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.

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 September challenge today with our corn chowder recipe, and I hope you’ll join in the fun. Here’s how it works:

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.

This month’s recipe is my corn chowder. I think it’s the perfect dish to make in September, during the transition from summer to fall.

This hearty chowder is packed with late summer produce (sweet corn! peppers!), but it’s still cozy and comforting enough to warm you up on a crisp fall day. It has a rich, sweet, and savory flavor. Tender potato chunks and crisp corn kernels add satisfying texture to the lightly creamy base.

I give you two options in the recipe:

• For a dairy-free and vegan chowder, blend cashews with part of the soup to make it creamy.
• For a more traditional corn chowder, add heavy cream to the soup.

You can find specific instructions for both options in the corn chowder recipe. I hope you love whichever one you try!

Last Month’s Recipe

Last month’s recipe was my quinoa salad. 139 of you commented on the post, so we’ll be donating that amount to No Kid Hungry. Thanks for joining in!

I have to give a special shoutout to Jane, Susan, Nathalie, and Maija for using fresh ingredients from their gardens in the salad. It was so fun to hear that you made this recipe with home-grown produce! In my opinion, big salads with garden veggies are the best summer meals. I hope that you loved this one. 🙂

Here are some of your photos:

And congrats to our winner, Paige:

To Recap

Enter the September Cooking Club Challenge by…

1. Making my corn chowder recipe sometime in September.
2. Leaving a comment on the corn chowder blog post by September 30.
3. Sending a picture of the chowder to LoveAndLemonsCookingClub@gmail.com for a bonus entry.
4. And for another bonus entry, posting your photo on Instagram, tagging @loveandlemons and #loveandlemonscookingclub.

Happy cooking!