Brian T. Marquis

All Recipes/ Comfort Food/ Lunch and Dinner/ Thanksgiving

Turkey and Cranberry Grilled Cheese: Thanksgiving Leftovers

December 4, 2024

By now, we’re on day six of our turkey leftovers. I’m at that point where I’m thinking 1. “I need to come up with a new way to eat these leftovers” and 2. “Are these leftovers still good to eat?” Thankfully, we planned our Thanksgiving menu right and were left with not a lot of leftovers. Over these last few days, I’ve been making, and thoroughly enjoying, a turkey and…

December 4, 2024 By Brian

Autumn/ Cocktails/ DIY

How to Dehydrate Fruit

November 20, 2024

Today I’m going to share how to dehydrate fruit. Whether you are need cocktail garnish or are crafting a holiday wreath, dehydrated fruit is easy to make. And you DON'T NEED a fancy dehydrator--just your oven (and 4-6 hours)!…

November 20, 2024 By Brian

Celebrations/ DIY/ Family Fun/ Halloween/ Liam's Train Time/ Parenting

Halloween 2024 Recap

October 31, 2024

Another spooky season is wrapping up. This Halloween season was a good one. We made some new DIY, scrambled for last-minute costumes, and whipped up a bunch of new cocktails. Here’s our Halloween 2024 recap…but first, pumpkin picking and apple cider donuts! Cocktails We mixed up a ton of new cocktails this month, including some blackberry margaritas, blackberry whisky cocktails, and these apple cider cocktails. DIY Projects I crafted these…

October 31, 2024 By Brian

All Recipes/ Cocktails/ Margaritas

Blackberry Smash Margarita

October 26, 2024

After making the blackberry smash two ways, I was inspired to try this with a margarita. So I’m making a blackberry margarita two ways! Same purée as the other and one muddled. I made this video back to back with the whisky smash. By the time I got to the margarita, I was feeling tipsy, haha! Not sure if I should be doing these back to back shoots anymore. Needless…

October 26, 2024 By Brian

All Recipes/ Cocktails/ Margaritas

Apple Cider Cocktail Two Ways

October 24, 2024

Autumn is my favorite season. Apple picking is fun, pumpkin picking is way better, but I’m mostly there for those apple cider donuts. I’m making apple cider cocktails two ways! We have a delicious autumn margarita, but I wanted to put another spin on it and try to use similar ingredients with two different liquors. A margarita is my go-to drink and one of my most requested cocktails when we’re…

October 24, 2024 By Brian

All Recipes/ Cocktails

Blackberry Smash Whisky Cocktail TWO Ways

October 17, 2024

My wife collected a few bottles of Beyonce’s SirDavis Whisky for her birthday! We made the Honey Bee cocktail and wanted to make another whisky cocktail. Our adventure in Martha’s Vineyard this summer provided some inspiration for this Blackberry Smash. I made a blackberry smash whisky cocktail two ways to see which one I liked more. One with blackberry puree and the other with muddled blackberries. My theory is the…

October 17, 2024 By Brian

Celebrations/ Halloween

Five Halloween Products on Amazon

October 7, 2024

Halloween is one of my favorite times of the year and these FIVE PRODUCTS on AMAZON are going to help you elevate your spooky season celebrations. To get you ready for this year’s spooky season, I’m laying out my top five must-have halloween products. You can get all of this on Amazon right now, links are below. Lilies and Loafers has affiliate relationships, so we may get a small share…

October 7, 2024 By Brian

Celebrations/ Wedding

Anniversary Photo Album

September 27, 2024

To celebrate our ten year wedding anniversary, we treated ourselves to a summer vacation on Martha's Vineyard. However, I wanted to get another little something for Fatima. We have a big gallery wall and some photos around the house, but not many photo albums. I thought maybe I could design an anniversary photo album that captured the last ten years of our time together, our travels, and our kids. I…

September 27, 2024 By Brian

Product Review/ Side Dishes/ Wedding

Wedding Registry Ideas: Where Are They Now?

September 20, 2024

Oh the Wedding Registry. Over the last 10 years, things have changed. When we started the registry, we built it with practicality at the foundation. While we were building our registry at Macy's and Bed Bath and Beyond (RIP and hello again), we were encouraged to "throw everything we could scan on there". I went to locate our registries to remind myself what we selected, but they've been lost to…

September 20, 2024 By Brian

Side Dishes/ Wedding

Wedding Film Rolls

September 13, 2024

For the kids at our wedding, we put together these little fun bags. We included a scavenger hunt and a disposable camera. We thought it would give the kids fun thing to do and help us capture some moments during the reception. We never developed those film rolls until very recently.…

September 13, 2024 By Brian

Family Fun/ New England/ Parenting/ Travel

Summer Vacation on Martha’s Vineyard with Kids

September 11, 2024

A decade ago, we went to Martha's Vineyard for our honeymoon. Read more about that trip here. When we left, we made a pledge to go back...in the summer! Ten years later, we planned our trip, traveled by car, and took the kids. This is a recap of our summer vacation on Martha's Vineyard with kids.…

September 11, 2024 By Brian

Celebrations/ New England/ Travel/ Wedding

Martha’s Vineyard in October: Revisiting our Honeymoon

September 4, 2024

When we were planning our honeymoon, we were set on Cabo San Lucas. About two weeks before our wedding, hurricane Odile terrorized the Baja California Peninsula, with Cabo getting hit hard. It was the most violent hurricane in Cabo's history. We prayed for everyone's safety and the area's recovery. We put our Cabo plans on ice, and pivoted to Martha's Vineyard in October.…

September 4, 2024 By Brian

Celebrations/ Wedding

Revisiting our Wedding a Decade Later

August 16, 2024

In just six weeks, Fatima and I will be celebrating our 10th Wedding Anniversary! It is absolutely WILD to think we will be hitting this milestone. So much as happened in these last ten years, yet there’s so much more to do. One of the best things to happen since we’ve been married, has been starting our family. Fatima and I wanted to revisit our wedding: the good, the great,…

August 16, 2024 By Brian

Family Fun/ Liam's Train Time/ Parenting

Celebrating 10,000 Subscribers on Liam’s Train Time!

August 14, 2024

When Liam and I started Liam’s Train Time a year and a half ago, I did not expect it go anywhere (as it was meant to be a creative ‘just-for-fun’ channel). Today, we have over 6 million views! By the time, we went to celebrate our 10k subscriber milestone, we were well over 13k subscribers. If you’re not familiar with Liam’s Train Time, it’s a family-friendly YouTube channel to show off…

August 14, 2024 By Brian

All Recipes/ Comfort Food/ Lunch and Dinner

Copycat Frontega Chicken Sandwich

August 7, 2024

Let’s talk about eff-me bread. It’s what I call Trader Joe’s focaccia bread. If you haven’t had Trader Joe’s focaccia bread, you need to try it. Bread makes a sandwich and the combination of everything in between makes a delicious meal, but this bread makes this Frontega chicken sandwich. “Eff-me,” is the phrase that exits my mouth after taking a bite of this focaccia bread. Fatima made this sandwich two…

August 7, 2024 By Brian

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