Cooking Club Themes

• 5 ingredients or less
• 70's: Food and attire inspired by the 70's.
• Appetizers / Hors D’oeuvre
• April Fools: Anything goes. No one knows beforehand what you're bringing.
• Back-to-School(September): Lunch box classics remade.
• Blog-a-licious: Make recipes from your favorite foodie blog. Share the blog with your friends.
• Brunch
• Chocolate and Coffee: All dishes must contain either ingredient and can be sweet or savory.
• Comfort Foods
• Cookbook: Everyone makes a dish from one specified cookbook
• Cookie Exchange: (We also serve a few soups and breads to balance out the cookies).
• Fall Harvest: Making dishes with what's in season.
• Family Favorites: Share your favorite family recipe and the history or story with it.
• Farmer's Market: Head down to your local farmer's market and get inspired!
• Favorite Chef: Pick a chef and everyone makes one of their recipes.
• Figure Friendly Foods: Healthy dishes and recipes that include nutritional information.
• Foods on sticks: If it can be served on stick (fruit skewers, mini hot dogs, bread, grilled shrimp, olives and cheese, lolly pops...) you can bring it.
• French, Italian, Greek, Indian etc.
• Hawaiian Luau: (with tropical luau attire)
• In Season: Summer, Winter, Fall, Spring. Find out what's in season and cook with it.
• Irish Cuisine or Something Green
• Julie and Julia: Watch the movie and have everyone bring a dish from the "Mastering the art of French Cooking" cookbook.
• Local Dishes: What is your state famous for? Is there a drink or sauce or food that is unique to your state?
• Mexican Fiesta: Complete with decorations, pinata and margaritas.
• On the Grill: All dishes must be prepared by grill
• Personal Cooking Class: Find a local chef that will come to your house and teach a private cooking class for your group.
• Picnic in the mountains (or at the park) / It's nice to have a change of venue.
• Pie: Sweet or Savory
• Pizza Party: The host provides the dough and sauces, the members bring their favorite toppings! Assemble and bake together. You could also assign one or two members to bring a salad and/or dessert.
• Pregnancy cravings: Every member has to make one of the favorite dishes of the mommy-2-be.
• Presidential Favorites: In honor of presidents day, each member draws a presidents name and then makes their favorite dish. You'll have to do some research for this one.
• Raw night- No heat can be used to prepare the dishes.
• Recipes from a Package: Look through your cabinets and refrigerator.
• Secret Ingredient: Each member is emailed a specific ingredient one week before cooking club, and has to make a dish pertaining to the ingredient.
• Secret Spice: Assign everyone a unique spice that must be the dominate flavor in the dish. It's a good way to learn about and try new spices!
• Sit Down Dinner: Everyone is assigned a course. It's more formal and you sit down and eat each course in order. Members can be assigned drinks to go with certain courses as well.
• Soup and Salad
• Spa Day: Simple, refreshing foods. Serve water with floating fruit or cucumbers. Break out a bottle of nail polish for manicures.
• Spirits: Each dish must contain a liquor.
• Sushi/Japanese: Roll your own sushi, sip on miso and chug back a saki bomb.
• Tapas: Small finger foods or appetizers. Sangria is a must!
• Vegetarian
• Witches Night Out (Halloween): Eerie edibles and Poisonous libations. Also, dishes inspired by Halloween colors