Recipes from the Iron Chefs: Meet our Holiday Food partners Scallops With Warm Ginger Vinaigrette Roast Salmon With Ancho Chili-Ginger Sauce and Saffron Roast Vegetable Couscous Ginger-Mango Rice Pudding With Toasted Macadamia Nuts and Thai Basil Pork Shoulder Braised in Ginger Beer With Pepper-Ginger Slaw Gingerbread Cupcakes With Caramelized Mango Buttercream Frosting Ginger-Soy-Lime- Marinated Shrimp More holiday recipes and hints: CookSmart: Lighter, low-cal Thanksgiving dinner recipes Pam Anderson's checklist for avoiding holiday overeating Up the flavor: Using herbs and spices Hundreds more recipes in past holiday features

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Meet our Holiday Food partners

Food Network's "Iron Chef America" tackles our secret ingredient.

Once again, USA WEEKEND and the Food Network have teamed up for our annual holiday food issue. This year, we're putting a special "Iron Chef America" twist on it.

Just like the hit Food Network program, we've pitted two of the show's regular culinary gladiators -- Bobby Flay and Michael Symon -- against each other, but this time there isn't a challenge from an outsider. Their task: to create exciting recipes for you to serve over the coming holiday season using our secret ingredient, ginger.

Iron Chef Flay, known for his inventive sauces and Southwest-inspired meals, created two seafood-based dishes. Iron Chef Symon stuck with one of his favorite ingredients, pork, for his entree; he rounded it out with a scallop appetizer. For dessert, both chefs paired mango and ginger. Flay created mango buttercream-topped gingerbread cupcakes; Symon made a ginger-mango rice pudding.

-- T.J. Walter

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