When it comes to cooking, we'd all like to have a gourmet's flair and the ability to create quick, healthy, and inventive dishes. Renowned Chef Bobby Flay can show you how to enjoy the best of both worlds on "The Main In gredient with Bobby Flay."

Flay, the executive chef and co-owner of the Manhattan-based restaurants Mesa Grill, Mesa City, and Bolo, will take you through the creative process of cooking, and share some of his most popular techniques, shopping tips and suggestions when experimentin g with new ingredients. He'll offer a "Chef's Tip of the Day," which can be applied to many different recipes in addition to the meal he will create.

"It's extremely important for me to keep the food whimsical, with a lot of gutsy humor!" says Flay. "Cooking should be fun. Even if it's simply getting dinner on the table, your cooking should be expressive and exciting. Your kitchen is the place for you to experiment with your own creativity, to relax, explore and invent."

Geared to both the experienced and inexperienced viewer, "The Main Ingredient with Bobby Flay" will offer recipes that make food preparation enjoyable and successful in a fresh, new, and sizzlin' way!

Recipes

» Chicken paella, shrimp and chorizo paella, roasted spring vegetables, hummus on flatbread and fruit sangria
» Farfalle with chicken, roasted corn, and red peppers
» The perfect roast chicken with roasted shallots and portobello
» Sweet potato-chicken mash with poached eggs, French toast with blueberry maple syrup, smoked salmon and asparagus-mustard-dill vinaigrette
» Caribbean pork tenderloin with rice, beans and molasses-glazed plantains and mixed salad with cilantro vinaigrette
» Greek pita wrap, roasted eggplant and goat cheese tortilla with roasted red pepper and dill scented corn pancakes
» Scallops of veal with capers and lemon, pan-fried polenta circles with warm tomato-basil relish and praline sauce with vanilla ice cream
» Asian chicken quesadilla with grilled pineapple salsa and hoisin vinaigrette
» Roasted leg of lamb, glazed carrots, vanilla flan mint pesto, garlic scampi and bean salad