a salmon recipe

Sweet Heat Salmon

Sweet Heat Salmon excerpted from A Couple Cooks: 100 Recipes to Cook Together by Sonja and Alex Overhiser. Photography by Shelly Westerhausen Worcel.

A Couple Cooks: 100 Recipes to Cook Together

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! (more…)

Puttanesca-style sheet pan salmon

Puttanesca-style sheet pan salmon Excerpted from Ottolenghi Comfort by Yotam Ottolenghi. Copyright © 2024 by Yotam Ottolenghi, Helen Goh, Verena Lochmuller, and Tara Wigley. Photographs by Jonathan Lovekin.

Ottolenghi Comfort by Yotam Ottolenghi. Copyright © 2024 by Yotam Ottolenghi, Helen Goh, Verena Lochmuller, and Tara Wigley. Photographs by Jonathan Lovekin. Published by Appetite by Random House®, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited. Reproduced by arrangement with the Publisher. All rights reserved.

Yotam Ottolenghi—the beloved chef who has captured the hearts of homecooks looking for inspiration and great-tasting cooking—is back. In Ottolenghi Comfort, he brings his inspiring, flavour-forward cooking to comfort dishes.

With game-changing low-lift recipes as well as recipes to spend an afternoon on, Ottolenghi Comfort presents creative dishes that are comfortable to both cook and eat. In more than 100 recipes, Ottolenghi—and co-authors Helen Goh, Verena Lochmuller, and Tara Wigley—bring together childhood memories and travels around the world, celebrating food and friends and the connections they build together, ones to pass on from generation to generation.

For Ottolenghi, a bowl of pasta becomes Caramelized Onion Orecchiette with Hazelnuts & Crispy Sage, a warming soup is Cheesy Bread Soup with Savoy Cabbage & Cavolo Nero, and potatoes are transformed into Garlicky Aligot Potato with Leeks & Thyme. In Comfort, he tackles everything from crepes to hummus; lamb meatloaf to quick ramen; savory rugelah to chocolate mousse.

This is a book filled with meals that are easy and exciting, familiar and fresh, new and nostalgic, revelatory yet reassuring.

Ottolenghi Comfort: A Cookbook by Yotam Ottolenghi is available at Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk and Indigo.ca.

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Sriracha Maple Salmon with Avocado Pineapple Salsa

Sriracha Maple Salmon with Avocado Pineapple Salsa excerpted from Cook with Confidence: Over 100 Inspiring Recipes to Cook and Eat Together by Dennis Prescott.

Cook with Confidence: Over 100 Inspiring Recipes to Cook and Eat Together by Dennis Prescott

Unleash your culinary creativity with over 100 delicious recipes from host of Netflix’s Restaurants on the Edge, chef Dennis Prescott. His new book, Cook with Confidence, is packed with approachable recipes and mouth-watering flavours inspired by his global travels and maritime influences from living in New Brunswick. Guaranteed to take your cooking to the next level, this indispensable cookbook gives you all the tips you need to keep your cooking stress-free—and your dining table a place of connection and community.

For Dennis, there’s no greater way to connect with those you love than gathering around a table. And these rock-solid, delectable recipes allow you to do just that! With Dennis as your guide, you can tackle every challenge in the kitchen, including how to make more sustainable seafood choices, how to become a grill master, how to stock your pantry, and how to serve up some beautiful homemade pasta.

Brimming with flavours that pack a punch, these recipes guarantee a menu that will dazzle your friends and family with every bite. Some highlights include:

Delicious snacks and starters, including Beef and Eggplant Fatteh or the Carrot and Coriander Fritters with Turmeric Yogurt
Seasonal salads and succulent sides, like the Miso Butter Mushrooms with Garlic Bok Choy or the Nicoise Salad with Blackened Trout
Savory pastas, including classics like Cacio e Pepe to Roasted Cauliflower Rigatoni with Pangrattato
Plant-forward mains, featuring dishes like the Black Bean Edamame Burgers and Falafel Mezze Bowls
Fresh seafood dishes, like the Ponzu Tuna with Crispy Wontons and Papaya Salad or the Crab Bisque with Rosemary Croutons
Meat-forward mains, including an Orange and Fennel Braised Ragù and the Steak Frites with Creamy Whiskey Peppercorn Sauce

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Pan-seared Salmon with Cilantro-mint Chutney

Pan-seared Salmon with Cilantro-mint Chutney, Photography by America’s Test Kitchen

Spices: You probably have a cabinet full of them, but do you know how to make the most of them? Spiced opens up the world of possibility hidden in your own pantry, with six chapters, each of which shares a way to use spices to amp up the flavour of your cooking, along with foolproof recipes that put these simple techniques to work.

Sprinkle a finishing salt you make from sea salt and herbs on seared white fish fillets to make them special. Make a different roast chicken every week by applying a different rub. Learn the best spices to use in curries–and when to add them for fragrant (not dusty) results.

Add flavour—and texture—with homemade blends (you’ll eat your spinach when it’s topped with pistachio dukkah). Infuse condiments with spices (try chipotle ketchup on a burger). With the following six simple techniques, plus vibrant recipes, you’ll find yourself not only spooning chilli powder into the chilli pot but making the chilli powder yourself, or flavouring desserts with saffron or cardamom rather than just cinnamon.

Season smarter with salt and pepper. You’ll learn about brining, using peppercorns of all colours, and making finishers like sriracha salt.
Give meat and vegetables a rub. We’ll provide blends that you can put to use in our recipes (try juniper and fennel on salmon) or your own.
Bloom and toast. Bring out ground spices’ complexity by cooking them in oil; unlock dried chiles’ fruity or nutty flavours by toasting them.
Finish foods with flair. Spice-and-nut/seed blends likes shichimi togarashi (a mix of spices, orange zest, and sesame seeds) add texture, too.
Let spices steep. Infuse spices into condiments like pickled fennel that punches up chicken salad or rosemary oil to drizzle over bruschetta.
Bake with spices. Go beyond vanilla by rolling doughnuts in strawberry-black pepper sugar. Make your own rose water and add it to pistachio baklava.

Spiced: Unlock the Power of Spices to Transform Your Cooking, America's Test Kitchen