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A Couple Cooks: 100 Recipes to Cook Together

by Sonja Overhiser

A shared plan for cooking together

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A shared plan for cooking together

Sonja Overhiser’s cookbook organizes more than 100 recipes around a practical idea: two people can share the work of making a meal. Recipes assign roles for each partner, with examples spanning weeknight dinners, meals for guests, and cooking for two. The book also includes guidance on hosting, table setting and styling, and home bar carts, giving it a scope that reaches beyond recipes alone. Its emphasis on dividing kitchen tasks makes collaboration part of the meal-planning process, while the range of occasions offers pairs options for both everyday cooking and gatherings.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Pairs who want recipes with designated roles for shared meal preparation
  • Home cooks planning dinners for two, weeknight meals, or gatherings
  • Fans of A Couple Cooks seeking recipes alongside hosting and table-setting guidance

Themes

Collaborative cookingMeal planning and preparationHosting and entertainingCooking for two

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Book overview

Sonja and Alex Overhiser of the popular food blog A Couple Cooks share their lifehacks for a strong partnership. Their top secret? Cooking together.Whether it's a weeknight dinner or a homespun candlelit date night, somebody has to get dinner on the table. And what if that task was something you could do in tandem with someone you feel close to, making the work more pleasurable and spending quality time together? Enter A Couple Cooks, your guide to making this dream a reality.

With over 100 recipes for all occasions, from everyday dinners and large gatherings to intimate dinners for two, this book is designed to make meal planning and prep a stress-free and enjoyable experience. With designated roles for each partner, each recipe is crafted to be made lovingly by two:
  • Having friends over for a weekend dinner? Have your sous chef put out Whipped Ricotta Crostini with Hot Honey while you're prepping the Smoky Spinach and Artichoke Lasagna.
  • Craving a sweet pick-me-up at the end of a long week? Prep the dry ingredients while your partner preps the wet ingredients, and chow down on hard-earned Brown Butter Miso Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars together.

Brimming with vibrant photography, A Couple Cooks includes tips and tricks for hosting, upping the romance in the home, table setting and styling, and enhancing your home bar cart. Much more than your average weeknight cookbook, this is an inspiring and hardworking guide on how to make the most of the quotidian moments that make up our days by relishing time spent together, working as a team.COOKING GIFT FOR TWO: From weddings and engagements to hostess gifts and more, A Couple Cooks fits the bill for a variety of life events with a gifting moment. Pair with a bottle of wine or fun aprons and you have the perfect housewarming present for any couple!

INCLUSIVE MEAL PREP COOKBOOK: Couples cookbooks have long been overdue for a refresh that includes all types of couples. Whether newlyweds, freshly engaged, together-for-a-century couples, cohabitators, or platonic life partners, A Couple Cooks is designed for all sorts of pairs looking to harmoniously divvy up jobs in the kitchen.

EXPERT HUSBAND & WIFE TEAM: Sonja and Alex collaborate as cookbook authors, recipe developers, cocktail experts, and parents. Their award-winning food blog, A Couple Cooks, inspired by their shift from processed foods to cooking at home from scratch, offers thousands of original recipes, cooking tips, and meal-planning ideas to make home cooking easy. This beautiful, giftable book brings together 100 of their star recipes with the warm and wise guidance that has made their blog one of America's most popular recipe websites. Perfect for:
  • Partnerships of all kinds (including marriages, life partnerships, long-term or new coupledom, and roommates)
  • Parents with busy schedules looking to get dinner on the table in a snap
  • Couple gift for newlyweds or the recently engaged
  • Fans of healthy, vegetable-forward cooking seeking lots of vegetarian, vegan, and gluten-free options
  • Followers of A Couple Cooks blog or such popular cookbook authors as Joanna Gaines, Erin French, and Erin Clarke
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