Heart with &
Soul vinegar and scallion sauce; linguine with clam FOOD sauce. Guy’s Grocery Games A panini lunch list; a favorite with items rice found dish; a on seafood Guy’s grocery dish.
1:30 Places pm Celebration 1 Joanne pizza Weir’s with Plates smoked and salmon caviar. and caviar; devilish eggs with
2:00 Fried pm chicken; 1 Sara’s history Weeknight of southern Meals cooking soup. and ingredients; red beans and rice
FOOD Guy’s Grocery Games Three young chefs are paired up with their culinary idols for two games of grocery madness.
2:30 pm 1 Food Over 50 Reducing salt when cooking; no salt chicken chili verde and low-sodium orange sesame chicken.
3:00 pm ^ Cook’s Country Fried chicken; strawberry spreads; cheese biscuits. FOOD Guy’s Grocery Games Burgers.
3:30 pm ^ Pati’s Mexican Table Cooking recipes inspired by a visit to Sonora; two family-run street food stands in Sonora.
4:00 pm FOOD Guy’s Grocery Games
Winning teams from previous competitions return for another battle of team supremacy.
5:00 pm FOOD Guy’s Grocery Games
Some of Guy and Hunter’s favorite chefs grill up backyard burgers and steak dinners.
6:00 pm FOOD Diners, Drive-Ins and
Dives A southern inspired spot in Brooklyn is serving fired chicken and waffles.
6:30 pm FOOD Diners, Drive-Ins and
Dives Fried chicken; arancini balls; swine sandwich; Creole oyster benedict; winter squash.
7:00 pm FOOD Diners, Drive-Ins and
Dives Scratch-made tortillas and grasshopper tacos; sauerbraten and currywurst; paella and linguine.
7:30 pm FOOD Diners, Drive-Ins and
Dives Gumbo and etouffee; sandwiches stacked with vegan turkey; ramen and Vietnamese crepes.
8:00 pm FOOD Santa’s Baking Blizzard
Colossal Christmas tree cake displays complete with edible presents, ornaments and pyrotechnics.
9:00 pm FOOD Santa’s Baking Blizzard
Three snow and joy globe teams of the cakes of holiday. bakers that capture create fantasy the magic