Love & Lemons Cooking Club – February!

Join the Love & Lemons Cooking Club Challenge this month! It's easy to enter, and one lucky winner will receive a prize. Find all the details below.

Fluffy homemade pancakes

Our Cooking Club is a fun way to celebrate the Love & Lemons community of readers. The concept is super simple—each month, I choose a recipe. You make it, and you leave a comment on the recipe’s blog post. At the end of the month, I randomly select one winner to receive a prize.

I love the sense of community that comes from so many people cooking one recipe each month. We’re kicking off our February challenge today with our easy pancake recipe, and I hope you’ll join in the fun. Here’s how it works:

Join the Love & Lemons Cooking Club

  1. Each month, I choose one seasonal recipe. Sign up for our email list so you’ll know as soon as I share each month’s recipe.
  2. Make that recipe during the month.
  3. Leave a comment on the challenge recipe’s blog post by the end of the month. This time, the deadline is February 28!
  4. For a bonus entry, send a picture of what you made to cookingclub@loveandlemons.com.
  5. For another bonus entry, post your photo on Instagram, tagging @loveandlemons and #loveandlemonscookingclub.

The Prize: A $100 Whole Foods Gift Card!

At the end of the month, I’ll randomly select a winner and share some of your photos. This time, we’re giving away a $100 Whole Foods gift card. 

In addition, for every entry we receive, we’ll donate $1 to No Kid Hungry.

Fluffy pancake recipe

February’s Recipe: Easy Homemade Pancakes

This month, we’re making pancakes! I just shared a NEW pancake recipe, which is on repeat in our house right now. Ollie and I have been having so much fun making it together. He loves to help mix the batter and brush the pan with oil.

These pancakes are super simple and classic. Fluffy, flavorful, and golden brown, they remind me of the pancakes I ate growing up. They’d be a perfect breakfast for Valentine’s Day or any lazy February morning.

If you’re vegan (or out of eggs!), make these vegan pancakes instead. They’re just as delicious, if you ask me.

Serve either recipe with toppings like maple syrup, Greek yogurt, fresh fruit, strawberry compote, blueberry compote, etc. Let me know your favorites!

Enter the February Challenge

Want to enter? Here’s what you need to do:

  1. Make my pancakes (or vegan pancakes!) sometime in February.
  2. Comment on the pancakes or vegan pancakes blog post by February 28.
  3. For a bonus entry, send a photo of what you made to cookingclub@loveandlemons.com.
  4. For another bonus entry, post your photo on Instagram, tagging @loveandlemons and #loveandlemonscookingclub.
  5. Sign up for our email list to find out about next month’s recipe!

I’ll randomly select a winner and share some of your photos in early March.

Last Month’s Recipe

Last month, we made this red lentil soup. It was one of our most popular cooking club recipes EVER, with 357 entries! We’ll be making a donation of that amount to No Kid Hungry. Thank you to everyone who cooked along!

A ton of you added extra cayenne to this soup. I’m a huge fan of spicy food. It was so fun to learn that many of you are too!

Here are some of your photos:

And congrats to our winner, Adrienne!

To Recap

Enter the February Cooking Club Challenge by…

  1. Making my pancakes or vegan pancakes sometime in February.
  2. Leaving a comment on the pancakes or vegan pancakes blog post by February 28.
  3. Sending a picture of the pancakes to cookingclub@loveandlemons.com for a bonus entry.
  4. And for another bonus entry, posting your photo on Instagram, tagging @loveandlemons and #loveandlemonscookingclub.

Happy cooking!

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Hello, we're Jeanine and Jack.

We love to eat, travel, cook, and eat some more! We create & photograph vegetarian recipes from our home in Chicago, while our shiba pups eat the kale stems that fall on the kitchen floor.