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The Couple's Cookbook: Recipes for Newlyweds
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About The Couple's Cookbook: Recipes For Newlyweds
Product Description A beautiful primer for newlyweds starting their first home together, full of achievable, modern recipes for weeknight meals, weekend brunches, and everything in between. The Couple's Cookbook is an inviting collection of simple and comforting recipes for any food-loving pair who wants to answer the eternal question: what should we eat? Written by a married couple, these recipes are delicious, modern classics such as Grilled Curry Chicken Salad Lettuce Cups, Red Potato Salad with Smoked Bacon and Chives, Spicy Shrimp Tacos with Mexican-Style Slaw, and Caramel Cheesecake Jars. There are photographs for almost every recipe in the book so that new cooks can learn with ease, and the methods are foolproof every time. There's also a section on cocktails and setting up a home bar to help make any of these meals into a dinner party. With tips and tricks for cooking alone or together, and recipes for any occasion, this book will teach any couple how to eat and live well. About the Author COLE and KIERA STIPOVICH are a husband-and-wife creative team and the founders of Cole and Kiera Photography, a wedding and lifestyle photography business. Collaborating as a creative duo, they are the authors, stylists, and photographers of the Ultimate Appetizer Ideabook and their latest book, The Couple's Cookbook . Their recipes have been published in Oprah and Redbook . With a background and degree in business management, Kiera left the corporate world to pursue her passion for creating beautiful and delicious food, starting with her baking blog turned online cookie favor business, Sweet Kiera. Cole has a degree in graphic design, but his education in photography began in father's darkroom when he was a boy. Cole and Kiera currently reside in the Boston area with two little ones with very healthy appetites--their French bulldog Georgia and their two-year-old daughter, Chloe. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Welcome Hi, and welcome. First of all, congratulations to both of you! Please, come into our office—which also happens to be our home. We work from home, or as we like to put it, we live at work. Our kitchen doubles as a test kitchen, and our living room is also our food photography studio. And when we are not at home writing and photographing cookbooks, we work together as wedding photographers. As such, newlyweds (or almost-weds) are a big part of our daily lives. These people are our clients, yes, but through the process of documenting their weddings, they also often become friends. While it’s been more than eight years since our own wedding day, connecting with all types of couples at this unique and exciting stage in their lives means the newlywed chapter still remains a significant part of our lives as well. After your wedding day, the bliss of your first moments as a married couple remains while your new life together develops its own patina. As life gets busier and more complicated, it’s a lovely idea to make simple gestures to remind each other of the lightness of your honeymoon phase. You can think of these moments as “mini dates” that can happen spontaneously on any day and can come in many forms—but it’s always about finding a way to connect with each other, make each other laugh, and show each other some affection, even amid hectic schedules or stressful times. For us, this kind of reconnection most often happens in the kitchen or around the table. Cooking and eating together is one of the most consistent and practical ways we pause our daily schedule in order to have a little “date.” It’s not always the fancy, elaborate date you might be picturing, but it’s the sentiment behind the moment that counts; even a perfectly made peanut butter and jelly sandwich will do. The ritual of the wedding day points to this secret: All of the couples we work with pause on their wedding day to eat together. Every wedding day goes by like a blur, but we often hear couples say that
