Our new A Couple Cooks cookbook gives 100 recipes for each event, plus ideas for meal planning, cooking collectively, and extra—all in a shiny, metallic-accented quantity! It’s an ideal current, whether or not you want wedding ceremony reward concepts, Christmas reward concepts, birthday reward concepts—or simply desire a copy for your self!
We current…the A Couple Cooks cookbook
It’s right here! After 4 years of dreaming, writing, cooking, and recipe testing—the A Couple Cooks cookbook is right here! Alex and I are elated to share this assortment of 100 of our greatest ever recipes with you. As of October 15, 2024, this guide is accessible in all places books are offered.
This guide is about recipes, sure: there are 100 memorable, dependable, and simple recipes for all of life’s events, from dinner and breakfast to facet dishes, appetizers, desserts, and cocktails. But it surely goes past that: there are ideas for meal planning, cooking collectively, and extra—all in a phenomenal shiny, hard-cover quantity. We designed it as a present, and whether or not it’s for you or somebody you’re keen on: we hope it turns into a well-worn, dog-eared fixture in kitchens in all places.
Just a few issues we love concerning the guide…
Right here are some things we love concerning the guide that we wished to let you understand about!
📖 It stays open if you cook dinner from it.
OK this would possibly sound foolish, however have you ever ever gotten books the place it’s important to prop them up whereas cooking? (Our first guide is like that). This one stays open if you open to a web page! How cool.
✨The design & print high quality are top-notch.
If you happen to’re a cookbook fan like we’re, you understand cookbooks differ vastly in high quality. In our goal opinion (actually)…we predict this one of the crucial fantastically printed books we’ve seen!
The scale is ideal, with a weight that feels actually substantial. The shiny pages have simply the correct really feel, and the images look even higher than on a display screen (typically not the case on paper!). There’s additionally beautiful metallic accents on the guide jacket.
It’s all executed so professionally, we sort of can’t consider our writer discovered this guide worthy of SUCH a phenomenal package deal.
The recipes are memorable, dependable, and scrumptious.
After we say the recipes on this guide are wonderful—we imply it! It is a assortment of our greatest recipes which can be full-flavored, straightforward to make, and create memorable kitchen moments. Just a few of our favorites:
Sure, there are 100 of our greatest ever recipes. However there are additionally all these enjoyable further spreads with tons extra ideas and concepts that share extra concerning the coronary heart behind what we do! Just a few of the matters:
- Planning a cocktail party
- Methods to develop herbs
- Making your desk look cute
- Our favourite gear for the kitchen
- Suggestions for cooking dates
- Pattern menus
🍷We’ve received wine pairings!
Sure, we’ve added tricks to some favourite recipes with what kind of wine goes nicely! Alex is our resident wine knowledgeable, and he added notes on some wines pair properly—conserving them approachable with nice taste.
🌱 Every recipe has a “dietary circle” with choices.
This guide has an eye fixed to particular diets, since nowadays many individuals every eat in another way! Every recipe has a circle that states what diets it falls beneath, after which we’ve listed out swaps of the best way to make it match different diets. Of all of the 100 recipes, 78% are vegetarian, 70% are gluten-free, and 50% are vegan.
🔵 and 🟦 symbols present how steps may very well be shared.
We love writing recipes which can be clear and work for a single cook dinner. However since this guide celebrates togetherness, our writer wished to indicate how two cooks may do it—with out altering the recipe itself.
They’d this concept of exhibiting it graphically with symbols, and the theme of the guide was born! You’ll see the circle and sq. mirrored on the duvet, on the case of the guide, and inside in numerous patterns.
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👫There’s a “cooking date” chapter!
A lot of the recipes within the guide are for 4 or extra servings. However we wished to have a “Only for Two” chapter that has enjoyable cooking experiences for under two folks: with a companion, household, good friend, and many others. These 2-serving recipes are somewhat fancier and splurge-y—and it ended up being one in all our favourite chapters.
Meals specialists like it.
We’ve been lucky sufficient to have many notable cookbook authors and meals personalities evaluation the guide. Listed here are what a couple of of them needed to say:
“I’m so excited to see this guide turn into an everyday go-to in our home! Sonja and Alex’s information for cooking collectively is so intuitive and simple to comply with, I’m an on the spot fan.” —Molly Yeh, New York Instances bestselling creator and Meals Community host of Woman Meets Farm
“A Couple Cooks is a phenomenal guide celebrating the thrill of cooking collectively within the kitchen. If there’s any guide that would assist encourage your companion, that is the one. From the scrumptious and approachable recipes to the breakdown of who does what, this guide is a should for each couple!”―Tiffani Thiessen, actress and cookbook creator of Pull Up A Chair and Right here We Go Once more
“A Couple Cooks’ newest cookbook is THE information to cooking as a workforce of two! You received’t simply discover scrumptious recipes right here―Alex and Sonja additionally share professional ideas for dividing up duties within the kitchen, setting the temper for at-home date nights, throwing enjoyable, flawless dinner events, and extra. This guide is a must have.”―Jeanine Donofrio, creator of Love Lemons Easy Really feel Good Meals
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🎁 It makes a fantastic reward.
Need to get your Christmas reward concepts flowing? Want wedding ceremony reward concepts? Bridal bathe reward concepts? Housewarming reward concepts? We typically at all times procrastinate reward purchasing.
The guide is already a fantastic reward by itself. However some readers have informed us that you simply’re pairing it with different issues to make it right into a extra substantial reward (which we love!). Listed here are some concepts we’ve heard:
- 🍷 Wine: A reader emailed us to ask us what wines have been talked about within the guide so she may pair a bottle with the guide as a present! (Need the wine listing too? Ship an e mail to e mail@acouplecooks.com and we’ll ship it to you).
- 🍲Dutch oven: It’s used within the guide to make soups and stews—and likewise to bake selfmade artisan bread!
- 🔪 Knives: A very nice knife is our high kitchen instrument.
- 👗 Apron: A cute apron makes a enjoyable pair (Hedley and Bennett model are enjoyable).
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It will get nice opinions.
We’re beginning to amass numerous constructive Goodreads opinions from readers who received early copies (at present at 4.59 stars!). It’s receiving important acclaim from press, like Eater.com and The Washington Submit and extra—who love the distinctiveness of this guide!
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “Arms down one of the crucial distinctive and good cookbooks I’ve ever seen.” —Mandi
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “What a phenomenal cookbook! The recipes are all very tempting however don’t appear overly sophisticated. Love the pictures and useful ideas all through!” —Ginnie
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “The instructions are concise however clear, the pictures is gorgeous. I additionally completely love the pattern menus!” —Josie
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We’re so excited so that you can get your palms on these recipes. Thanks once more for supporting us by the years! And an enormous thanks to all of our superb recipe tester readers who made this challenge successful!
Sonja and Alex