Supermoms have taken over Flavortown market.
I mean, these real deal moms
are going to show everybody they're pros
when it comes to shopping the market
and preparing super deliciou home-cooked meals.
[Sepi] Nice char marks on there.
Let's see if I can get this done before gymnastics, you know.
[Hunter] But if they think cooking in a house full of kids is tough,
wait until they play our crazy game.
-Grab one item. -[Dina] Go, go, go.
[Stephanie] Come to mama.
They don't ever give up 'cause moms never stop being moms, Hunter.
-[Lori] Hunter. -[Hunter] Hey, Mom.
-[Lori] Hi, you forgot the lunch I packed for you. -[Hunter] Thank you.
-And, uh, you got to do something with this collar. -Hey, I'm--
-Love you. -It's Supermoms tonight on Guy's Grocery Games.
-[Guy] Give me that lunch. -[Hunter] That's not your lunch, it's mine.
All right, so let's meet our Supermoms.
Now, first up, we have Dina Deleasa-Gonsar,
a food blogger, creates recipes
for brands and magazines while raising a four-year-old sous-chef.
I run a food blog called Dish It Girl,
but my favorite job is being mom
to my four-year-old daughter, Siena.
She's definitely the light of my life,
even when she just made me cry like five minutes before
'cause she like threw the green cup,
'cause she wanted the red cup, like whatever.
[Guy] Deleasa-Gonsar...
-[Dina] Oh, I know, I got to give you a mouthful. -...that's a heck of a name.
[Dina] My style of cooking, I feel like
I'm an old Italian grandma,
always wanting to know if someone needs food,
but that's just how I am.
Next up, we have Jenny Martinez,
a mother of four whose authentic Mexican cooking
is the heart of her household.
Whoo!
Everybody knows me, I'm the birria queen on TikTok.
I have three million followers.
Imagine that. I have four kids.
My kids are gonna be very excited to see me on TV.
-Guy! -[Guy] There you go!
-[Jenny] Hi. -[Dina] Hi.
Next, we have Stephanie Jaworski,
an avid cook who's passing on her love of cooking
and global cuisines to her three kids.
Whoo!
With my French and African background,
my three beautiful children
are eating global cuisine.
We eat everything at home, that's for sure.
[Guy] Go get 'em.
[Stephanie] Hey. Hey.
And finally, Sepi Naficy,
a mom who'd love preparing Middle Eastern feast
with the help of her two sons.
I'm a stay-at-home mom of growing, hungry boys,
16-year-old and a 14-year-old,
so I feel like I'm cooking all day
and all night and then the next day
and then all night again.
[Guy] Listen, I bet you moms never thought
you would get an all-expense paid trip
to everyone's favorite place, the grocery store.
[Guy] They call you Supermoms because you're not just mothers who cook,
you are amazing moms who cook incredible food.
Here's your chance to show the pros
how to get it done by competing
in two culinary challenges
that are so intense,
not even a mother can't love 'em.
Your dishes are gonna be judged
by a panel of experts
who are also Supermom.
Unfortunately, the lowest score in the first round
will get sent home packing.
The mom with the highest combined score of both rounds
will get a chance to shop Flavortown market
for up to 20,000 bucks.
[Stephanie] Yes!
[Guy] Now I want you to start off with a dish
that's right in your wheelhouse,
a weeknight family favorite. Everybody's got one.
-Yeah. -[Dina] Yes, got it.
And as amazing moms, you know how to cook
an amazing midweek meal,
still helping your kids with their two plus twos and their ABCs.
-[Dina] Not math. -[Guy] ABCs.
No, no, no.
-No, no. -[Guy] Now, fortunately for you,
I've got my best student, Hunter Fieri,
to bring out a little, uh, grocery list. Hunter.
-Thank you very much, son. -[Hunter] Hello Supermoms, how's it going?
-[all] Oh! -This is only three, I need four.
-Uh... -[Lori] Honey, honey. You forgot these two.
[Guy] Oh!
-There's your mom. -[Hunter] Thanks, Mom.
-[Dina] Yeah! -Mom saved the day.
[Guy] Anyhow, thank you very much, Hunter.
-[Hunter] Okay. Bye-bye. Good luck. -Bye, Hunter.
This great list that Hunter and my wife Lori brought out,
-this is alphabet list. -Oh, no!
[Guy] One. I want you to take this alphabet list,
and I'd like you to get a produce item that starts with the letter "A",
a protein that starts with letter "B",
and a starch that starts with the letter "C".
Now you can shop for anything else that you'd like in the market.
These three ingredients are mandatory in this dish.
30 minutes to shop, prepare and plate
your weeknight family favorite.
Now you've all seen the show, correct?
How does it work?
[Jenny] We go when you say go.
When you guys say "go" then we,
-we speed off into the... -[Sepi] Sunset.
-[Dina] ...the grocery store. -You speed off into the sunset?
-[Sepi] Yeah, sunset. -Well, how does it actually work?
[Sepi] Three, two, one, go.
Exactly, okay. So I just want you to remember that.
[Sepi] Oh.
-[Jenny] Go! -[Dina] Oh, come on.
There's nothing in the rules that says I have to say three, two, one, go.
She just said it. They can go.
Oh!
A, B, C, D, E, F, G. Oh, I'm so sorry, sorry.
A Weeknight Family Favorite.
Alphabet list. Oh, my gosh.
Not easy.
A, B, C, but is it as easy as one, two, three?
I don't know. We shall see.
I'm such a dork.
B. B. B.
[Dina] I was thinking of
chicken marsala with the pancetta cream sauce,
but having to use a letter B protein,
I decided to go with boneless pork chops.
Boneless pork chop. Okay.
Family favorite during a weeknight has to be something
that's a little bit quicker
and somebody's whining that they're hungry
so you don't have a lot of time
and headspace to execute.
Wine marsala, where are you? Where are you? Over here.
What was my C? What was my C?
I'm going to do a really nic couscous salad.
All right.
So I have to have one produce that starts with an
Arugula.
I want something a little bit fresher on the plate
and that's why I chose to go with the arugula,
along with those crunchy apples.
Um, Siena likes...
Honeycrisps.
Shopping in Flavortown is really challenging,
but it's also kind of a treat
because I'm not shopping with a toddler in the cart
in front of me like, shouting demands at me.
All right, all right, all right!
I'll tell you what, this is a lot more difficult than it looks.
This market is so overwhelming.
Any one of the judges will tell you the same thing.
There's so many choices.
I need cilantro.
[Jenny] Hey, girl.
[Jenny] Every weeknight I ha seven mouths to feed,
so at least once a week,
I have to make steak guisad at my house.
Take tomatillos.
Boneless ribeye, that starts with a B, right?
Boneless ribeye steaks.
When you talk about authentic Mexican cooking
it's fresh ingredients.
Corn flour.
So I'm gonna make a fresh corn tortilla from scratch.
I'm gonna get corn flour, that's my starch.
Grab an avocado 'cause I have to get something that starts with an A.
Every Sunday night, if my kids are out,
I'm like, "Hey, I'm cooking this."
And they're like, "All right, Mom, we'll be there."
I'm luring them into the house with food.
Oh, all right.
[Guy] Have you tried these chicken wings?
Sir, please don't touch the product.
-[Guy] Have you tried 'em? -[Hunter] No, I don't think I have.
You have to buy that now.
That's $7.99. Okay, sir, you can't do that.
Those are great wings.
[Stephanie] Creme fresh.
The list completely influenc what I was going to make.
Protein with a B...
bison.
I want to make the bison meatball.
Where's the couscous?
Starch as a C with Israeli couscous,
'cause my kids love it.
All right, produce.
Asian pear, Asian pear.
Look at this.
I'm going to just saute my Asian pears
with some morel just to elevate it a little bit.
I think I'm good.
I need nuts.
A weeknight family favorite is something
that I have to be able to whip it up pretty quickly.
The kids are athletes, they come home famished.
Awesome, awesome, awesome, awesome, awesome.
Our family favorite are steaks,
so I grab boneless ribeye.
Produce.
Avocado, that was just like a no-brainer.
I'm gonna make an avocado pesto sauce.
Where is my couscous?
I had to use a starch with the letter C.
Yeah, here it is.
A Middle Eastern couscous was the natural choice.
Turmeric.
I really just wish that I could have stayed in the aisles
a little bit longer and jus picked through things
like I normally do before time runs out.
And za'atar.
[Sepi] Whoo-hoo!
So who better to judge tonight's home cooks
than three of the food world's most acclaimed Supermoms themselves?
We have devoted mother of two
and our own spice guru,
the one and only, Chef Aarti Sequeira.
Hi, everybody.
Cookbook author and founder of the meal kit service,
One Potato and the mother of three adorable kids,
the OG of triple G, Catherine McCord.
An acclaimed Southern California restaurateur
and proud mother of the talented Xea,
the one and only princess warrior herself,
Chef Antonio Lofaso.
You run around this grocery store
with hundred and thousands of items we have,
pretty easy to get yourself lost
in trying to just come up with a menu.
You might call it the mother lode.
-[Antonia] Oh! -[Catherine] Oh! The mother--
She'll be here all week. Make sure to catch her live album.
Uh, well, I got to go check on them,
because you're at 25 minutes.
25 to go.
[Stephanie] I'm hitting this.
[Dina] All right.
Let's get you working here, buddy.
Dina, how are we looking over here?
So normally, I like to make a play on
chicken marsala with a pancetta cream sauce. My mom loves it.
But I'm gonna use some boneless pork chops in place of chicken.
On the side, I do a little bit of apple and arugula couscous.
So I've got your fruit, your vegetable, and your starch...
-[Guy] Got it. I like it. -...all in one. Serve it up.
With the pork chops, it's pretty simple.
I'm cutting them in half,
because typically when I make this dish with chicke
I'm using a thinner slice.
I want to keep some of that fat on.
It's the next thing I need to do.
I'm just dredging it in some flour,
then getting it into the pan
This dish is even something that was a creation inspired by Siena.
She loves the apples and the couscous,
that's how I got her to try the couscous the first time around.
Come on, crisp up. Let's go.
I see that I've cut them in different thicknesses.
I'm worried the thicker cut ones are not gonna cook in time.
Desperate for time.
So I decided to put the pork chops onto the gril
It'll ensure that they're cooked through,
and I'll get some nice grill marks.
Trying to cook under this amount of pressure
is really out of my comfort zone.
I feel like I was more prepared
for my emergency C-section.
20 minutes, chefs. 20 to go.
[Aarti] These supermoms have to make
a Weeknight Family Favorite using alphabet list.
[Catherine] Let's not forget these Supermoms
are competing in Flavortown
Guy is standing right there.
It's a lot of pressure, and you're like--
[Dina] Grill marks, you know, give me some presentation.
-[Guy] How are you looking? -We got it.
-We're going to fire it up right now. Here we go. -Fire it up.
Watching Guy for so many years
and then seeing him in person,
all the feels all at once, boom.
-Oh, yeah. -The shallots are in.
-[Guy] Marsala's going. -[Dina] Yes.
This dish is even something that Siena would love.
Not only does she love the flavor of the marsala
because she also happens to be a kid who likes the taste of balsamic.
Let's see if I can get this done before gymnastics, you know.
We can do it. We can do it.
I love to cook. It's like a passion of mine, obviously.
[Sepi] The first thing is t get that dry rub on my steak
Za'atar, sumac and cumin.
[Guy] So what's the dish going to be, chef?
[Sepi] A boneless ribeye with, um,
Middle Eastern style couscous
-with an avocado pesto sauce on top. -Okay.
[Sepi] I never thought I'd be cooking in Flavortown in Guy's Grocery Games.
My kids and my husband are gonna be proud of me no matter what.
Heard the sizzle. Heard the sizzle.
The boys have grown up eating all of my cooking.
It's a nonstop thing. I'm like a short-order cook,
'cause they come home and they expect it
and they get hangry if it's not ready to go.
I really have to focus on m avocado pesto sauce now.
I wanted the avocado to shine.
My kids love their red meat
but mommy's family favorite is anything green,
and so I combine the two always.
All right. It's perfect.
-[Jenny] Are you ready for... -[Guy] What are you making?
-...some, uh, fresh corn tortilla? -[Guy] I like that.
Whoo!
[Jenny] I'm making steak guisado.
I get the corn flour and I add a little bit of warm water and that's it.
Hold the phone. Is Jenny making fresh tortillas right now?
-[Catherine] Yep. -[Aarti] Stop it.
[Aarti] Does Jenny have the same 30 minutes that everybody else have?
So everybody loves when I make fresh corn tortillas.
While my tortilla dough is resting,
I got to start on my boneles ribeye that starts with a B
Is this on?
While my meat is cooking, th I have to start into my sals
I charred the tomatillos, the red tomatoes.
It's really authentic Mexican cooking.
[Stephanie] A little bit of panko in this.
[Guy] What are you thinking, chef? What's on the menu?
Bison meatballs and Israeli couscous.
-You're gonna toast it first? -[Stephanie] The couscous? Yes.
How do you know that?
[Guy] I cook once in a while.
[Guy] I just dabble in it.
I do a lot of paint-by-numbers art courses,
but otherwise I cook.
-You got a lot to cook in 15 minutes. -[Stephanie] That's right.
[Stephanie] I want to cook them in a pan first to give them a nice sear.
I love Israeli couscous really.
My kids like it too, you know, the small kids,
so it's easy to chew and all
I always wanted to be a mom
I think being a mom is just amazing.
We'll caramelize that.
Kids just can teach you so much.
That's cool.
Yeah, you're going quick now.
I got my pork chops going,
and now I need to work on my apple and arugula couscous salad.
I'm always in the kitchen, testing out new recipes,
putting spins on old ones,
and I'm always giving them to my four-year-old toddler
who is more like having Gordon Ramsay at your dinner table.
You'll put the plate down and she'll be like, "No! Blah Ah!"
She's very, so dramatic.
Hmm.
[Guy] How are we looking, chef?
[Sepi] I'm about to taste avocado pesto sauce
-to see if it's, uh, to my liking. -[Guy] Got it.
Couscous is working. Steaks are cooking.
Salt needed.
Chefs, you have eight minutes.
[Sepi] When the couscous is done, I like to layer it
in my herbs and, um, bell peppers
to kind of give it a little bit of texture.
Look, Ma, I didn't cut my fingers.
Full of flavor.
Get nice char marks on there.
[Guy] How are you thinking on the steak, chef?
[Sepi] On medium rare for my boys.
-How old are they? -[Sepi] They're 16 and 14.
Oh, they must eat, uh, ten of those steaks.
[Sepi] Little rare.
I want to get those back on the grill there for a second.
[Sepi] I agree.
You got to improvise, you know.
[Jenny] Ugh.
So I started doing my tortillas.
I might have pressed it a little bit too much.
Like, "Oh, my gosh, I have to start all over again."
[Guy] Six minutes.
I'm running out of time, so I started panicking a little.
There.
[Guy] Four minutes.
I need rice, because what's a family dinner without rice?
My chicken bouillon. Huh? I need your muscles.
Pero , yeah. Pronto, pronto.
You're gonna me pronto, pronto.
[Jenny] Can smell it already.
How are those meatballs looking, chef?
[Stephanie] Oh, not too done right now.
I'll just make sure this is cooked through.
So, I put them in the fryer to finish them off.
Asian pears, it's gonna go with the morels.
Stephanie is using morel mushrooms.
Hmm! I like Stephanie a lot right now.
Three minutes. Three minutes to go.
Now I got to make it look pretty,
which doesn't always happen on a weeknight.
The first thing I put down on my plate
is my apple, arugula and couscous salad.
Let's pray. [chuckles]
Oh, those are cooked.
[Dina] Next, my pork chops, marsala sauce.
Really excited for the judges to taste that.
Oh, okay. Nice.
I'm gonna start plating.
[Sepi] So the first thing I want to put on my plate
is the avocado chutney, then the couscous.
We'll put two balls. How about that?
My ribeye, it was a little bit rare-ish
to the point where I think my kids would have really enjoyed it.
There you go. I'm happy with that.
90 seconds, chefs.
[Jenny] The first thing tha I put down is my steak guisado.
I start adding the rice,
then I just topped it off with my avocado salsa.
My tortilla is not looking the best
and my mom always comes to mind.
She's always talking to me like, "You could have done better."
[Jenny] I think.
[Guy] 30 seconds.
[Stephanie] Whoo-hoo.
My meatballs are perfect.
First the couscous on the side,
and then the morels and the pears.
Place the meatballs in the middle.
Five, four, three,
two, one, and that's it, folks.
-[Aarti] Whoo! -[Catherine] Whoo!
-[Aarti] All right, chef. -[Guy] Wow.
Good job.
[Jenny] Oh, my gosh. I don't know.
-[Guy] Good battle. Beautiful plate. -[Stephanie] Thank you.
[Guy] I'll tell you what, chefs,
it's winner, winner, these moms sure can cook dinner.
Let's take it to the judges, right this way.
All right, judges, here we are.
This is game one of Supermoms.
Our moms had to make a weeknight family favorite
using produce that started with letter A,
protein that began with the letter B,
and a starch with a C.
First up, Chef Jenny, please tell us what you made.
[Jenny] For our family weeknight dinner,
we always have steak guisado
For my C, I made fresh corn tortillas.
Jenny, your alphabet list wrote the meal.
We knew where you were going with that,
so really smart gameplay.
Your tortilla, while not perfect,
a freshly made, imperfect tortilla
-is still better than what you get in the bag. -[Jenny] Thank you.
This boneless ribeye is incredible.
The sauce, the heat, and this, to me,
feels like a weeknight meal.
-[Antonia] Where is the avocado? -[Jenny] In the salsa.
It is in the salsa. I would have loved
a little bit on top just to give me like
-a fresh level of fat would've been great. -[Jenny] Got it.
-Up next, Chef Sepi. -Hi, chefs.
I have a 16-year-old boy and a 14-year-old boy
and they're always asking for meat,
so I made boneless ribeye wi couscous and a pesto salsa.
This definitely feels like a family favorite.
You want meat? I'll give you meat, here you go.
There's a lot of it.
[Aarti] My favorite part is the avocado.
The avocado salsa is so creamy
and it's nice and cooling against sort of that char
that is on the steak.
I love that the bell peppers are kind of
whole and chunky in there
and gives some beautiful freshness to the couscous.
This boneless ribeye, I got a very thick piece.
It's so rare, not even medium rare.
It gives it a little bit of a chewiness.
Chef Steph.
For my weeknight family favorite,
chef, I made for you bison meatballs,
Israeli couscous,
and Asian pear.
I made that once a week.
My kids love it 'cause it's easy to chew for them.
So I hope you enjoy.
-[Catherine] How old are your kids? -Five, four and two.
-[Antonia] Whoa! -[Catherine] Oh, my God, you are busy.
Gameplay with the ABC, I love all the ingredients that you chose.
I love that you went for bison.
It's not something that we always get to eat because it is a lot leaner.
And then I think the couscou is perfectly cooked.
I would have left that Asian pear raw,
'cause I feel like it needs one fresh element
to balance all of the big flavors on this plate.
Your kids are the luckiest kids ever
to have such beautifully visual plating.
Thank you, chef.
Last but not least, Chef Dina.
I have a boneless pork chop
with a marsala-inspired sauc
It has a little bit of pancetta in there
and couscous with a balsamic vinaigrette
I believe this, as a busy mom,
you're in the grocery, you're like,
"I got 30 minutes, I got to get dinner on the table."
Boneless pork chop, so smart with the pancetta,
just like doubling down on that pork flavor.
This is the sort of food that my kids would get very excited about.
You shopped very smartly.
I love the arugula and the apples for your A.
My pork chop, unfortunately, is hammered.
You kind of took them all ou and put them all onto the grill.
-Mine did not need to go onto the grill. -Yeah, true.
Thank you, judges.
All right, Supermoms, I'm going to put you in a little time-out.
Okay?
I'm gonna give you a chance to go back to your stations
and think about your actions.
[Sepi grunts]
And then when I bring you back out here, we're gonna talk about it.
Great job, chefs. Awesome.
Back to the kitchen. We'll call you in a bit.
All right, judges, it is time to rate the dishes.
Remember, 20 points available in taste,
20 points available in gameplay,
10 points for plating for possible 50 points.
It's time to find out which mom will be going home early.
All right, Supermoms, let's get into the scores.
Dina, 15 out of 20 points available in gameplay,
17 out of 20 in taste,
7 out of 10 points available in plating
-for a total of 39. -Whoo.
[Guy] Stephanie, 16 out of 20 in gameplay,
17 out of 20 in taste,
8 out of 10 in plating for a score of 41.
A two-point lead. Very nice.
Chef Jenny, 16 out of 20 in gameplay,
17 out of 20 in taste,
7 out of 10 in plating for a 40.
Really close. 40, 41, 39,
got to get better than a 39.
No!
[Guy] Sep, 15 out of 20 in gameplay,
16 out of 20 for taste,
7 out of 20 for plating for a 38.
One point behind.
But unfortunately, chef, I got to send somebody home.
-It was wonderful to have you. -Thank you for having me.
-[Guy] Thank you very much, chef. -[Sepi] Thank you.
I'm sad to be eliminated, but my kids,
they're little athletes, so they get it.
You don't always win, but you have to kind of enjoy the journey.
[Guy] Final round of our Supermoms competition.
I want you to make something for that very special person.
You.
-We're talking Mom's Choice. -Oh.
What dish would you treat yourself to?
And you know what? Can't blow the budget, that's the only thing.
-[Dina] Mmm. -Oh, man!
Mom doesn't stand for made of money.
I'm going to give you $15 each
-to buy whatever you want. -Wow.
-[Hunter] Sorry. -[Guy] Excuse me.
-[Guy] What do you want? -[Hunter] I really need help with this.
-I can't figure it out. You need to-- -[Guy] Ryder needs help
- with his homework? -[Stephanie] Math.
I don't know math.
-Can't do it. -Got an idea. You want more money?
-Yeah. -If you want more money,
how about you become temporary tutors for Ryder?
-[Dina] I'm out. -[Guy] So here's what I'm gonna do.
For every one that you solve,
-I'm gonna give you five extra dollars. -Oh, my God.
-So it's 15 that I gave you... -Uh-huh.
...you have a chance to make another 15.
Any questions?
So, for everybody playing it,
if you're on a train leaving Chicago going 50 miles per hour,
what state are you in?
Oh, oh.
Number two. John's mother had three children:
April, May, and who else?
And, if the red house is on the right side
and the blue house is on the left side,
where is the White House?
-[Dina] I can't spell though. -[Guy] Okay.
If you're on a train leaving Chicago going 50 miles an hour,
you're in Illinois, that is correct.
-I don't fancy myself. -[Guy] Second.
John's mother had three children:
April, May and who else?
June.
-So John's... -[Dina] Oh, my God.
...John's mom had three children.
April, May and John.
[Dina] I thought I was being clever. No.
[Guy] And the last one. If the red house is on the right
and the blue house is on the left,
where is White House?
Is it in the middle? No? It's not?
Washington.
[Stephanie] Oh, man!
-[Guy] In Washington. -[Dina] I'm stupid.
-[Guy] So, Dina you get an extra five bucks. -Whoo!
[Guy] Steph, you get an extra ten bucks,
and Jenny, an extra ten bucks.
-20 for you. -Okay!
25. 25 for you.
Now, Wendy's our cash registrar.
You have 30 minutes to shop, prepare and plate
your Mom's Choice on a budget.
You got an idea what you're going to go for? Top five thing.
-No. -[Dina] Sorry.
Top five things sounded like three, two, one, go.
-[Stephanie] Yeah. -[Dina] Yeah.
[Dina] Go get it.
They're so nervous. I mean, that's so cruel, but isn't it awesome?
Mom's Choice on a budget?
Oh, my God.
Really?
My tortillas, my tortillas.
Winning that extra $10, it w definitely going to help me
to give me the treatment that I deserve as a mom.
Here's my tilapia.
My kids hate when the house smells like fish,
so I said, "This is the day I'm gonna make fish tacos.
Where's the tilapia?
I remember my dad buying tilapia
'cause that was the cheapest fish.
I'm using beer in my beer batter.
It adds that fluffiness.
Now I got to get my pico de gallo.
I don't know how much.
Guy, where's the chipotle pepper?
[Guy] Aisle four.
[Jenny] I wanted to save myself some time,
and I found some shredded cabbage.
Great.
And the game is, use your money wisely.
This is all I need.
[Wendy] All right, step right up.
[Jenny] We're a family of six.
I am so used to, uh, shopping on a budget.
I had $5 left
'cause I'm a good shopper.
Thank you.
You know what's so sad is I go to grocery stores
knowing where all the food is in Flavortown market,
and I'm like, "Oh, I got to get some rice" so we go to aisle five
and I'm in detergent.
Okay. So [indistinct]
[Dina] Because I answered one question right, I get $2
Okay, you're a lot, so--
I never did really good with, like, math or anything in school.
When I don't have to cook for a bunch of other people.
You are too expensive.
...it's like between, like just pouring myself a bowl of cereal
or just making a quick pasta dish.
Bucatini is my absolute favorite.
What do you eat when you're by yourself?
Some thick bucatini pasta. I usually open up some burrata.
[Dina] Let's see how much my other stuff comes out.
-Or shoplift like I normally do. -[Dina] Oh, good idea.
Oh, this camera's on, this camera's on.
Anchovy, um, 3.99.
It's gonna make a difference.
[Dina] So whenever I don't have to cook for Brian or Siena,
that means I can use tomatoes!
Because both of them just do not like whole tomatoes,
and it kills me.
Definitely need some garlic.
$20 goes quick.
-Let's try this one first. -[Wendy] That one first?
-[Dina] How-- -$24.80.
Uh, take that out.
I went up there with that burrata, hoping to be able to use it.
You're at $19.51, where you're at right now.
[Dina] All right. Thank you.
Only if I was better at that homework,
I would have this burrata right now.
Hope for the best.
[Stephanie] Even though I got one answer wrong,
I now have $25 to make my Mom Choice meal.
Ugh!
My first thought was lobsters,
but I don't have the budget for that.
I don't know what I'm doing yet.
Growing up with my grandma, the first thing she taught m
how to cook was mafe, peanut butter stew.
Mafe needs a protein, so I grabbed chicken thighs
Okay.
And it's also cheaper.
This, perfect. Peanut butter smooth.
And I still got to get the rice in there.
All right.
I need to add a little heat
I want to do a pepper relish.
Miso normally does not go in the stew,
but that would really go great with that peanut butter.
I'm very stressed on time, so I'm not really paying attention to the numbers.
Always grab a lemon.
All right.
All right. You're at $21.85.
You got a whole bunch more than what you can spend.
Tell me what you want.
They're so expensive.
This.
-[Wendy] $23.40. -That's enough.
All the peppers, gone.
Thank you, Wendy.
Homework for dollars would have destroyed me,
-because I got a big, fat zero... -[Catherine] Oh.
...because like first grade math confused me.
[Aarti] I really liked school.
-[Catherine] Oh, of course. -[Antonia] Of course, you did.
[Guy] 20 minutes, chefs. 20 to go.
You are the best budgeter and you're the best chef,
you are gonna go home with some moola today.
Dina, did you have any money left over?
Were you right on budget?
[Dina] I got a couple of cents left.
If I had a little bit extra cash,
I was going to go for burrata too,
but sorry to disappoint you all.
I would have gone burrata too, sister.
[Guy] All right, chef, what's your gameplan?
[Dina] I have a night in to myself, so I'm gonna
fill up my bowl with some pasta and some cherry tomatoes.
-How much money did you spend? -All but, like, $0.60...
-Really? Okay. -...what I have so.
I'm better at math than I thought.
[Dina] So I am layering up my sauce with the good stuff
Ensure the garlic's in there and even put in the pan a butter or two.
Such a dream.
...just to make sure it comes out super luxurious.
It's comforting. Just grab a big bowl of this,
sit on the couch and I'm a happy girl.
It's mom's night, so I'm gonna do me.
We'll check you out.
-What's your gameplan, chef, with the, uh, mafe? -Mafe.
-[Guy] What's in it? -It's a peanut butter stew.
-Got it. -[Stephanie] And I love it. It's very comforting.
My grandma used to make that all the time for me.
I'm removing the skin
'cause I want to give it a crunch, so I'm going to deep fry those.
-[Guy] I like that move. Very smart. -[Stephanie] Yeah.
[Stephanie] My grandma passed away a year ago,
and she raised me,
that's why I'm making this Mom Choice dish for her.
Cook, baby, cook.
Next, start working on the peanut butter stew.
It's one of the national dish of Central African Republic,
where I was born.
So I put some peanut butter in the pan.
Where's my miso?
Come to mama.
[Catherine] Miso, I mean, that's kind of amazing.
Just to get that, like, umami-ish flavor in the stew itself.
-Oh, my gosh, we're gonna eat so well. -[Catherine] Mmm.
[Stephanie] I have to get creative.
This is my Flavortown gameplay.
Just dissolve for me, please.
[Guy] What's your gameplan?
[Jenny] I'm making some fish tacos.
Every time that I'm making fish at home,
my kids always, you know, scrunch that nose
because it smells like fish.
So, I said, "All right, the kids are gone."
-Do you like spicy food? -Spice is no problem for me.
Is it twisting?
-[Guy] It's pulling. -All right.
[Jenny] First thing I do is my beer batter.
Then I add the whole bottle of beer.
The whole bottle!
I forgot one ingredient, mustard.
[Antonia] Chef Guy Fieri, is there gonna be a situation
where they're gonna able to go into the store and get one last item?
'Cause moms don't always get a choice,
sometimes it's all about other people.
This would be the day that they get what they want.
Really?
Attention, chefs.
You could go into the store and grab one item...
-[Guy] ...you would like. -[Dina] Yes! Go, go, go.
Get your burrata, Dina. Get your burrata.
Whoo! Big piece, big piece, big piece. All right.
[Stephanie] All right. That's fine.
Thinking I need to add a little heat.
Thanks.
Mustard, mustard.
Completely forgot about my mustard
and that's something that I have to add to my fish
to cover that flavor of the tilapia.
-[Guy] What did you go grab? -I had to go get the mustard.
-Mustard is what you wanted? -[Jenny] Yes.
-I have never seen mustard go on fish tacos in my life. -[Jenny] Well, this is
why you're gonna love it.
I add it to the beer batter
I don't think it's actually going to taste like mustard.
I think it's going to just make it salty and vinegary.
It's just a very interesting choice.
[Jenny] Beautiful tilapia.
-[judges] Whoo! -[Dina] Yes!
[Dina] I'm so excited to be able to get this burrata
'cause I know it's gonna take it to the next level.
We're looking good.
I'm pouring the anchovy oil into the pa
because there's a lot of saltiness and brininess.
It just gives, like, an extra added something.
I love anchovies like, next level. So briny.
People don't use anchovies in triple G enough.
That is a brilliant statement that you just made, Catherine McCord.
13 minutes, chefs. 13 to go.
Get a nice little facial when I make this stew.
I'm really hoping to instil for Siena not only the love of cooking,
but the love of giving.
If I win today, the nonprofi I'd like to start is called Dig In,
making food to bring to those who are in need, those who are sick.
And then maybe I'll save a little bit for Disneyworld for her.
A little bit more butter. There we go.
-What did you grab, chef? -[Stephanie] I got more pepper.
[Guy] Those are serrano. Those are hot.
Yeah, I got to be careful.
I need this for a quick pickle.
For acid and texture.
So I cut some carrots with the mandolin
and some serrano pepper with red wine vinaigrette.
And I just throw that in there.
All right. Okay, now.
So I'm gonna take the chicken thighs,
and it's going to finish cooking in peanut butter ste
Yes. Okay.
Use the mandolin to make a chip out of purple ya
All right.
I want to win that money 'cause I need to renovate my bathroom pretty bad.
I don't like how it looks.
I want to tile all the floor all the showers.
I want my kids to be able to enjoy a bath.
That's why I cam for the win today
Just for the game, you got to try, you know?
[Jenny] Beautiful tilapia.
While my fish is frying, I get to my avocado salsa.
I add some habaneros to give that spice.
I'm gonna work on my slaw.
To the cabbage, I added fresh tomatoes,
onions, cilantro and lime juice.
My kids are always in the kitchen with me.
That's the beauty about a Mexican family.
I really want to win $20,00
because I want to start my own business.
I'm gonna buy a food truck, make some birria tacos.
I think I'm gonna need more hands.
My kids are gonna help me.
This is my favorite dish.
[Guy] You got four minutes. Four minutes to be plated and finished.
[Dina] I make sure I get the pasta down into the dish first.
Oh, come on, you want to be a little bit prettier than that.
And then, of course, make su I ladle over some of those beautiful tomatoes,
and then the star of the sho the burrata.
[Guy] 90 seconds, chefs.
[Stephanie] Okay, you're a good girl.
So I put down my stew in the center of the plate.
Then I add my pickled carro on the side.
My crackling made of chicken skin,
this dish has my heart in it
This is gonna get me to $20,000 and a new bathroom.
[Guy] 45 seconds.
[Jenny] They're just so good
I get my warm tortilla, I grab my perfect fish,
nice and warm.
I topped it off with the pico de gallo cabbage salad.
Put a little bit of the avocado salsa
because those habaneros were spicy hot.
Five, four, three,
two, one.
-[Aarti] All right. -[all] Whoo!
-[Antonia] Well done, moms. -[Catherine] Amazing.
-You got it, Stephanie, all right? -[Stephanie] Yeah.
[Guy] Get down to the nitty gritty.
Oh, my gosh, look at my hands. Whoo-hoo.
All right, let's see whose Mom's Choice is the judges' choice.
Follow me, right this way.
All right, here we go, judges.
This is game two of Supermoms
and our moms had to use their homework skills
to sweeten their budget.
Chef Stephanie and Chef Jenny ended up with 25 bucks each
and Chef Dina had 20.
First up, Chef Dina.
When you have a moment alone,
you just want a bowl of carbs and cheese
to put your face into, that doesn't take too long.
So it had, uh, cherry tomatoes that are blistered
and a little bit of anchovy oil.
And then I got a really big gift
being able to run back and get some burrata,
because I only had $20.
Before you actually went shopping,
I said if I was at home, cooking for myself
would have literally been this, carbs all day long.
I loved the shop
and especially since you had the least amount of money to spend,
I thought it was a very, very smart shop.
Really beautiful, though, like a warm pasta.
Such a great choice for Mom's Choice.
What really, to me, makes this dish feel luxurious, though,
is that burrata, that free ingredient
that your very kind benefactor here gave you.
One sucker in the room.
Where I take issue with the dish
is just the execution.
The pasta is a little under seasoned.
The tomatoes are under seasoned.
For me, I would have either liked more salt
-or more anchovy. -Sure.
Chef Jenny, please tell us what you made.
So I made you a fish taco.
I had to stick with tilapia, cabbage slaw
with a little bit habanero, avocado salsa.
This is my comfort food.
Every time that I'm by myself,
this is what I go to, because the kids are not home,
they're not like saying, "Oh, my gosh, the house smells like fish."
This does not look or taste like a budget battle dish.
-Well done. -Thank you.
The mustard trick, it really does work.
There is some acid in that mustard.
It's really welcome in here. I am taking it home.
I actually can't believe that you had almost $4 left over
because there are a ton of ingredients here.
I think the beer batter is spot on.
I love the way you got that fresh slaw.
That cream sauce is like so vibrant and adding a lot of acid,
which this definitely needs.
The tilapia, I'm like, mmm,
'cause it's just, oh, slightly got a funky taste.
I think the mustard helps a little bit.
Up next, Chef Stephanie.
[Stephanie] I have Mafe.
It's one of the first dish my grandma taught me how to cook.
When I eat this dish, I think about her.
And purple yam on the side as a chip.
Carrots, pickled it for more flavor and acidity, and heat,
and chicken skin crackling. I hope you enjoy it.
There is so much flavor in your dish.
The chicken thigh is just really juicy.
You did something that a lot of moms do,
which is you don't waste anything.
You pulled the chicken skin off of that and then you fried it
and gave us that chicken crisp,
which is so lovely here.
The miso, I think it's smart because it adds umami.
I do wish that, like it was constructed a little bit differently
'cause I almost wish those chicken skins
were just kind of all over the top,
maybe the carrot sliced a little different.
So as I bite into anything,
I'm getting the pickling of the carrot,
the crunchiness of that chicken skin
to reinforce that chicken flavor with the peanuts.
[Guy] All right, judges, thank you very much.
Chefs, we're gonna send you back to the kitchens.
You're not on a time-out
but I do want you to clean your room. Okay?
[Dina] Got it.
So back to your kitchens, clean up,
and we'll call you when we have a decision. Nice job.
All right, judges, it is time to rate the dishes.
Remember, 20 points available in taste,
20 points available in gameplay,
and ten points for plating for possible 50 points.
Which mom's dish is worth a $20,000 night out?
We have the final scores.
Starting with Dina.
Dina gets 15 out of 20 in gameplay,
a 16 out of 20 in taste,
7 out of 10 in plating
for a score of 38 and a score of 77.
Stephanie,
you've got to beat a 77 to stay.
17 out of 20 in gameplay,
17 out of 20 in taste,
7 out of 10 for plating for a 41,
for an 82.
Dina, not enough to take it.
Jenny, you have got to score
a 42 or better,
otherwise, Chef Steph, you take it.
Let's take a look.
17 out of 20 in gameplay.
17 out of 20 in taste.
It's got to be an 8 or better.
-8 out of 10 for a 42... -Oh!
-...and we have a tie. -[Jenny] Whoo-hoo!
[Guy] Dina, the dish you made was dynamite,
the execution was the concern.
Both really good scores, but not enough to take it,
so we'll say good night.
I am super proud of myself.
I did something I did not think I could
or would ever get to do.
Siena is going to be super proud
of what her mommy did.
-[Guy] Congratulations, chefs. -Wow. Wow.
You've given so much to be here and come and compete in triple G.
How about this?
I'll take the 20,000 bucks and I'll split it between the two of you.
-[Aarti] Wow! -[Guy] Both winners, okay?
Chef Jenny, Chef Steph, 10,000 bucks each.
[Stephanie] This is a good start to my new bathroom.
My family is gonna enjoy this.
[Jenny] I just can't believe it.
I am so happy.
I'm gonna buy a food truck,
make some birria tacos and get it rolling.
You are fantastic examples for mom
because moms are the hardest working people we ever meet.
We'll see you next time on Guy's Grocery Games.
-[all] Whoo! -[Guy] Adios.
-Congrats. -[Jenny] Yay!
Very happy for you.
Come on, bring it in, bring it in.