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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September IHCC Potluck!

 

 It's time for our September IHCC POTLUCK!

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

Make and post your September Potluck recipe by Sunday, October 2nd. 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 23 IHCC FEATURED CHEFS. Make sure that any recipes you post on our link-ups are from and credited to one of those 23 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 The Great Potato dishes from last week, please click the link and check it out! 

ANNOUNCEMENT: A new chef and October themes will be going up sometime this week!

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Holding On To Summer! (And Adding a New Featured Chef in October!)

Are you Holding on to Summer? Wanting the warm days and summer vibe to last?

If so, make a dish celebrating these last days as we ease into Fall.

Make and post your Holding on to Summer recipe by Sunday, September 12th. 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.

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

*** New Chef in October! ***

Thank you for your input and for selecting Teighan Gerard at Half-Baked Harvest as our newest featured chef starting in October. You can continue to cook along with our 21 featured chefs and/or add Half-Baked Harvest to your chef line up and cook from the blog or the cookbook. 

You can read more about Teighan here. 

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Welcome to IHCC Sami Tamimi!

Aloha IHCC Friends! 

We are introducing a new chef, Sami Tamimi, to our featured chefs line-up! 

Our hope is that this gives everyone someone NEW to cook with, but we also want to make things flexible so we are also going to open it up to our other 20 IHCC chefs. Participants can chose to cook the themes with Sami or any of their other favorites chefs. Happy Cooking!

A little about Sami Tamimi: 

Sami Tamimi is a Palestinian chef and author living in London. He is the co-owner of six delis and restaurants in London. Tamimi is also the co-author of several bestselling cookbooks, including Ottolenghi, Jerusalem and his new cookbook, Falastin.

Make and post a dish to welcome Sami recipe by Sunday, October 4th. Your dish can be from Sami Tamimi or any of our other 20 featured chefs. Please link a picture of your recipe below, and leave a comment after. 

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 last week's Potluck theme, please click on the link and take a look!

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From The Heart! {The New Voting Poll Is Up}

Cooking with ingredients you love always creates a dish that comes From The Heart!

Gather your favorite ingredients, look through Eric Ripert's recipes, and find a dish that comes From The Heart. Make and post your recipe by Sunday, September 9th. Please be sure to link a picture and comment afterward so that we do not miss 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 our IHCC August Potluck last week, click the link to see what we shared. 

New Chef Voting Poll Is Up Now!

 It's an exciting time at IHCC! This week we will be voting on a new female chef. The winner will be our 19th chef here at IHCC!

*photo credit: New York Times/Getty Images 

Julia Child

The one and only Julia Child, well known for bringing French cuisine to the American public. Julia's debut cookbook, Mastering The Art Of French Cooking was so successful she was given one of the very first cooking shows on American television, The French Chef.  Julia is definitely a pioneer in the cooking world and we wouldn't be where we are today without her. It has even been said that Mastering the Art of French Cooking "did more than any other event in the last half-century to reshape the gourmet dining scene." 

 *photo credit: marthastewart.com

Martha Stewart

Martha Stewart is truly "the domestic goddess." She is most famous for her numerous bestselling books on cooking, entertaining, baking, gardening, weddings, and decorating. Martha is also well-known for her Martha Stewart Living TV program, as well as various other shows. She is the founder of Martha Stewart Omnimedia, which has published several magazines, such as Martha Stewart Living and Everyday Food. Martha Stewart has become a household name.

 *photo credit:smithsonianmagazine.com

  
 Claudia Roden

Claudia is a British cookbook writer who has authored ten books but is best known for her Middle Eastern cookbooks, A Book Of Middle Eastern Food and Arabesque - Sumptuous Food from Morocco, Turkey and Lebanon. Claudia has also worked as a food writer and on a cooking show for BBC.

*photo credit: A Cup Of Jo 

 Ruth Reichl

Ruth Reichl is a chef, food writer, co-producer, author, culinary editor, a restaurant critic, and the last editor-in-chief of Gourmet Magazine. Ruth has written critically acclaimed memoirs, as well as cookbooks, such as Gourmet Today and My Kitchen Year: 136 Recipes That Saved My Life. 

Instructions For Voting

Please see the sidebar to vote for the chef you chose. To be fair, please vote for one chef and please vote only once. 
Voting is open from Monday, September 3rd through Sunday, September 9th. 
Winner will be announced on the sidebar Monday, September 10th. Thank you!

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IHCC September 2017 Potluck (for Kim) & Announcements

It's Potluck week and I need to start this post with some sad news. I know many of you have been missing the presence of our wonderful co-host Kim of Stirring the Pot. As she posted on her blog back in July, (here) Kim's mom's cancer came back and the doctors said it was terminal. Kim has been focused on spending time with, and taking care of her mom these last several weeks and sadly this past Friday, her mom passed away. Kim got to be there with her and hold her hand, and she and her family are doing as OK as can be expected. As sad as they are, she is taking comfort that her mom is no longer in all the pain she was in. 

Kim will be back to blogging and back with us here when she's ready. Until then, we will be thinking of you Kim and sending you and your family much love and support.

Since this is Potluck week, I'd like to suggest that we make it a Potluck in honor of Kim and her mom. Kim's mom was her biggest blogging fan and chief taster, so if you'd like to make a recipe or dish to show your support and love, I know she would appreciate it. When I lost my own mom two years ago, Kim did the same for me and it truly meant so much. 

If you'd like to take part, the usual Potluck guidelines apply--you can make any recipe from our current chef (Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall) or any recipe from one of our previous IHCC chefs listed 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

Make and post your September IHCC Potluck recipe in honor of Kim and her mom, by Sunday, September 24th and link a picture up below.
 
Please remember to link a thumbnail image and please do leave a comment after you link up 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/Recipe Challenge: Potatoes! theme last week, please click on the link to see what everyone made. 

***New IHCC Chef Announcement****

Since it's been on the side bar this week, I am assuming that you know that our upcoming IHCC Chef (Starting 10/2/17) is the Barefoot Contessa herself, Ina Garten. We look forward to exploring her tasty recipes.

As usual, the IHCC site will start changing its appearance a bit to reflect our new chef soon and we hope to have the October themes up this week. If you want to get started on your planning, our first theme is always one to welcome in the new chef and so you can start looking for any Ina Garten dish you'd like to make to welcome her to IHCC on October 2nd. 

Thanks for cooking along with us!

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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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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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Ancient Grains {Plus Our New Chef Voting Poll}!!

 

 Ancient Grains are taking center stage this week as we take it back to the beginning of time and experiment with grains that remain "unchanged."

Here are a few examples of Ancient Grains:

Farro

Kamut

Spelt

Barley

Blue Corn

Teff

Millet 

Quinoa

Amaranth

Wild Rice

Buckwheat

Freekah

Chia

Polenta

Feel free to feature an Ellie Krieger dish using any of these grains as well as any product made with these ingredients (pasta, bread, cereal, flour, etc.)!

We are anxious to see how you decide to "Get Ancient" with us! Please make and post your Ellie Krieger Ancient Grain dish by Sunday, March 6th. 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 February Potluck theme last week, please click on the link to see all the ways we've celebrated our past and present chef(s)!

         And now for some exciting news!!         

THE VOTING POLL IS OPEN!!

The 14th round of I Heart Cooking Clubs will be starting at the beginning of April! This week we will be voting on our next featured chef who we will be cooking with from 4/4/16-10/2/16. For this round we are focusing on four award-winning male chefs: Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Ming Tsai, Wolfgang Puck, and Curtis Stone.  Participants may vote (once, please) for the chef they would like to cook with for the next six months. 

The voting poll will be located at the top of our page, on the right sidebar. Please only vote once. Voting will be open from now until midnight EST on Monday, March 6th.  At that time we will update the sidebar with the new winner! Very Exciting!

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall is an English celebrity chef, widely known for his River Cottage TV series and books and his back-to-basics approach to cooking.

Ming Tsai is an American restaurateur, TV personality, and celebrity chef known for his East Meets West style of fusion cooking.

Wolfgang Puck is an Austrian-born American celebrity chef, restaurateur, and TV personality who has built quite a name for himself. Puck specializes in California cuisine.

Curtis Stone is an Australian celebrity chef, restaurateur, author, and TV personality. He won us over in his popular TLC show, Take Home Chef, with his charm and approachable recipes.

*Click on the chef's name for a link to their website, learn a bit about them, and browse their recipes

We can't wait to see who wins the vote!

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September Potluck!

Potluck Week is your chance to  make any Nigel Slater recipe you like, or if you'd rather, you can make any dish from one of our previous nine IHCC chefs:

Nigella Lawson

Mark Bittman

Giada de Laurentiis

Jamie Oliver

Tessa Kiros

Rick Bayless

Madjur Jaffrey

Yotam Ottolenghi

Donna Hay

So many chefs and dishes, so little time!

To join in, just post and link your September Potluck dish by Sunday, September 21st.  Please remember to link a thumbnail image and to leave a comment after you link so that we don't miss out on your Potluck creation.

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 our Lentils, Legumes, and Pulses theme last week, be sure to click on the links and check out all the comforting dishes everyone made.

  

******Special Announcement******

The vote is in and and you've chosen Diana Henry!

 We will begin cooking the recipes of Diana Henry on October 5th!!

  Diana was raised in Northern Ireland and started cooking when she was just six years old. Like many of us, her love of cooking has been a constant in her life.  Diana has explored food while traveling, both in and out of her kitchen.  She has written eight cookbooks, her newest is entitled Change of Appetite, and was just published this past March.  You can find her cookbooks on Amazon, as well as in stores. Diana can also be found online via The Telegraph where she has been writing and sharing recipes for ten years.  She also has a beautiful website where you can view additional recipes and get to know her a little better!  

Please see the links below if you're interested in looking over her cookbooks and/or viewing her recipes online at The Telegraph and/or her website.  

 

Diana Henry Amazon Page

Diana Henry The Telegraph 

Diana Henry Website

 

Over the next few weeks you will notice changes to the IHCC page as we go under construction for our new chef!  We will be getting a whole new look, a new header, and a new badge! If you have any ideas or suggestions, and/or you'd like to throw  suggestions for themes we'd love to hear from you!  Please leave a comment below and one of us will respond.

We are very excited to be cooking with Diana Henry!!

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