Monday, September 30, 2024

I Heart Cooking Clubs Welcomes Erin French of The Lost Kitchen!

I Heart Cooking Clubs is giving a HUGE welcome to Erin French of the acclaimed restaurant and show, The Lost Kitchen, and also her new show, Getting Lost! If you have not yet watched either show, PLEASE DO SO NOW! Trust me, you will be so thankful you did!

Erin owns the renowned 40-seat restaurant in Freedom, Maine known as The Lost Kitchen where she makes five course meals from local ingredients and highlights local farmers, fisherman, and other purveyors. The meals she and her staff make are so inspiring and the decor is so rustic and cozy. It is a show that will really inspire you to be creative with your local ingredients in your own kitchen!

You can learn more about Erin French by reading her memoir, Finding Freedom: A Cook's Story Remaking A Life From Scratch.
 

Erin's first cookbook, The Lost Kitchen: Recipes And A Good Life Found In Freedom, Maine is available on Amazon or on her website, The Lost Kitchen. This cookbook is fantastic and a little on the in depth with recipes that are more for an intermediate cook, or rather slightly on the fancy side. 
Erin's second cookbook, Big Heart Little Stove: Bringing Home Meals & Moments From The Lost Kitchen is my favorite of the two! Both cookbooks are beautiful, but this book is more how people cook at home. I also love the bit about foraging and thrifting kitchen pieces and items for your kitchen table.

Once you get acclimated with Erin and her recipes, feel free to join us this week as we say Welcome Erin French! We will be making any Erin French recipe, or any recipe from any of our other IHCC chefs. 

Make and post your Welcome Erin French recipe by Sunday, October 6th.

Please link a picture of your recipe below, and leave a comment after. 

October Themes are on the right sidebar and participants can chose to cook any Erin French dish, or any dish from any of our 25 other chefs that fit the theme.

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!

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Monday, September 23, 2024

September IHCC Potluck + Erin French of The Lost Kitchen will be our new chef!

 

Isn't September the most beautiful month of all? A mix of summer and a mix of fall, it's like the best of both worlds. What dish will you end September with? Make a dish from any of the IHCC chefs 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
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall    
Ina Garten   
Eric Ripert
Ruth Reichl
 
Julia Child 
Sami Tamimi 
Tieghan Gerard
Dorie Greenspan
 Jose Andres   
Claudia Roden 
Jessica Merchant
Michael Symon

Make and post your September Potluck recipe by Sunday, September 29th.

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 25 IHCC FEATURED CHEFS. Make sure that any recipes you post on our link-ups are from and credited to one of those 25 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!

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And now for a really fun announcement....the new IHCC chef starting September 30, 2024 through March 30th is Erin French of The Lost Kitchen! Erin French is an American chef from Freedom, Maine who has become quite popular recently with her show on the Magnolia Network, The Lost Kitchen. Erin's The Lost Kitchen restaurant is a 40-seat restaurant in Freedom, Maine. Erin uses ALL LOCAL products from neighboring communities and highlights farmers, fishermen, artisans, and all kinds of local folks on her show. Erin and her crew make the most amazing dishes and people line up for them! Erin also has a new show, Getting Lost, where she and her husband travel the country meeting other cooks, and chefs, and enjoy local specialties of that area. I highly encourage you to watch both shows...I bet you'll be as hooked as I am.

Erin French has written one memoir titled Finding Freedom: A Cook's Story; Remaking a Life From Scratch. She also has two cookbooks: The Lost Kitchen: Recipes and a Good Life Found in Freedom, Maine: A Cookbook and her second cookbook, Big Heart Little Stove: Bringing Home Meals & Moments from The Lost Kitchen. I highly recommend all the books. I really enjoyed the memoir and I love both cookbooks, but if I had to chose only one, it would be Big Heart Little Stove: Bringing Home Meals & Moments from The Lost Kitchen. The second cookbook is just more approachable for a home cook and if you've seen the show, there are lots of recipes in the book from the show.

Erin's books are available on Amazon and here is a link to her website, The Lost Kitchen!

Look for the IHCC site to change and update as we switch over to a new chef!

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Monday, September 16, 2024

Fall Equinox!

 Its time for the Fall Equinox.....and the beginning of the beautiful things fall brings!

What dish will you make to celebrate the beginning of fall?
 
Make and post your Fall Equinox recipe by Sunday, September 22nd.

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*****PLEASE REMEMBER that we are continuing to cook the recipes of our 25 IHCC FEATURED CHEFS. Make sure that any recipes you post on our link-ups are from and credited to one of those 25 chefs.

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Monday, September 9, 2024

Game Day Eats!

 What do you like to eat on Game Day?

Make and post your Game Day Eats recipe by Sunday, September 15th.

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*****PLEASE REMEMBER that we are continuing to cook the recipes of our 25 IHCC FEATURED CHEFS. Make sure that any recipes you post on our link-ups are from and credited to one of those 25 chefs.

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Monday, September 2, 2024

From The Orchard

 It's that time of year when the orchards are exploding with fresh fall fruits: plums, apples, and pears!


Make and post your From The Orchard recipe by Sunday, September 8th.

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