Recipe Blog

This delicious spin on a salmon poke bowl features seared salmon and veggies in a colorful bowl, an easy dinner idea perfect for weeknights or entertaining!

This post was created in partnership with ALDI. All opinions are our own.

A while back, some friends had us for dinner to make poke bowls: those Hawaiian-inspired bowls of fresh fish, veggies, rice, and savory sauces. It was such a tasty and easy dinner concept that we’ve been meaning to share a recipe! Classic poke bowls traditionally feature raw ahi tuna, but we wanted to create a non-traditional spin on it to feature salmon. Meet this delicious seared salmon poke bowl! We got the salmon and all of the ingredients at ALDI, and the salmon is wild caught using their sustainable seafood practices. Here’s how to make it!

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This French main dish salad is legendary: for good reason! Nicoise salad is protein-packed and makes a stunning lunch or dinner (glass of wine optional).

This post was created in partnership with Earthbound Farm. All opinions are our own.

Nicoise salad is legendary: and for good reason! It’s a true treat, a stunning healthy Mediterranean diet lunch or dinner that you’ll want to keep eating for days. Boiled eggs, green beans, olives, tomatoes, and tangy potato salad sit on crunchy lettuce and are covered in a zesty lemon dressing. It’s filling enough to be a main dish, and it’s got the best summery vibe. In our rendition, we’ve used Earthbound Farm Red Baby Butter Lettuce, which has the most beautiful maroon and green leaves. It tastes fabulous: and it’s organic too. Keep reading for more about organic lettuces and how to make Nicoise salad!

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This veggie supreme pizza is supremely delicious! It’s fully loaded with savory mushrooms, green pepper, red onion, feta cheese and oregano.

Alex and I are 100% passionate about helping you make next-level homemade pizza! We’ve got dozens of recipes and resources for homemade pizza: including how to make the best dough and sauce. Ready for our new favorite pizza topping? Veggie supreme. That’s right: it’s a supreme pizza featuring all your favorite veggies, and it tastes a little meaty too. How do we do it? Well, we’re sharing all our secrets down below. Keep reading for the recipe!

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Maki sushi is a sushi roll with the seaweed on the outside: and they couldn’t be more fun to make! Here’s a sushi recipe that’s easy to make at home.

Sushi is one of Alex and my favorite foods ever. When we first started becoming interested in food, sushi quickly jumped to the top of our “best eats” list and has stayed there ever since. While we usually order out for sushi, we’re so, so excited to bring you a recipe for how to make sushi at home! This maki sushi recipe comes from the NEW cookbook Aloha Kitchen by our friend Alana Kysar, and it is incredibly tasty and surprisingly doable. Keep reading for the maki sushi recipe and more about the book!

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Wondering how to cook Instant Pot lentils? Here’s how to cook lentils in a pressure cooker, whether you want them straight up or seasoned for a fast dinner!

If you’re looking to eat more plant based recipes, you’ve probably heard this: eat more lentils! Right? Alex and I have been trying to eat our good share of lentils for years. But we admit: it can be hard to know where to start! We’ve created this recipe to be a delicious basic lentil recipe that can be served many different ways: as part of a bowl meal, in a taco, and more! (Our two-year-old Larson adores them.) The great part: pressure cooker lentils are totally hands off! Keep reading for our Instant Pot lentils recipe and more about how you can serve them.

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This taco pizza is topped with refried beans, cheese, romaine, crumbled tortilla chips, and of course — ranch. In a word: WOW.

Are you a taco pizza fan? Here at A Couple Cooks, Alex and I have spent years honing our best Italian-style pizza dough and the tastiest pizza sauce. We’ve even traveled to Italy for research. But our new best pizza recipe is not Italian at all. Yes, it’s taco pizza! That’s artisan style Italian crust on bottom, straight up delivery-style taco pizza on the top. It’s insanely good. And oh yeah: it’s topped with crunchy tortilla chips and drizzled with creamy homemade ranch. Here’s how to make it!

How to make taco pizza

Most of our pizza recipes teach you how the Italians do it. But now we’re going rogue! Here’s our take on American-style taco pizza. Alex had a taco pizza like this one growing up, ordered from a well-known pizza delivery franchise (that we won’t name here). Surprisingly, this pizza has a healthy spin: it’s filled with good for you veggies and not too much cheese. Here are our tricks to how to make the BEST EVER taco pizza!

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Why not take all that’s great about spinach artichoke dip and put it on a pizza? This spinach artichoke pizza is a total crowd pleaser.

What’s not to love about the iconic spinach artichoke party dip? We haven’t met anyone who could resist it: that creamy, gooey cheese and tang from the artichokes make it some kind of addicting substance. This recipe is a little nostalgic for Alex and me because one of our first big “hits” when we started A Couple Cooks was this spinach artichoke grilled cheese. This was back in 2010, which seems like eons ago now. So now, 9 years later, we’re here to riff on concept and make it into a pizza. Please meet, our spinach artichoke pizza. And it’s damn good, if we say so ourselves. Keep reading for the recipe!

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