Hello there! We’re Sonja & Alex, a couple who loves to cook. Let us be the first to tell you, it wasn’t always this way! When we first got married, we had no idea how to zest a lemon or mince garlic. But we loved the idea of cooking dinner for friends. Once we started to learn, we fell in love and haven’t looked back!
Along the way, we started the food blog A Couple Cooks to chronicle our journey, with a mission to share delicious recipes and the joy of cooking. Since then, it’s grown into an award-winning website that reaches millions of people each month! We create and photograph these recipes in our cozy kitchen in Indianapolis, Indiana. Here’s a peek at what we do:
- Website: We share fresh new recipes each week here on acouplecooks.com—see the latest!
- Cookbooks: We’re authors of two books:
- A Couple Cooks: 100 Recipes to Cook Together, our best recipes of all time!
- Pretty Simple Cooking, an acclaimed vegetarian and vegan cookbook.
- Newsletter: Every week, we’ll drop a new email into your inbox with the week’s best recipes. Subscribe here!
- Social Media: Follow us on Instagram and Facebook.
- Email Guides: We have a few fun free email guides:
We absolutely adore getting to know our community! Here are a few fun tidbits to help you get to know us a bit better:
- We met on the first day of our freshman year at university 😍
- Our most important job is parents to 7-year-old, Larson and 1-year-old Britta: both miracle babies who came into our lives in unexpected and beautiful ways.
- We live in Indianapolis in a 1920s home that we’re constantly trying to update! We’re obsessed with architecture, design, and DIY projects 😁
- Cocktails are one of our shared passions, which led to a collection of hundreds of cocktail recipes on our website! (Oops.)
- We also love to travel, play the piano (Sonja) and photography (Alex).
- We care deeply about racial equity, sustainability, community, and peace.
- We love growing things in our urban cottage garden, especially herbs and flowers. Everything tastes better with a little fresh basil!
- We have a spunky Pomeranian named Clover who looks like a baby fox.
- We adore writing books and cannot wait to share our next one with you! It’s all about the joy of cooking together.
With love, Sonja & Alex
