I Heart Cooking Clubs: Monthly Food Trends Challenge

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Monday, March 9, 2020

2020 Monthly IHCC Food Trend Challenge: Cauliflower Everything! {Plus a Special Annoucement}

It's 2020 and we are changing up our monthly challenge to celebrate the expected food trends of the decade.

Each month we'll be exploring one Food Trend of 2020. March's food trend is ...

CAULIFLOWER EVERYTHING!

These days everything is coming up cauliflower: steaks, pizza, pasta, etc.

Make and post your Cauliflower Everything dish by Sunday, March 15th. Please link a picture of your recipe below, and leave a comment after so we know we got your entry.

*****PLEASE REMEMBER that we are continuing to cook the recipes of our 19 IHCC FEATURED CHEFS. Make sure that any recipes you post on our link-ups are from and credited to one of those 19 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.

If you'd like to check out our Let's Go Nuts! theme from last week, please click on the link and check them out!

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

After a year of celebrating all 19 of our past IHCC chefs, we felt it only right that our 20th IHCC chef was someone very special. We are so happy to announce that our 20th chef at I Heart Cooking Clubs is none other than...Julia Child!

The world of food would not be the same without Julia Child. We are so excited about this new adventure, starting April 6th! Be on the lookout for changes to our IHCC site as we begin to transition over to our new chef.

If you have any ideas for themes, please feel free to share them in the comments below. Also, this may be a good opportunity to dust off your Julia collection, search online for her recipes, and/or order some of her cookbooks. You may even want to rewatch some of her vintage cooking shows! How fun!

In other news, the entire world is being affected by the Coronavirus. We do not want anyone to feel as though they need to keep up with regular posting and/or blogging during this time. Please stay safe and take care and know that we are thinking of you all and wishing you well.

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Monday, February 10, 2020

2020 Monthly IHCC Food Trend Challenge: Grandparent Food!

Since it's 2020, we are changing up our monthly challenge to celebrate the expected food trends of the decade.

Each month we'll be exploring one Food Trend of 2020. February's trend is...

GRANDPARENT FOOD!

Make any classic or traditional dish just like Grandma or Grandpa used to make!

Make and post your Grandparent Food dish by Sunday, February 16th. Please link a picture of your recipe below, and leave a comment after so we know we got your entry.

*****PLEASE REMEMBER that we are continuing to cook the recipes of our 19 IHCC FEATURED CHEFS. Make sure that any recipes you post on our link-ups are from and credited to one of those 19 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.

If you'd like to check out our La Dolce Vita theme from last week, please click on the link and check them out!

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Monday, January 6, 2020

2020 Monthly Food Trends Challenge: Zero Food Waste!

Since it's 2020, we are changing up our monthly challenge to celebrate the expected food trends of the decade.

Each month we'll be exploring one Food Trend of 2020. January's trend is...

Zero Food Waste!

Americans waste about 150,000 pounds of food each day! Be part of the solution and on trend by making a dish featuring or including those lingering ingredients in your fridge or pantry or buying those near-expiration or not-perfect lingering ingredients at your local market!

Make and post your Zero Food Waste dish by Sunday, January 12th. Please link a picture of your recipe below, and leave a comment after so we know we got your entry.

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PLEASE REMEMBER that we are continuing to cook the recipes of our 19 IHCC FEATURED CHEFS. Make sure that any recipes you post on our link ups are from and credited to one of those 19 chefs.

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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.

If you'd like to check out our Holidays Around The World theme from last week, please click on the link and check them out!

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

1) Nigella Lawson 2) Mark Bittman 3) Giada De Laurentiis 4) Jamie Oliver 5) Tessa Kiros 6) Rick Bayless 7) Madhur Jaffrey 8) Yotam Ottolenghi 9) Donna Hay 10) Nigel Slater 11) Diana Henry 12) Jacques Pepin 13) Ellie Krieger 14) Curtis Stone 15) Heidi Swanson 16) Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall 17) Ina Garten 18) Eric Ripert 19) Ruth Reichl 20) Julia Child 21) Sami Tamimi 22) Tieghan Gerard 23) Dorie Greenspan 24) Jose Andres 25) Claudia Roden 26) Jessica Merchant 27) Michael Symon 28) Erin French 29) Marcela Hazan

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.