Season 5

Kardea Brown celebrates the end of summer with a seafood cookout; the menu includes charcoal grilled oysters, Charleston crab crack, cornbread panzanella and a fun-in-the-sun cocktail.

The competitors work with wild game in every basket; a crispy Korean snack food is a creepy-crawly shocker; the judges chomp down on alligator entrees.

Kardea Brown's refrigerator fills up with random veggies, fruits and other bits of recipes she has made; Kardea gets creative and uses leftovers in lasagna dip, grilled eggplant bruschetta and a red wine mixed-berry granita.

Kardea Brown hits the road to surprise her mom in Atlanta with a visit; together, they make New Orleans-style BBQ shrimp and grilled rubbed chicken with an Alabama white sauce; Kardea also makes rainbow carrot and fennel salad with apricots.

Kardea Brown invites a few of her friends over for a pregame with oven roasted Carolina BBQ chicken wings, turkey sliders with onion jam and crunchy peanut and pistachio caramel popcorn.

Kardea Brown invites her biggest little fan -- 5-year-old Braylen and her mom -- over for lunch; she makes sheet pan grilled cheese sandwiches, homemade 'tato bites and very special pb&j stuffed cupcakes.

Kardea Brown hosts her nephew's first birthday party with a menu that all her guests -- young and old -- will love; she makes sheet pan pizzas, buffalo chicken meatballs and a vanilla celebration cake with a mini version for her nephew to smash.

Kardea Brown's Aunt TC is opening a sandwich shop, and she wants Kardea to help her develop the menu; grilled shrimp po' boys, twice fried sweet potato fries and lemon sugar cookie ice cream sandwiches.

Kardea Brown invites her friend KJ Kearney over to try her versions of Charleston's best dishes; a panko fried pork chop sandwich on grilled Texas toast, shaved cabbage slaw with shallots and dijon vinaigrette and homemade banana pudding.

Kardea Brown invites her best friends over for Friendsgiving, and she's in charge of the turkey and side dishes; deviled crabs in the shell, a cajun butter spatchcock turkey, fried cabbage and sweet potato stuffed cornbread.

After a bridge run workout with friends, Kardea Brown invites everyone back to her house for brunch; seafood omelet bar with all the fixings, candied bacon, peaches and cream scones, and refreshing sparkling mimosas.

Kardea Brown and her friend, singer Quiana Parler, celebrate their Gullah culture and heritage with a meal inspired by the Sea Islands; Kardea makes Gullah gumbo with shrimp and tomatoes, traditional crab rice and Charleston chewy cheesecake.

Kardea Brown makes a holiday dinner for her mom, grandma and cousin; on the Christmas table this year is a brown sugar glazed ham with cloves, red rice perloo, green bean casserole, and apple cider cobbler for dessert.