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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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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Monthly Featured Chef: Diana Henry!

It's time for August's Monthly Featured Chef Event! The week each month where we go back and revisit one of our previous wonderful IHCC featured chefs. 

Whether you cooked with us when this chef was featured, or joined the fun later on, we hope you will enjoy cooking along with them this week.

We cooked along with Diana Henry at IHCC from October 2014 through March 2015 and she quickly became a favorite of many of our members. Raised in Northern Ireland and cooking from the time she was just six years old, Diana has multiple cookbooks, a regular column at U.K.'s The Telegraph, and a great online presence. She's a travel lover who develops delicious recipes with global flavors.  
 
Make and post any Diana Henry recipe (or recipes!) by Sunday, August 14th. If you cooked along with Diana at IHCC, or you have cooked with her before, feel free to share your favorite Diana recipes in your post. 

Please remember to link a thumbnail image and leave a comment after linking so 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 Herbalicious theme last week, be sure to click on the links and check out the herby Curtis Stone recipes that we shared.

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Monthly Featured Chef: Nigel Slater!

It's time for July's Monthly Featured Chef Event! The week each month where we go back and revisit one of our previous wonderful IHCC featured chefs. 

Whether you cooked with us when this chef was featured, or joined the fun later on, we hope you will enjoy cooking along with them this week.
 

We cooked along with British chef Nigel Slater at IHCC from April-October 2014. Nigel Slater's website has the tagline "a cook who writes" and that captures him perfectly. Known as much for the prose in his cookbook as his wonderful recipes, he takes classic British dishes and puts his own spin on them, as well as creates uncomplicated and delicious comfort food recipes. Author of 14 cookbooks, as well as two excellent foodie books (Toast, his memoir and Eating for England, a humorous look at British food), Slater also writes regular columns in a few different publications, has hosted multiple television shows, and his recipes and writing can be found all over the Internet.   

Make and post any Nigel Slater recipe (or recipes!) by Sunday, July 17th. If you cooked along with Nigel Slater at IHCC, or you have cooked with him before, feel free to share your favorite Nigel recipes in your post. 

Please remember to link a thumbnail image and leave a comment after linking so 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 On the Barbie! theme last week, be sure to click on the links and check out the Curtis Stone grilled recipes that we shared.
 

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Monthly Featured Chef: Donna Hay!

 

Donna Hay is the queen of fresh, fast, and simple and we love her for it!

She is well known for showcasing beautiful fresh ingredients in simplistic, yet sophisticated, ways. 

This week feel free to make and post any Donna Hay recipe by Sunday, June 12th. If you've cooked along with us when we cooked with Donna, or have cooked with Donna before, feel free to share your favorite Donna Hay 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 Local & Seasonal theme last week, be sure to click on the links and check out all the amazing dishes we shared!

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Monthly Featured Chef: Madhur Jaffrey

 

It's time to start popping those mustard seeds.......

and raiding your spice cabinet.....

because this week we are cooking the wonderful recipes of Madhur Jaffrey! 

   
Make and post any Madhur Jaffrey recipe by Sunday, April 17th. If you've cooked along with us when we cooked with Madhur, or have cooked with Madhur before, feel free to share your favorite Madhur Jaffrey 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 G'Day Curtis theme last week, be sure to click on the links and check out all the ways we welcomed our new chef, Curtis Stone! 

 

*Images from www.stylecraze.com and stirring the pot

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March's Monthly Featured Chef: Rick Bayless! (And, Our New IHCC Featured Chef Announcement--The Votes are In!)

It's time for March's Monthly Featured Chef Event! The week each month where we go back and  revisit one of our previous wonderful IHCC featured chefs. 

Whether you cooked with us when this chef was featured, or joined the fun later on, we hope you will enjoy cooking along with them this week. 

March's Featured Chef: Rick Bayless

Note: Pictures in collage are from RickBayless.com, Stirring the Pot, 

Couscous & Consciousness, & Kahakai Kitchen.

We cooked along with Rick Bayless at IHCC back in 2012 and he's a frequent go-to chef on our monthly Potluck weeks, whenever we are craving Mexican food, both for authentic dishes and those recipes with his creative spins. Rick Bayless is  known for his anthropological approach to regional Mexican cuisine, reflecting in his PBS series "One Plate at a Time." An award-winning chef, the author of nine cookbooks, and owner of several successful Chicago restaurants and  line of Frontera food products, Rick Bayless won our hearts with his many delicious recipes and we are excited to cook with him this week!

Make and post any Rick Bayless recipe (or recipes!) by Sunday, March 13th. If you cooked along with us, or have cooked with Rick Bayless before, feel free to share your favorite recipes in your post. 

Please remember to link a thumbnail image and leave a comment after linking so 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 Ancient Grains theme last week, be sure to click on the links and check out all the Ellie Krieger grain and seed-filled recipes that we shared. 

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*** New IHCC Featured Chef Announcement!*** 

It was a close race but the votes are in and Curtis Stone just squeezed through to become our next Featured IHCC Chef! 

We will be finishing out the month with Ellie Krieger and begin cooking with Curtis from 4/4/16-10/2/16. April themes (featuring Curtis Stone) will be up soon and in a couple of weeks you'll see the look of the IHCC page change to reflect our new chef.

Happy Cooking!  

 

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February's Monthly Featured Chef: Tessa Kiros!

It's time for February's Monthly Featured Chef Event! Our time to go back and revisit one of our previous wonderful IHCC featured chefs. Whether you cooked with us when this chef was featured, or joined the fun later on, we hope you will enjoy cooking along with them this week. 

February's Featured Chef: Tessa Kiros

When we featured Tessa Kiros back in 2011, she was new to many of our members (and one of our least social media-centered chefs), but her beautiful cookbooks and global recipes quickly made Tessa a cooking club favorite during the six months we spent with her. 

"I love traveling. Collecting things I love. Food. People. Colour. Smells. Details. Different cultures & traditions. Why they do what they do & how they put their dishes together. How people, families & nations connect."  --Tessa Kiros

This week we are celebrating Tessa Kiros, February's Featured Chef!

Please make and post your Tessa Kiros dish by Sunday, February 14th.

If you have cooked with Tessa before, feel free to share any favorites of her recipes in your post. (Quick Tip: If you have not cooked with Tessa Kiros and you are having challenges finding an online recipe, go back at look at some of our IHCC Tessa Kiros Themes {You'll find them on her tab under the header}, as many of our members posted the Tessa recipes they made.) 

Please remember to link a thumbnail image and leave a comment after linking so 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 Oodles of Noodles theme last week, be sure to click on the links and check out all the noodly Ellie Krieger recipes we shared.

Collage Photo Credits: Stirring the Pot, Couscous & Consciousness, Kahakai Kitchen, Amazon.com, Tessa Kiros.com

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Monthly Featured Chef: Jamie Oliver

Do you remember back in the *olden days* when Jamie Oliver was known as "The Naked Chef?!" You know, before he started leading the Food Revolution... ;-) 

Jamie, we love you for your smile, that cheeky British humor, your simple and tasty recipes, and especially because you want children (and all of us) to eat better! That attention to food education and healthy eating is shown in your newest cookbook, Everyday Super Food, published this past October.
 

So let's celebrate Jamie Oliver, our Monthly Featured Chef for January! 

Please make and post your Jamie Oliver dish by Sunday, January 17th! 

Feel free to share some of your favorite Jamie Oliver recipes in your post. 

Please remember to link a thumbnail image and leave a comment after linking so 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 Fresh Starts theme last week, be sure to click on the links and check out all the fresh and healthy Ellie Krieger recipes we shared.

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Monthly Featured Chef: Giada DeLaurentis

We fell in love with her years ago when she brought us Everyday Italian. We filled our pasta bowls with countless pasta recipes in her Everyday Pasta, and our families sung praises when we cooked from Giada's Family Dinners. She is Giada Delaurentiis, wildly popular Food Network superstar and author of eight bestselling cookbooks!

Nowadays Giada is known, not only for her Italian recipes, but also for her fresh California-style recipes and also her healthy recipes and lifestyle. Her latest book, Happy Cooking, just hit the shelves last month.

No doubt we will be Happy Cooking the recipes of Giada Delaurentiis this week! Please make and post your dish by Sunday, December 13th! Feel free to share your favorite Giada recipes in your post. Please remember to link a thumbnail image and leave a comment after linking so 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 Nibbles & Noshes theme last week, be sure to click on the links and check out all the tasty bites we shared.

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Monthly Featured Chef Event: Mark Bittman

Mark Bittman, also known as The Minimalist, is a prolific cookbook author and columnist for the New York Times. He taught us "How To Cook Everything" with his pure and simple minimalistic approach. Nowadays he is teaching us about the benefits of conscious eating to improve both our own health and that of the world around us. 

Many of Bittman's recipes are a guideline, or jumping off point, giving the cook full creativity to chose from several variations and flavor profiles. In doing so, he not only teaches us how to cook; but, also how to customize our dishes and make them our own. One of the most valuable lessons in cooking.

Please make and post your Mark Bittman dish by Sunday, November 15th! Don't hesitate to tell us why you love Mark Bittman so. Feel free to share your favorite Bittman pic, Bittman quote, and/or share with us your favorite Bittman recipes. Please remember to link a thumbnail image and leave a comment after linking so 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 Anyway You Slice It theme last week, be sure to click on the links and check out all the dishes we shared.

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New Monthly Featured Chef Event: Nigella Lawson!

Nigella Lawson

One cannot help but fall in love with Nigella Lawson. Nigella's passion for food and cooking is almost tangible, as if you can reach out and feel it.  This same passion is contagious and ignites the fire in all of us. We love her for that! This week is a dedication to the glory of Nigella and her recipes.

"I don't believe you can ever really cook unless you love eating" - Nigella Lawson 

Our new Monthly Featured Chef Event is a great chance to go back and revisit our favorite chefs and make a new recipe, or go back in the archives, and make a recipe that eluded you the first time around.

What Nigella dish will you make this week?

Please make and post your Nigella Lawson dish by Sunday, 18th! Don't hesitate to tell us why you love Nigella so. Feel free to share your favorite Nigella pic, Nigella quote (we love the way she describes her dishes), and/or share with us your favorite Nigella recipes. 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 out on our first week cooking Ellie Krieger's recipes last week, be sure to click on the links and check out the dishes that were made in celebration of our new chef, Ellie Krieger!

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