THIS WEEK’S COOKING HIGHLIGHTS
SUNDAY
8:00 am FOOD Valerie’s Home Cooking
Creating a Hawaiian-inspired feast that includes pineapple salsa with taro chips and a poke bar.
8:30 am FOOD Valerie’s Home Cooking
Valerie treats her brother Patrick and his wife to some traditional New Orleans flavors.
9:00 am FOOD The Pioneer Woman The fundamentals of care packages; lemon and raspberry pound cake; snickerdoodles; granola clusters.
9:30 am FOOD The Pioneer Woman
Shrimp scampi stuffed shell; nacho cheese casserole; slow cooker drip beef sandwiches. 10:00 am ^ The Great British Baking
Show Ginger spiced traybake; iced tea loaf, brioche tete.
FOOD The Pioneer Woman It’s chicken all ways as Ree Drummond whips up four quick and easy chicken dinners.
10:30 am FOOD The Pioneer Woman
For breakfast, Ree whips up chilaquiles, a Mexican breakfast with Osage County style. 11:00 am FOOD Girl Meets Farm 11:30 am FOOD Girl Meets Farm Cheesy fried risotto balls, grilled zucchini pizza with basil mint pesto and a crisp Romaine salad.
12:00 pm FOOD Delicious Miss Brown
Kardea Brown invites her family over for a scrumptiously southern Sunday supper.
12:30 pm FOOD Delicious Miss Brown
Kardea Brown fires up the grill for an oldfashioned backyard barbecue and invites her family over.
1:00 pm FOOD The Kitchen Meals that are cozy such as harissa and fennel marinated lamb chops with tapenade. 2:00 pm FOOD Supermarket Stakeout
Alex asks the chefs to pile on the toppings; one chef runs out of cash.
3:00 pm FOOD Guy’s Grocery Games
Guy uses his newest game, the Aisle Wheel, to restrict the chefs to just one aisle in each round.
4:00 pm FOOD Guy’s Grocery Games
Guy has the teams toss footballs into ice buckets to earn key ingredients for their 6-foot sub.
5:00 pm FOOD Guy’s Grocery Games
Guy Fieri brings in three teams of food truck chefs to battle it out for superiority.
6:00 pm FOOD Guy’s Grocery Games
Chefs shop for ingredients in their burger and loaded fries combo using just tongs and a grill lid.
7:00 pm FOOD Guy’s Grocery Games
Guy honors America’s men and women in uniform by inviting four military vets with a second-calling.
HIST The Food That Built America Pizza Hut and its rival, Domino’s, compete for dominance of America’s go-to pizza choice.
TRU Fast Foodies The three chefs try to re-create a hot dog known as the Chicago red hot.
7:30 pm TRU Fast Foodies There’s only one thing that can get Bobby Lee to leave the house before 3 p.m.
8:00 pm FOOD Guy’s Grocery Games
Guy Fieri gets a taste of the GGG experience when his son Hunter makes him watch and cook.
HIST The Food That Built America In the post-WWI era, Hershey competitors spring up, including Hershey’s former employee HB Reese.
9:00 pm FOOD Worst Cooks in America
The recruits learn to cook an elaborate breakfast and execute dishes requested by their loved ones. (N)
HIST The Food That Built America Right behind Kroc, a wave of other entrepreneurs tries to cash in on the fast food restaurant craze. (N)
CNN Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy
Stanley searches for the famous four pastas and tries a selection of regional cheeses and sausages. (N)
MONDAY
6:00 pm FOOD Spring Baking Champi
onship Cherries, cherry blossom decor and a crumble dessert to blend into a floral fusion.
7:00 pm FOOD Spring Baking Cham
pionship Inspired by Mom’s favorite cocktail, the bakers make sweet, spicy margarita madness desserts.
8:00 pm FOOD Spring Baking Champi
onship Three remaining bakers celebrate graduation day by making an honor roll and a diploma dessert.
9:00 pm FOOD Spring Baking Cham
pionship Eleven bakers begin the competition by making farmstand breakfast treats. (N)
TUESDAY
6:00 pm FOOD Chopped Chefs find donut-shaped sushi in the first basket and frog legs in the second basket.
7:00 pm FOOD Chopped Chinese and Greek cuisine ingredients; American street food meets a fun-to-say Korean dish.
8:00 pm FOOD Chopped Appetizers with two proteins; a New England sandwich and a Mexican pepper; dessert nachos.
9:00 pm FOOD Chopped The chefs demonstrate their steak skills with the entree basket. (N)
WEDNESDAY
6:00 pm FOOD Guy’s Grocery Games
Four cheese experts make a cheesy international dish using nine ingredients or less.
7:00 pm FOOD Guy’s Grocery Games
Making comfort food using no more than five pounds of ingredients; noodle dishes.
8:00 pm FOOD Guy’s Grocery Games
Bacon dishes; nine-item shopping limit; Guy’s mandatory grocery list; refrigerator magnets decide.
9:00 pm FOOD Guy’s Grocery Games
Chefs must make guilty pleasure dishes using whatever ingredients they have in their home pantries. (N)
THURSDAY
6:00 pm FOOD Beat Bobby Flay Returning contenders Bruce Kalman and Jordan Andino batttle for the chance to take down Bobby Flay.
6:30 pm FOOD Beat Bobby Flay Farm girl Rochelle Bilow and city boy Paul Denamiel battle for a chance to take on Bobby Flay.
7:00 pm FOOD Beat Bobby Flay Golden boys Gio Osso and Mike Friedman arrive with fire in their eyes.
7:30 pm FOOD Beat Bobby Flay Private chef Eric Adjepong goes up against California native Frank Otte.
8:00 pm _ Hell’s Kitchen Back at Hell’s Kitchen, the chefs receive a surprise phone call from Chef Ramsay. (N)
FOOD Beat Bobby Flay Actress Nicole Ari Parker teams up with Sunny Anderson to take down Bobby Flay. (N)
8:30 pm FOOD Beat Bobby Flay Chefs Jessica Gamble and Fabrizio Schenardi challenge Bobby with a dish he’s never won before. 9:00 pm FOOD Beat Bobby Flay Spunky cake master Andrea Bergin and New Orleans pastry chef Jeremy Fogg show their skills.
9:30 pm FOOD Beat Bobby Flay Ed McFarland and Dale Talde swap their spoons for knives as they try to defeat Bobby.
FRIDAY
6:00 pm FOOD Diners, Drive-Ins and
Dives Venezuelan sandwich; thin fettuccini with homemade vodka sauce.
6:30 pm FOOD Diners, Drive-Ins and
Dives Guy goes in search of great foreign flavors.
7:00 pm FOOD Diners, Drive-Ins and
Dives Triple-D style takeout; Chinese-Mexican mix; Florida alligator fritters; creole meatloaf.
7:30 pm FOOD Diners, Drive-Ins and
Dives Hand-pulling noodles; beef rolls; barbecued fish tacos.
8:00 pm FOOD Diners, Drive-Ins and
Dives A burger joint with Asian flair; a gas station serving up kalua pork and mahi mahi.
8:30 pm FOOD Diners, Drive-Ins and
Dives Pasta institution creates a sauce just for dipping chicken; a restaurant with a funky technique.
9:00 pm FOOD Diners, Drive-Ins and
Dives Authentic German specialties; a food-and-music jamfest; Cuban favorites; meatball subs. (N)
9:30 pm FOOD Diners, Drive-Ins and
Dives A culinary dojo amps up local specialties; a funky food truck puts out meatless Mexican.
SATURDAY
8:00 am FOOD The Kitchen A celebration of the ultimate crave-worthy comfort foods, including easy barbecue braised brisket.
9:00 am FOOD Giada Entertains Minibite appetizers of favorite comfort foods; BLT bites; crispy salami and cheese egg rolls.
9:30 am 1 Cook’s Country Pork carnitas; lard; crunchy shrimp tacos.
FOOD Giada Entertains Menu includes smoked trout frittata, sausage and Parmesan waffles and honey nut panna cotta.
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 Family favorites include Tuscan chicken soup and casserole with cheesy greens. (N)
10:30 am * SoFlo Taste 1 Ciao Italia Beef stew with polenta, a classic dish from Val d’Aosta.
FOOD The Pioneer Woman Ree makes comfort food the easy way; carrot cake French toast; butterscotch lava cake.
11:00 am 1 New Orleans Cooking With
Kevin Belton FOOD The Kitchen The menu includes New York-inspired cheesy spinach manicotti and a Southern chili cornbread skillet. (N)
12:00 pm FOOD Guy’s Ranch Kitchen Guy Fieri asks his chef friends to make their childhood favorites; meatless Chinese spaghetti. (N)
12:30 pm 1 Baking With Julia Lauren Groveman makes bagels, matzos, pumpernickel bread.
FOOD Guy’s Ranch Kitchen Guy Fieri gets cozy with a low-cal twist when he’s joined by his favorite chefs at the ranch.
1:00 pm 1 Jacques Pépin: Heart &
Soul Skinning a salami; classic dumpling dish; ricotta quenelles; flounder with lemon butter; rabbit.
FOOD Beat Bobby Flay Cindy Wolf and Stacie Vande Wetering aim to teach Bobby Flay a thing or two in the kitchen.
1:30 pm 1 Joanne Weir’s Plates and
Places Santorini favas with capers and preserved lemons; pie with chicken, greens, feta, dill and mint.
FOOD Beat Bobby Flay Alton Brown and Anne Burrell hand-select chefs Heather West and Florian Wehrli.
2:00 pm 1 Sara’s Weeknight Meals A spicy Bahamian soup; the cut up salad, the Key West version of a pot luck.
FOOD Beat Bobby Flay Jersey’s Carlos Serrano and L.A.’s Nina Younan battle for a chance to beat Bobby Flay.
2:30 pm 1 Food Over 50 Lamb curry and vegetarian saag aloo; spiced fruit compote; cinnamon; walking after a meal.
FOOD Beat Bobby Flay Fusion chef Damien O’Donnell goes up against Mexican-born chef Adrian Leon.
3:00 pm FOOD Beat Bobby Flay Mathew Rice and Thiago Silva fire up the ovens for a chance to bake circles around Bobby Flay.
3:30 pm FOOD Beat Bobby Flay Experienced New York chef Ric Orlando battles self-taught chef Kiran Verma from Houston.
4:00 pm FOOD Beat Bobby Flay Anne Burrell (Worst Cooks in America); comic Loni Love; chefs Paras Shah and Sheldon Simeon.
4:30 pm FOOD Diners, Drive-Ins and
Dives The top spots for stuffed foods; stuffed calamari; empanada creations; Pastrami Zombie.
TRU Fast Foodies Taking a journey down memory lane with the ultimate ’90s teenage heartthrob James Van Der Beek.
5:00 pm FOOD Beat Bobby Flay The Bear, Hal Holden-Bache, stands against model-turned-chef Derek Orrell in a culinary battle.
5:30 pm FOOD Beat Bobby Flay Superchef Anne Burrell teams up with supermodel Gigi Hadid to give Bobby a taste of the spotlight.
6:00 pm FOOD Diners, Drive-Ins and
Dives Guy finds clean eats in Sioux Falls, S.D. and a 25-ingredient meatloaf in Fairbanks, Alaska.
6:30 pm FOOD Diners, Drive-Ins and
Dives Kelly’s Diner in Somerville, Mass.; The Bay Way Diner in Linden, N.J.
7:00 pm FOOD Diners, Drive-Ins and
Dives Sauerbraten from a German restaurant in Arizona.
7:30 pm FOOD Diners, Drive-Ins and
Dives Unexpected places locals love; prime rib, pizza, green chilies and Jamaican cooking.
8:00 pm FOOD Diners, Drive-Ins and
Dives Classics in Portland; a fiery roadside joint in Texas.
8:30 pm FOOD Diners, Drive-Ins and
Dives Famous breakfast dishes from all over the country.
9:00 pm FOOD Diners, Drive-Ins and
Dives Jerk chicken wings; goat curry; potato pancake with beef.
CNN Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy
Feasting on pizza in Naples; finding the freshest mozzarella and the best San Marzano tomatoes.
9:30 pm FOOD Diners, Drive-Ins and
Dives Mahi mahi and Caribbean goat stew; turkey avocado with green apple chile chutney and a Reuben.