Triple G's first ever home tournament continues.
And tonight, we have Chef Antonia Lofaso
and daughter Xea.
- She's only yelled at me twice. - [laughing]
She almost burnt our house down.
[Guy] They're competing against Chef Brian Malarkey
and his wife, Chantelle.
We're gonna need some marriage counselling after this one!
[Guy] This week's winning family will win 10,000 bucks.
Yeah!
And a spot in the finale with a shot of winning up to $20,000 more.
[laughing]
Oh, no!
It's week two of our awesome all-star family face-off.
Right now, on Triple G delivery.
Are you ready to watch two more families
go head to head in our all-star tournament?
I have literally been waiting all week for this.
Me as well. Let's meet them now. First-up,
acclaimed Southern California restaurateur,
we call her the warrior princess,
the one and only, Chef Antonia Lofaso.
And competing in her very first culinary competition,
the fearless daughter, Xea.
Ugh!
I was a young mother, I had her at 23.
So she is actually gonna be 21 this month.
We're both really competitive
and I think I understand where I get it from.
I'm definitely nervous about how I'm gonna cook things that I'm unfamiliar with,
but it'll be great to have my mom with me.
And I feel like I can genuinely do anything with you by my side.
- It's a big deal. Yeah. - It's a big deal.
[Guy] They look like twins!
Are you ready to do this?
I am, I'm so ready.
They'll be competing against the widely successful restaurateur,
we call him Chef Shenanigan.
Chef Brian Malarkey and a woman with an arsenal of secret recipes,
his wife, Chantelle.
[Brian] Welcome to the house of Malarkey.
Hello. I'm Chantelle Malarkey.
And I'm Brian Malarkey and welcome to my kitchen!
[laughing]
This is team Malarkey and we are ready to win, right?
- Right. - Right.
I would say I would definitely be his sous-chef today.
[Brian] I know Guy.
I'll be blindfolded and my hands will be put into hot deep-fried oil.
And I won't be able to help at all,
and you will do all of the cooking.
Chantelle, don't let him cut his own hair.
Oh, my gosh, we've been trying to get them to grow that out for a bit.
Welcome family, to Triple G's first-ever tournament.
Princess Warrior and Chef Shenanigan,
are two of the most feared grocery store gladiators we've ever had.
Thanks to Triple G delivery, we can finally take the competition
right to your homes
and meet the real powers behind the throne, Xea and Chantelle.
So, Hunter.
We are expecting a real team effort, correct?
- Absolutely. - Absolutely.
Because we sent you two boxes filled with surprise ingredients
and a grueling game that'll require combined culinary skills to conquer.
Oh!
Your dishes will be scored by fellow all-star families
based on gameplay,
creativity, plating, and your description of their taste.
The family with the highest combined score at the end of two rounds
will win an automatic $10,000.
Which $9,999 will either go to Xea or Chantelle.
[laughing]
Aaron May and his sister, Corri beat out Jet, and his wife, Ally
in an unbelievable upset last week.
The question is which family will grab the 10,000 bucks tonight?
So, are you ready for the face-off?
- [all exclaiming] Yes! - Right. Yes.
Okay, I want you powerhouse duos...
I want you to make the old, famous, iconic duo of sandwich and a side.
- Ooh, okay, then we'll... - [Guy] All right, go on ahead and open your boxes.
Hunter, go get the box.
Use your knife, not mine.
- Look at the cornucopia of ingredients. - [Hunter] Vegan pita,
- sourdough... - Sourdough.
- Rye... - Rye.
- Pita... - Pita.
Ketchup.
Peppers.
Harissa. Great ingredients.
Except, there is no protein.
- Hunter, I don't... There's something wrong. - What's that?
- Bread. Got it. - Yup.
- Condiments? - Absolutely.
I don't see the meats or the cheeses or any of that stuff.
You told me you want to make an old fashioned, or a well-balanced meal.
A well-balanced meal, right?
Meat, cheese, veggies, sandwich bread...
So I brought in the old-fashioned scale.
It's a balance.
I thought you wanted to balance the...
Oh, they're gonna balance the meat...
You said well-balanced. I mean, when I...
Chefs, I apologize.
- That's your fault, not... - Hunter is a genius.
He came up with a whole new game.
Let's call this Balancing Act.
Okay, I got it. I see what you're going with, Hunter.
So, what you're going to have to do...
Unfortunately, you don't have any meat or any cheese or any vegetables,
you can get that from your pantry,
but you gotta use these ingredients.
Whatever ingredients you're gonna use for your sandwich,
has gotta equal the amount of ingredients you use for your side.
- They have to weigh the same. - Right.
- [Guy] Okay? - [all exclaiming]
You know what? You know what's a good idea
is one family member should make sandwich and one should make the side.
- That's a duo. - Right.
- But they're separate. - Exactly.
- They're not wearing the same outfit. - No.
- Got it. - Yeah.
Okay, so why don't you decide who's going to make what now.
Who's gonna make the sandwich? Who's gonna make the side?
- What do you want to make? - I don't know.
What's gonna be easier?
[both laughing]
- Antonia? - I'm gonna make the sandwich.
- [Guy] Great! - I'll make the side.
Chantelle, who's making what on your team?
I want the sandwich?
[laughs] I want the sandwich.
[laughing] You want the sandwich?
Uh, I'm gonna make the sandwich.
[Guy] You're making the sandwich. Shenanigan's making the side.
You have to weigh
all your ingredients. All your sandwich ingredients weighed on one side,
and all your side ingredients weighed on one side.
Once they balance, and you show that to me, you can start cooking.
But you can't start cooking until it's balanced.
So, I know we're not in the competition,
Hunter and I have the box too, so Hunter and I will be cooking along as well.
You have 30 minutes.
Can we take this stuff out of the glass jars to put inside...
- Just has to balance. - [Brian] Got it.
Can we... Can I get a smaller scale?
Did you guys not get up and have your breakfast cereal?
Three, two, one. Go!
Yeah!
You wanna do a macaroni and cheese with the po'boy?
- So we're doing the shrimp po'boy? - What do you think?
Shrimp po'boy sounds good, right?
Or fried chicken sandwich.
I said fried chicken sandwich.
You wanna do the fried chicken sandwich?
- Yeah. - Okay, let's...
We have to make a sandwich and a side,
so we're gonna go with a fried chicken sandwich, and a side of mac and cheese.
- Your cheese, heavy whipping cream. - Cheese.
Sandwich and a side should match.
Fried chicken, macaroni and cheese,
all these things, like go together so beautifully.
And then, hold on, 'cause we gotta weigh everything too.
The game is balancing act.
Meaning that everything from the side and the sandwich
need to weigh an even amount before we can even start cooking.
Watching the scales is absolute torture.
You're a genius, you know that?
So trying to balance anything on the little, tiny, teeny-tiny scale
is hard on its own. And you're gonna like, "Don't touch it!" "Okay, grab the side."
"Balance it!" "Hold it!" "Is it moving?"
- What kind of meat do we have? - I have chicken, I have hamburger, I have turkey...
Turkey.
You're not gonna make a melt, right?
We're making a melt! We're making a melt.
We are making a turkey rye melt.
I have mozzarella, burrata, brie, uh, gruyere. I got gruyere for you.
[Chantelle] Oh, let's go gruyere.
- I have the brussels sprouts. - Okay.
The only way I think that we do it, is we have to take all of things out of the jar
and just make them as small as possible, and stack them up.
Unmade, or deconstructed and then we will construct.
- Pancetta. - Okay.
Oh, my God.
- [Hunter] I have pepper jack cheese. - Pepper jack, that's great.
- Okay. - [Guy] So what we're going to do is,
- we're gonna make a tequila turkey sandwich. - Okay.
Um, rojo onion rings. Take the onion rings,
dip it in that panko breading, fry them.
- Right. - That'll be the side.
This is light.
The equivalent of Tetris right here. Oh!
Hold on, hold on, there's balance.
[Hunter] It's a little low.
All right, take a break! We're balanced, we're done.
- I don't know where you guys are, but... - We have to check them.
- That's balance. - Did they get it?
It's good! Look at it, look at it! Look! Look! Look! [both exclaiming]
- All right, I'll give you, it's balanced. - That was hard.
- Let me see. All right, that works. - Nice. Yes!
[Guy] I didn't expect that level of creativity, but I like it.
Okay, here we go.
I should have, actually. With shenanigans, I should have figured that out.
[Antonia] I'm gonna turn this bad boy on.
[Xea] So, we're making a fried chicken sandwich, and a side of man and cheese.
You're gonna put butter in there...
I'm in charge of the side, and I decided to pick mac and cheese
because it's one of my favorites.
- Wait, what? - First, I'm gonna get started
on the roux which just consists of some butter and flour.
That's perfect.
So, once my cream and milk are mixed with my roux,
it's gonna become a bechamel.
It's basically just a fancier word for a cheese sauce.
So, I then am going to add my cheddar cheese in there,
and I really want this to be creamy and delicious and gooey,
especially since the judges can't taste the food itself.
I want them to see what it would taste like.
[Antonia] So, I'm in charge of this sandwich.
I'm gonna make a fried chicken sandwich
with lettuce, tomato, pickled onions and a hot sauce aioli.
So, I start by seasoning the chicken with salt and pepper.
Then I go to my tempura batter.
It's kind of like a tempura batter
'cause I don't use any rice flour, 'cause it couldn't fit on my scale.
Flour. It's all-purpose flour,
cornstarch, a little bit of baking powder and salt,
and I just mix some water into it.
I feel like, between my charm and her cooking skills, we're undefeatable.
Oh. Okay.
Look at her, suddenly knowing how to talk into a camera.
We need to watch this, otherwise it's going to burn.
- [Antonia] You hear the worst with the bread in the broiler. - I know.
[Chantelle] Hey! I love mustard.
[Brian] Chantelle is working on the turkey rye melt.
[Chantelle] We got a Dijon mustard and a honey mustard.
I have faith in your sandwich making ability
and nobody puts me on the side very often,
but for you, you can put me on the side.
Okay?
Look at that.
Do you see that? Did you see that knife skill?
No, I missed it.
Okay, I'm gonna make a hot vinaigrette
that I can toss my fried brussels sprouts into.
When Chantelle told me what kind of sandwich she wanted to make,
I really thought more kinda like Italian, Mediterranean flavors,
so I have to base my side on working with that,
so that they're cohesive.
So, I rendered down the pancetta,
I took some of your piquillo peppers
and some of your pepperoncini's,
I put them into my vinaigrette with some red wine vinegar
and make them really robust and flavorful.
[pan sizzling]
Oh! So good.
[Hunter] Is this seasoned flour or no?
- Yeah, always season your flour. - Okay.
Okay, so poblano, jalapenos
in the pan,
with some turkey.
Cooking that down.
Get some garlic in here.
Little fat from the mayo. Pepper jack cheese.
So this makes a nice, little creamy sandwich.
Now, rojo rings, so that's one part sriracha hot sauce,
and five parts ketchup.
Then, with panko breadcrumbs,
going into hot oil.
Well, Hunter, I gotta tell you that was a great idea.
And seeing if our families can balance out their cooking abilities
and balance out their food,
to find out who can make a sandwich and a side.
Don't go anywhere. Big money on the line.
We're back with our all-star family face-off.
Hunter and I are cooking along although we don't get any of the money.
We're doing a sandwich and a side.
It's a family face-off,
so someone's gotta make the sandwich, someone's gotta make the side.
It's Chef Shenanigans versus the Princess Warrior herself.
So, here to critique our sandwiches and sides,
are our all-star judges, and someone very special by their side.
Tournament of Champions finalist, Maneet Chauhan
and her partner in life, her husband, Vivek.
- Thank you, guys. So excited to be here. - Hey, guys!
Vivek, this is your first time being on the show.
Yes, it is. And I'm super stoked to be here.
Cookbook author, culinary expert,
the one and only wild card himself, Justin Warner,
and the woman who rode with him in the covered wagon
from Brooklyn to well, South Dakota,
his fantastic and lovely wife, Brooke.
- Hi, Brooke! - Hi, Guy!
I'll be looking forward to you sharing stories about Justin.
Ladies and gentlemen, award-winning cookbook author,
superhero, Triple-G OG, the one and only, Troy Johnson
and his fantastic wife, who we really do thank on a regular basis,
wife, Claire.
Troy, you look like Troy. Claire, you look awesome!
Thanks, Guy!
Fifteen minutes! 15 left!
- [Antonia] Oh, baby. - [Xea] How's it look?
- [Antonia] Sweetie, it looks amazing. - [Xea] Does it?
-Yeah -Oh, that does look amazing.
For our sandwich and a side, classic fried chicken sandwich with her macaroni and cheese.
So, I'm gonna make a quick hot sauce aioli.
I'm gonna take a little bit of hot sauce, mayonnaise, and just whip that together.
- You're like, who's talking... - Burnt bread!
[screaming]
Fire hazard!
Ugh!
- Thanks, Xea. - [coughs]
The bread is totally on fire 'cause it's been in there for like, 75 hours.
Okay. Let's start over, shall we?
I have one little lonely loaf of bread left.
So, we go with the one loaf we've got now.
[Justin] You know, I've said throughout my career, there's really only one rule
that is steadfast in cooking,
and this is, to not burn the toast.
Justin has burnt the toast a few times.
[Antonia] Watch out.
I'm putting it back in here.
[Guy] Xea, give me the run-down. How's your mom doing?
Listen, she's doing great. She's only yelled at me twice.
She almost burned our house down.
She's throwing her mom under the bus.
Don't let it go, Xea. Keep working with it.
Well, you know, we didn't want you to have a lot of bread.
This bread is very overwhelming.
I just felt like it was better to do half a sandwich,
especially 'cause we're doing macaroni and cheese as a side.
You sell it, girl! You sell it!
Hot!
- You gotta warn me when things are hot. - Everything's hot.
[Xea] So, as you guys know, Guy does call my mom a warrior princess.
Therefore, I am the Warrior Princess Junior.
That's a lot to live up to, you know, I have a lot to prove today.
- [Xea] Is this the breadcrumb? - That's the breadcrumb, yeah.
Even if I don't really know how to cook that well,
it'll be fine, because I can talk my way through anything.
Guys.
You don't even understand what's about to happen
in your mouths right now.
[Antonia] Oh, Xea, that looks gorgeous!
[Brian] Watch out. Fire in the hole!
[Chantelle] So, while Brian is working on the Brussel sprouts,
I am going to get working on toasting my sandwich.
Put that side down,
be gentle.
Shenanigans, what are you making?
Um, I am making fried Brussel sprouts
'cause I know that Troy Johnson absolutely loves fried Brussel sprouts.
One of the best reviews I ever got was about my Brussel sprouts.
I once reviewed Brian's restaurant
and I said they overcooked his Brussel sprouts,
so then a week later, I went to eat there again,
and he dropped 400 Brussel sprouts at my table.
[laughing]
It's good to know that he takes feedback very constructively.
[Guy] Five minutes! Five minutes left.
So, fried Brussel sprouts with a pancetta,
pickled pepper vinaigrette,
and I actually have some raw, shaved Brussel sprouts that we're putting in there also.
So a little combo that goes so nicely with your sandwiches.
A toasted gruyere and turkey cheese with...
- On rye. - On rye.
All right, that sounds fantastic.
[Chantelle] Okay, I'm on that.
Don't... Stop touching my stuff.
- [Brian] Turn it way down. - Okay, seriously.
- I'm gonna turn it off. - No, move.
Chantelle is showing who the boss is,
while Brian is trying to take over. I think this is hilarious.
Brian is a human-free radical.
You can't reign that in.
It just doesn't come back. It's like a balloon that's off its string.
[Brian] Babe, here comes my brussels.
I got it. You stay on your side, I'll stay on my side.
All right, so,
turkey, pepper jack,
jalapenos,
poblanos...
[Hunter] Well, that looks delicious.
[Guy] The bread is almost the right size.
Ooh!
Going into this sandwich press.
What time is Mom coming home, 'cause we just made a mess.
All right chefs, 90 seconds. 90 to go!
You know what, maybe this is the control I've needed all along, all right?
I can't add more ingredients, I've got my wife telling me, no, no, no, no.
And I'm actually putting up maybe the best dish I've done in forever.
[Brian] Sandwich goes down.
I have the nice, fried brussels.
So I just drizzle the vinaigrette over the top.
You've been really good in there...
And then, I have all of the shaved brussels.
So we mix those, put them there,
the plating is absolutely beautiful.
These scales of justice are actually doing me justice.
Oh! Mama, I'm coming home!
Boom! Boom! Boom! All right.
[Antonia] I put my bread down.
Then I do a little bit of my hot sauce aioli.
I get my chicken out of the fryer and it looks perfect.
And then my herb mixture of cilantro and picked dill.
[Xea] So, I took my mac and cheese out of the oven and it looked beautiful,
and I basically just put it on the plate, and made it look pretty.
Yeah! [laughing]
[Guy] Did you get salt on there?
[Hunter] Yeah.
[Guy] Look at that. Huh?
[Hunter] It smells wonderful.
Five, four, three...
- Three... - Two...
- One...
And that's it, folks!
- [cheers] - Great job, everybody!
- Nice. - Whoo!
Love it.
It's time to see which family's sandwich and side
tips the scales in culinary justice.
Time to present to the judges.
All right judges, this is week two
of Triple G Delivery's All-Star Family Face-Off
and we played a brand new game that Hunter, the genius,
- came up with, Balancing Act. - Genius.
Where did you come up with that scale?
You know dad, sometimes in your dreams, you just have good ideas.
You just have good ideas? Follow those dreams, son.
I want your presentation to be a real team effort.
Not just one sided.
- Right. - Hunter, let's give a little demonstration.
We're gonna start with the sandwich.
This is a tequila, turkey,
serrano chili, poblano chili,
pepper jack, roasted turkey sandwich.
You have got ooey, gooey, crunchy...
- Ooh. - Acid...
I mean, you got the acid. You got the lemon, you got the lime zest.
And then all of a sudden, boom, pow, wow!
You're getting yourself a little poblano, and a little serrano.
Now, Hunter, go ahead and tell them
about the fantastic... this is the rojo ring.
Look at this beautiful rojo ring right here,
marinated in ketchup and sriracha...
- Ketchup and sriracha! - Yes,
- Heavily breaded with panko... - Sweet and heat!
Oh, what a gorgeous bite. That was awesome. Look at that crunch...
Ah, can't beat it.
You know what they say, if you like it, you better put a ring on it.
- That's exactly... - [laughs]
I'll send you my address, if you can ship it to us, awesome.
That looks heavenly.
Chefs, your turn.
First up, Antonia and Xea!
So, Xea said, "I wanna make macaroni and cheese as my side."
So that led me right down the fried chicken sandwich lane.
So what I did is, I took the Dutch bread, toasted it.
We have a little bit of hot sauce mayonnaise on there.
Then I did a tempura-ish style chicken,
so it's nice and crispy.
The bread is soft and crispy.
The hot sauce, the mayonnaise.
They take you to... Right?
[Antonia] So, so creamy.
I'm gonna let Xea talk about the macaroni and cheese
'cause that's her specialty.
Okay, guys, I mean...
Look at this. We have creamy, gooey, delicious mac and cheese.
We have crunchy bread crumbs on top.
It is delicious.
I mean ten out of ten, recommend.
I love the combination of the mac and cheese
and the fried chicken.
Because when I think about those things,
I start getting warm inside.
And that is the kind of vibes that you want
for a family type challenge like this.
It looks great. [chuckles]
Great, fresh presentation.
I love the creamy and crunchy mac and cheese as side, Xea.
I, too, like to light things on fire,
while I'm trying to cook a meal
and I thought you did it spectacularly.
It was elegant, it was exciting to watch.
I personally love the macaroni and cheese on the side
which looks like a cheese perfection.
I would have said that maybe,
if you would have chosen a different type of bread,
something which was softer,
the contrast with the crunchiness
of the fried chicken,
would have just been even more enhanced.
Thank you very much.
Up next, Shenanigans and Chantelle.
So, as we know Shenanigans, I've been known to go overboard.
As a Libra, I'm usually out of bounds,
but my wonderful Capricorn wife
was here to keep me in balance,
and she wanted to make the sandwich,
which is the most difficult part and she made...
[Chantelle] Oven roasted turkey sandwich
on rye bread with pepperoncini, tequila peppers,
with hot mustard, sweet mustard.
Lots and lots of shaved Gruyere.
[Brian] Then, she loves Brussel sprouts.
So I had to play in the same Mediterranean flavors with her,
so I made a pancetta vinaigrette
and I fried the brussels.
'Cause Troy loves fried brussels.
He's notoriously known for...
[Chantelle] This is delicious.
Here you go, cutie. I love you, honey bunny.
I have to say, Chantelle and Brian,
A for effort, awesome.
And I think what really sold me
was your description of salty, sweet, light, spicy.
Just a combination of all of that
and my mouth starts watering.
The Brussel sprouts, which you know I have an affinity for,
you did them two ways.
You deep fried them, you gave a little bit of pork love.
And then you did perfectly shaved Brussel sprouts.
I think it's a beautiful combo.
Chef Chantelligans. That is your now amalgamated name.
[all laughing]
Chantelligans.
My only wish is that maybe there was a textural element,
inside of the sandwich.
'Cause we have all of this acid, all of this richness.
The only thing I wanted is something to just give it
a little bit more bounce in the mouth.
All right, Hunter and I are done
making a mess in the kitchen.
You cleaned up really well, son.
Now, speaking of scales,
we're trying to keep everything balanced.
The judges are about to scale your dish
on a score of zero to 50.
Fifteen points available on gameplay.
Fifteen points available on creativity.
Ten points available on plating.
Ten points available on taste.
For a total of 50 points available.
The family with the highest score
will receive the Envelope of Opportunity.
And the family with the lowest score gets what, Hunter?
The Package of Pain.
[Guy] The Package of Pain. Everybody loves that.
Not at all.
So, please leave the feed, so the judges can decide.
Now, it's your turn to deliver, judges.
Let's step over to the total board.
Well, families,
when it came to making sandwiches,
I gotta be honest with you, we got a lot of heroes.
Okay? Take it to the score board.
Antonia and Xea.
Gameplay, 14. Creativity, 13.
Plating, eight. Taste, eight. For a total [whistles] of 43.
- [Hunter] That's a nice score. - [Guy] Nicely done.
- That's a good score. - [Guy] Nicely done.
Wow, okay.
And Brian and Chantelle, 14, 13, eight, eight,
- 43 for a double tie in the first round. - Oh!
Come on.
- [Xea] What does that mean? - [Antonia] Tie!
- What does that mean? - I don't know what it means.
- What does it mean? - What does it happen?
- Wow. - [Guy] Tied in every category.
First time ever on Triple-G.
Can I just say, growing up, B pluses were never okay.
[all laughing]
[clapping]
Just so you know,
I was giving you both
the Envelope of Opportunity.
But now, you both get the Package of Pain.
Go and grab your Package of Pain.
- Oh. - No!
What?
A pony!
Oh, no!
"Package of Pain, it's a grind."
You go together like salt and pepper
but cooking with family can be a grind.
Especially when you have to crank salt and pepper grinders
- "until empty before you can start cooking." - [gasps]
Oh, my!
Before you can even start cooking,
you have to give it your grindey grind,
all the way down.
Teams, I just wanna show you this is what you would've won.
The winning team would've gotten $2,000.
- But you guys don't get that. - But that's not gonna happen.
So, here's the thing, my 21st birthday is this month.
- Oh. - [Guy] Your 21st birthday is this month.
All right, here's what I'm gonna say.
Xea, it is gonna be your 21st birthday coming up.
I do think you deserve the 2,000 bucks.
2,000 bucks to Xea.
[Guy] And Antonia, you can give $2,000
to a restaurant of your choice.
See what you gotta do in this world, kid?
You just gotta ask.
So, the 2,000 bucks go to team Antonia and Xea.
All right, round two.
Why don't they... You should give Malarkey something too.
Give them like at least like ten bucks or something.
Wow! There you go, Hunter. Ten bucks, that's it.
- Yeah. - Game changer.
Well, $2,000 is going to you, Chantelle.
- Congratulations! - [laughs]
[Chantelle] Thank you.
- Good job! - Life is fair.
[Guy] And Shenanigans,
you can give $2,000 to a restaurant of your choice.
Tell us tonight, which restaurant deserves the $2,000 in your area.
Three great sisters down the street
have the tiniest little restaurant.
They just had the hardest time.
We love our little line here in Ocean Beach,
so a lot of love to them, $2,000 to them.
We are going to give it to South End.
We love South End pizza.
It's been one of our favorite spots
since we moved down here to Venice,
so we're gonna do it to South End.
Hunter, round two
- starts now. - Do it.
All right, so what better way to impress the judges
than with a classic high-end duo.
Let's talk about it. Little Surf & Turf.
You now have to scale a plate of food,
that will catch the attention of the judges
and get them hooked.
Hook.
And to help you create that plate,
we've packed game two with a bounty of amazing foods...
Oh, that's scary.
...with amazing meats and satisfying seafoods.
Yes, I like that. Yeah.
Oh, no!
[laughs]
All right, go ahead, everybody.
Let's get those boxes and open them up.
Satisfying sea food.
I'm feeling like we're gonna have like tuna fish
in a can.
Whenever it's done like this, it's never real.
Hunter, Hunter.
- Yes, hi. - I said, seafood.
So, you said seafood...
Hunter, so I said seafood. Not C food.
I got surf and turf food that started with C.
There is a C.
All right, chefs. Here's what's gonna happen.
Don't worry about this. I got this covered.
We're gonna play a little game of Family ABC.
I'm going to allow Team Xea and Antonia
to have first pick in the seafood.
And I'm going to allow Chantelle and the other guy
to have first pick in the turf.
So, in the surf, you have C, T and S.
Which one would you like to take?
Don't try and game it. Just pick whatever you want.
[Antonia] She picked the C.
[Guy] C. Okay, great.
Shenanigans. Chantelle.
On the turf, your first pick.
P, R or B.
[Brian] Better things come in small packages.
I'm just saying.
You wanna phone a friend?
- R. - Why?
Just 'cause you said B. [chuckles]
R. Xea, on your turf,
P or B?
Let's go B 'cause it's closest to an A.
[laughs]
Look, you almost had the alphabet.
And Chantelle, what's it gonna be?
What do you want?
I don't know. You didn't listen to me the first time.
[laughs]
I'm gonna go with an S.
S for sailor.
Sailor's our daughter. S is for Sailor.
For Sailor. That's exactly what I said.
So we have R, S for Chantelle.
[Guy] And we have B, C for Xea.
You can shop anywhere in your refrigerator
or your pantry,
but the items have to start with the two letters you have.
So Shenanigans, you get the R and the S.
And Antonia and Xea, you get the B and the C.
And you get to use your pantry.
Just so you know, your clock already started.
- Ooh! Ooh! - Go, go, go!
Oh, my goodness! Okay.
Go, go. Turn it. Turn it.
Don't forget, you have to grind all your salt and pepper.
[Guy] Salt and pepper it. Let's go!
All right, I cannot wait to see
which family wins this Surf and Turf war.
Don't go anywhere.
How was that, dad?
[Guy] Eh, the don't go anywhere sounded like you didn't mean it.
Okay.
All right, I cannot wait to see
which family wins this Surf and Turf war.
Don't go anywhere!
[Guy] Great.
I'm almost done.
Even though we tied, we both got the Package of Pain.
Guys, I'm just gonna keep doing this.
[Antonia] We have a salt grinder and a pepper grinder.
[Chantelle] And we cannot start cooking
until all the salt is ground and all the pepper is ground.
While they are grinding the salt and pepper,
they can actually come up with a strategy.
I think this is a gift.
Okay, so you're gonna get into the refrigerator,
and start searching everything with R and S.
It has to be high end
and to blow the judges minds, all right?
Of course, of course.
Now that we are tied going into the final round
here with Antonia, we have to knock it out of the park.
Okay, done.
[Brian] Open the packages then.
Do I have to be done too?
You both have to be done.
Done, done, done.
- I chose... - R.
- Which was... - Ribs.
[Brian] We wound up with the S.
- Woah! - [Brian grunts]
- [Brian] And the S was? - Squid.
[Brian] I need soy, sesame. I'm going Asian.
So I know that I can get a lot of Umami flavors
out of soys, and rice wine vinegar.
I'm gonna do a quick braise on the short ribs
and hit them in, hit them in the fridge.
Find me produce that starts with R, S. R, S.
Snap peas.
Shishito peppers.
[Brian] Shishito...
So what we're gonna do is a stir fried rice
with the tempura fried calamari.
Squid and calamari are the same thing.
We're gonna tempura fry the shishitos.
Start cutting up these green peas.
You got this. Calm down. Take a breather. You got it.
- I just had to get that. - Relax.
Next I'm gonna work on my fried shishito peppers,
then squid.
What makes the most perfect tempura batter
is the right amount of flour to corn starch
to a baking powder, baking soda
from our pantry,
but soda water is what you need to really lift it up
and get it all kind of bubbled up, light,
and crispy and crunchy.
Okay, so we're gonna start frying
our calamari here in a second.
We don't need a lot.
We can't play it safe from this round,
because we're not looking for a tie.
We're looking for a win.
It has to be extraordinary.
Extra more, you hear what I'm saying?
We got carpel and tunnel in kitchen two.
- Done. Go. - Done? What?
How are you done?
Technical difficulties.
Done. Okay, open them up, Xea.
- [Xea] Catfish. - [Antonia] Catfish.
And what else?
[Xea] Bison strip...
- [Antonia] Bison strip loin. - [Xea] Yeah.
Can you grab that out of the fridge and grab me...
Corn.
[Antonia] And the cream.
So we have to make a Surf and Turf dish,
using bison strip loin and catfish.
I don't know in what world, bison and catfish
go together in a Surf and Turf menu.
If you see these menus out there, send them to me.
I'd like to see it.
Okay, so I can use the cornmeal.
We can use the coconut milk.
Also, we can only use items
that begin with the letters C and B.
Is there anything else in there
anything that has a B or C?
Burrata.
Burrata does not go with this dish.
[both laugh]
And the first thing I go ahead and get started on
is the coconut corn puree.
You can't go wrong with that, so many C's.
That's gorgeous, Xea.
And you're gonna pour the cream in over the top.
Okay, love?
The first thing I get started is the bison.
I'm gonna treat the bison the same way
that I cook any sort of hardy New York strip loin,
strip steak.
Sear it on one side. Sear on the other.
Throw in a ton of butter.
Also lining it with some black garlic for seasoning.
What does Guy Fieri say to Hunter when Hunter goes outside?
Bye, son.
[chuckles]
[Brian] Yeah, it's like exactly what we're looking for.
Soy glaze.
Spicy chili crisp.
Oh, mama, I'm coming home.
Shenanigans, what's on the menu, buddy?
[Brian] We're gonna do kind of a Korean Short rib
with tempura squid, tempura shishito pepper,
a stir fried rice with a kind of
- a Shoyu sesame, ginger... - I'll show you.
[Brian] I'll show you vinaigrette with it.
Okay.
The last thing I put together is the fried rice.
We do the instant rice. We have kids.
We're in a hurry from time to time.
I'm gonna use the back drippings from the ribs.
- So good. - It's so good.
Chef Chantelle, how is sir Brian doing in your opinion?
I'm impressed.
- Oh, brownie points. - Ooh, finally.
[Chantelle] Being a chef's wife,
it does bring us lots of fun opportunities,
travels and really delicious food.
Chantelle's never cooked with me in Flavortown,
so it's a lot of fun.
[Brian] Oh, look at that, huh?
[Antonia] So it's all about like, plating really nicely, I think.
Surf and Turf to me is very extravagant,
beautifully plated, it's decadent.
So I make these beautiful small little catfish squares
if you will. Season them with just a little dusting
of salt and cumin.
And then I grab out the cornmeal
and pass it off to Xea so that she can get to frying.
That one's ready. Can you pull that one out?
I'm gonna get the chorizo, another sea ingredient,
and I'm just gonna give it a nice saute,
add it with some cilantro, and that's gonna be the base
for my vornmeal crusted catfish.
Take that, C. Bow!
All right, Chef Antonia and Xea, how you guys doing?
- We're doing fantastic. - We're doing good.
We've got some brown butter black garlic basted bison.
Black garlic, love that.
- Delicious. - Nice.
Is this okay?
[Antonia] Yup.
- You didn't even look. - I know the drill.
[chuckles]
I'm like, "I can smell that it's ready, my love."
[Xea] Not even something that we're cooking. [chuckles]
[Antonia] I actually had so much fun cooking
with this one today.
She's an incredible listener, an incredible communicator.
She takes directions so well
and she always has such a great attitude.
You taught me well.
Yeah. [claps]
[Guy] Two minutes!
Okay, here we go.
[Brian] First, I put down my fried rice.
So then I put down my glazed Korean short ribs on the plate.
[Chantelle] And then the tempura shishito peppers.
[Brian] Put this beautiful scarlet red sauce drizzle
right over everything.
Then I grab those last little tempura squids
and it is money.
[Antonia] My bison is beautifully rested,
and I can slice it very, very thin.
So, the first thing I push down on to the board
is my beautiful coconut cream corn puree.
So, then I add the chorizo and cilantro
to one side of the board.
The cornmeal crusted catfish goes on top of the chorizo.
And then the brown butter basted black garlic
crusted bison goes on top of the broccoli.
- [Guy] Five, four, three, two, one. - We're done.
Chef's that's it, you done.
Good job, you guys. Well played.
Going into this with a tie?
- Dude. - I mean, they made...
They made Surf and Turf look as simple as ABC.
Let's take it to the judges.
All right, judges. Here we are in the final game of week two
of our all-star family face-off
and we played a little family ABC.
Up first, Shenanigans and Chantelle
got squid and ribs, S and R.
So, I was a little scared of the Surf and Turf challenge.
This turned out to be absolutely incredible.
We have some incredible short rib.
So I cast iron pan-seared it both sides.
So good.
[Brian] The squid, I cut it up and I tempura fried it.
We have kids, so we do like instant rice.
Don't hate us, but we had some instant rice.
Made kind of a fried rice and I took all the rendered fat
from the short rib and put it into the rice
and cooked that down with some radicchio, with my R.
Some sugar snap peas, some shishito peppers.
Oh, my God!
[Chantelle] High-five!
Good job, babe.
Brian and Chantelle, that is awesome.
It looks so good. I would love to have that right now.
Thank you.
I'm impressed by how many different ingredients
you were able to pull together and I wish I could try it.
Chefs Chantelarki, short ribs and then you got squid.
Don't seem to be like the kinda things that would play well together,
but in your capable hands and with your capable condiments,
this was really you bringing all of those Flourtown gameplay skills,
into your own kitchen.
From what it sounds like and from what it looks like,
you brought on a symphony of Asian flavors together
into some kind of a marriage that you guys hopefully share
in a lot of ways.
The sear on the ribs is beautiful.
I mean, that caramelizing is amazing.
And the shishito peppers, they look so light and fluffy,
and absolutely amazing.
My only feedback would be,
I think that there is too much oil in this.
So, if there was a fresh salad on top,
I think that would have just been
the piece de resistance.
The most amazing bite.
Thank you.
Up next, Chef Antonia and Xea.
B for the bison strip loin
and C for the catfish. B and C.
Xea and I got bison and catfish.
[Antonia] So, Xea made the beautiful corn puree,
she cut the corn off the cob.
We cooked it in a little bit of cream
and then just the coconut fat from the coconut milk,
and then that went into the puree.
So, on the left side is the bison.
It is a strip loin, so it's seared on both sides.
Basted it in a ton of butter, and black garlic.
Then, go ahead, Xea. You tell them about the catfish.
[Xea] Yeah, so I seasoned the catfish,
with a little bit of salt and cumin,
and then I bread crumbed it with cornmeal.
And then we plated it with the chorizo.
It's just a really good combination.
Yeah, I mean, the catfish is perfectly moist in the center.
Xea, hold up the bison
because it's really about the technique here to see.
[Antonia] That beautiful medium rare in the bison,
is so perfect.
You sell it, girl. I'm telling you.
[laughs]
The presentation is beautiful.
It's precise, it's high end and that looks amazing.
To me, I love the cook on the bison.
In my textbook of commentary that I have written down over here,
fantastic.
If you ask a rancher how we should cook our bison,
he's gonna hold a picture of that.
That is absolutely textbook.
The catfish with the chorizo,
really smart use of chorizo in it.
Chorizo goes great with seafood.
I love the use of corn to tie
those two proteins together.
Yeah, indeed. You know they say, "If it grows together, it goes together."
And corn is kind of the great unifier.
Speaking of corn, I will say though that
I think that the cornmeal on the catfish
probably could have used a pulse in a spice grinder.
It's looking as though it's got a little bit of meal to it.
No, you never say... I can't say...
Xea goes, "Just say, thank you."
[laughs]
[Guy] Thank you very much, families.
Now, the judges are going to deliberate
about your surf and turf.
And the family with the combined highest score,
at the end of this round will have a shot
at winning up to 20,000 bucks,
and gain a spot in the final finale.
So, please leave the feed once more
so the judges can make the decision.
All right, judges. Go ahead and write down your scores.
Hunter will be adding them up, just text them over to him.
And we'll find out which family will be moving on
to the all-star family face-off.
Well, teams, when it came to playing family ABC,
you really played the game well,
and we're gonna give you an A.
Don't you wish you could've shopped with that
during this time, anyhow,
tied in the first round which we've never seen before.
So, we'll start with Xea and Antonia.
All right, take a look.
[Guy] 14, 13, ten, nine for a 46.
- Oh, wow! - Wow!
89. Chiggity-chow.
[claps]
That's a big number.
- Wow! - Huge.
That is a big score inside of Triple-G Delivery.
Wow!
Shenanigans and Chantelle need a 46 or better.
We could have a double tie.
Come on, come on.
[Guy] 14, 14, eight, eight, for a 44.
Edged out by two points in plating and tasting.
Ah!
- Did we win? - We win!
[cheering]
Good job.
[clapping]
Congratulations! Congratulations!
- Thank you. - Thank you.
Thank you, guys.
You're welcome.
[Guy] In addition to the 10,000,
you've also earned yourself a spot
in our family tournament finale
where you will go up against Aaron May and his sister, Corri,
and one other family for a shot of up to 20,000 bucks.
- Congratulations! - Congratulations!
Whoo!
[Guy] So, there you have it.
Join us next time on all-star family face-off.
Adios!