Love & Lemons Cooking Club – May!

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.

Tostadas

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 May challenge today with our easy tostada 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 May 31!
  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.

Tostada recipe

May’s Recipe: Easy Tostadas

Remember back in March when we did our overnight oats challenge? We thought that was such a fun one because you all shared different topping ideas.

So this month, we’re doing another choose-your-own adventure recipe: tostadas!

Make this recipe as written, or customize it with any tostada toppings you love (pickled onions, anyone?). We can’t wait to hear what topping combos you try!

If you’re entertaining this month, these tostadas would be a perfect appetizer. Our family also likes them for dinner. Because they’re so customizable, they’re a great kid-friendly meal. Everyone can assemble their own!

Enter the May Challenge

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

  1. Make our tostada recipe sometime in May.
  2. Comment on the tostadas blog post by May 31.
  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 June.

Last Month’s Recipe

Last month’s recipe was our carrot cake (or vegan carrot cake). So many of you made this one for special occasions:

  • From Alyssa, “I made this carrot cake for a family gathering when my great uncle and his wife came to visit. My family raved over it.”
  • From Adrienne, “My husband and I (mostly my husband) made this cake for my birthday.”
  • From Paige, “I made this for Easter brunch and it was a hit!”

It means so much to us when you include our recipes in your celebrations. Thanks for trying this one—I’m so glad you all loved it!

Here are some of your photos:

Congrats to our winner, Stephanie!

To Recap

Enter the May Cooking Club Challenge by…

  1. Making my tostadas sometime in May.
  2. Leaving a comment on the tostadas blog post by May 31.
  3. Sending a picture of your tostadas 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.