Cookalong -- and dine late -- with Chef Gordon Ramsay: Here's your shopping list

Chef Gordon Ramsay is inviting himself over to your house for dinner.

And you're doing the cooking.

The "Hell's Kitchen" overlord launches a new special Tuesday, Dec. 15 on Fox -- "Gordon Ramsay: Cookalong Live." The audience is invited to do just that. Patterned after Ramsay's UK show, the Michelin-honored chef will walk viewers through a three-course meal for four that they will prepare within one hour's time. (If your knife skills aren't up to par, don't worry. Chef Ramsay can't throw you out of your own kitchen.)

One downside for the West Coast audience: Even though Ramsay will be cooking live from Los Angeles, we won't see it locally until 9 p.m., which means that dinner will be served at 10 p.m. East Coast audiences will eat at a more respectable hour. Thank goodness for Ti-Vo.  

So what's on the menu? For a starter, you'll have angel hair pasta with shrimp, chili peppers and tomatoes. The main event will be Steak Diane with sauteed potatoes and peas. A quick tiramisu caps off the meal. Fox gave us a sneak peek, so you can get an early jump on your shopping list:

-- Rene Lynch

On Twitter @renelynch

Produce

1 red chili pepper
5 large garlic cloves, peeled
1 large tomato (heirloom or beefsteak)
1 lemon
Small handful fresh basil leaves
3 scallions
4 oz. crimini mushrooms, cleaned (can also use button mushrooms instead)
3 shallots, peeled
Small handful of flat-leaf parsley
3 small sprigs of rosemary
1 pound small, waxy potatoes (Yukon gold, cut in half)
2 cups peas, defrosted if using frozen

Meat/fish

1/2 pound medium-size raw, peeled shrimps
4 small sirloin steaks (approximately 7 ounces each)

Dairy

1 3/4 cups heavy cream
1 cup mascarpone
2 1/2 tablespoons salted butter

Pasta/Bread

7 ounces angel hair pasta
4 Italian ladyfingers or savoiardi

Baking

1/4 cup powdered sugar
1 vanilla bean or 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Piece of chocolate (to grate as garnish)

Liquor/coffee

4 tablespoons Marsala, or sweet dessert wine such as Vin Santo
1/4 cup brandy or cognac
1/4 cup white wine
1 cup cold strong coffee

Condiments

Salt and freshly ground black pepper
Olive oil
Extra virgin olive oil
1 to 2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce, to taste
1 tablespoon Dijon mustard

Photo credit: Fox

Comments

[John La Puma MD]

1 3/4 cups heavy cream
1 cup mascarpone
2 1/2 tablespoons salted butter

For a dinner for 4?

My cooking skills are nowhere near Chef Ramsay's, but having finished cooking school and taught in one, I know that it doesn't take that much fat to make food taste good.

I also know you can hide and destroy the flavor of food that doesn't taste good with marscapone, heavy cream and butter. And that's just the dairy.

Not to mention the health of your eaters.

We can do better than this on network television, with 34% obesity and a population that never learned to cook. Why waste the air time to teach America how to get fatter and mask the flavor of food?

[Kerry O'Brien]

Hello I was just wondering how do I find out how the courses were cooked on the show? I looked everywhere on fox.com and only found a shoping list and the ingredients but not anything on how to cook the 3 courses. Please help me. I loved the show and didn't write anything down cause I had thought I would find it on the web site. If you have any information to help me please let me know asap, thanks.