Chef Flay uses his grill to prepare a few Asian-influenced dishes with recipes for swordfish skewers with coconut, key lime and green chile sauce, Asian-spiced duck breasts with ginger-chile glaze, brown rice salad with citrus-Thai basil vinaigrette, grilled eggplant with garlic sauce and mint. He tops off the menu with a tamarind cooler.
Chef Flay puts a new spin on the classic Thanksgiving holiday meal with recipes for brined turkey breast with Spanish spice rub and sour orange sauce, sherry vinegar-brown sugar-glazed turkey drumsticks, grilled portobello mushrooms filled with wild rice, and a mulled red wine sangria. Pastry chef Vicki Wells provides cheesecake for dessert.
Chef Flay visits one of his favorite wine stores, Appellation Wines and Spirits, and selects a few vintage bottles and some key tips on cooking with wine. When he returns to his kitchen, he prepares grilled fig and stilton salad with port-wine vinaigrette, spicy mussels with white wine, and a red-wine marinated stuffed flank steak served with champagne granita.
Bobby Flay selects a few succulent heirloom tomatoes at Upper East Side's Eli's, then returns to his kitchen to grill a mint-marinated grilled shrimp tabbouleh and a fresh mozzarella and stacked heirloom tomato salad. A grilled red snapper is topped with a grapefruit-thyme mojo, and strawberries with ricotta cream and pistachios complete this healthy meal.
Chef Flay invites a few close friends to his patio for an intimate holiday meal of smoked trout salad with Meyer-lemon dressing, grilled lamb porterhouse with fig-cascabel Sauce, and a side grilled chickpea polenta cakes with chive oil and lemon.