TV Guide Cooking Tuesday

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Perfect party foods for any big first occasion, including sopes with shredded beef, charred corn salad with tomatillo dressing and dos leches strawberry cake.

Kelsey shares her essential tips and recipes for creating take out recipes at home.

Alfonso Ribeiro gets the inside scoop on Tootsie's Caramel Apple Pops; Bissinger's Coconut Caramel Chocolate Bar; Tastykake's Cherry Sweet Rolls; watching Parla's Asiago Tortellini get its quadruple cheese filling.

Eli's Bavarian Apple Tart; Necco's classic bite-size Mary Jane; the mystery of the orange-colored, banana-flavored Circus Peanuts is solved; Snak King's spicy Salsitas.

Mrs. Freshley's cupcakes; Mrs. Fisher's rippled chips; Mayfield Dairy's creamy banana split ice cream; Bush Brothers baked beans and their secret family recipe.

The flavor secrets behind Andes Mints and Christie's chocolate chip cookies; Taffy Town's cotton candy taffy; Ole Smoky Tennessee Moonshine.

Alton Brown creates a variety of dishes.

Devil's food cake's ingredient cocoa powder.

Bananas cool, cream topped, or warm with meringue.

Alton deconstructs the Margarita and bloody Mary then reconstructs them Good Eats style.

Chef Aarón Sánchez is in Las Vegas searching for the tastiest tacos Sin City has to offer; a unique Korean and Hawaiian Mexican fusion; Los Antojos; El Dorado Cantina.

Mesquite smoked brisket in a handmade tortilla; breakfast tacos; an Asian fusion favorite; the delicacy of sweetbreads.

Alton Brown loses control over a jewel of deliciousness in Los Angeles; Alex Guarnaschelli raves about a classic Middle Eastern delight in New Orleans; Monti Carlo finds meat-pie perfection in Phoenix.

Homemade fudge vanilla sundae; Torte de gelato; ice cream sandwich.

Gin blossoms to chocolate sodas; grapefruit margaritas to herbacious mojitos.

Things are about to get messy in the best way possible; Alex Guarnaschelli travels to Washington, D.C., for a beer-battered burger, while Antonia Lofaso visits Los Angeles to let loose on the fattest sub sandwich ever imagined.

Favorite dishes from Tyler Florence, Sunny Anderson, Ted Allen; Hawaiian pork dish, super sized sizzling bacon.

Scott Conant and an updated take on classic potato tots; Jernard Wells devours a delectable dish of salt and pepper calamari in Atlanta; Tregaye Fraser and the Belly Benedict.

Chef Johnny Hernandez cooks in an outdoor kitchen; Lamb Barbacoa; branzino wrapped in banana leaves; corn tortillas toasted on a clay griddle.

Roger heads to Jamaica; a restaurant cooks jerk pork and chicken over pits filled with coals; Roger and a local fisherman start a campfire on the beach and grill the catch of the day.