December Potluck!

Time to ... POTLUCK!!!

It's the week where you can make any Heidi Swanson recipe, or any recipe from one of our previous IHCC featured chefs:

Nigella Lawson

Mark Bittman

Giada de Laurentiis

Jamie Oliver

Tessa Kiros

Rick Bayless

Madjur Jaffrey

Yotam Ottolenghi

Donna Hay

Nigel Slater

Diana Henry

Jacques Pepin
Ellie Krieger

Curtis Stone

What are you going to make?

Make and post your December Potluck recipe by Sunday, January 1 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 Simply Entertaining! theme last week, please click on the link to see the simple dishes suitable for entertaining!

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Simply Entertaining with Heidi Swanson!

'Tis the season for entertaining. Whether you are hosting people at your home or preparing a dish for a party, you are Simply Entertaining! Of course, the dish you prepare depends on many conditions.  Who will eat it?  How many? What are their likes and dislikes? All things to be considered for sure. However, one thing we know for sure is that simplified entertaining usually works best for all involved, both the cook and the guest.

This week we will be Simply Entertaining by either making a simple dish, a dish that holds well, or a dish that can be prepared (at least partially) hours before, or even a day before, your special event! As always, the dish you choose is entirely up to you! Please make your Simply Entertaining dish and post by Sunday, December 25th.

Please remember to link a thumbnail image and 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 Sweet Treats last week, please click on the link to see all the sweet delights we shared! 

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***images in collage from 101cookbooks.com

December Monthly Featured Dish/Ingredient Challenge: Sweet Treats!

Welcome to the second installment of our Monthly Featured Dish/Ingredient Challenge.  

For December and our challenge this week, our dish will be Sweet Treats.
 

Make any candy, cookie or dessert bar recipe, from any of our past or present IHCC chefs. Also, feel free to share any of your past favorite candy/cookie/dessert bar recipes from IHCC chefs in your post! The idea is to share and celebrate sweet treats!
 
Not only will you have to decide what sweet treat to make, you also have to chose which chef to cook with! 

Nigella Lawson

Mark Bittman

Giada de Laurentiis

Jamie Oliver

Tessa Kiros

Rick Bayless

Madjur Jaffrey

Yotam Ottolenghi

Donna Hay

Nigel Slater

Diana Henry

Jacques Pepin Ellie Krieger

Curtis Stone 

Heidi Swanson

If this makes the decision too difficult, feel free to share more than one recipe.

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 Expand Your Pantry! theme last week, please click on the link to see all the tasty ways we were inspired!

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Expand Your Pantry!

No matter how long you've been cooking, there is always a way to build and  

EXPAND YOUR PANTRY! 

We all have those ingredients that elude us at the stores. Not to mention the ingredients that we always say we will special order, but never seem to get around to. Either way, there is always something new to try!

This week we are looking for Heidi Swanson recipes that have new ingredients and/or ingredients that we haven't cooked with often and want to get to know a little better. Examples would include a new flour, such as amaranth, barley, or quinoa. Perhaps even a new natural sugar, such as date sugar or brown rice syrup. There are also several varieties of grains to experiment with and don't forget, an endless array of spices and seasonings to chose from that you may not have tried! Don't be afraid to try your hand at something new!

Please Expand your pantry by Sunday, December 11th and share your Heidi
Swanson dish below by linking up both your picture and post. 

Please remember to link a thumbnail image and 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 November Potluck last week, please click on the link to see what chefs and recipes were shared!  

 

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November Potluck!

It's time for...

Potluck!!!

The week where you can make any Heidi Swanson recipe, or any recipe from one of our previous IHCC featured chefs:

Nigella Lawson

Mark Bittman

Giada de Laurentiis

Jamie Oliver

Tessa Kiros

Rick Bayless

Madjur Jaffrey

Yotam Ottolenghi

Donna Hay

Nigel Slater

Diana Henry

Jacques Pepin
Ellie Krieger

Curtis Stone

What are you going to make?

Make and post your November Potluck recipe by Sunday, December 4th 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 Let's Give Thanks! theme last week, please click on the link to see all the tasty ways we were inspired!

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Let's Give Thanks!

Tis the season to give thanks for family, friends, and food. This week, Let's Give Thanks for all we have by choosing a Heidi Swanson dish that we are thankful for!

Make and post your Heidi Swanson Let's Give Thanks recipe by Sunday, November 27th and link your picture and post 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 Buddha Bowl theme last week, please click on the link to see the delicious dishes that were shared!  


 

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**images courtesy of www.101cookbooks.com

Buddha Bowls!

Buddha Bowls, those single bowl meals filled with simple, pure, and healthy food have become very popular the last few years. 
 
This week we are making Heidi Swanson-Inspired Buddha Bowls--a one bowl meal with several components (grains, beans, fresh veggies, condiments, toppings, seeds, nuts, etc.) artfully arranged to appeal. 

Heidi has several Buddha bowl-style recipes to choose from, or you can use some of her recipes as components in your own Buddha bowl. 

Make and post your Buddha Bowl recipe by Sunday, November 20th and link your picture and post 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 Monthly Featured Ingredient: Squash theme last week, please click on the link to see the delicious dishes that were shared!  

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Monthly Featured Ingredient: Squash!

A very warm welcome to the new IHCC monthly event: Monthly Featured Ingredient!  The first installment of MFI is all about squash.  This week, both winter squash and summer squash, will be highlighted in an effort to find the best of the best when it comes to all things squash!

Not only will participants have to chose which squash to cook with, they will also have to chose which chef to cook with! 

Nigella Lawson

Mark Bittman

Giada de Laurentiis

Jamie Oliver

Tessa Kiros

Rick Bayless

Madjur Jaffrey

Yotam Ottolenghi

Donna Hay

Nigel Slater

Diana Henry

Jacques Pepin
Ellie Krieger

Curtis Stone 

Heidi Swanson

If you're anything like me, this means making a decision will be difficult so feel free to share more than one recipe. 
 
Zucchini, yellow squash, pumpkin, Delicata, Butternut...which squash will you chose? Please make and post your Monthly Featured Ingredient: Squash recipe(s) by Sunday, November 13th.  Feel free to share other IHCC squash recipes that you've enjoyed in the past! Also, please link your picture and post below. Also, we encourage you to leave a comment so that we will be notified when you link 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 A Colorful Plate last week, please click on the link to see the colors of the rainbow that were shared! 

**images from 101cookbooks.com and www.bonapettite.com

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A Colorful Plate!

Eat the rainbow, fill your plate with lots of healthy ingredients this week as we celebrate...

A Colorful Plate!

Make any Heidi Swanson recipe that is full of color and flavor! 

Make and post your A Colorful Plate recipe by Sunday, November 6th and link your picture and post 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 Potluck theme last week, please click on the link to see the delicious dishes that were shared!  

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October Potluck!

It's your chance to make any Heidi Swanson recipe, or any recipe from one of our previous IHCC featured chefs:

Nigella Lawson

Mark Bittman

Giada de Laurentiis

Jamie Oliver

Tessa Kiros

Rick Bayless

Madjur Jaffrey

Yotam Ottolenghi

Donna Hay

Nigel Slater

Diana Henry

Jacques Pepin
Ellie Krieger

Curtis Stone

What will you make?

Make and post your October Potluck recipe by Sunday, October 30th 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 Ingredients That Inspire theme last week, please click on the link to see all the tasty ways we were inspired!

 

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Ingredients That Inspire--Cooking with Heidi Swanson

What ingredients inspire you in the kitchen? Is it something from your garden, locally grown fruits or veggies or an item produced where you live? Maybe it's something seasonal that only comes around once a year, a favorite herb or spice blend, a bar of chocolate brought back from a trip, or a basket of fresh eggs gifted from a neighbor? 

Whatever it is that inspires you, this week, make any Heidi Swanson recipe that includes one or more of these inspiring ingredients. 

Make and post your Ingredients That Inspire recipe by Sunday, October 23rd and link your picture and post 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 final October Monthly Featured Chef Theme theme last week, please click on the link to see the delicious Ellie Krieger dishes that were shared!  

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Monthly Featured Chef: Ellie Krieger!

Over the past year we've had fun celebrating all of our IHCC chefs, from past to present.

This week we will be concluding the Monthly Featured Chef series with the one and only Ellie Krieger. Now is a great time to make those nutritious and delicious, good-for-you, Ellie recipes that you didn't quite get to the first time around.

Feel free to make and post any Ellie Krieger recipe by Sunday, October 16th. If you've cooked along with us when we cooked with Ellie, or have cooked with Ellie before, feel free to share your favorite Ellie recipes in your post.

Please remember to leave a comment after linking your post 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 out on our welcome Hello to Heidi last week, be sure to click on the links and check out all the fun ways we celebrated our newest chef!

Also, November themes and the very first Monthly Featured Ingredient are listed on the sidebar!

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Hello Heidi! (Welcoming Heidi Swanson to IHCC!)

Hello... Heidi!

We are excited to welcome cookbook author, blogger, photographer and writer Heidi Swanson to I Heart Cooking Clubs!  

Heidi takes inspiration from ingredients, her travels, and her everyday life to create healthy and delicious food and we are looking forward to spending the next six months getting to know her and her recipes. 

This week, make any Heidi Swanson recipe from her blog, online, or any of her four cookbooks to say, Hello Heidi and to welcome her! (We'll be cooking with Heidi Swanson through April 2, 2017.)

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Note: We are "under construction" and will be putting up a new header and badge for our time with Heidi, as well as posting our November themes and information about our new Monthly Featured Dish/Ingredient Challenge soon!
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Make and post your Hello Heidi recipe by Sunday, October 9th and link your picture and post 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 Hooroo Curtis! theme last week, please click on the link to see all the delicious dishes that were shared! 

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Hooroo Curtis! (Goodbye Curtis)

Can you believe we've been cooking with Curtis for 6 months already? Whew! Time sure does fly when you're having fun. It's been an adventure getting to know Curtis in the kitchen. Looking back we've ate something on the sofa, we've wet our whistle, we celebrated tomatoes and got fresh with fruit. We had a cookout on the barbie, got herbalicious, and put finishing touches on many Curtis recipes! I'd say it was a very tasty and delicious six months! Thanks Curtis!

This week make and post any Curtis Stone dish to say Hooroo Curtis (Goodbye Curtis!). Feel free to do a roundup of all your favorite Curtis dishes (they are always so much fun to see). Please post your recipe(s) by Sunday, October 2nd and link a picture 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 September Potluck theme last week, please click on the link to see all the delicious ways we celebrated our past and preset chef(s)!

**You have voted and it looks like we will be having a Monthly Featured Dish/Ingredient Theme each month, starting in November! Stay tuned and check the sidebar. November themes (and the new monthly feature) will be posted in the next week or so.

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IHCC September Potluck! (And a Monthly Events Vote!)

Whoop! Whoop! It's time for...

Potluck!!!!

It's your chance to make any Curtis Stone recipe, or any recipe from one of our previous IHCC featured chefs:

Nigella Lawson

Mark Bittman

Giada de Laurentiis

Jamie Oliver

Tessa Kiros

Rick Bayless

Madjur Jaffrey

Yotam Ottolenghi

Donna Hay

Nigel Slater

Diana Henry

Jacques Pepin
Ellie Krieger

What will you make?

Make and post your September Potluck recipe by Sunday, September 25th 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 Monthly Featured Chef theme last week, please click on the link to see all the delicious Jacques Pepin dishes that were shared!

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***Monthly Events Vote***

We are looking for a decision on whether to continue to have a monthly event (beyond Potluck of course!) and what that event should be. 

Here are the options--please vote for one in the poll at the top of the page:

Option 1:
In October, we will feature Ellie Krieger as our Monthly Featured Chef and we will have rotated through all of our previous chefs for the Monthly Featured Chef Event. If we continue this event, we would need to start over with Nigella Lawson and repeat our roster of chefs. Would you like to continue the Monthly Chef Event, repeating the chefs for another year? 

Option 2:
We have also thought of another Monthly Event--a Monthly Featured Dish/Ingredient Challenge. In this challenge we would name either a popular dish (mac-n-cheese, chili, stir-fry, etc.) or a basic ingredient (pasta, eggs, chocolate, etc.). You can pick a recipe from any of our previous chefs for that month's dish or ingredient. It would be sort of a mini-challenge to find the best recipes out there for the different dishes and ingredients. 

Option 3:
Finally, we could stop having an additional monthly event and just have 3 to 4 weekly themes with our current featured chef (Heidi Swanson Oct. 3, 2016- April 2, 2017) plus Potluck week.

Please vote ONCE for which option you prefer!  
 

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Montly Featured Chef: Jacques Pépin!

  Jacques Pépin is known the world over for his timeless recipes and passion for cooking. 

Join us as we celebrate Jacques Pépin, a true cooking legend. Share in the fun by cooking any of Jacques' recipes. Whether you chose a traditional French recipe, one of the classics,  or a quick weeknight meal it is bound to be a success. 

 Feel free to make and post any Jacques Pépin recipe by Sunday, September 18th. If you've cooked along with us when we cooked with Jacques Pépin, or have cooked with Pépin before, feel free to share your favorite Pépin recipes in your post. 

Please remember to leave a comment after linking your post 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 yo

 If you missed out on our amazing Finishing Touches last week, be sure to click on the links and check out all the fun ways to jazzed up our dishes!

****And now for an exciting announcement...Heidi Swanson dominated the vote and will be our newest chef at I Heart Cooking Clubs! We look forward to cooking all sorts of delicious, and Super Natural dishes, in the next six months!! New Heidi Swanson themes will be coming shortly and we start cooking with her on October 3rd.

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