Welcome!

Welcome to I Heart Cooking Clubs!

A Little Bit About Us:
Cooking together since 2009, IHCC is a spin-off of the popular TFF (Tyler Florence Fridays) cooking club and is presently featuring the recipes of Curtis Stone! (Through October 2, 2016.) This cooking club aims to grow and change with its members and explore other cooks and books in the future. A new chef/cook will be announced every six months. You can see a list of the previous IHCC chefs under the heading of this blog.)


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You Choose the Recipes! 
In the interest of freedom of choice, we have organized this cooking club on themes--listed on the sidebar. How you interpret the theme is up to you. If you feel that you would like nothing better than a three pound bison burger, with all the fixin's, on a spa day.. nobody will challenge you on it! The only 'rule' to IHCC is that you must cook a recipe from the current featured chef except on specified Monthly Potluck weeks when you can cook the recipes of the current chef, or the recipes of any previous IHCC chef and our new in 2015: Monthly Featured Chef Event where we feature one of our previous IHCC chefs (listed under the heading of this blog.)

Once the theme is announced, feel free to peruse the current chef's recipes from  cookbooks or online, to find one that you think suits the theme and your tastes. Have fun with the recipe, change what you like, and link into that week's post.

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Sidebar Blogroll
If you would like to be added to the blogroll on the sidebar, please leave your name and a link to your blog in the comments section of this welcome post. We will add your name once you have participated and linked up your first post.

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Linking Your Post
At the end of each week's post, you will have a chance to link your post's permalink (not the link to your blog's homepage or front page) with inlinkz, below. The link will allow you to add and crop a thumbnail photo too. Please leave a comment after, each week that you use inlinkz to link your post, just to be sure we don't miss anyone.

Feel free to write the name of your dish next to your name in the Linky field! 

What is a permalink?

A permalink is a permanent link to your specific post, not to your blog's front page.

This is a permalink to a post -

http://iheartcookingclubs.blogspot.com/2013/04/shalom-yotam-ottolenghi.html

This is a link to the blog's front page -
http://iheartcookingclubs.blogspot.com/
 
See the difference? Great! Looking forward to seeing your dishes!

Note: You can post any time during the week, new themes will be officially announced on a Monday post with the link up for that week, but themes are listed on the sidebar at least a few weeks in advance so that you can plan ahead.


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The IHCC Community
We think the fun of IHCC is being a part of a supportive community. Here are a few ways to join in:

• Leave a comment when you put up your inlinkz picture and link--that way we  don't miss your dish and we know you are out there.
• Take a few minutes to visit the posts of your fellow IHCC participants each week and leave them a comment. Lots of great friendships have starting with some simple kind words.
• Put the IHCC badge and/or featured chef badge on your blog sidebar and mention IHCC and the themes in the posts you are linking up--we love to have new members and many of them come to us from seeing their friends join in the IHCC fun.
• Make sure we have your blog listed on the Active Members list on the sidebar. We try to cath them all but email us if we miss you!
• Join in with suggestions for themes, ideas for new events and new featured chefs--we love to hear from you.    

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Questions?
If you have any questions that were not answered by reading this page or the sidebars, please leave a comment on this post or email one of the host/administrators listed on the sidebar. 

Again, we welcome you to IHCC!!!