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Special Occasion Dinner Recipes

Entertaining and need recipes for a special meal? These dinner recipes are showstoppers! Our special occasion recipes are dinner recipes that take longer than 1 hour to make. All of our special occasion recipes are totally worth the time–and most of them are pretty simple, too!

Our top special occasion meal: homemade artisan pizza! 

Ever had a paella party? 

These goat cheese stuffed sweet potatoes are heavenly

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Eggplant meatballs
Best-Ever Eggplant Meatballs
Vegetarian lasagna
Vegetarian Lasagna with Ricotta
Paella Recipe
Spanish Paella Recipe
Spinach pizza
Ultimate Spinach Pizza
Pan pizza
Perfect Pan Pizza
White pizza
White Pizza (Pizza Bianca)
Ricotta pizza
Ricotta Pizza
Falafel sandwich
Ultimate Falafel Sandwich
Vegan enchiladas
Vegan Enchiladas
Vegan shepherd's pie
Vegan Shepherd’s Pie
Wild rice casserole
Wild Rice Casserole (Broccoli Cheese!)
Poke bowl recipe
Poke Bowl Recipe
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Sonja and Alex Overhiser are writer and photographer behind A Couple Cooks and authors of Pretty Simple Cooking, named one of the best vegetarian cookbooks and best healthy cookbooks.

On A Couple Cooks, you will find healthy vegetarian, vegan, and whole food recipes. The recipes have been well tested and will work for you and your family every time!

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