Culinary Adventures with Camilla

Excerpted from A Couple Cooks | Pretty Simple Cooking: 100 Delicious Vegetarian Recipes to Make You Fall in Love with Real Food by Sonja Overhiser and Alex Overhiser. Copyright © 2018. Available from Da Capo Lifelong Books, an imprint of Perseus Books, LLC, a subsidiary of Hachette Book Group, Inc. Back in February, I hosted a Pretty Simple Dinner Party to celebrate the release of  the cookbook  A Couple Cooks - Pretty Simple Cooking: 100 Delicious Vegetarian Recipes to Make You Fall in Love with Real Food  by Sonja and Alex Overhiser.* When Sonja emailed that they were hosting a second event, I was in immediately. I emailed some friends and told them to come hungry. When I pulled the cookbook off the shelf, I started marking recipes I wanted to make for the #PrettySimpleDinnerParty v.2. Turns out that two of them I had already made - for the first dinner - including the Lemon & Pepper Green Beans and the Artichoke Lentil Stew with Salsa Verde. At least ...

The Pretty Simple Dinner Party was a virtual dinner party to celebrate good food and good people. In a time where we need unity and community, we wanted to celebrate coming together around the table! The scoop: here . It's all based around the brand new cookbook A Couple Cooks - Pretty Simple Cooking: 100 Delicious Vegetarian Recipes to Make You Fall in Love with Real Food by Sonja and Alex Overhiser.* You noticed the 'vegetarian' in that title, right? Bear that in mind and keep reading. To be a host, I just needed to cook dinner in my home for at least one other person on that night, using one recipe from the cookbook! I ended up making half a dozen recipes and having five people over for dinner...plus my four. It was a full table and we all had full bellies after. I was happy to be one of the 350 dinner parties; there were parties in every state plus twenty-five other countries. Wow! I had some of our best friends over an unforgettable feast. And one of ...