February Potluck!

Oh, yes ... we all love a Potluck around here!

And, what's not to love, when Potluck means not only do you get to choose the recipe, but you also get to choose the chef.

That's right, choose any Diana Henry recipe you like, or if you prefer take the opportunity to revisit any one of our previous nine IHCC chefs:

Nigella Lawson

Mark Bittman

Giada de Laurentiis

Jamie Oliver

Tessa Kiros

Rick Bayless

Madjur Jaffrey

Yotam Ottolenghi

Donna Hay

Nigel Slater

That makes for a veritable smorgasbord of English, American, Italian, Mediterranean, Mexican, Indian, Middle Eastern and "modern Australian" recipes to choose from.

To join in just post and link your February Potluck dish from any one of our IHCC chefs by Sunday 1 March.  Please remember to link a thumbnail image and leave a comment after you link so that we don't miss out on your dish.

New to IHCC?  Need help linking up?  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 our Curds & Whey theme last week, be sure to click on the links and check out all the fabulous dishes everyone made.

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Curds & Whey!

 Little Miss Muffet

Sat on a tuffet,

Eating her curds and whey;

Along came a spider,

Who sat down beside her,

And frightened Miss Muffet away.

*artwork courtesy of http://www.mothergoose.com

   This week we are making Diana Henry dishes featuring or containing Curds & Whey, or their more modern interpretations--yogurt, labneh, cottage cheese, feta, ricotta, and other cheeses. (And hopefully dishes that are free of any curious spiders!)

   Post and link your Curds & Whey dish by Sunday, February 22nd.  Please remember to link a thumbnail image and leave a comment after you link so that we don't miss out on your dish.
 
New to IHCC?  Need help linking up?  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 last week's February Mystery Box Madness, be sure to click on the links and check out all of the wonderful ways our ten mystery ingredients got used.  

 

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Mystery Box Madness: February 2015!

Each month we choose a variety of ten mystery box ingredients from which to cook.  It's up to you to select at least three of those ingredients and chose a recipe featuring those ingredients from one of our eleven IHCC chefs!  We love to see which chef you chose to cook with, which ingredients you select, and the reason (or story) behind the recipe you share! Are you ready for February's challenge?

Here are your February 2015 MBM Ingredients:

Cabbage
Mustard
Yogurt
Freekah or Bulgur Wheat
Za'atar
Tomatoes
Sausage (any kind)
Carrots
Basil (fresh, dry, any kind)
Almonds

Your dish should contain at least three of these mystery ingredients, and you get to choose any dish from our current guest chef, Diana Henry, or any one of our previous ten IHCC chefs:

Nigella Lawson
  Mark Bittman
 Giada de Laurentiis
  Jamie Oliver  
Tessa Kiros
Rick Bayless  
Madjur Jaffrey
Yotam Ottolenghi
 Donna Hay
 Nigel Slater

Which mystery ingredients and chef are calling out to you?

If you are up for the challenge, make and post your dish by Sunday, February 15th.  Please remember to link a thumbnail image and leave a comment after you link so that we don't miss out on your dish.

New to IHCC?  Need help linking up?  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 our Eats Meets West theme last week, be sure to click on the picture links and check out all the healthy, happy belly dishes everyone made!

And, if you have a suggestion for March's Mystery Box Madness ingredients we would love to hear it! Please leave a comment on this post below.

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East Meets West

Photo courtesy of Deb at Kahakai Kitchen

This week we're exploring the theme East Meets West ... Choosing Diana Henry fusion dishes with a global influence.  In recent years many Asian ingredients, previously unavailable in many parts of the West, have exploded onto the market.  Mysterious curry pastes, miso, fish sauce, lotus root, all manner of noodles, Vietnamese rice papers, mirin, rice wine vinegar, and so many more wonderous ingredients, which were previously unheard of, are now readily available in supermarkets and Asian specialty stores that have popped up in just about every town.

What's even more exciting is that, as well as exploring the use of these ingredients in traditional and authentic ways, we have also found ways to embrace these ingredients and use them in ways that bring excitement and flavour to many more Westernised dishes.  If you live anywhere on the Pacific Rim in particular, you will have discovered these fusion style dishes in abundance.  And now it's your turn ...

Get those cookbooks out or look at any of the appropriate online sources, choose any Diana Henry recipe for a dish that is the perfect marriage of East Meets West, and post your dish by Sunday 8 February.

Please remember to link a thumbnail image below, and leave a comment after you link so that we don't miss out on your post.

New to IHCC?  Need help linking up?  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 our Veggie Variations theme last week, be sure to click on the links and check out all the wonderful dishes everyone made.

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