Ramos: Tonight, on “The Nice American Recipe”…
There’s about to be a complete lotta love on this kitchen.
Tim, voice-over: This dish was the primary dish that I made for my spouse, Ashley.
♪ Jon: Judges, you are gonna really feel the love.
Ah!
Hollingsworth: For me, I feel that one thing that is been cooking for some time, makes you are feeling like residence.
Mae: My children, once they come residence, that is all they need.
Kim: Who would not love an enormous bowl of pasta?
Marcella: I feel the love is certainly gonna come by way of.
Ramos: Effectively, these are the very best residence cooks within the nation, so who higher to carry us perfection?
[Cooks cheer] Welcome again to “The Nice American Recipe.”
♪ [Birds chirping] ♪ Kim: Final week was sort of robust, you guys.
Mae: This can be a new week, new starting.
Doug: I assumed final week was fairly good.
Jon: Yeah, for you, Doug.
Kim: Doug!
[Adjo chuckles] Jon: That is smart.
Doug, voice-over: Final week, I sort of saved my head down and targeted on all the small print, and that labored out for me.
Doug, your farro and vegetable medley was among the best farro salads I’ve ever had.
[Adjo gasps] Doug: Aw, which means so much.
Wow.
Doug, voice-over: I must maintain doing that on each spherical, any time I can.
Ramos: Good morning, everybody.
Welcome again.
Hey, whats up, everybody.
Ha ha ha!
Howdy.
Cooks, welcome again to week 3 of “The Nice American Recipe.”
We’re again with our fabulous judges, Tiffany Derry… Howdy, everybody.
Tim Hollingsworth… Hello, everyone.
and final, however by no means least, Francis Lam.
Hey, y’all.
[Laughter] Final week, you served us dishes that includes a few of your favourite components, out of your secret weapons to your go-to grains.
Sadly, your fellow residence cook dinner Ingrid needed to depart the competitors early, and she or he’ll be missed dearly.
This week, we actually wish to get to the center of why you cook dinner and who you do it for.
There is a cause why so many people have go-to recipes while you’re feeling below the climate or a little bit bit blue.
For individuals everywhere in the world, meals could be a treatment for what ails us.
Derry: That is what this week’s theme is all about– creating these dishes that really feel like consolation for the individuals you’re keen on.
Ramos: For at this time’s first spherical, you will have 60 minutes to cook dinner up a comforting recipe that all the time makes you and your family members really feel like they’re wrapped up in an enormous hug.
Name it a recipe treatment.
Superior.
Hollingsworth: And bear in mind, your dishes can be judged on style, presentation, execution, and the way nicely your dish achieved at this time’s theme.
Ramos: And as all the time, every of your dishes can be thought of by the judges to find out which 3 residence cooks will make it to the finale for an opportunity to be named the winner of “The Nice American Recipe.”
Whoo-hoo!
Sure!
Ramos: I say this with all of the love in my coronary heart.
Your time begins now!
Whoo!
Yeah!
Come on, child.
♪ Proper.
Right here we go.
Ramos: We requested the cooks to make us their recipe cures.
What are you hoping to see come from these kitchens?
I feel we’re gonna have some super-tasty meals that present consolation in several methods.
Hollingsworth: For me, I feel that one thing that is been cooking for some time, makes you are feeling like residence.
Lam: In my thoughts, one thing possibly a little bit bit heartier, that I can tackle the world… Ramos: Ha ha!
Yeah.
or I may tackle the sofa.
[All chuckle] It is all about love and luxury.
Jon, voice-over: Final week, I had a backside dish.
Lam: Jon, I feel what bought in your approach was while you have been chopping the corn off the cob, you really nicked off some elements of the cob.
Whereas we have been consuming it, we saved getting little bits caught in our tooth.
Jon, voice-over: This week, I need redemption.
I am gonna take the entire suggestions that I bought, and I am gonna amp up my flavors and cook dinner my best possible.
I do know precisely what I am gonna make.
Let’s do that.
Come on.
Jon, voice-over: My recipe treatment dish is Sopa Azteca, often known as tortilla soup.
♪ Tortilla soup is a treatment for having a foul day, however, I additionally consider, therapeutic.
I make this dish when my spouse is not feeling so nicely, and my children additionally love this.
Adjo: Oh, what is going on on there, Jon?
Jon: I am roasting some tomatoes, rooster thighs, and a few onions to present it a kind of smoky taste.
Oh, wow.
Jon, voice-over: The following step to amp up my flavors is to roast the chilies.
Whoo-hoo!
Jon, voice-over: It is actually the smoky roastedness with the chilies that kind of contribute to the style of the soup.
Want two extra.
♪ Simply gonna go for it.
♪ Kim, voice-over: This week, I simply wish to show that I am a good-enough cook dinner to not find yourself within the backside two.
So at this time, I’ll make a scratch linguine pasta with a sort of kitchen-sink pesto sauce.
Home made pasta is the last word method to cheer somebody up.
I imply, who would not love an enormous bowl of pasta?
Rising up, my mother would make home made pasta, which is de facto exhausting, however we knew she put plenty of work into that pasta, so it was simply one in every of our favourite dishes.
And now the enjoyable begins.
Kim, voice-over: My favourite individual to make this dish for is my daughter Maya.
She completely loves pesto.
I undoubtedly put the identical love into it that my mother did.
I simply attempt to decide on a better methodology of creating it.
Heh heh!
♪ Oh, gosh!
Kim, voice-over: My pasta dough is a little bit bit dry.
It is occurred earlier than at residence, and often, every little thing seems wonderful.
Derry: Howdy, Kim.
Howdy!
We’re twinning with our pink.
Hello!
We’re twinning.
Pink women.
So, the pasta could be very dry.
It seems actually dry.
I do know.
Yeah.
The place’s your oil?
Let’s attempt to get a little bit bit extra hydration.
Give your self 5 extra minutes.
5 extra minutes.
So, after it is sit…
Proper.
we will not return and knead it.
Proper, no.
It will likely be very robust.
Yeah.
We cannot have that tender pasta.
Give it a second.
Thanks a lot.
You are very welcome.
Kim, voice-over: I am glad she came to visit and, like, slowed me down, and so the pasta can simply be comfortable in its little place proper now.
Derry: Oh, my goodness.
So, Kim’s doing a little recent pasta.
Yeah.
She has the strategy of rolling it out proper, you already know, she understands the steps into it.
I simply assume it was simply too dry… Little too dry?
and she or he did not acknowledge.
It must be the way it feels, proper?
Mm-hmm.
It isn’t simply straight recipes, and I feel that is exhausting… Yeah.
while you’re solely cooking from residence, and you then go some place else and also you make it.
That is true.
♪ ♪ Serrated ♪ Gonna reduce some bread up, make some cubes, identical to we’re making stuffing at Thanksgiving.
At this time, I am making a fennel sausage stuffing frittata.
All proper.
Come on, come on.
I am making this explicit dish after we sort of want some consolation in the home, particularly for my husband Greg.
Doug, voice-over: My husband retains largely vegetarian, however he loves this as a result of it is a dish that Greg’s mother made at Thanksgiving, and since her passing, these flavors evoke these recollections, and so they evoke that love.
The very first thing I must do is get my bread cubes toasted off.
And whereas that is going… Ah!
I wish to take the sausage, break it off with my fingers, as a result of you may find yourself getting these actually huge chunks, and I do not assume that is actually palatable.
Break up and crank warmth.
I discover that if we’ve got these simply little knobs of meat, it simply cooks up a lot extra properly.
Ooh!
Let’s get our bread cubes in there.
OK, I may simply eat this.
We do not even want the eggs, however we’re gonna do the eggs, too.
♪ Give it that one, closing good whisk-through.
OK. Doug, voice-over: My secret ingredient here’s a little little bit of rooster inventory within the eggs as a substitute of simply salt and pepper, so I am bringing in a little bit of a poultry taste.
We’re gonna perform a little little bit of cheese over high ‘trigger I feel it simply provides a little bit one thing further.
It is so good–breakfast, lunch, or dinner.
You’ll be able to eat a frittata anytime.
♪ Doing incredible, child.
♪ Making some goat meat at this time.
Goat is an enormous staple in African tradition.
When I was little, anytime I am sick, my mother or my grandma will make me a pepper soup.
Derry: Adjo, what you engaged on?
Adjo: It is gonna be a brothy, gingery stew, and on the range right here is a few candy potatoes.
Derry: Mm.
Pepper soup is a kind of dishes that’s ubiquitous to West Africa, however all of us make it in another way.
So I bear in mind rising up making pepper soup with my grandma, and we might use proteins that we’ve got leftover in the home, nevertheless it’s actually not the pepper that makes a pepper soup, nevertheless it’s the ginger.
Ah.
Adjo: It is a very ginger-heavy dish, and I am utilizing my protein of alternative, at this time being goat as a result of goat is simply my favourite protein of all time.
Very good.
♪ Adjo, voice-over: So I am splitting my goat into two strain cookers to ensure my goat is tender.
An hour is, like, chopping it very shut, so I’ve to control my strain cooker.
Derry: Adjo, are each strain cookers going?
Each strain cookers are going.
Some few weeks again, we had a pressure-cooker debacle… Ha ha ha!
with my oxtail, and I did not wish to threat placing it multi function this time.
I do assume that your oxtails wanted a number of extra minutes.
I recognize the suggestions.
I’ll undoubtedly maintain that in thoughts, for certain.
We’re actual excited to do this one, Adjo.
Thanks.
♪ Mae, voice-over: My recipe treatment dish is Chinese language rooster congee.
I bought to get this good.
Mae, voice-over: It is rice porridge, and it would not look very enticing, however while you eat it, it’s totally comforting.
My children, once they come residence, that is all they need.
My children love congee.
That they had it as infants, and although my daughter is starting to be, like, a vegetarian, she ate my rooster congee.
That is how a lot she loves it.
Ramos: Mae’s doing rooster congee, so we liked her savory oatmeal take final week.
What do you consider the extra basic model?
Lam: I am actually excited to see it.
I imply, her management of the seasoning, the flavour; given what she put out final week along with her savory porridge, like, I may have eaten a ton of that, so… Yeah.
I feel she’ll have that good stability.
Whether or not I win or not, I all the time really feel strain ‘trigger I wish to do– give it my all.
Mae, voice-over: The very first thing I do is cook dinner the rice.
♪ Whereas I am ready for that to cook dinner, I begin prepping rooster, marinating it.
Ginger.
I wish to shred the ginger very finely.
I do know my congee fairly nicely.
I’ve bought it right down to a science.
♪ I used to be going to Kentucky ♪ ♪ I used to be going to the truthful ♪ Ha ha!
I do know.
I am simply getting foolish.
Ha!
♪ Doug: Tim, what is going on on over there, buddy?
Tim: Doing nice.
It is a little–just a little bit slippy.
Heh heh!
Tim, voice-over: To impress the judges this week, every little thing must be completely diced, completely reduce, and it has to have plenty of taste.
I’m making only a good old school, home made rooster pot pie.
[Sizzles] I am gonna make a rooster pot pie that I bear in mind my grandmother making for me.
That is the place I get my Southern roots, from Grandmama.
Like Grandma stated, if you happen to’re sick, there’s two stuff you need–you want relaxation and also you want a full stomach.
In my rooster pot pie, I like to make use of rooster thighs.
I feel it provides plenty of taste.
I additionally add celery, onion, and carrots.
The good half about this dish is the oven time could be very minimal ‘trigger it is all gonna be cooked.
♪ Not my prettiest second ‘trigger I’m not a baker.
On this spherical, I am making particular person servings for the judges, so I will go forward and portion out my pastry dough that it will match properly over the serving bowls.
[Distant chatter] I wish to be sure they’re all good and hearty, ‘trigger I need the cooks to get a little bit chunk of every little thing.
I am feeling good as a result of the one half that the oven must do is simply get the pastry dough puffed.
Marcella: What you bought happening over there?
Tim: Doing a little bit rooster pot pie.
Oh, yeah.
How ’bout your self?
Ah, simply making some duchess potatoes.
“Simply making some duchess potatoes.”
No– She makes it sound prefer it’s really easy.
No huge deal.
Marcella, voice-over: My recipe treatment dish is a basic beef cutlet with duchess potatoes.
My children love cutlets.
Every time they ask me, “Hey, Mother, what’s for dinner tonight?”
and I say, “Oh, we’re having cutlets tonight,” it is virtually like you may see the sigh of reduction.
Now for the meat.
Marcella, voice-over: I grew up consuming cutlets.
It is simply a kind of dishes that appears like every little thing’s gonna be all good… and now, my children really feel the identical approach about it.
There we go.
♪ Marcella, voice-over: The very first thing I wish to do is simply get the potatoes out of the best way as a result of duchess potatoes could be a little bit difficult.
Relying on how nicely you cook dinner the potatoes, they is perhaps overcooked or overstirred…
It is the enjoyable half.
Marcella, voice-over: and while you do this, you run the danger of them dropping their form with the piping.
Lam: So it seems like Marcella’s doing duchess potatoes, which I gotta inform ya, not my fave.
Ramos: Oh.
It is mashed potatoes, which–hey, great– after which, after I needed to make ’em… Derry: Pipe ’em.
[Laughing] you piped it out into, like, a little bit spiral… Uh-huh.
and you then baked it to get a crust, however here is the deal.
The crust is rarely actually crusty, it is simply dry.
Derry: Yeah.
I am actually excited for Marcella’s potatoes to only, like, flip you round.
We’re gonna be you for that chunk.
Whew!
♪ 35 minutes left.
Wow, that point’s flying by.
Oh!
Yeah.
Marcella: I really feel like I simply began.
Kim: OK. Kim, voice-over: I am making every little thing pesto.
My daughter completely loves pesto.
I name it “every little thing” as a result of we’ll exit into the backyard collectively and discover every little thing in there that would probably go in a pesto.
We’re speaking basil, cilantro, dill, chives, and I am including walnuts to my pesto as a result of they add a very nice texture.
♪ It is, like, higher than I make at residence.
Ha ha!
♪ So, I bought to control time right here.
Marcella, voice-over: For the cutlets, one factor that my mother all the time taught me is to soak your cutlets in crimson wine vinegar.
That vinegar step is so important to including that– [clicks teeth]–zing.
Heh!
I do not know that I wanted that a lot flour.
So right here we go.
Shake it off.
That is the meeting line.
The egg, dip it, after which breadcrumb after which cutlet.
[Sizzling] Mae, voice-over: Chinese language rooster congee will not be a super-involved dish, nevertheless it’s the method.
You do not wish to burn it.
You do not wish to make it too thick.
You are breaking the rice.
That is what you are doing.
Mae, voice-over: So, you already know, from expertise, you already know what the feel needs to be like.
[Sighs] Ramos: quarter-hour left!
quarter-hour.
Gotta hustle.
Whew!
Whew!
Do not actually wish to open it an excessive amount of, however our eggs are good and set, I can see some effervescent across the exterior.
All proper.
♪ Into the oven ♪ ♪ [Chopping rapidly] Ooh.
Hey, Jon.
Yeah.
Hey, Francis.
How’s it going?
I am nice.
What you bought happening?
So I am making Sopa Azteca.
Can I get a style of it now?
Yeah, please.
I will simply style the broth.
It is gonna be scorching.
Yeah, simply style the broth.
You will see a little bit little bit of that smokiness.
It is good.
You do not have plenty of time left… Yeah.
however I feel you need a little bit extra focus of taste.
Jon: OK. Francis: your large pot… Jon: Yeah.
getting it in a pleasant, large pot offers you extra floor space so the moisture can evaporate rapidly.
After which pour it again in after I’m completed.
Thanks, sir.
Yeah, precisely.
That approach, you simply get some extra discount on each side…
I like it.
so it would not take as lengthy.
Jon: Respect it.
Francis: Good luck.
♪ Adjo: The steam, the steam.
Ramos: Adjo, how’s it going?
It is going nicely.
My–I am releasing my first strain cooker.
Whenever you see that steam, it is second of reality.
Yeah, it’s the second of reality.
How’d it work out?
There may be nothing you are able to do now.
You simply… [Chuckling] hope and pray to the pressure-cooker gods, you already know?
[Laughter] Adjo, voice-over: I am extremely nervous.
Come on, child, come on child.
Voice-over: I even did the dance and every little thing.
Ooh-ee!
Derry: Cooks, we’ve got 7 minutes left.
Ramos: Get every little thing on the plate.
I am quick on time.
Yessss.
Oh, wanting lovely to me.
Seeing if I can really get this out of my scorching pan.
Pasta’s completed.
Kim, voice-over: The pasta tastes good, and it has the correct of al-dente really feel.
For garnish, I’ll add some bacon to high all of it off.
Jon: Bear in mind the salt, Jon.
Tim: This factor is simply every kind of unfair.
Tim, voice-over: I observed at occasions getting down a little bit bit and the pastry dough was not puffing like I wished, so I made a decision to modify over to the broiler.
♪ Ramos: Tim is wanting like he is apprehensive about time.
Derry: Proper.
Lam: He is beginning to transfer with a little bit little bit of…anxious power.
Tim, voice-over: So I am undoubtedly monitoring ‘trigger the very last thing I wish to do is burn the pie crust.
Lam: The issue while you open your oven is you lose 5, 10 levels each time you open that door.
Tim, voice-over: Hold wanting on the oven.
They’re gonna go straight from right here to the plate.
Ramos: 30 seconds, everybody.
That is it.
Ending touches.
30 seconds.
Oh, my goodness.
Kim: They’re very lengthy noodles, you guys.
[Giggles] ♪ Mae, voice-over: And I hope I’ve sufficient.
♪ Ramos: 10, 9, 8, 7… Ooh, wanting good.
6, 5… [Judges join in] 4, 3, 2, 1.
Ramos: Time’s up!
[Cooks cheer] Ramos: Palms up!
♪ [Clucking] ♪ Ramos: You had 60 minutes to make us your recipe treatment dish.
Lam: I am feeling horrible.
I want a little bit one thing.
Who’s gonna assist me out right here?
[All chuckle] [Laughter] Ramos: First up, Marcella, come be a part of us.
Adjo, whispering: Marcy, you bought this.
Hello, buddies.
Judges: Howdy.
I made for you at this time a basic beef cutlet with duchess potatoes, or, as my mom likes to name them, “duchessa.”
It is synonymous with consolation.
Lam: You need to have heard me speaking a lot trash about duchess potatoes.
Oh.
Heh!
And now I wish to eat all of them.
Oh, good.
They’re so wealthy in potato taste, however nonetheless moist and creamy, and so they’re simply fabulous.
The cutlet itself, you’ve got completed a very nice job frying it.
It is crisp.
It is actually properly cooked.
It is well-seasoned.
Thanks.
Hollingsworth: I agree.
This can be a dish that I’d make for my children.
They would like it.
, I see the sentiment.
Thanks.
Ramos: Jon, come and be a part of us.
Jon: My recipe treatment is Sopa Azteca, often known as tortilla soup.
It is a kind of consolation dishes for my household to point out them how a lot I care about them.
And also you all are my household, these guys are my household, so I made it for you.
Lam: Now we are able to solely say good issues about you.
Ramos: Yeah, I do know.
Ha ha!
Oh, it labored.
Whew!
Hollingsworth: Rooster tortilla soup is one in every of my favourite soups.
I just like the depth and taste as a result of I feel you used some chilies that have been blended up in there.
Jon: Sure.
Derry: I agree.
It is a good spice, yeah, and having one thing like this is able to undoubtedly, I really feel, like, make me really feel higher immediately as a result of it appears like somebody ready this with intention and love, with the entire textures.
Quite a lot of occasions with the tortilla soup, we take and mix in tortillas… Oh!
and that approach, you could have some tortilla actual taste coming from the soup as nicely.
I really like that.
Thanks.
Adjo.
Adjo: My recipe treatment is goat pepper soup.
I make this for my children once they’re sick.
Derry: Adjo, you could have ginger, it is garlic.
There are such a lot of flavors which are all hitting, however but not overpowering, however the goat may have used a number of extra minutes… OK. as a result of a number of the items close to the bone has a little bit little bit of a chew.
That is the theme by way of my time right here to this point.
Ha ha!
Me and pressure-cooker drama.
Lam: Yeah, I agree that a number of the bites have been harder.
however I’ll say, for the problem, this very gingery, a little bit bit spicy, very earthy soup is magnificent.
Thanks.
Ramos: Doug, come be a part of us.
Doug: I’ve made for you a fennel sausage stuffing frittata.
This recipe treatment is for my husband after we simply need cozy meals.
Hollingsworth: Doug, it is a very attention-grabbing tackle a frittata.
I am eager about my household.
I am eager about the vacations.
The one factor I’ll say is that, you already know, it’s totally wealthy, it’s totally heavy, however there’s plenty of seasoning within the sausage, plenty of taste happening.
Your cooking retains getting higher and higher.
Thanks a lot.
Derry: Yeah, there’s plenty of taste happening right here, and I am simply comfortable to see that the salt and the seasoning and the herbs and the spices all play slightly nicely collectively right here.
Thanks, Chef.
Ramos: Tim.
Tim: I’ve chosen to do a rooster pot pie that I bear in mind my grandmother making for me.
She all the time stated treatment for something is a full stomach and a few relaxation.
Lam: You may have very nice browning on the puff pastry, nevertheless it did not fairly puff.
When puff pastry puffs, that is the place you get all that good flakiness.
I’d simply say cheat by baking the puff pastry as a lid, proper?
OK. After which you could have your very nice stew after which simply drop the lid on high.
Derry: Ha ha!
He is like, “I by no means thought of that in any respect.”
I by no means thought of that until simply now.
[Laughter] Hollingsworth: I agree on the puff pastry.
Whenever you’re baking with puff pastry, you do not wish to proceed to open the oven.
You wish to maintain the warmth in there, however I really like the actual fact your greens are cooked nice, your rooster’s cooked good.
You may have an honest quantity of seasoning in right here.
You were not shy on the black pepper.
I really like black pepper.
, general, I feel you probably did an ideal job.
Thanks, Tim.
Thanks all.
Derry and Hollingsworth: Thanks.
Ramos: Mae.
Howdy, Judges.
I made rooster congee.
I’ve all the time had this as a baby.
Hollingsworth: It is very, very refreshing to have the ability to have one thing that is so merely made, however each single a part of it, the execution is de facto, actually good.
I imply, you could have simply sufficient ginger, simply sufficient spice.
The rooster is superbly tender, so clear.
It appears like a mother made it.
[All chuckling] That is what I’m to my children, yeah.
Derry: That is fairly scrumptious.
The rooster is extraordinarily tender, and there are these little hints of the slivered ginger.
It is simply a kind of dishes that you just wish to proceed to eat.
Ramos: Thanks a lot, Mae.
Thanks.
Ramos: Kim.
Kim: At this time, I made for you a scratch linguine with what I name my every little thing pesto.
I really like making this for my daughter Maya, and I really feel like pasta simply makes everybody really feel higher.
Derry: Effectively, Kim, at this time did not come simple for you.
Your pasta wanted extra hydration, however we kneaded it a little bit bit extra, added a contact of oil.
You made it work.
I really like this silky pasta, after which the bacon items that you just fried sort of give it a little bit crunch.
The flavors listed below are scrumptious out of your every little thing pesto.
[Chuckles] Hollingsworth: I feel the dish is nice.
You making that pasta over there jogged my memory of some occasions I noticed my mother making pasta, introduced again nice recollections.
Thanks for that.
Thanks.
Kim, voice-over: When somebody says a dish reminds them of residence, any of us residence cooks ought to take that as a extremely good signal.
♪ Ramos: Cooks, we requested you to make a dish that all the time brightens your spirits, and your dishes actually brightened ours.
Judges, who made your favourite dishes this spherical?
Our first favourite dish was… ♪ Doug’s.
Oh, my goodness.
[Cheering] [Chuckling] Wow!
Mae: Congratulations!
Thanks.
Lam: Your fennel sausage stuffing frittata was hearty and meaty, however the eggs have been nonetheless cooked delicately, and the crunchy bread was only a actually terrific contact.
It was completely satisfying.
Doug: Thanks a lot.
Doug, voice-over: I am on cloud 9.
After having the farro vegetable medley win from final week, now I am feeling strain.
I must maintain this up.
Hollingsworth: And our second-favorite dish was… ♪ Mae’s.
Marcella: Wow.
Kim: Oh, good job, Mae.
Mae: Thanks.
Hollingsworth: Mae, your rooster congee was heat.
I felt the love.
I actually recognize the entire delicate flavors and the way every little thing is so refined, and it has simply the correct quantity of every little thing in there.
And I am jealous that I did not get to develop up in your family.
Ha ha ha ha!
Thanks.
Mae, voice-over: I am so comfortable my congee was a high dish for this spherical as a result of I knew in my coronary heart I gave it every little thing I had.
Ramos: Thanks, cooks, for sharing these tasty and touching recipes with us.
You’ll want to take what you’ve got realized from the judges into the following spherical.
[Birds chirping] ♪ Ramos: From a memorable dinner date to your kids’s favourite heartwarming dish, these recipes are certain to make the one you love’s coronary heart skip a beat.
For this subsequent spherical, we would like you to create a particular dish that all the time brings a smile to the one you love’s face.
Derry: You will have 60 minutes to arrange your love-filled dish.
We’re nonetheless gonna choose them, although, so love and judgment all the time go hand in hand.
[Chuckling] And your dishes can be judged on style, execution, presentation, and naturally, how nicely you do with the theme, so we undoubtedly wish to really feel the love in these dishes.
Ramos: There may be about to be a complete lotta love on this kitchen as a result of your 60 minutes begins now.
[Cooks cheer] Hollingsworth: Yeah.
[Judges clap and chuckle] OK. All proper, a number of chopping.
A lot of chop, chop, chopping to do.
Want lemons.
Ramos: We requested the house cooks to arrange a love-filled dish that they make for his or her particular somebody.
What’s essential to see in a dish that you just’re making for somebody particular?
Derry: I feel we’re gonna get plenty of completely different expressions of affection at this time… Ramos: Yeah.
as a result of some dishes are primarily based on that first-time date… Hollingsworth: Mm-hmm.
and, like, plenty of occasions, what we have seen within the past– there’s usually, like, a steak or a chop.
Including my, uh, lamb chops to the bowl.
Pasta dishes and issues like that, as a result of that is their go-tos plenty of occasions.
Mm-hmm.
Judges, you are gonna really feel the love.
Oh.
Jon!
So excited.
Derry: Ha!
Jon, voice-over: Once I hear the problem of cooking for somebody you’re keen on, I instantly go to seafood.
My spouse loves seafood, so I am making salmon and shrimp al moho de ajo, which is a garlic sauce and a inexperienced rice.
I’ve been married for 36 years, and that simply jogs my memory how fortunate I’m.
Despite the fact that she’s not right here, I am eager about her as I am making my dish.
♪ The very first thing I’ve bought to do is begin my garlic cream sauce.
It is a heavy-cream, chopped-garlic mojo ajo, so it is the garlic with a little bit little bit of butter.
I am gonna add plenty of ending touches.
It is gonna have each lemon juice along with the lemon rind.
I am actually listening to the judges to amp up my seasonings.
Little Bolivian pink salt for the tip.
♪ Ramos: The way you doing, Mae?
Oh, good.
Thanks.
[Chuckles] Mae, voice-over: The judges liked my congee.
I used to be sort of stunned, however I knew it was good.
Once I’m cooking, I am actual severe.
Mae, voice-over: For this spherical, I am making my Singapore noodles.
Singapore noodles is noodles with shrimp, greens, and curry powder.
My husband loves that very a lot.
Possibly it reminds him of residence as a result of it has curry in it.
Mae, voice-over: My husband is Sri Lankan, and he likes very spicy meals, however good meals to me is sweet meals.
♪ I bought to time this.
Mae, voice-over: To make the Singapore noodles, you must first blanch the rice sticks to be softened.
That is kind of an concerned dish, however I do know my husband likes it very a lot, so I do exit of the best way to make it for him.
♪ Then I sauté the shrimp individually and season with a little bit salt and cornstarch to make the feel good.
That is sort of concerned, you already know.
I do not know why I select these dishes.
As a result of they’re so darn good.
That is why.
Ha ha!
♪ I do not often measure, however with this one, I do as a result of it is not Italian.
[Chuckles] Marcella, voice-over: This spherical, I am gonna put together my husband Joey’s favorite– crab truffles with a pineapple mango salsa.
Want a whisk.
Voice-over: These crab truffles include jumbo-lump crab meat, mayonnaise, Dijon mustard, scorching sauce, Worcestershire sauce, panko breadcrumbs, and an egg.
Suppose the love is certainly gonna come by way of as a result of, I imply, after I make this dish, it is all the time for him.
The toughest factor about making these crab truffles is getting that combination with the best consistency so they do not disintegrate after I fry them.
Howdy, Marcella.
How are you?
Hey, how’s it going?
Doing nicely.
What are we making?
I am making crab truffles for my babe.
Who’re we speaking about?
Who is that this fortunate man?
Oh, my husband.
Oh.
My husband’s identify is Joe.
Joe.
He is simply an all-around superior man, so I am gonna attempt to do my greatest and honor him one of the best ways I understand how.
Aw, that is candy.
Heh heh!
Yeah.
Once I first began relationship him, I kinda actually wished to win him over and, like… Yeah?
I referred to as his mother and she or he was like, “Oh, he loves crab truffles.
It is, like, his favourite meals.”
So that you made the dish that his mother made him?
Sure.
Ha ha!
That is harmful.
Ha ha ha!
Sure, yeah.
Effectively, and ensure, while you’re forming your crab truffles, particularly since you do not have a breading… Yeah.
ensuring that you’ve got a pleasant, lovely form, you already know?
Yep.
What are you gonna sauté it in?
Nonstick pan?
OK. Yeah, nonstick.
I feel nonstick, yeah.
OK. [Both chuckling] Effectively, you’d know.
Superior.
Cannot wait to attempt the completed dish.
[Chuckles] Thanks.
Good luck.
Thanks.
♪ All proper, mise en place, mise en place, mise en place.
Doug, voice-over: For this heartfelt problem, I’m making lemon pasta, which is the dish I make for the love of my life, my husband Greg.
This dish represents love for us as a result of, though it seems easy on the floor, it is really fairly sophisticated.
Similar to that there is plenty of depth to any good relationship, and the candy story is, anytime he goes away for an extended work journey, or I do, I make this dish, so it is kind of our “go away and are available again,” kind of goodbye kiss or “Howdy once more.”
I begin by zesting the entire lemons after which slicing all of our garlic, then I add our red-pepper flakes and our sun-dried tomatoes to permit them to bloom and rehydrate.
My meals is easy, however there’s plenty of depth within the taste, and the judges discover that.
♪ Each final bit, get in there ♪ Ramos: Doug’s bought lemon pasta, so what can we wish to see there?
That’s daring, I bought to say, like– I imply, that– Lemon pasta could be very basic… Yeah, yeah.
And there is nothing to cover behind–like, lemon and pasta.
There may be nothing, so it must be proper.
Heh heh!
Doug, voice-over: I really nonetheless use a sieve as a result of I do not need any seeds going into the sauce.
I feel that may simply kind of break the textural aspect of it.
You actually wish to take care making this dish, the sort of approach I handle the individual I really like.
♪ Adjo: That is going to be a marinade for the lamb.
We wish to be sure all of the flavors are on this marinade, or the lamb will not be gonna get it.
For this problem, I am making lamb chops and inexperienced beans with a aspect of fried plantains.
All proper.
Within the marinade, we’ve got rosemary, lemon zest, garlic, some bouillon cubes, and a few salt.
This dish, I make for my children, Olivia and Harrison, and so they completely like it.
Probably the most particular individuals in my life are my children.
Ensure we bought sufficient.
And they’re such choosy eaters, however my lamb chops are one factor they will not complain about.
[Sizzling] Derry: Give your self room.
Do not crowd the pans.
Lam: I am gonna try these lamb chops at Adjo’s station.
Yeah.
Carry me one again.
Ramos: Ha ha ha!
Lam: Ooh!
Adjo.
Sure, sir.
Woman, that smells good.
I all the time joke around– if you have not had my lamb chops, we’re not buddies but.
Heh heh!
What I am searching for is a pleasant pink within the center.
Yeah.
I like my meat medium, and I discover out most individuals do, too.
What I’d say to you, too, by way of the cook dinner… Yeah?
You see the burner?
Yeah.
If that is the large burner… Yeah.
and that is, like, the little, tiny burner… OK.
So you are not gonna get plenty of shade on these ones.
On these ones?
OK.
So I’d take into consideration moving– Transferring them round a bit?
Or transferring these to there when these are prepared.
That can assist soften that fats and render that fats.
OK, completely.
Thanks, Chef.
Heh!
Adjo, voice-over: Meals is certainly my love language.
If I am not cooking for you, I do not love you.
♪ Similar to I need it ♪ ♪ Doug: All proper.
I’m gonna sear it, if I may ever get it reduce.
Voice-over: I am making yellow Thai curry, which I’d make for date evening with my husband Bruce, and it begins with browning the rooster thighs.
The primary taste part on this curry dish is the yellow curry paste.
This paste has issues like lemongrass, garlic, ginger, after which, as soon as that’s cooked out a bit, I’ll add fish sauce, brown sugar, coconut milk, lime juice, and a little bit rooster inventory.
On our very first date, he took me to a Thai restaurant, and I might by no means had these flavors earlier than and it blew my thoughts, so I realized the way to make this dish as a result of he loves Thai meals a lot.
We have seen plenty of vary from Kim, and now she’s making a yellow Thai curry.
One factor that is actually attention-grabbing about Alaska, there’s a actually placing quantity of cultural range, particularly within the cities.
I do not know if that is what her affect is, however I feel that’s a part of the story of Alaska that lots of people don’t understand.
Yeah, I feel America is such a melting pot of various cultures, and I actually get pleasure from the truth that she celebrates that… Ramos: Mm-hmm.
in her numerous cooking type, whereas but nonetheless being very regional…
Sure.
and highlighting the delicacies of her origin.
Yeah.
Completely.
Kim: Stability is big with this dish, sort of a little bit bit like marriage–a little salty, a little bit candy.
[Sizzling] ♪ This dish was the primary dish that I made for my spouse Ashley.
I am making a lemon-grilled salmon over a couscous tabbouleh salad.
She liked it.
We’re married now, so–heh!
I am gonna begin off with my couscous.
My spouse Ashley, she’s been such an ideal accomplice in crime, greatest pal, and I feel the best half about her is, like, she pushes me after I will not be certain of myself.
I really like cranberries, and I simply thought this is able to give it a pleasant tart and candy kick to it.
The couscous begins off with pearl couscous, a ton of chopped parsley, some English cucumbers, Roma tomatoes, crimson onions, and a few dried cranberries.
I hope that the judges fall in love with it, like my spouse fell in love with me after I made it.
Derry: 20 minutes left, guys.
Whoo!
Heard.
Jon: Thanks, ma’am.
Tim, voice-over: For the salmon, I am gonna season it with some olive oil, some salt and pepper, put it on the griddle pan, after which maintain brushing it with some fresh-squeezed lemon juice, sort of get that lemon-juice taste in there.
♪ Derry: See that salmon fireplace.
Hollingsworth: Uh-oh, he is bought fireplace.
Whoo!
I am coming, Tim!
Tiffany’s en route!
Ha ha ha ha!
She’s fired up.
Heh heh!
Derry: The place there’s smoke, there’s fireplace.
I bought to start out fires so that you can come examine me out?
Whoo!
The way you doing?
I am good.
Now, is that the way you season every little thing?
Yeah, I attempt to stick with it sort of excessive so it gets– That wasn’t sufficient.
That wasn’t sufficient?
All proper.
That was two fingers.
There we go.
OK, so what temp are we searching for right here together with your salmon?
I prefer it a few medium-rare.
Superior.
So, Tim, we really feel…
Sure, ma’am.
such as you’re proper on the cusp.
You may have made a number of dishes that have been simply scrumptious, and you then had one thing on the plate that wasn’t superb, proper?
Uh-huh.
So I actually wish to see you come by way of at this time with giving us some daring flavors, so maintain working it.
You are virtually there.
Sure, ma’am.
Thanks very a lot.
OK?
Thanks.
Good luck.
Tim, voice-over: When Tiffany says that I’ve all the time simply been proper there, it makes me really feel good.
, though I have not been a high contender, I am proper there.
Suppose that is what she desires.
♪ [Sizzling] Marcella: Once I cook dinner crab truffles, I sort of simply go by, like, the coloring ‘trigger crab is precooked, so it is not a matter of something greater than getting the best shade and cooking the egg that is within the combination inside.
♪ That’s superb.
All proper.
Yay!
OK. Let’s go.
quarter-hour left, everybody.
quarter-hour!
Doug: Whew!
Operating out of time.
Jon: Ooh, plantains.
Adjo: Plantains.
♪ Plantain is life ♪ [Hums] Jon: You bought to show me the way to use plantains.
It is simply one thing that I am not used to baking, however every little thing I style and eat… Actually?
Sure.
I completely love.
Oh, my goodness.
So plantains are very, highly regarded in African delicacies.
You’ll be able to fry them, you may roast them, you may boil them ‘trigger the sweetness come by way of.
Yeah.
♪ Adjo: The key to creating a great plantain is selecting the correct plantain.
I like yellow with a little bit little bit of brown spots.
I want there’s extra to it, however there actually is not.
Ha ha ha ha!
Tastes nice.
Similar to I make it at residence, child.
♪ Mm.
Not sufficient salt.
Mae, voice-over: Now that I’ve prepped every little thing, I’ll add some Jaffna curry powder.
Jaffna is the northern a part of Sri Lanka, the place my husband comes from.
Oh, Lord.
Voice-over: Jaffna Curry powder could be very recognized for its spiciness.
I’ve to place some sesame oil and inexperienced onions, OK?
Derry: Mae’s going again to the shrimp once more.
Lam: The shrimp is completely cooked.
I am a little bit obsessive about this proper now.
Aw.
Thanks.
Derry: However, you already know, ensuring that the rice noodles are correctly cooked.
That’s the star of the dish.
Mm-hmm.
♪ Lam: You actually need them to have, like, a spring in your mouth.
Derry: Sure.
They need to actually be satisfying and chewy, virtually like a snap.
Yeah, yeah.
Ramos: Yeah.
Mae: I hope the judges like spice.
Ha ha ha!
5 minutes, everybody!
Jon: 5 minutes!
Ooh!
Ramos: How is everybody feeling with only a few minutes left?
Do you want extra?
Marcella: Sure!
No!
Sorry!
Cannot have it!
Ha ha ha ha!
Jon: I am good.
Voice-over: The trickiest half for my dish is to cook dinner the salmon good.
Should you overcook it, it is unsuitable.
Should you undercook it, it would not make any sense.
We’re in good condition.
I am gonna allow them to sit within the oven for a short while whereas the opposite batch goes in.
Lam: So it seems like Jon is doing the sear on the stovetop after which end within the oven with the salmon, which is a completely good approach to do this.
Derry: However one factor that plenty of cooks do not take into consideration is that carryover cooking… Oh, yeah.
as a result of I do not wish to see well-done salmon.
Yeah.
Though, you already know what?
I additionally don’t love uncommon, so I assume we’re searching for perfection.
Ha ha!
That is what we’re searching for.
Is that an excessive amount of?
Effectively, these are the very best residence cooks within the nation, so who higher to carry this perfection?
♪ Two minutes.
Jon: Two minutes.
We bought time.
We will do it.
Voice-over: Time is sort of up, however I feel that is what they’re searching for to get the profitable dish for this problem.
♪ 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5… Ramos and Judges: 4, 3, 2, 1.
Derry: Whoo-hoo!
Nice job, everybody!
Whoo!
[Applause] ♪ Ramos: This week, we wished you to arrange recipes that seize what it means to point out like to somebody by way of your meals.
Lam: And as all the time, we’re gonna be judging these dishes primarily based on style, execution, presentation, and the way nicely you captured this love-filled theme.
Tim, come on up.
♪ Inform us what you made and who you often make this for.
Tim: I’ve a skillet-seared lemon salmon over couscous tabbouleh.
When my spouse and I have been first relationship, this was the primary dish that I made for her on one in every of our first dates when she first came to visit.
Got here to the home.
OK. [Scattered chuckling] Hollingsworth: The salmon itself, the caramelization that you’ve got is gorgeous, simply the correct quantity of sear.
Lam: Yeah, I agree, and this pearl couscous will not be very simple to cook dinner.
You have bought it good, the place it is nonetheless a little bit bit bouncy, and the cranberries is a brand new addition for me.
I have not thought of that… All proper.
however I actually love that dried-fruit sweetness that it provides.
That is actually, very nice.
Thanks.
Thanks very a lot.
Ramos: Mae, come be a part of us.
OK.
That is referred to as Singapore noodles, and my husband is from Sri Lanka, land of curry, so he loves this dish.
Lam: I really like this dish.
Your shrimp are all the time completely seasoned and completely cooked each single time.
However I’d say I feel the noodles begin to break a little bit bit on you as a result of after I’m consuming it, the noodles are a bit shorter, and ideally, the feel of this noodle is sort of a little bit bit snappy within the mouth, and right here, I feel they’ve overcooked, however this dish simply makes me comfortable in kind of any kind, so I am a little bit bit biased.
Hollingsworth: I agree with Francis right here.
For me, I really feel just like the spice is simply, like, a pleasant, even spice that coats my mouth.
I simply wish to maintain consuming it.
It is like a craveable spice.
Thanks, Mae.
Lam: Thanks, Mae.
Ramos: Marcella.
I made for you at this time a standard New England crab cake, and I made this dish as a result of it actually encompasses the love that I’ve for my husband.
He’s my favourite individual to cook dinner for.
Ah, he is simply the very best.
Derry: Aw!
Ha ha!
I can not say sufficient about him.
Ramos: Oh, Marcella.
Ha ha ha!
I feel the sear in your crab cake seems attractive.
I feel you could have a pleasant, golden brown.
Very, very good, and crab with tropical fruit pairs actually, actually properly collectively, however you then’re getting a bit of pineapple… Derry: Proper, yeah.
a bit of mango.
It isn’t, like, small cube.
Lam: Yeah, I agree, and I’m a fan of the minimally seasoned crab cake.
I nonetheless style the crab, however I simply bought a chunk with, like, a little bit little bit of celery seed, and that taste is de facto lovely, and that is going with the crab, and so kudos to you.
Thanks.
Adjo, come be a part of us.
Howdy, Cooks.
At this time, I made for you guys my favourite lamb chops with some inexperienced beans and plantains on the aspect.
Derry: Adjo, the plate is gorgeous, and one in every of my favourite issues on a plate proper now could be these plantains.
They’re so good.
Ah, thanks, Chef.
So good.
These plantains are addictive.
Thanks.
Thanks, Chef.
The lamb itself has unbelievable taste.
I imply, rosemary and lamb is scrumptious, however in some areas, I’ve a little bit little bit of pink, after which, some areas, I haven’t got any pink.
I oftentimes save these items that I do know are good, and I put it off to the aspect as I maintain cooking, after which I will make the choice afterward which one I placed on the plate.
OK. Hollingsworth: I undoubtedly agree.
I feel that the sear may have been completed a little bit bit higher.
The way in which that you just obtain that’s by having a warmer pan… Adjo: Mm-hmm.
and utilizing much less lamb, as a result of that lamb was gonna drop the temperature of the pan.
Thanks, Judges.
Thanks, Alejandra.
Doug.
Howdy, Judges.
At residence, we merely name it lemon pasta.
It is the dish that I all the time make for my husband Greg when he goes away and when he comes residence.
[Voice trembling] I am sorry.
Um, I really like this individual, and, uh, these are all of the flavors that he loves.
We actually simply full and stability each other.
That is lovely.
Hollingsworth: The only issues are all the time the toughest to arrange.
There’s actually nothing to cover behind, however I really like the cracked black pepper.
The pasta has an honest quantity of lemon, and while you chunk into that sun-dried tomato, you get, like, this burst of candy umami as nicely.
Derry: Yeah, completely agree.
As a result of it comes off easy, and there are such a lot of advanced flavors right here, you wish to attempt that subsequent chunk.
I really like that you just tore the basil as a result of after we chiffonade, it will get black.
And this actually speaks to my coronary heart.
I get pleasure from it very a lot.
Thanks a lot, Chef.
All proper, Kim, come be a part of us.
Kim: So, at this time, I made a yellow Thai curry with rooster.
I make it for my husband.
He is in love with Thai meals, so I assumed it could be sort of particular to try to study a Thai dish for him.
I feel that is very tasty.
Every part in it’s cooked properly.
The one factor I’d say, although you used a ready curry paste, there may have been a little bit extra of that curry taste; not warmth, essentially, however simply extra of that aroma.
And plenty of occasions, too, individuals will go a little bit bit overboard on the paste and, like, the coconut milk is sort of, like, combating for its life, you already know, It is like, right here, curry paste is like, “Aah!”
and you are like, “Oh, we’re right here, too,” however, like, candy, it is mellow.
Kim: I really completely agree with you.
He is candy.
He likes it candy, so– Yeah.
Ha ha!
what?
I actually recognize it, really.
I just like the sauce, the truth that you sort of made it your personal.
I feel you probably did an ideal job on this dish.
Thanks, Judges.
Ramos: All proper, Jon.
Come and be a part of us.
♪ Jon, inform us what you made and who you make this recipe for.
Jon: That is salmon and shrimp in a mojo de ajo cream sauce.
My spouse loves seafood.
The factor that I did and I hope that you will see is she’s extra into kind of a medium-well salmon.
I prefer it a little bit bit extra uncommon, however I wished to kind of keep within the center.
Effectively, Jon, that may be a completely… [Cooks cheering] executed… Have a look at Jon!
salmon, Jon.
That’s pure perfection.
Thanks, ma’am.
The salmon is superbly seasoned as nicely.
I can style the lemon.
The shrimp will not be overcooked.
Effectively completed!
Thanks.
I recognize it.
Jon, I’ve one factor to say to you.
Sure?
The salt degree is ideal.
Jon: Ah!
Ramos, clapping: Sure!
Ha ha ha ha!
Jon: I have been listening to you all.
Ramos: Thanks a lot.
Jon, voice-over: Holy cow!
I really feel actually good, and extra importantly, I really feel like I did my spouse proud.
♪ Ramos: All proper, let’s dive in.
What do you consider these plates introduced this spherical?
I feel one of many standouts for certain was Doug.
Not solely was that bowl of pasta superb, such good lemon and garlic, however, fairly frankly, the story was lovely.
Yeah.
He actually poured that love into the pasta for us to really feel it as nicely.
Lam: And I feel we must always speak about Jon as nicely.
Ramos: Sure.
The constant be aware that we’ve got had for Jon is extra taste and extra salt.
Derry: Mm-hmm.
And you already know what?
he nailed the salt.
He did.
Lam: And the cook dinner on all of the seafood was good.
Ramos: I really feel like we simply met Jon.
Derry: Jon, welcome.
Lam: Yeah.
Welcome to the “Nice American Recipe.”
Ha ha!
Hollingsworth: , one in every of my favorites for the spherical was Kim along with her yellow Thai curry.
It was a novel model of a basic dish.
I assumed Kim’s curry was superb.
I imply, the coconut was there.
There was a little bit little bit of spice, and the curry and that rice collectively.
Ramos: All proper.
Which dishes want a little bit bit of additional love this spherical?
I hate to say it as a result of I liked every little thing that she’s made to this point.
Heh heh!
Say it.
Yeah.
Mama Mae.
[Laughter] Lam: I–yeah, I hear you, man.
And I simply assume a few issues bought away from her.
You would see that the noodles have been so quick ‘trigger they have been breaking on her within the wok.
Yeah.
I really feel prefer it’s a kind of issues the place it is like she’s cooking in a special setting, however the taste was there.
Others: Yeah.
, the opposite dish that I felt may use a little bit little bit of enchancment was Marcella’s crab cake.
Lam: I assumed Marcella’s crab cake was actually properly executed, actually properly seasoned.
However her pineapple mango salsa, I simply did not love the 2 collectively.
Hollingsworth: Yeah, I agree.
I feel it is a little bit little bit of execution for me.
I want she may simply, like, do it like a little bit brunoise or a small cube.
Mm-hmm.
Derry: One other dish missing a little bit bit was Adjo’s lamb chop with the inexperienced beans.
Lam: Yeah, the flavour of the lamb chops was additionally wonderful.
Her largest downside, actually?
She tried to cook dinner too many… Yeah.
at one time, and so they simply did not get the warmth to get that char and to get that doneness.
However these have been the very best plantains.
Derry: These have been the best– They have been so good.
It was the very best a part of the dish.
One of the best a part of the dish was the plantains.
I ate all yours.
[Both laugh] OK, it looks like you’ve got all come to the choice, so let’s carry the cooks again in.
[Birds chirping] ♪ Ramos: We requested you to cook dinner and current a favourite dish of somebody you’re keen on.
It was a really tough resolution, however sadly, there have been two dishes that weren’t fairly as profitable.
The primary dish that we felt wanted a little bit little bit of enchancment was… Mae.
Your Singapore noodles lacked a little bit little bit of taste, however actually, it got here right down to the noodles.
We expect undoubtedly having a warmer wok and never overworking the noodles in it could have undoubtedly modified that dish.
OK. Lam: The opposite dish that we felt may have used a little bit little bit of enchancment was… ♪ Adjo, together with your lamb chops and inexperienced beans.
There was a lot to like about your dish, however the cook dinner of the lamb wanted a little bit tweak of not crowding the grill as a lot and getting a little bit extra of that char and getting a little bit little bit of that fats rendered.
Ramos: All proper, now let’s get to the actual lovey-dovey stuff, lets?
Doug: Oh.
Heh heh!
Judges, that are your high two dishes this spherical?
The primary dish that stole our hearts was… ♪ Doug’s.
Geez.
[Applause] Hollingsworth: Your lemon pasta was scrumptious.
We actually observed all of the love and the small print that you just put in there.
The pasta was cooked completely.
You had good garlic in there.
I feel the tomatoes introduced out that umami and actually helped carry every little thing collectively and stability out that lemon.
Nice work.
Thanks, Judges.
Thanks.
Oh, thanks, guys.
Thanks.
Our different favourite dish of the spherical was… ♪ Jon.
Jon: Oh!
Derry: Jon!
Yay!
Sure!
Sure!
Adjo: There you go.
Derry: Jon, your shrimp and salmon mojo de ajo.
It was a pleasure to eat your meals at this time.
I simply saved considering, “The place has this Jon been?”
[Laughter] The cook dinner on the salmon is what we simply saved coming again to.
And the seasoning, all of it actually tied very nicely collectively.
Jon: Thanks.
So each dishes have been excellent, however there can solely be one profitable dish, and that’s… ♪ Lam: Doug.
Oh, my goodness!
Jon: Whoo!
Oh, my goodness!
[Sniffles] Thanks.
Oh, my gosh.
Oh!
This was meant for you.
You really have been listening to the entire recommendation.
We see you including extra salt and tasting extra, and all of these particulars that we maintain speaking to everybody about goes to be the distinction.
Adjo: Yeah.
Doug: Thanks, Judges.
Voice-over: Understanding that they love this dish that my husband and I really like probably the most, wow!
It is–I imply, it is sort of unbelievable, and at the back of my thoughts, it is lighting a hearth that I’ve bought to maintain the depth and bringing as a lot as I can each week.
Ramos: Nice job, everybody.
You are all one step nearer to the finale, the place one in every of you’ll be named the winner.
Marcella: Sure.
Ramos: We’re gonna see you all subsequent week for extra of your nice American recipes.
Sure!
Whoo!
Derry: Bye, everybody.
Have a great evening!
Thanks, Judges.
Nice job completed, Jon.
Bye.
Nice job.
Jon: Thanks.
Ramos: Subsequent time, on “The Nice American Recipe”…
This week’s theme is all about baking.
I used to be most likely baking earlier than I used to be cooking.
I really like baking…
I do not know how that is gonna prove.
not.
It is very German over right here.
Derry: I wish to see individuals bake with their coronary heart.
I additionally wish to see some clear method.
[Sighs] Derry: Mae, you are gonna make it?
I want extra time.
Lam: So our favourite bake-sale merchandise was… ♪