A Colorful Plate!

Eat the rainbow, fill your plate with lots of healthy ingredients this week as we celebrate...

A Colorful Plate!

Make any Heidi Swanson recipe that is full of color and flavor! 

Make and post your A Colorful Plate recipe by Sunday, November 6th and link your picture and post up 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 Potluck theme last week, please click on the link to see the delicious dishes that were shared!  

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October Potluck!

It's your chance to make any Heidi Swanson recipe, or any recipe from one of our previous IHCC featured chefs:

Nigella Lawson

Mark Bittman

Giada de Laurentiis

Jamie Oliver

Tessa Kiros

Rick Bayless

Madjur Jaffrey

Yotam Ottolenghi

Donna Hay

Nigel Slater

Diana Henry

Jacques Pepin
Ellie Krieger

Curtis Stone

What will you make?

Make and post your October Potluck recipe by Sunday, October 30th and link a picture up 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 Ingredients That Inspire theme last week, please click on the link to see all the tasty ways we were inspired!

 

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Ingredients That Inspire--Cooking with Heidi Swanson

What ingredients inspire you in the kitchen? Is it something from your garden, locally grown fruits or veggies or an item produced where you live? Maybe it's something seasonal that only comes around once a year, a favorite herb or spice blend, a bar of chocolate brought back from a trip, or a basket of fresh eggs gifted from a neighbor? 

Whatever it is that inspires you, this week, make any Heidi Swanson recipe that includes one or more of these inspiring ingredients. 

Make and post your Ingredients That Inspire recipe by Sunday, October 23rd and link your picture and post up 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 final October Monthly Featured Chef Theme theme last week, please click on the link to see the delicious Ellie Krieger dishes that were shared!  

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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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Hello Heidi! (Welcoming Heidi Swanson to IHCC!)

Hello... Heidi!

We are excited to welcome cookbook author, blogger, photographer and writer Heidi Swanson to I Heart Cooking Clubs!  

Heidi takes inspiration from ingredients, her travels, and her everyday life to create healthy and delicious food and we are looking forward to spending the next six months getting to know her and her recipes. 

This week, make any Heidi Swanson recipe from her blog, online, or any of her four cookbooks to say, Hello Heidi and to welcome her! (We'll be cooking with Heidi Swanson through April 2, 2017.)

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Note: We are "under construction" and will be putting up a new header and badge for our time with Heidi, as well as posting our November themes and information about our new Monthly Featured Dish/Ingredient Challenge soon!
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Make and post your Hello Heidi recipe by Sunday, October 9th and link your picture and post up 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 Hooroo Curtis! theme last week, please click on the link to see all the delicious dishes that were shared! 

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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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IHCC September Potluck! (And a Monthly Events Vote!)

Whoop! Whoop! It's time for...

Potluck!!!!

It's your chance to make any Curtis Stone recipe, or any recipe from one of our previous IHCC featured chefs:

Nigella Lawson

Mark Bittman

Giada de Laurentiis

Jamie Oliver

Tessa Kiros

Rick Bayless

Madjur Jaffrey

Yotam Ottolenghi

Donna Hay

Nigel Slater

Diana Henry

Jacques Pepin
Ellie Krieger

What will you make?

Make and post your September Potluck recipe by Sunday, September 25th and link a picture up 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 Monthly Featured Chef theme last week, please click on the link to see all the delicious Jacques Pepin dishes that were shared!

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***Monthly Events Vote***

We are looking for a decision on whether to continue to have a monthly event (beyond Potluck of course!) and what that event should be. 

Here are the options--please vote for one in the poll at the top of the page:

Option 1:
In October, we will feature Ellie Krieger as our Monthly Featured Chef and we will have rotated through all of our previous chefs for the Monthly Featured Chef Event. If we continue this event, we would need to start over with Nigella Lawson and repeat our roster of chefs. Would you like to continue the Monthly Chef Event, repeating the chefs for another year? 

Option 2:
We have also thought of another Monthly Event--a Monthly Featured Dish/Ingredient Challenge. In this challenge we would name either a popular dish (mac-n-cheese, chili, stir-fry, etc.) or a basic ingredient (pasta, eggs, chocolate, etc.). You can pick a recipe from any of our previous chefs for that month's dish or ingredient. It would be sort of a mini-challenge to find the best recipes out there for the different dishes and ingredients. 

Option 3:
Finally, we could stop having an additional monthly event and just have 3 to 4 weekly themes with our current featured chef (Heidi Swanson Oct. 3, 2016- April 2, 2017) plus Potluck week.

Please vote ONCE for which option you prefer!  
 

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