How Easy Is That?

We've witnessed it time and time again. Ina prepares a lavish meal and, after plating it beautifully, she remarks, "How Easy Is That?" 

So this week, in honor of Ina's catch phrase, we are celebrating all things easy and quick!  Since Ina has a way of making everything look simple and approachable this could, in fact, apply to nearly any Ina Garten recipe. However, Ina takes things a step further dedicating an entire cookbook to the premise of ease, with her cookbook titled How Easy Is That?  Feel free to take inspiration from any of her recipes!

Join us in saying How Easy Is That? by sharing your Ina Garten dish. Please make and post your dish by Sunday, October 22nd. Please also be sure to link it below, leaving a comment, so that we don't miss out on your dish!

New to IHCC? Need help linking up or just a refresher on how to join in the fun and become a part of our community? 

Please check out our Welcome page. If you have any questions please leave a comment below and we will get back with you.

  If you missed out on our October Monthly Featured Ingredient Challenge: Alliums, then click this link Alliums to see everyone's dishes!

Please note, we have added all the themes for the rest of the year on the sidebar! 

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October Monthly Featured Ingredient Challenge: Alliums!

For October's Monthly Featured Dish/Ingredient Challenge we are going with: Alliums!

(Such as garlic, onions, shallots, leeks, scallions or chives...)

Make any recipe where alliums of any kind are featured or included from our current IHCC Featured Chef: Ina Garten or any of our previous IHCC chefs. (See the IHCC Chefs list on the sidebar.)
   
You can use any single allium or any combination of the allium group in your dish. Also, feel free to share any of your favorite allium recipes from our IHCC chefs in your post!

Make and post your Allium recipe by Sunday October 15th and link a picture up below.

Please remember to link a thumbnail image and do please leave a comment after you link so that we don't miss out on your dish. 

New to IHCC? Need help linking up or just a refresher on how to join in the fun and become a part of our community? Please check out our Welcome page. If you have any questions please leave a comment below and we will get back with you. 

If you missed out on our Hi, Ina! theme last week, please click on the link to see what everyone made. 

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Hi, Ina!

For the past 15 years we have watched as Ina has thrown open the doors of her Hamptons home and welcomed us in with her delicious food and entertaining tips. It doesn't matter if she's cooking for her husband (Jeffrey), or hosting one of her parties, it is sure to be extraordinary...and she makes it look so effortless!

Join us as we say a humongous Hi, Ina! and welcome her as our newest chef in the I Heart Cooking Clubs series. If you're familiar with Ina then you know it will be a dazzling journey of French and American cuisine, and there will be plenty of cheese, puff pastry, and desserts to pave the way, as well as  a few salads for good measure. If not, then this is the perfect time to grab a book, or search online, and get familiar with Ina's simplified back-to-basics approach.

Join us by making any Ina Garten dish that says Hi, Ina! Please make and post your dish by Sunday, October 8th. Please also be sure to link it below, leaving a comment, so that we don't miss out on your dish!

New to IHCC? Need help linking up or just a refresher on how to join in the fun and become a part of our community?  

Please check out our Welcome page. If you have any questions please leave a comment below and we will get back with you.

 
If you missed out on our final week with Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, then click this link Goodbye, Hugh to see everyone's final dishes and favorites!

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Goodbye, Hugh!

What a delicious six months we have had, cooking along with Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and this week is our chance to say Goodbye, Hugh! 

Of course with our Potlucks and Monthly Featured Dish/Ingredient Challenge weeks, it's not goodbye to Hugh forever but on October 2nd, we'll start our six months cooking along with our newest featured chef, Ina Garten, so it's time to make one last dish to thank Hugh for his fabulous recipes. 

You can say Goodbye, Hugh! by making one more Hugh recipe and/or create a roundup of your top favorite Hugh recipes! Make and post your Goodbye, Hugh! dish by Sunday, October 1st. Please remember to link a picture and comment below.

New to IHCC? Need help linking up or just a refresher on how to join in the fun and become a part of our community? Please check out our Welcome page. If you have any questions please leave a comment below and we will get back with you. 

If you missed out on our September Potluck for Kim theme last week, please click on the link to see what everyone made.

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IHCC September 2017 Potluck (for Kim) & Announcements

It's Potluck week and I need to start this post with some sad news. I know many of you have been missing the presence of our wonderful co-host Kim of Stirring the Pot. As she posted on her blog back in July, (here) Kim's mom's cancer came back and the doctors said it was terminal. Kim has been focused on spending time with, and taking care of her mom these last several weeks and sadly this past Friday, her mom passed away. Kim got to be there with her and hold her hand, and she and her family are doing as OK as can be expected. As sad as they are, she is taking comfort that her mom is no longer in all the pain she was in. 

Kim will be back to blogging and back with us here when she's ready. Until then, we will be thinking of you Kim and sending you and your family much love and support.

Since this is Potluck week, I'd like to suggest that we make it a Potluck in honor of Kim and her mom. Kim's mom was her biggest blogging fan and chief taster, so if you'd like to make a recipe or dish to show your support and love, I know she would appreciate it. When I lost my own mom two years ago, Kim did the same for me and it truly meant so much. 

If you'd like to take part, the usual Potluck guidelines apply--you can make any recipe from our current chef (Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall) or any recipe from one of our previous IHCC chefs listed below.

Nigella Lawson  
  Mark Bittman    
Giada de Laurentiis
  Jamie Oliver
  Tessa Kiros
  Rick Bayless
  Madhur Jaffrey
  Yotam Ottolenghi
  Donna Hay
 Nigel Slater
  Diana Henry
 Jacques Pepin
  Ellie Krieger
   Curtis Stone  
Heidi Swanson

Make and post your September IHCC Potluck recipe in honor of Kim and her mom, by Sunday, September 24th and link a picture up below.
 
Please remember to link a thumbnail image and please do leave a comment after you link up so that we don't miss out on your dish. 
 
New to IHCC? Need help linking up or just a refresher on how to join in the fun and become a part of our community? Please check out our Welcome page. If you have any questions please leave a comment below and we will get back with you. 

If you missed out on our Monthly Featured Ingredient/Recipe Challenge: Potatoes! theme last week, please click on the link to see what everyone made. 

***New IHCC Chef Announcement****

Since it's been on the side bar this week, I am assuming that you know that our upcoming IHCC Chef (Starting 10/2/17) is the Barefoot Contessa herself, Ina Garten. We look forward to exploring her tasty recipes.

As usual, the IHCC site will start changing its appearance a bit to reflect our new chef soon and we hope to have the October themes up this week. If you want to get started on your planning, our first theme is always one to welcome in the new chef and so you can start looking for any Ina Garten dish you'd like to make to welcome her to IHCC on October 2nd. 

Thanks for cooking along with us!

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September Monthly Featured Ingredient/Dish Challenge: Potatoes!

For September's Monthly Featured Dish/Ingredient Challenge, it's time for Potatoes! 

Make any recipe where potatoes are featured or included from our current IHCC Featured Chef: Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall or any of our previous IHCC chefs.  

You can use any kind of potato (Russet, Yukon Gold, White, Sweet Potatoes...) and you can choose fresh or frozen potatoes, or other potato products that strike your fancy. Also, feel free to share any of your favorite potato recipes from our IHCC chefs in your post!

Make and post your Potato recipe by Sunday September 17th and link a picture up below.

Please remember to link a thumbnail image and do please leave a comment after you link so that we don't miss out on your dish. 

New to IHCC? Need help linking up or just a refresher on how to join in the fun and become a part of our community? Please check out our Welcome page. If you have any questions please leave a comment below and we will get back with you. 

If you missed out on our Slide Into September theme last week, please click on the link to see what everyone made. 
 

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Slide Into September! (And Our New Featured Chefs Voting Poll!)

September is here! For many of us, it is the signal to begin the transition into a fall frame of mind, even though we may still be trying to hold on to summer. 

So let's...  Slide Into September!

Make any Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall dish that makes the transition from late summer into fall. Whether that's cooking a comforting soup or stew, using up that last bits of summery produce, or using a mix of what's seasonal and local in your area--however you want to interpret this theme is up to you!

Make and post your Slide Into September recipe by Sunday, September 10th and link a picture up below.
 
Please remember to link a thumbnail image and please do leave a comment after you link up so that we don't miss out on your dish. 
 
New to IHCC? Need help linking up or just a refresher on how to join in the fun and become a part of our community? Please check out our Welcome page. If you have any questions please leave a comment below and we will get back with you. 

If you missed out on our August Potluck theme last week, please click on the link to see what everyone made. 

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The New Chef Voting Poll is Open!!!

The 17th round of I Heart Cooking Clubs will be starting at the beginning of October! This week we will be voting on our next featured chef who we will be cooking with from 10/2/17-4/1/18. For this next round of voting we are focusing on four talented female chefs: Lidia Bastianich, Martha Stewart, Julia Child, and Ina Garten. 

Participants may vote (please vote only once, please) for the chef they would like to cook with for the next six months. There is a link to each chef's website on their name below so you can get to know them and check out some of their recipes before you vote.

The voting poll is located at the top of our page, on the right sidebar. Please only vote once. Voting will be open from now until midnight EST on Monday, September 11th . At that time we will update the sidebar with the new winner! 

Lidia Bastianich is an Emmy award-winning television host, best-selling cookbook author, and restaurateur who specializes in Italian and Italian-American cuisine. 

Martha Stewart is a businesswoman, writer, cookbook author and television personality with a media empire who focuses on recipes, crafts and holiday party planning and decor. 

Julia Child was a beloved American icon who authored cookbooks, pioneered cooking shows, and taught Americans how to appreciate and master the art of French Cooking. She would have been 105 this year and her legacy lives on. 

Ina Garten is a well-known cookbook author and television host, known as The Barefoot Contessa and specializing in decadent but easy recipes of all kinds.

*Click on the chef's name for a link to their website, learn a bit about them, and browse their recipes

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