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USA WEEKEND asked your favorite
Food Network chefs to reveal the quickest,
easiest, tastiest recipes they serve their
families and guests during the holiday
season. You'll want to post these gems on
your refrigerator for easy access. We bet they'll
become your favorites for years to come.
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Sweet Potatoes with Pecans and Blue Cheese
competes on Iron Chef America, decided to transform
traditional mashed potatoes into this surprising, fun, yummy
soup. This recipe, which he adapted for us from Ns new
cookbook, Morimoto, brings a bit of Japanese flavor to an old
school American dish. Unlike the rest of our chefs, Morimoto
won't be making this for his family. "I don’t cook at home," he
admits. 'lf I ask my wife to make it, it will be possible.'
Mashed Potato Soup with Wasabi
1 large baking potato
(10 to 12 ounces)
1% s«cks (V« cup)
unsalted butter
V, cup half-and-half
4 cups chicken broth
2 Tbs. sake
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8 Giada De Laurentiis is not shy about her ;/‘
appreciation of com bread. *1 love W* she gushes. “But I
find that corn-bread muffins can be kind of boring.* So,
she created this riff on a traditional Italian salad. “It's a
fun little twist on a traditional Thanksgiving Ingredient*
De Laurentiis, who hosts Everyday Italian (Saturdays,
noon] and Gtoda's Weekend Getaways (Fridays, 10:30 pm),
wiH bring it along to her Aunt Raffy's house this Turkey
Day. She adapted this recipe for us from her latest
cookbook, Everyday Pasta. V-'v.
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and their fast holiday favorites
3 Tbs. light-colored
say »uce
Salt, to taste
1 ounce caviar, optional
freshly grated wasabi \
and finely sliced chives,
preferably baby chives
(menegi), for garnish
Cornbread Panzanella
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Relish
B “I grew up eating cranberry
sauce out of a can; Bobby Flay
says. “Since I've been cooking fee
a living I've always used fresh T,
cranberries to make some sort of
Ik 'This is a fabulous and easy holiday dish. Not
■teg;,only is it an interestingly different side dish to
■i accompany the Thanksgiving turkey, but it
7 • -Jlkjj also can offer holiday cheer to vegetarians
. ggKwho can find the season unwelcoming,”
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P 3 Tbs. olive oil
jp 6.sprigs fresh thyme
% 1 cup crumbled Roquefort
other blue cheese
jjlfIf BBfemeat oven to 425 degrees.
7 '* ls l v Combine sweet potatoes and oil in a
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sprigs. Roast for 30 to 45 minutes or
tK'utrtii tender.
■Bp-Transfer the sweet potatoes to a serving bowl.
toss with pecans and cheese. Salt and pepper
Garnish with remaining thyme sprigs. Serves 6.
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Prick potato and steam over boiling water until tender,
30 to 35 minutes. Let cool, peel. Press through a ricer or a
wire sieve into a medium saucepan. 7 ’7 : Tt* ll ’-
Meanwhile, in a small saucepan, warm butter and half-and
half over medium heat until steaming but not simmering.
Place potatoes over low heat. Slowly add hot liquid and
whisk until smooth. Remove from heat; cover.
Boil chicken broth, sake, soy sauce and salt on high heat
To serve, spoon potatoes into 4 soup bowls. Gently ladle
broth over and, around potatoes. Top with optional caviar. . f
Garnish with wasabi and chives. Serve immediately. Serves 4.
Cornbread Panzanella
4 cups com bread,
cut into 2*/rindt cubes
1 cup halved cherry tomatoes
1 cup cubed fontina cheese
(about’4-inch cubes) c -
’/»hothouse cucumber,
quartered and sliced
Vi cup com kernels
’/» cup chopped fresh basd
DRESSING: -.'.‘'v.;" ,: v . r
Vj cup extra-virgin olive oil
Zest of 1 lemon
Juke of 2 lemons
1 tsp. kosher salt
1 tsp. freshly ground black pepper
Combine com bread, tomatoes, cheese,
cucumber, apple, com and basil in a >
large bowl
In a small bowl stir together dressing
ingredients. Pour over salad; toss very
gently. Serve immediately. Serves 6.
relish, and this one works realty well.
I like the texture of the mangoes,
as well as the flavor and the - ,
\ sweetness." Flay, who hosts
JI Soy Meets Grill (Sundays, 9 aan,)
W and Throwdown with Bobby Fhy
' (Sundays, 10 p.nt) and competes
on Iron Chief America, plans to serve
this to his family at Thanksgiving. He
created this recipe exclusively for us,
but you can find more of his dishes
in his new Mesa Grill Cookbook.
Fresh Cranberry-
Mango Relish
3 Tbs. unsalted butter
1 large red onion, finely diced
Mashed Potato Soup with Wasabi
Churrisimos
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2 Tbs. grated fresh ginger
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V. cup Hght brown sugar
1 pound aanberries _
2 ripe mangoes, halved, pitted
and diced
I Tb. grated orange zest
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Melt butter in a medium saucepan
over medium-high heat Add onions
and ginger; cook until soft. Add juice
and sugar; cook until boiling. Add
half the cranberries; cook until they
pop. Add remaining cranberries and
cook 5 minutes.
Remove from heat Add mangoes
and zest. Serve at room temperature.
Serves.B.
Batali .s known for his bright-colored
footwear (orange Crocs, anyone?) and Ns affection fork# .
things Itajian, which he showcases on Malta Mario
(Mondays 1 0 am), as a competitor on Iron Chef America
(Sundays, 9 p.m.) and in cookbooks such as Italian Grill,
due out this spring. He shared this recipe with us because,
"for me, pasta is always a holiday thing and I just love the
sweetness of that squash. When you put ricotta salata on
top of it, the whole thing becomes a symphony of love
and holiday." Batali serves up this dish at home each ' V
Christmas Eve. .\
Penne with Zaicca '
4 Tbs. extra-virgin olive oil, divided
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4 garlic cloves, thinly sliced
6 salt-packed anchovy fillets, soaked m mHk
for 20 minutes, rinsed, drained _ t '
1 pound butternut squash, peeled, seeded
and cut into Winch cubes -*.«•
Salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
1 pound penne rigate
7, cup finely chopped flat-leaf parsley
'A cup toasted fresh bread crumbs
4 ounces ricotta salata, smoked ricotta
7; orAsiagocheese,grated
In a large saufo pan, heat 2 Tbs. ofl over mecHum heat.
Add onion, garlic and anchovies. Cook, stilting ]
occasionally, until vegetables soften. Turn heat to high
and add squash; toss for 5 minutes, or until tertder and 7.v
browned. Add salt and pepper. Remove from heat. ,7 - 1
Cook penne according to package directions; drain. ;.t: (
Return squash to high heat; add penne, parsley and
remaMng.oiland toss for 1 minute. ; :
Divide among four warmed bowls;top with bread
crumbs and cheese. Serve Immediately. Serves 4.
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host of Simply Deikkxso (Saturdays, 1130 amj, aims for ;
simplicity: "That's the time when I gofor comfort food and
easy food, recipes that are so easy that you can actually
enjoy your event instead of being exhausted." Thafs why
she offered up this take on traditional Latin charms, which
she adapted from her forthcoming cookbook (alsp titled
Simply Deßcioso). She plans to serve this addictive
on Thanksgiving. 'My steer* Mds.always says,
"and they are all coming home from cgltege. sO f&rt ijet
well be having churns”
Churrisimqs
'/•cup sugar :
ITb. ground cinnamon
1 sheet puff pastry dough, thawed
Dukede ieche (carameisauce),
for dipping
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. r
Mix sugar and cinnamon in a
small bowl
Sprinkle* work surfacewith a £*
spoonful of cinnamon sugar. Uy puff
pastry on top. Brush Tightly with water
and sprinktegeneibcßly»vkhdnnamon
sugar. Flip pastry aver; repeat water
and cinnamon sugar step.
• '•*&< t'&t pastry into 'fr to Vnjncfv-
Lw wide Strips. Place on a non
stkk baking sheet then
twist strips like corkscrews.
% Bake until puffed and golden
■„>; yS i-,; brown, about Uto 15.
minutes. Codccwnpteteiy.
Serve with duke de leche. Serves 6.
Penne with Zucca