Cocktail Party
Cocktail Party
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Each night of Cloud Conventions, we will be hosting a virtual cocktail party from 6-7 PM EDT. Register to attend and get your special invitation to the party! Look inside this section to view recipes, videos, and more information about the party hosts.
Register for the Cloud Conventions Cocktail Parties
Hosted by
Curt Allen
Great party hosted by Curt Allen on Monday Night!
Hosted by
Bill Patchett
Bill Patchett & friends partied down on Tuesday!
Hosted by
Bruce Wirt
Wrestling, drinks, tall tales on Wednesday with Bruce!
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Alive After 5
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Great Alive After 5 Party!Come party with us at the end of the day.
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Great Alive After 5 Party!Come party with us at the end of the day.
Alive After 5
Cocktail Party
Great Alive After 5 Party!Come party with us at the end of the day.
Salty Dog Cocktail
Salty Dog Cocktail
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Sonja & Alex, the husband & wife recipe writers and photographers behind "A Couple Cooks A Couple Cooks" provides over 1500 recipes and resources to help you eat more tasty vegetables helping millions of people per month get dinner on the table. Visit the website for more recipes and fun! A Couple CooksSalty Dog CocktailThe Salty Dog is a refreshing citrus cocktail that pairs grapefruit juice, gin, and a salted rim. It’s perfect for brunch or happy hour!
What’s in a Salty Dog?
The Salty Dog cocktail is believed to originate in the 1920’s. It’s similar to a Greyhound cocktail , which is essentially the same ingredients, without the salty rim! Here are the ingredients you need to make a Salty Dog
GinGrapefruit juiceSalt for the rimSimple syrup or maple syrup (optional)Lime wedge (optional)Rim the glass with salt. It doesn’t just look cute! The salt enhances the overall flavor of the drink. How to make the perfect salt rim? See below.Shake in a cocktail shaker. Take that gin and grapefruit juice and shake it together in a cocktail shaker with 4 ice cubes. We like adding 1 dash simple syrup or maple syrup, which rounds out the flavor (otherwise it’s very tart).Strain into a glass and add ice. Strain the drink into the glass and add ice. Garnish with a grapefruit wedge and you’re done!Tips for making a salt rim
For the salt rim on this Salty Dog, we used flaky sea salt. You can also use kosher salt if you have it, which has large grains. Just don’t use iodized salt: it’s much too salt-forward! Here are a few tips to making a salt rim:
Spread the salt on a plate in an even layer.Take a lime wedge and cut a notch in the middle: then slide it around the rim of the glass. This moistens the glass rim without having to use your fingers.To rim the glass, the salt should be on the outside rim the glass only, not the inside where it can fall into the drink. To do this, tilt the glass and gently turn so the outside edge goes into the salt.Shake off any loose salt into the sink.
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Vodka Cranberry Cocktail
Vodka Cranberry Cocktail
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Sonja & Alex, the husband & wife recipe writers and photographers behind "A Couple Cooks A Couple Cooks" provides over 1500 recipes and resources to help you eat more tasty vegetables helping millions of people per month get dinner on the table. Visit the website for more recipes and fun! A Couple CooksVodka Cranberry CocktailThe vodka cranberry might be the easiest cocktail ever, starring vodka and cranberry juice! Here’s how to make this tart drink, also called a Cape Codder.What’s in this vodka cranberry?
Is it really that simple? Is it just vodka and cranberry juice? Yes! And no. Alex and I have added a few little elements to our recipe to really make it shine. But it’s still one of the easiest cocktails you can make. What’s in our version of a vodka cranberry?
Vodka100% unsweetened cranberry juiceA touch of maple syrup or simple syrup A squeeze of lime
All of those ingredients are served on the rocks (or with crushed ice). You’ll simply mix them all together with a bar spoon: no cocktail shaker needed! No fancy glassware needed here either: anything goes.A little drink history: the Cape Codder!
Where did the vodka cranberry cocktail come from? Believe it or not, this classic drink was invented by Ocean Spray itself (you know, the cranberry company?). What a marketing ploy! It was invented in the 1940’s, and we’re still drinking them today.
The drink was originally called a Red Devil, but it was renamed to Cape Codder in the early 1960’s. So, vodka cranberry, Cape Cod, and Cape Codder all the mean the same thing!
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Maple Bourbon Smash
Maple Bourbon Smash
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Sonja & Alex, the husband & wife recipe writers and photographers behind "A Couple Cooks A Couple Cooks" provides over 1500 recipes and resources to help you eat more tasty vegetables helping millions of people per month get dinner on the table. Visit the website for more recipes and fun! A Couple CooksMaple Bourbon SmashThis maple bourbon smash is a refreshing bourbon cocktail that’s full of flavor: perfectly balanced and tangy, with a hint of mint.
What’s a bourbon smash?
First off: what is a bourbon smash? A smash is an icy cocktail that often highlights seasonal fruit or herbs. It’s made for hot days, and can be made with your spirit of choice (vodka, bourbon and whiskey all work). The smash is pretty variable, and flexible depending on the season.
Cocktail tools for a bourbon smash
For this maple bourbon smash, you’ll need a few cocktail tools. But if you’re not ready to invest, you can use one of our alternatives below! Here’s what you’ll need to make a maple bourbon smash:
A cocktail shaker quickly chills cocktails by shaking them against ice, then has a strainer so you can pour out the cocktail without pouring out the ice as well. What can you use instead? Use a glass mason jar. Place the cocktail in the jar and fill it with ice. Screw on the top and shake away!A cocktail muddler is used to mash fruits and herbs in a glass or cocktail shaker to release their flavor. What can you use instead? Use a wooden spoon to gently mash the berries, lime wedges, and mint leaves.How to make a maple bourbon smash
Once you’ve got the tools for the job, making this maple bourbon smash is seriously simple. Overall, you’ll find that the maple syrup here doesn’t add a maple flavor; it’s simply used as a natural sweetener instead of simple syrup.
Here are the basic steps to make this bourbon smash (scroll down for the full recipe):
Muddle lemon and mint in a cocktail shaker.Add bourbon and maple syrup. Shake with ice.Strain into a glass. Add a bit of soda water, if desired. Serve with crushed ice.
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Southside Fizz
Southside Fizz
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Sonja & Alex, the husband & wife recipe writers and photographers behind "A Couple Cooks A Couple Cooks" provides over 1500 recipes and resources to help you eat more tasty vegetables helping millions of people per month get dinner on the table. Visit the website for more recipes and fun! A Couple CooksSouthside FizzThe Southside Fizz is a refreshing cocktail made with mint, lemon, lime, and gin: Tom Collins + a mojito! Top it off with soda water for a sparkle.What’s a Southside Fizz?
A Southside Fizz is the Southside Cocktail with soda water. What’s a Southside? It’s a cocktail made with mint, lemon, lime, and gin. The best way to describe it? A Tom Collins + a Mojito! Here’s exactly what’s in a Southside Fizz:
How to muddle mint…the right way!
This Southside Fizz cocktail requires muddling the mint before making the drink. What is it? Muddling is gently mashing herbs or fruits to release their juices. This helps the flavors incorporate better, vs if you simply threw in the mint lives on their own. Here’s how to muddle the mint the right way:
Step 1: Place the mint leaves in the bottom of a cocktail shaker, If you don’t have one, you can use a large metal cup or bowl.Step 2: Using a wooden cocktail muddler or unfinished wooden spoon, gently mash the mint a few times to release the juices. The key to muddling is a light touch, so don’t go overboard.
Why do you have to smack the mint garnish?
You’ll notice the garnish for this Southside Fizz calls to smack the mint. Wait, smack it? Yes, giving the mint leaf a gentle smack between your hands releases the essential oils in the mint. This gives the drink a much more herb-forward flavor!
Step it up: make clear ice!
Want to step up your game on this Southside Fizz cocktail? Use clear ice. What is it? Clear ice is artisanal ice used in cocktails because of its crystal clear look and beautiful organic shapes. Alex is very into clear ice, and you can see from the photos that it really steps up the look of this drink!
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Watermelon Mule
Watermelon Mule
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Sonja & Alex, the husband & wife recipe writers and photographers behind "A Couple Cooks A Couple Cooks" provides over 1500 recipes and resources to help you eat more tasty vegetables helping millions of people per month get dinner on the table. Visit the website for more recipes and fun! A Couple CooksWatermelon Mule Why have a Moscow mule or Kentucky mule when you can have a…watermelon mule? This unique spin on the classic cocktail is light and refreshing.
How to make a watermelon muleThis watermelon mule has a subtle watermelon flavor, and is a light and refreshing version of a Moscow mule. The concept behind this version of the classic drink is using equal parts ginger beer and watermelon juice, instead of straight ginger beer. This brings in the essence of watermelon and lightens the flavor just a bit. Then, it’s got the traditional ingredients: vodka and lime juice.
Because a mule is all about the carbonation in the ginger beer, this drink is not mixed in a cocktail shaker. To preserve the carbonation, it’s simply mixed right in the mug and served over ice.
To make a watermelon mule, you’ll need to start with making watermelon juice: which is very easy using watermelon and a blender! No juicer is required. How to make watermelon juice?
Simply cut the watermelon into cubes, then blend it up.When it’s liquid, pass it through a fine mesh strainer to strain out the particulate. Then voila: you’ve got watermelon juice!Note that you’ll get about half the quantity of watermelon juice to cubed watermelon: for example, 2 cups cubed watermelon equals about 1 cup watermelon juice.
In this recipe, we’ve called for the quantities for one drink, because it’s mixed right in the cup. One drink requires only 1/3 cup watermelon juice, but that’s such a small quantity that you’ll want to make more: since you’re probably serving more than one drink at a time! So, scale up the amount of watermelon juice to fit the number of drinks you need.
Watermelon Mule
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Virgin Piña Colada
Virgin Piña Colada
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Sonja & Alex, the husband & wife recipe writers and photographers behind "A Couple Cooks A Couple Cooks" provides over 1500 recipes and resources to help you eat more tasty vegetables helping millions of people per month get dinner on the table. Visit the website for more recipes and fun! A Couple CooksVirgin Piña ColadaWant a signature drink that’s non alcoholic, too? This virgin piña colada recipe is a perfect mocktail for parties and entertaining!
Ingredients for this virgin piña colada recipe
While a virgin piña colada is just a fancy name for a pineapple coconut smoothie, giving it a mocktail moniker makes it all the more fun. It comes out frosty and tropical, with a hint of fruity coconut and just sweet enough. For the sweetener we used maple syrup, and you can add a splash extra if desired. Our cocktail recipe also uses lime juice, but we went minimalist for the non alcoholic piña colada version.
Here are the ingredients in a virgin piña colada recipe:
Frozen pineappleCoconut milkMaple syrup
Throw these in a blender, and you’ve got a tasty signature drink in no time. Except you need one last required item…drink umbrellas!
Virgin Piña Colada
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Italian Margarita
Italian Margarita
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Sonja & Alex, the husband & wife recipe writers and photographers behind "A Couple Cooks A Couple Cooks" provides over 1500 recipes and resources to help you eat more tasty vegetables helping millions of people per month get dinner on the table. Visit the website for more recipes and fun! A Couple CooksItalian MargaritaAn Italian margarita uses amaretto to give this classic cocktail an Italian makeover! Blood orange juice gives it an eye-catching vibrant color.
What’s an Italian margarita?
An Italian margarita is a variation on a classic margarita that uses amaretto in place of the orange liqueur (Cointreau). It uses orange juice, lime juice, and tequila. The flavor has backend notes of almond and citrus, but the front end flavor is like your favorite margarita. Think of it as a sophisticated version of a margarita (kind of like the Cadillac Margarita . Here’s what’s in an Italian margarita:
TequilaOrange or blood orange juiceAmarettoLime juiceUse blood orange juice for the brilliant color!
You can use orange juice from a standard navel orange, and this Italian margarita turns out with a warm orange color. But if you’d like it to look bright red like these photographs: use a blood orange! Blood oranges have very sweet juice and a hot pink color. If you can find them, they’re absolutely worth buying.
Cheater tip: If you like the look but can’t find blood oranges, a tiny drizzle of pomegranite or cranberry juice would work too!
Italian Margarita
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Cucumber Martini
Cucumber Martini
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Sonja & Alex, the husband & wife recipe writers and photographers behind "A Couple Cooks A Couple Cooks" provides over 1500 recipes and resources to help you eat more tasty vegetables helping millions of people per month get dinner on the table. Visit the website for more recipes and fun! A Couple CooksCucumber MartiniThis cucumber martini is a crisp, cool take on the classic cocktail, featuring the refreshing scent of this hydrating vegetable.
What’s in a cucumber martini?
This cucumber martini is a spin on the vodka martini, which itself is a spin on the classic martini. The dry martini is on the list of International Bartender Association’s IBA official cocktails , meaning it has an official definition: gin and vermouth. The cucumber version swaps vodka for gin, and adds a few special ingredients that bring new life to the classic! Here are the ingredients in a cucumber martini:
VodkaDry white vermouthSt Germain2 slices cucumber
How to make a cucumber martini (basic steps)
It’s very simple to make a cucumber martini! All you’ll need is a cocktail shaker, a muddler (or wooden spoon), and a martini glass. Here are the basic steps (or jump to the recipe):
Place the cucumber slices in the bottom of a cocktail shaker and muddle them! See below for more.Add the rest of the ingredients and ice. Shake for 15 seconds until cold.Strain into a glass and garnish with cucumber slices.
The right way to muddle
Muddling is gently mashing herbs or fruits, or in this case vegetables to release their juices. This is often used when making cocktails like this cucumber martini, because it helps the flavors incorporate better than if you just threw the whole ingredient right into the drink.
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Blackberry Bourbon Smash
Blackberry Bourbon Smash
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Sonja & Alex, the husband & wife recipe writers and photographers behind "A Couple Cooks A Couple Cooks" provides over 1500 recipes and resources to help you eat more tasty vegetables helping millions of people per month get dinner on the table. Visit the website for more recipes and fun! A Couple CooksBlackberry Bourbon SmashLooking for a standout bourbon cocktail? This blackberry bourbon smash is refreshing and perfect for parties, featuring blackberries, lime, and fresh mint.
What’s a bourbon smash?
First off: what is a bourbon smash? A smash is a fruity, icy cocktail recipe that often highlights seasonal fruit or herbs. It’s made for hot days, and can be made with your spirit of choice (vodka, bourbon and whiskey all work). The smash is pretty variable, and flexible depending on the season.
Cocktail shaker
Why you need it: A cocktail shaker quickly chills cocktails by shaking them against ice, then has a perforated lid so you can pour out the cocktail without pouring out the ice as well.Alternative: Use a glass mason jar. Place the cocktail in the jar and fill it with ice. Screw on the top and shake away!
Cocktail muddler
Why you need it: A cocktail muddler is used to mash fruits and herbs in a glass or cocktail shaker to release their flavor.Alternative: Use a wooden spoon to gently mash the berries, lime wedges, and mint leaves.
Here are the blackberry bourbon smash ingredients that you’ll need:
BourbonBlackberriesLimeFresh mintMaple syrupSoda water (optional)
To make the cocktail, you’ll simply muddle the blackberries, lime and mint, then add the bourbon and maple syrup. If you’d like to add a splash of soda water, feel free: it really rounds out the flavor!This blackberry bourbon smash recipe is…
Vegetarian, vegan, plant-based, gluten-free, dairy-free, refined sugar free, and naturally sweet.
Blackberry Bourbon Smash
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Frozen Rose'
Frozen Rose'
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Sonja & Alex, the husband & wife recipe writers and photographers behind "A Couple Cooks A Couple Cooks" provides over 1500 recipes and resources to help you eat more tasty vegetables helping millions of people per month get dinner on the table. Visit the website for more recipes and fun! A Couple CooksFrozen Rose'This frose recipe tastes just like rosé wine! What’s the secret? It’s all natural, featuring wine and strawberries. Here’s how to make frozen rosé.
What is frose (frozen rose)?
Are you ready for our frose recipe? If you haven’t tried it, frose is frozen rosé wine. Basically, it’s a mashup between a frozen cocktail and that quintessential summer wine. Most frosé recipes are sickly sweet, and freezing can remove the character of the wine. So Alex and I set about to create a frose recipe that was not too sweet AND tastes like rosé wine. We think we were successful, and so do our friends who very willingly volunteered as our taste testers! Wondering how to make frozen rose? Keep reading!
All-natural frose ingredients
This naturally sweetened cocktail recipe uses just three simple ingredients:
rosé winestrawberrieshoneyFrose is very simple to make: the hardest part is thinking ahead. If you can, whip up the frose recipe the night before, then blend and serve the day of. Despite the name, it’s not just rose that’s frozen: simply freezing rose makes it bitter and flat-tasting. A froze recipe includes sugar to offset the bitterness (usually made as a simple syrup), and strawberries to add some color and additional flavor.How to store it!
Because this all-natural frose is frozen, you can keep the blended rose and strawberry mixture in your freezer for a few days before serving it. As long as you keep it in a sealed container, your frose should keep well in the freezer! Try not to keep it frozen for too long though, since the fresh strawberries and the rose wine lose some of their flavor once frozen.
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Caramelized Onion Dip
Caramelized Onion Dip
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Sonja & Alex, the husband & wife recipe writers and photographers behind "A Couple Cooks A Couple Cooks" provides over 1500 recipes and resources to help you eat more tasty vegetables helping millions of people per month get dinner on the table. Visit the website for more recipes and fun! A Couple CooksCaramelized Onion DipReady for happy hour? This platter is for you, loaded with veggies and a creamy red wine caramelized onion dip. It’s perfect for entertaining of all kinds!
How do you caramelize onions?
So, how do you caramelize onions? It takes a bit of time, but it’s absolutely worth it for the flavor! Because the onions are finely chopped here, sauteing the onions takes only 25 minutes. If the onions are in larger slices, caramelizing onions can sometimes take up to 45 minutes to get that golden brown color! Here’s what to do:
Finely chop the onions.Saute them for 20 to 25 minutes, stirring often, until golden brown.Add the red wine and saute until the wine is cooked off, about 10 minutes more. That’s it!For the caramelized onion dip
1/4 cup olive oil4 large white onions1/4 cup red wine1/2 teaspoon fine sea salt or kosher salt, plus more as needed2 cups sour cream1 cup Greek yogurt1 tablespoon tamari or soy sauceDash of freshly ground black pepperMake the caramelized onion dip: Finely chop the onions. In a large saucepan over medium heat, warm the olive oil. Add the onions and saute for 20 to 25 minutes, stirring often, until golden brown. Add the red wine and saute until the wine is cooked off, about 10 minutes more. Remove from the heat, add the salt, and let cool.Once cooled, transfer to a medium mixing bowl and fold in the sour cream, yogurt, and soy sauce. Season with pepper and more salt, if needed. Cover and transfer to the refrigerator and chill for at least 30 minutes before serving. Can be stored in the refrigerator for up to 3 days.
Caramelized Onion Dip
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Black Bean Salsa
Black Bean Salsa
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Sonja & Alex, the husband & wife recipe writers and photographers behind "A Couple Cooks A Couple Cooks" provides over 1500 recipes and resources to help you eat more tasty vegetables helping millions of people per month get dinner on the table. Visit the website for more recipes and fun! A Couple CooksBlack Bean SalsaMade with fresh tomatoes, onion, cilantro, and black beans, this black bean salsa recipe takes just 10 minutes and is full of zesty flavor.
We added a can of black beans to this salsa fresca to give it a little more texture and nice boost of protein and carbs. The black beans also make this dip more filling, which keeps us from eating the entire container of it in one sitting.
Here’s what else you’ll need for this salsa fresca:
TomatoesRed onionCilantroJalapeño pepperBlack beans (canned or cooked)LimeKosher Salt
Simply prep all the ingredients, then stir them together in a serving bowl. Season the salsa with kosher salt to taste, and add more lime juice if desired. Also, if you like your salsa spicy, leave the seeds in the jalapeño. This black bean salsa recipe is a mild one, so we removed the ribs and seeds from the pepper.
Black Bean Salsa
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Herb Popcorn
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Sonja & Alex, the husband & wife recipe writers and photographers behind "A Couple Cooks A Couple Cooks" provides over 1500 recipes and resources to help you eat more tasty vegetables helping millions of people per month get dinner on the table. Visit the website for more recipes and fun! A Couple CooksHerb PopcornCalling all popcorn addicts! This herb popcorn is spiced up with butter and a mix of dried herbs, and works as a healthy snack or for entertaining.
Alex whipped up this herb popcorn a few weeks ago for a party, and it accidentally turned out so delicious that we wanted to share it with you. It’s savory, buttery, and has little gooey bits of herbs throughout. We were pleasantly surprised at how tasty it was!
How to make herb popcorn? First of all, let’s talk popcorn methods. Alex and I have a few different methods we like to use:
Stovetop method: For the best flavored popcorn, we use the stovetop method. Here’s our tried and true method for How to Make Popcorn on the Stove. You can use a normal pot, or a stovetop popcorn popper. Air popper: For a spin on healthy popcorn, we use an air popper. The air popper is truly easy to use — even easier than stovetop, and it doesn’t require any oil!
Now, for the topping! Here are the ingredients we’ve used for this herb popcorn:
ButterDried all-herb mixNutritional yeastPopcorn salt
Herb Popcorn
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Zucchini Muffins
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Sonja & Alex, the husband & wife recipe writers and photographers behind "A Couple Cooks A Couple Cooks" provides over 1500 recipes and resources to help you eat more tasty vegetables helping millions of people per month get dinner on the table. Visit the website for more recipes and fun! A Couple CooksZucchini MuffinsThese zucchini muffins are delightful and sweet, featuring Greek yogurt and zucchini for moisture and turbinado sugar for a crunch.
These zucchini muffins are very easy to whip up! They use typical muffin ingredients like refined flour, eggs, and oil, but adding Greek yogurt and shredded zucchini for moistness helps to cut back on the oil. The sugar content is also less than the standard zucchini muffin: we tweaked this recipe to be just sweet enough so you feel like it’s a zucchini muffin, but not so sweet that it’s like a cupcake!
Here’s how to make these easy zucchini muffins:
Whisk together the wet ingredients: oil, turbinado sugar, eggs, Greek yogurt and vanilla.Sprinkle in the dry ingredients: flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon. Stir together, then add the shredded zucchini.Place in muffin cups and bake for about 25 minutes at 350 degrees Fahrenheit.Allow to cool and enjoy! Stores in the refrigerator for 1 week and the freezer for several months.
Zucchini Muffins
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Easy Peach Salsa
Easy Peach Salsa
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Sonja & Alex, the husband & wife recipe writers and photographers behind "A Couple Cooks A Couple Cooks" provides over 1500 recipes and resources to help you eat more tasty vegetables helping millions of people per month get dinner on the table. Visit the website for more recipes and fun! A Couple CooksEasy Peach SalsaThis fresh peach salsa recipe is perfect for summer potlucks. Serve with tortilla chips, fish, black beans, tacos, and more! This peach salsa recipe takes less than 15 minutes to make and requires no special ingredients. To make homemade peach salsa, you first need to peel and dice the ripe peaches. Then finely chop the red onion and jalapeño pepper, making sure to de-seed the pepper if you don’t want super spicy salsa. Roughly chop some cilantro, then mix all the ingredients together in a large bowl with a squeeze of fresh lime juice and a sprinkle of kosher salt.
You can eat this fresh peach salsa recipe right away! Or you can let it rest for a few minutes on the counter before digging in. This gives the salsa ingredients time to come together and gives it a better flavor.
This fresh peach salsa recipe will keep in the fridge for a few days, but the peaches will soften a bit over time so you’ll want to eat this salsa fast! Before serving the leftover salsa, give it a good stir to mix up all the juices that have pooled on the bottom of the container.
Easy Peach Salsa
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Sonja & Alex, the husband & wife recipe writers and photographers behind "A Couple Cooks A Couple Cooks" provides over 1500 recipes and ...
Easy Deviled Eggs
Easy Deviled Eggs
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Sonja & Alex, the husband & wife recipe writers and photographers behind "A Couple Cooks A Couple Cooks" provides over 1500 recipes and resources to help you eat more tasty vegetables helping millions of people per month get dinner on the table. Visit the website for more recipes and fun! A Couple CooksEasy Deviled EggsThese easy deviled eggs are simply classic and taste amazing! They use both Greek yogurt and mayo to make the perfect flavor.Deviled eggs are easy to make, but we have a few tips to error proof the process! Let me assure you, Alex and I are pros at figuring out how to “break” a recipe! Here’s our master recipe for how to boil eggs and then make deviled eggs.Step 1: Bring to a boil, remove from heat, and rest for 15 minutes.
The first step in how to make easy deviled eggs: hard boiling them! A few tips about making hard boiled eggs: older eggs are easier to peel. So if you can arrange it, it’s nice to use eggs that have been in the refrigerator for a bit.
To boil your eggs, place them in the bottom of a pot and cover them with 1 inch of water. Bring the water to a boil. As soon as it boils, remove the pot from the heat, cover it, and let the eggs sit for 15 minutes.
Step 2: Let the eggs sit in an ice bath for 15 minutes.
Prepare a large bowl of ice water. When the eggs are done in the pot, place them directly into the bowl of ice water. Let them sit for 15 minutes.Step 3: Peel the eggs, cut them in half, and remove the yolk.
Here’s a tip on how to peel hard boiled eggs! Gently tap the larger end of the egg so that the shell crushes (it has an air bubble which makes it easy to peel). Then start to peel off the shell. Continue peeling the shell until all the pieces are removed. Then cut each egg in half and remove the yolk with a spoon.Step 4: Mix the yolks with yogurt, mayo, and mustard.
Finally, here’s how to make the filling for the easy deviled eggs! Mix the egg yolks with Greek yogurt, mayo, Dijon mustard, yellow mustard and salt. There are two methods for mixing: you can mash the yolks in a bowl with a fork and then mix in the remaining ingredients. However, this can sometimes make the consistency lumpy.
If you’re planning to pipe your filling using a pastry bag it’s helpful to mix the filling in a stand mixer or electric mixer. This helps it to get totally creamy with out lumps. If there are any lumps in the pastry bag, it makes it very difficult to pipe out the filling.
Step 5: Fill the eggs, garnish and serve!
Use a pastry bag to pipe the filling into the deviled eggs, or simply use a spoon! The pastry bag is helpful if you want it to look totally uniform like the ones in the photo. But of course, it’s not necessary: you can just scoop it back in with a spoon! Garnish with dried dill and smoked paprika, or a mixture of both for a festive feel. You also can use normal paprika: we just like the smoky flair that the smoked paprika adds. It’s nice if you can find it!
Easy Deviled Eggs
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Sonja & Alex, the husband & wife recipe writers and photographers behind "A Couple Cooks A Couple Cooks" provides over 1500 recipes and ...
Simple Guacamole
Simple Guacamole
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Sonja & Alex, the husband & wife recipe writers and photographers behind "A Couple Cooks A Couple Cooks" provides over 1500 recipes and resources to help you eat more tasty vegetables helping millions of people per month get dinner on the table. Visit the website for more recipes and fun! A Couple CooksSimple GuacamoleHere’s the best simple guacamole with the perfect flavor! Creamy, savory and perfectly balanced, you’ll hear a chorus of “Wow’s” every time you serve it.Alex created this easy guacamole recipe and man is it good! One of our favorite Mexican restaurants in town closed (sadly), and they had the best guacamole on the planet. This one reminds me of theirs! It’s just the right balance of flavors. Here’s what you need for this simple guacamole:
3 ripe avocados: The avocados must give when you squeeze them. If they’re firm, don’t even consider using them here!White onion: White onion has the most authentic Mexican flavorRipe roma tomato: Again, make sure it’s fresh and ripe!Cilantro: Fresh cilantro is a must.Lime juice: You must use juice from an actual lime: no bottled juice cheating! It really makes a flavor difference.
Simple Guacamole
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Spinach-Artichoke Dip
Spinach-Artichoke Dip
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Sonja & Alex, the husband & wife recipe writers and photographers behind "A Couple Cooks A Couple Cooks" provides over 1500 recipes and resources to help you eat more tasty vegetables helping millions of people per month get dinner on the table. Visit the website for more recipes and fun! A Couple CooksSpinach-Artichoke DipThis hot spinach artichoke dip is irresistibly creamy and tangy! Everyone will park themselves in front of the bowl, then ask you for the recipe.For this hot spinach artichoke dip, you’ll make a similar base as the cold spinach dip. But this one includes artichokes, amped Parmesan cheese (yum), and a trip into a hot oven. Here’s what you’ll do:
Thaw the frozen spinach and squeeze out all moisture. You’ll want to get out as much moisture as possible so the dip is not runny.Prepare the veggies. You’ll chop both shallot and green onion for onion flavor, and tangy canned artichokes.Stir in the Greek yogurt, mayo, Parmesan cheese and seasonings. Dill and garlic powder bring big flavor here.Top with Parm and bake for 20 minutes. Throw it into a small baking dish and bake for 20 minutes at 350.
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Sonja & Alex, the husband & wife recipe writers and photographers behind "A Couple Cooks A Couple Cooks" provides over 1500 recipes and ...
Spicy Brussel Sprouts
Spicy Brussel Sprouts
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Sonja & Alex, the husband & wife recipe writers and photographers behind "A Couple Cooks A Couple Cooks" provides over 1500 recipes and resources to help you eat more tasty vegetables helping millions of people per month get dinner on the table. Visit the website for more recipes and fun! A Couple CooksSpicy Brussel SproutsThese spicy Brussels sprouts are roasted until ultra crispy, then tossed with a spicy sweet balsamic sauce. So good, they taste like restaurant style!These spicy Brussels sprouts use our favorite technique for cooking crispy Brussels sprouts. Luckily you don’t need a fryer or any special tools: just your oven! Here’s what we do to get them perfectly crisp and the right level of spice:
Roast 25 minutes at 450F. The key to crispy Brussels sprouts is high heat! Cut them in half and place them face down on the baking sheet to get them perfectly browned.Toss with spicy honey balsamic sauce. The key to these spicy sprouts is two hits of heat: the first is in this tangy honey balsamic sauce, which coats them all .Drizzle with more hot sauce to taste! Then to get the real hit of heat, you’ll drizzle with more hot sauce over the top! Because the heat level of all sauces vary, you can do it to your own taste. Speaking of…
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Sonja & Alex, the husband & wife recipe writers and photographers behind "A Couple Cooks A Couple Cooks" provides over 1500 recipes and ...
Kale Chips
Kale Chips
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Sonja & Alex, the husband & wife recipe writers and photographers behind "A Couple Cooks A Couple Cooks" provides over 1500 recipes and resources to help you eat more tasty vegetables helping millions of people per month get dinner on the table. Visit the website for more recipes and fun! A Couple CooksKale ChipsEver made kale chips? Now’s the time to try. This irresistibly salty and crunchy snack makes crispy kale taste like the best invention since sliced bread.Kale chips are very easy to make: you just need to know a few tips to make them come out perfectly. There are lots of ways to make them; here’s what Alex and I like to do for ours:
Use Tuscan kale. Alex and I prefer Tuscan kale to curly kale: the flavor is milder and it’s a little sturdier for chips. See below.Wash and thoroughly dry the kale. You’ll want the kale ultra dry so that the oil sticks to it.Tear the kale into “chip” sized bites. Remove the stems, since these get tough and stringy in the oven.Season to perfection. You’ll mix with olive oil, then add salt and onion powder Bake at 275 for 30 minutes. Place the chips in a single layer on a parchment-lined baking sheet. Bake at low heat for 30 minutes: you’ll be surprised at how crispy they become!
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