Love & Lemons Cooking Club – January!

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 January challenge today with our lentil soup 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 (include your first and last name) on the challenge recipe’s blog post by the end of the month. This time, the deadline is January 31! 
  4. For a bonus entry, send a picture of what you made to LoveAndLemonsCookingClub@gmail.com.
  5. For another bonus entry, post your photo on Instagram, tagging @loveandlemons and #loveandlemonscookingclub.

THIS IS A CHANGE from past cooking club challenges. A photo entry is no longer required. This month, comment on the recipe’s blog post to secure your spot in the drawing!

The Prize: A $200 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 $200 Whole Foods Gift Card.

January’s Recipe: Lentil Soup

This month, we’re making my classic lentil soup recipe. Seasoned with aromatic veggies, fresh herbs, and spices, it’s nourishing, comforting, and SO flavorful. If you need to warm up on a cold day, a bowl of this soup will more than do the trick!

This recipe has been one of my favorites for years, and I’m so excited for you to try it this month. It’s easy to make with mostly pantry ingredients, and it’s better leftover than it is freshly made. The flavors deepen as it sits in the fridge! I recommend making a big batch on the weekend. You’ll love having it handy for quick meals all week.

Enjoy!

Enter the January Challenge

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

  1. Make my lentil soup recipe sometime in January.
  2. Comment on the lentil soup blog post by January 31. Include your first and last name.
  3. For a bonus entry, send a photo of the soup to LoveAndLemonsCookingClub@gmail.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 February.

Last Month’s Recipe

Last month, we all made gingerbread cookies. I love baking and decorating these treats around the holidays, and I’m so glad you enjoyed them too! It was so fun to see how you decorated them. Here are some of the photos you sent in:

And congrats to our winner Laura (and her daughters) who baked these cookies together!

To Recap

Enter the January Cooking Club Challenge by…

  1. Making my lentil soup recipe sometime in January.
  2. Leaving a comment on the lentil soup blog post by January 31.
  3. Sending a picture of the soup 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!

8 comments

  1. Melissa
    01.06.2024

    Adding this to our rotation! I’m so proud I made this one within the month you posted it! 😆🤷

  2. BJ Mehringer
    01.05.2024

    Happy New Year! Made this lentil soup with plenty of veggies and an entire bag of chopped kale. I garnished with a large dollop of Greek yogurt, Italian parsley and a drizzle of balsamic vinegar. Simply delicious and plenty left for the week.

  3. Lan
    01.05.2024

    I love lentils soup so I can’t wait to try this recipe .☺️

  4. Donna Oliver
    01.05.2024

    This sounds like fun

  5. Rose
    01.05.2024

    I love this soup, have made it last month and this week. It’s a great warm soup for winter. Thank you

  6. Linda
    01.05.2024

    Where’s the lemon. This sounds perfect, but I usually always add a lemon to the soup after it is cooked. Did the vinegar replace the lemon?
    Just wondering.

    • Jeanine Donofrio
      01.07.2024

      Hi Linda, yes, the vinegar replaces the lemon but you could use lemon instead if you want to.

  7. Ahuva Lieder
    01.05.2024

    Love your recipes! This was so delicious! Such a good warm and cozy meal for the winter!

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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.