Chef at Home - Season 6
Season 6
Network
Episodes26
DatesOct 7, 2009 - Mar 31, 2010
Episodes
Season 6Episode 130 min
Argentinean Burgers
Michael hosts a deck party and shows how easy it is to fill your grill with flavours from all over the world. Chicken satay with peanut sauce, Argentinean burgers with Chimichurri sauce, beer broth mussels and grilled oysters all set the stage but an amazing mint margarita steals the show!
Oct 7, 2009
Season 6Episode 230 min
Southwestern Art
Michael finds that the kitchen can be a place to relax while you explore your creative side. He finds artistic inspiration in the colourful flavours of the southwest, creating a strawberry margarita pie and a southwestern dinner salad complete with crispy spicy chicken, avocadoes, corn and a zesty chipotle lime dressing.
Oct 14, 2009
Season 6Episode 330 min
Dark Chocolate Day
Michael receives an unexpected treat, a large box of top quality chocolate. So he calls a few friends and starts playing. Dark chocolate brownies, chocolate covered grapes and popcorn, caramel chocolate sauce and chocolate whipped cream are the result.
Oct 21, 2009
Season 6Episode 430 min
Colorful Food
Michael rolls flank steak around dried tomato pesto and roasts pinwheels of flavour stuffed beef. He serves them with steakhouse vegetables and a batch of intriguing twice baked potatoes stuffed with smoked salmon, cream cheese and chives.
Oct 28, 2009
Season 6Episode 530 min
Brick Chicken
Michael shows off a unique way to cook a whole chicken, pollo al mattone: flattened under a brick. The results are spectacularly golden brown and crispy! He completes the meal with a side dish of fennel roasted with apples and a simple strawberry arugula salad.
Nov 4, 2009
Season 6Episode 630 min
After School Party
Michael shows how to harness the scientific side of cooking by using simple kitchen physics. He creates the perfect chewy chocolate chip cookie, crisp oven fries and Asian orange grilled chicken wings. You don’t have to be a scientist to be a great home cook, but your kitchen can be a flavour laboratory.
Nov 11, 2009
Season 6Episode 730 min
Travel Flavors
Michael finds dinner inspiration and ideas all over the world. His travels encourage a spirit of adventure as he cooks salmon with a Mediterranean flair in a Scandinavian Muurikka over an open fire. Egyptian molokhia, Mexican ceviche, Arabic coffee and candied crickets from Japan round out the global menu around the backyard fire.
Nov 18, 2009
Season 6Episode 830 min
Cook Ahead
Michael invests time to save time as he gears up his kitchen for the busy week ahead. The result is a batch of chicken soup with a Mediterranean flair, oatmeal chocolate chip cookies, hummus, oven roast tomatoes, twenty fruit salad and a menus worth of other time saving tips.
Nov 25, 2009
Season 6Episode 930 min
Smoked Salmon Pesto Pinwheels
Michael shows how to show off for a memorable cocktail party. He creates a tasty selection of bite sized tastes, Hors d’oeuvres. Smoked salmon pesto pinwheels, proscuitto mesclun bundles, olive oil fried almonds, grilled Cambazola cheese sandwiches with marmalade, blue cheese walnut crusted grapes and incredibly, grapes wrapped in 24 Kt. gold leaf. Talk about showing off!
Dec 2, 2009
Season 6Episode 1030 min
Sausage & Pepper Hero
It’s hero night! Michael slows down his family’s fast-paced life by trying out some new dinner ideas. Sausage, peppers and fennel stuffed in whole-wheat buns, turnip French fries with green ketchup, an Italian inspired slaw, and peanut butter and jelly cookies round out the menu.
Dec 9, 2009
Season 6Episode 1130 min
Global Kitchen
Michael explores the globe and finds that formerly exotic flavours of the world can become everyday mainstream. From Asia he creates a perfect food balance in orange sesame crusted pork tenderloin. From India, he makes a batch of sweet potato aloo gobi and some of the worlds easiest homemade cheese, paneer.
Dec 16, 2009
Season 6Episode 1230 min
Tuscan Beef
Michael shows off a spectacular way to cook an extra thick steak: grilled, sliced into a warm salad with arugula, lemon, olive oil and shaved Parmesan. Tomato bread pudding and steakhouse mushroom stew share top billing too.
Dec 23, 2009
Season 6Episode 1330 min
Big Flavor
Dec 30, 2009
Season 6Episode 1430 min
Proscuitto Roast Salmon
Michael shows that cooking for a crowd can be just as fun and easy as cooking for one. He creates proscuitto roast salmon with tomato tarragon salsa, grilled Caribbean chicken with pineapple salsa then fills a pot with Thai coconut steamed mussels.
Jan 6, 2010
Season 6Episode 1530 min
Saturday Baking
Michael sets out to achieve perfection in the kitchen. He makes a simple sweet yeast dough and uses it to create a magnificent batch of homemade cinnamon rolls. Along the way he enjoys chocolate French toast for breakfast and finds that perfection is both a journey and a destination.
Jan 13, 2010
Season 6Episode 1630 min
Southwestern Beef Stew
Michael sets aside the cookbooks and looks for ways to stir his personality into dinner. He shows how you can add southwestern flavour to a simple beef stew, turn a few baked sweet potatoes into dumplings and add some zest to sweet and sour cabbage. All topped off with a southwestern sundae with spicy chocolate sauce and strawberry salsa.
Jan 20, 2010
Season 6Episode 1730 min
Kung Pao Chicken
East meets West in Michael’s kitchen as he shows how to make one of his favourite restaurant dishes: spicy Kung Pao chicken. This fusion dish’s origins encourage a playful approach instead of rigid authenticity. The same approach inspires a Chinese salad.
Jan 27, 2010
Season 6Episode 1830 min
Shrimp Cocktails
Michael looks for ways to fight boredom in the kitchen. Along the way he finds a batch of freshly baked blondies, a round of prosciutto wrapped grilled shrimp cocktails and a spectacular homemade pasta dish; green pea spaetzle with smoked salmon and dill.
Feb 3, 2010
Season 6Episode 1930 min
Pork Chops
Michael tries out a few new ideas and relies on a few time tested and true techniques while he cooks up a pan of juicy pork chops with a new rosemary scented apple sauce. A batch of creamy bacon cheddar polenta and brown butter green beans completes the plate.
Feb 10, 2010
Season 6Episode 2030 min
Homemade Pasta
Michael has some spare time and decides to play around with a few kitchen projects. He finds his pasta machine and makes up a batch of salt & pepper fettuccini with the worlds tastiest tomato sauce, San Marzano sauce. For a treat he whips extra virgin olive oil into a simple cake batter and serves it with basil whipped cream.
Feb 17, 2010
Season 6Episode 2130 min
Dinner Club
Michael hosts his monthly dining club friends. On the menu? Cooking with wine and spirits. Pinot Noir cherry chutney tops grilled veal chops. Sherry aromatizes creamed spinach. Single malt butterscotch sundaes round out the evening as Michael mixes up old-school Sazerac nightcap cocktails for everyone!
Feb 24, 2010
Season 6Episode 2230 min
Baked Chicken
Michael demonstrates one of the simplest ways to cook a chicken, bake it in a closed pot. The results are spectacularly simple and full of rich, deep chicken flavour. Bacon barley risotto and a warm wilted spinach cherry tomato salad fill the table with even more flavour.
Mar 3, 2010
Season 6Episode 2330 min
Tea Poached Salmon
Michael explores the flavours of love. He creates a new menu for Rachel and discovers that cooking a special dinner is more of an aphrodisiac than any single ingredient. Tea poached salmon, Moroccan almond apricot couscous and Pina Colada Panna Cotta all help him seal the deal!
Mar 10, 2010
Season 6Episode 2430 min
Pasta Casserole
Michael explores the pursuit of flavour and how it affects your cooking style. He discovers that once you’ve decided to make something taste the best it can, the ideas to make it happen are never far behind. Like adding a tomato twist to old-fashioned macaroni & cheese. Or the extra aromatic boost of a double vanilla cake with dark chocolate frosting.
Mar 17, 2010
Season 6Episode 2530 min
Easy Fish
Michael shows off winning strategies for a home cook’s most important job: filling the table with healthy flavour. He shows how easy it is to crust whitefish with Dijon & Pesto crusts, mash sweet potatoes with olive oil and maple while steaming Brussels sprouts with bacon and your favourite herb. He even sneaks some extra special goodness into a blueberry shake.
Mar 24, 2010
Season 6Episode 2630 min
Simple Fettuccini Alfredo
Michael shares a wide variety of secrets and time saving tricks of the trade from his days as a restaurant cook. Two simple steps produce perfectly pan roasted golden brown and juicy chicken breasts complete with their own sauce. He free styles a batch of butterscotch bread pudding and a quick pot full of classically simple Fettuccine Alfredo.
Mar 31, 2010
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