The Kitchen (2014)

Season 5

TV-G

Five Food Network personalities come together in one show. The chefs prepare a variety of cuisines, explore food trends, and revisit familiar dishes while highlighting their individual cooking styles and backgrounds.

Where to Watch Season 5

13 Episodes

Sweets for Your Sweetie
E1
Sweets for Your SweetieA Valentine's Day celebration features plenty of chocolate, including ideas for edible treats and a decadent martini. Also: a dark chocolate mousse is prepared, along with tender filet mignon with mushroom-red wine sauce.
Rise and Shine
E2
Rise and ShineThe Kitchen helps you rise and shine with fresh new ideas for your breakfasts. Sunny Anderson shares her favorite breakfast of all time: Insta Huevos Rancheros. The hosts answer viewers' egg, pancake and make-ahead breakfast conundrums, and oats get their a-ha moment with three delicious ideas for your morning oatmeal. Geoffrey Zakarian shares his recipe for incredible homemade gravlax — the ultimate topper for our bagel bar. And we're putting time back into your hectic weekday mornings with our timesaving breakfast hacks. Geoffrey goes healthy for his 5 O'clock Somewhere with a delicious kale and grape green smoothie.
Warming Winter Meals
E3
Warming Winter MealsComfort food is featured, including Geoffrey's spaghetti and meatballs and Marcela's ultimate brownie. Also: the hosts talk about maximizing the microwave's potential; chef Amanda Freitag visits with a patty melt recipe.
Winter Fix
E4
Winter FixJeff Mauro cooks up a traditional family favorite, Chicken Tortellini Soup, and Food Network.com has new and tasty ways to lighten up three of your favorite dishes. Geoffrey Zakarian teaches us a kitchen basic mother sauce, while Marcela Valladolid and Katie Lee keep it healthy and delicious with their grain bowl recipes. We'll show you a few overlooked ingredients that you just might like, and Geoffrey wraps it all up with his warm Maple and Rum Toddy while the hosts get popping with fantastic ways to top popcorn.
Special Family Gatherings
E5
Special Family GatheringsWe're throwing a surprise baby shower for Marcela Valladolid on this episode of The Kitchen! We'll share our tips for hosting all kinds of special family celebrations and Marcela makes a perfect party main dish with her puff pastry-wrapped salmon. We're putting together creative new ideas for DIY hostess gifts, and Katie Lee and Sunny Anderson have two delicious and time-saving rice side dishes. The gang shares their finger food appetizer favorites and Katie creates a beautiful party-worthy Croquembouche. We toast Marcela with a virgin Cucumber Ginger Fizz and surprise her with a fun shower present!
Top O' the Morning
E6
Top O' the MorningA celebration of St. Patrick's Day with a twist on the classic Irish dish, corn beef and cabbage; two easy meals using the potato; tipsy treats with a secret ingredient; St. Paddy's Day cocktail.
Freezer Fixes and Pantry Staples
E7
Freezer Fixes and Pantry StaplesShrimp and grits; Debi Mazar and Gabriele Corcos from "Extra Virgin" make pantry pasta; recipes using condensed milk; what to and what not to throw out from the refrigerator; pickleback cocktail.
Happy Easter!
E8
Happy Easter!The Kitchen celebrates Easter with two classic holiday dishes: Geoffrey Zakarian's stuffed pork loin and Marcela Valladolid's leg of lamb. Pastry Chef Johnny Iuzzini shows us a new twist on the carrot cake. Plus, fun and edible food crafts for your holiday table and innovative ideas on how to use your leftover Easter eggs. Lastly, Geoffrey shares his Easter punch.
April Favorites
E9
April FavoritesLeftover holiday ham recipe; one pan chicken dinner; fried matzo brei; no-guilt holiday desserts; tips on knife shopping.
Early Spring Entertaining
E10
Early Spring EntertainingBlackened hanger steak; Tiffani Thiessen shares her tips for an at-home pizza party; quick and easy snacks on the go; hiding healthy ingredients in decadent desserts; planting a kitchen herb garden; herb-infused cocktail.
Spring Cooking
E11
Spring CookingTips on grilling chicken breast to perfection and growing fresh produce from kitchen scraps; dry and wet spice rubs; baker Gesine Bullock-Prado makes maple cream pie; a tipsy sweet tea; food fire starters.
Fresh Fix-Ins
E12
Fresh Fix-InsEasy weeknight meals using only one pan; kabobs with two sauces; grilled cheese; kitchen do's and don'ts; lemon-inspired cocktail.
Spicy Favorites
E13
Spicy FavoritesA spicy southern classic dish, hot chicken; the difference between Tex-Mex and Mexican tacos; chef Marc Murphy serves up a spicy skirt steak; spicy sweets; spicy margarita.