Cook a new recipe together.

“We both had the desire to learn so we started watching every cooking show and flipping through every cookbook we could get our hands on. We started to surround ourselves with other people who loved to cook and gradually fell in love with the process of not just making food, but doing it together. Although our first meals were pretty horrible, we kept at it, mainly because we had each other for encouragement. If I had been on my own, I would not have continued. Having someone else to cheer me on in the kitchen was so helpful. It became one of our favorite ways to hang out—opening a cookbook and trying out a new recipe together on a Friday night.”

“We honeymooned in Rome and had amazing pizza and then came back and thought that we would just recreate it, no problem. That probably failed 15 to 20 times before we actually figured it out.”