A Couple Cooks - by Sonja Overhiser & Alex Overhiser (Hardcover)

About the Book

"Whether it's a weeknight dinner with the kids of a homespun candlelit date night, somebody has to get dinner on the table. And what if doing that nightly 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 to large gatherings to intimate dinners for two, this book is designed to make dinner planning and prep a stress-free and enjoyable experience"--

Book Synopsis

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

Review Quotes

"An elegant compendium of thoroughly 'kitchen cook' friendly recipes that will be as fun to make together with a friend or spouse as they are palate pleasing and appetite satisfying."

--Midwest Book Review

"Their new [book] is for two cooks, but any kind of two -- parent and child, grandparent

with grandkid, college roommates, newlyweds or even a neat date idea. The idea is

to take the stress out and enjoy partnerships."

--Associated Press

"A Couple Cooks is a beautiful book celebrating the joys of cooking together in the kitchen. If there's any book that could help inspire your partner, this is the one. From the delicious and approachable recipes to the breakdown of who does what, this book is a must for every couple!"--Tiffani Thiessen, actress and cookbook author of Pull Up A Chair and Here We Go Again

"A Couple Cooks: 100 Recipes To Cook Together is a must-have addition to the culinary collection of couples everywhere. The book is a treasure trove of recipes perfect for everything from a cozy date night to a full-blown holiday bash. Sonja and Alex show us that not only are they a match made in heaven in real life, they are also the perfect match in the kitchen."--Jocelyn Delk Adams, best selling and award winning author of Everyday Grand: Soulful Recipes for Celebrating Life's Big and Small Moments

"A Couple Cooks' latest cookbook is THE guide to cooking as a team of two! You won't just find delicious recipes here--Alex and Sonja also share pro tips for dividing up tasks in the kitchen, setting the mood for at-home date nights, throwing fun, flawless dinner parties, and more. This book is a must-have."--Jeanine Donofrio, author of Love Lemons Simple Feel Good Food

"I am so excited to see this book become a regular go-to in our house! Sonja and Alex's recipes strike such a wonderful, delicious balance of being crave-able and feel good, and they're also so exciting without being fussy (definitely doable on a weeknight!). Their guide for cooking together is so intuitive and easy to follow within the recipes, I am an instant fan."--Molly Yeh, New York Times bestselling author and Food Network host of Girl Meets Farm

"I love A Couple Cooks' recipes, and they have become staples in my kitchen. Whether it's for a dinner party, or just making myself breakfast in the morning, their food is always delicious. I'm so excited about these new dishes in the book, because eating Sonja and Alex's tasty, healthy food makes life better."--Heather Graham, actress and filmmaker

"Sonja and Alex transform cooking from a mundane necessity into a series of joyful celebrations of togetherness in the kitchen. The recipes are equal parts imaginative and practical, helping you get dinner on the table while enjoying the process. Curated with love, this book proves that life is tastier together!"--Erin Clarke, author of the best-selling Well Plated Cookbook and Well Plated Every Day

"The A Couple Cooks cookbook brings a sense of possibility, mindfulness and joy to the dreaded daily question of "What's For Dinner?" This cookbook isn't just full of practical recipes for couples and families, it brims with inspiration for how to create a meal plan, cook as a team and enjoy the process of preparing meals!"--Yumna Jawad, creator of Feel Good Foodie and author of The Feel Good Foodie Cookbook

"What I love about the A Couple Cooks cookbook is how it considers the reader. It goes beyond the vibrant photos and organizes each recipe in a way that thinks about time, effort, dietary restrictions, even wine pairings and storage. Never mind these gorgeous recipes themselves but how it was written will make this book so much more accessible. Everyday cooks will impress themselves with this one!"―Jon Kung, author of Kung Food

"This [sticky orange tofu and broccoli] recipe worked really well, as did the division of labor, which felt evenly weighted. When we started making the recipe, we were sniping at each other about something unimportant, but by the time we were done we were getting along splendidly. The final product was delicious... "

--Eater

About the Author

Sonja and Alex Overhiser are the photographer and writer behind the award-winning food blog A Couple Cooks, the winner of the IACP Best Individual Blog award. They are authors of Pretty Simple Cooking, named a best vegetarian cookbook by Epicurious and Food & Wine, and "Voraciously: Plant Powered," a series with the Washington Post. Sonja is cofounder of the Food + Wellness Equity Collective and Indy Women in Food. They live with their family in Indianapolis, Indiana.