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The Ambush Cook

The Ambush Cook

Kristina Kuzmic is one of two winners of the first season of "Your OWN Show: Oprah's Search for the Next TV Star," with which came the prize of hosting her own show on OWN. The food-obsessed mother's show is, naturally, about food. She ambushes people in their everyday lives, bringing them to her kitchen for an intervention in home cooking. Kuzmic's guests range from mothers obsessed with frozen foods to bachelors who go to their parents' homes for dinner every night, but they all have one thing in common: they fear the kitchen. Her recipes, including braised short ribs and pistachio-crusted tilapia, are good enough to satisfy even the most discerning palate but simple enough for the most inexperienced novice to follow.
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Season 16 of 6 Episodes

  • A mother prone to picking up food learns to make Mongolian beef and vegetable fried brown rice.

  • A man learns to make pistachio-crusted tilapia, goat cheese bruschetta and mocha bread pudding to keep him out of his mother's kitchen.

  • Breaking a reliance on the freezer section; spicy peanut butter chicken with basmati rice; molten chocolate lava cakes.

  • A musician has no confidence in his cooking; braised short ribs and sauteed sweet corn.

  • A new mother-to-be can still be social at home; asparagus salmon salad; guiltless chocolate mousse.

  • A restaurant addict learns to use the stove; mustard-crusted chicken; crispy Nutella cookies.
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Kristina Kuzmic is one of two winners of the first season of "Your OWN Show: Oprah's Search for the Next TV Star," with which came the prize of hosting her own show on OWN. The food-obsessed mother's show is, naturally, about food. She ambushes people in their everyday lives, bringing them to her kitchen for an intervention in home cooking. Kuzmic's guests range from mothers obsessed with frozen foods to bachelors who go to their parents' homes for dinner every night, but they all have one thing in common: they fear the kitchen. Her recipes, including braised short ribs and pistachio-crusted tilapia, are good enough to satisfy even the most discerning palate but simple enough for the most inexperienced novice to follow.

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