I Heart Cooking Clubs: August 2021

Monday, August 30, 2021

Go Greek! {Plus a Chance to Vote}!

Right about now college kids everywhere are Going Greek and pledging to a fraternity or sorority. Here at I Heart Cooking Clubs, we chose to Go Greek, but it promises to be much more tasty than anything those college kids are eating.

So get your cookbooks out, or look around online, and find any GREEK inspired dish that suits your fancy! Make and post your Go Greek recipe by Sunday, September 5th. Please link a picture of your recipe below, and leave a comment after.

*****PLEASE REMEMBER that we are continuing to cook the recipes of our 21 IHCC FEATURED CHEFS. Make sure that any recipes you post on our link-ups are from and credited to one of those 21 chefs.

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

Note: We would like your feedback on how to proceed for our next round of IHCC, starting in October. Please vote and/or provide feedback in the comments below this post and let us know which choice you'd rather go with! We value your opinion!

Choice #1: Continue Cooking With All IHCC Chefs/Do Not Introduce a New Chef!

*OR*

Choice #2: Continue Cooking With All IHCC Chefs/Introduce A New Female Chef!

What does introducing a new chef mean? This means that we will continue to cook with all past IHCC chefs, but we will also have the option of cooking with someone new. If this option is chosen, we would like to feature some fellow female bloggers who we feel have an array of wonderful recipes to chose from! All of the female bloggers below have loads of recipes on their site and at least two cookbooks each, providing us with lots of options!

Here are the female food bloggers we would consider. Please click on the blog name to visit their site and check them out! If this option is chosen then we will be voting for the new female chef in the next post!

Smitten Kitchen

Half Baked Harvest

How Sweet Eats

September themes will be up sometime this week, but please bear with us as we are really struggling with adding information to the sidebar. As of right now, we cannot add text, lists, or voting polls. If you have any suggestions, tips, or tricks please let us know by leaving a comment below.

If you'd like to check out our August Potluck dishes from last week, please click the link and check it out!

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Sunday, August 22, 2021

August 2021 Potluck!

It's August Potluck time!

You can make any dish from any of our 21 featured chefs:

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
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
Ina Garten
Eric Ripert
Ruth Reichl

Julia Child

Sami Tamimi

Make and post your August Potluck recipe by Sunday, August 29. Please link a picture of your recipe below, and leave a comment after.

*****PLEASE REMEMBER that we are continuing to cook the recipes of our 21 IHCC FEATURED CHEFS. Make sure that any recipes you post on our link-ups are from and credited to one of those 21 chefs.

Note: The themes for August are up, but we are having trouble with the spacing, etc. We will be trying to fix it soon and also get our September themes up soon. In the meantime, the themes are as follows.

Peanut Butter & Jelly (peanut butter and jelly and/or peanut butter or jelly)
Tropical Delights (any tropical dish or dish with tropical ingredients)
The Three Sisters (any dish with corn, beans, and squash or just one of the three)
August Potluck (any dish of your choosing)
Go Greek! (any Greek inspired dish or dish using Greek ingredients)

If you'd like to check out our Three Sisters dishes from last week, please click the link and check it out!

Monday, August 16, 2021

The Three Sisters!

The Cherokee trio of corn, beans, and squash, otherwise known as THE THREE SISTERS, have long been grown together for a more robust harvest and superior flavor. But that doesn’t mean you’ll see them all on one plate. This week you can choose just one to cook with, or all three, if you're feeling adventurous!

Make any dish inspired by THE THREE SISTERS and our 21 featured chefs and post by Sunday, August 22nd.

*****PLEASE REMEMBER that we are continuing to cook the recipes of our 21 IHCC FEATURED CHEFS. Make sure that any recipes you post on our link-ups are from and credited to one of those 21 chefs.

Note: The themes for August are up, but we are having trouble with the spacing, etc. We will be trying to fix it soon. In the meantime, the themes are as follows.

Peanut Butter & Jelly (peanut butter and jelly and/or peanut butter or jelly)
Tropical Delights (any tropical dish or dish with tropical ingredients)
The Three Sisters (any dish with corn, beans, and squash or just one of the three)
August Potluck (any dish of your choosing)
Go Greek! (any Greek inspired dish or dish using Greek ingredients)

If you'd like to check our TROPICAL DELIGHTS dishes from last week, please click the link and check it out!

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Monday, August 9, 2021

Tropical Delights

This week we are celebrating Tropical Delights!

Make any tropical-feeling dish or use some tropical ingredients from any of our 21 featured chefs.

*****PLEASE REMEMBER that we are continuing to cook the recipes of our 21 IHCC FEATURED CHEFS. Make sure that any recipes you post on our link-ups are from and credited to one of those 21 chefs.

Note: The themes for August are up, but we are having trouble with the spacing, etc. We will be trying to fix it soon. In the meantime, the themes are as follows.

Peanut Butter & Jelly (peanut butter and jelly and/or peanut butter or jelly)
Tropical Delights (any tropical dish or dish with tropical ingredients)
The Three Sisters (any dish with corn, beans, and squash or just one of the three)
August Potluck (any dish of your choosing)
Go Greek! (any Greek inspired dish or dish using Greek ingredients)

If you'd like to check our Peanut Butter & Jelly dishes from last week, please click the link and check it out!

Monday, August 2, 2021

Peanut Butter & Jelly!

It's about time for the kids to go back to school and what combination is more popular this time of year than PEANUT BUTTER & JELLY?

That's right...it's peanut butter jelly time!

Now to be fair, some of us love peanut butter and jelly together while others enjoy them separately. So, this week you can use them together, or use them separately in a recipe of your choosing. Just make sure it is a recipe using peanut butter and jelly OR peanut butter or jelly from one of our 21 featured chefs. It's also worth mentioning that any nut butter will do!

Make and post your PEANUT BUTTER & JELLY recipe by Sunday, August 8th . Please link a picture of your recipe below, and leave a comment after.

*****PLEASE REMEMBER that we are continuing to cook the recipes of our 21 IHCC FEATURED CHEFS. Make sure that any recipes you post on our link-ups are from and credited to one of those 21 chefs.

Note: The themes for August are up, but we are having trouble with the spacing, etc. We will be trying to fix it soon. In the meantime, the themes are as follows.

Peanut Butter & Jelly (peanut butter and jelly and/or peanut butter or jelly)

Tropical Delights (any tropical dish or dish with tropical ingredients)

The Three Sisters (any dish with corn, beans, and squash or just one of the three)

August Potluck (any dish of your choosing)

Go Greek! (any Greek inspired dish or dish using Greek ingredients)

If you'd like to check our July Potluck dishes from last week, please click the link and check it out!

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List of All Twenty-Eight I Heart Cooking Clubs Chefs!

You Choose the Recipes!

In the interest of freedom of choice and to maximize the fun, we have organized this cooking club on themes. 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!

Once the theme is announced, feel free to peruse our 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.

Have some great ideas for themes? We love to hear your ideas! Feel free to email any of the hosts or leave your ideas in the comments section.