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Miso Glazed Salmon with Cashew Dressing

July 11, 2024

If you tried the salmon quinoa salad then you’ll love this miso glazed salmon with spicy cashew dressing. This recipe is a mix of a bunch of different recipes we mashed to make our own. We’ve been experimenting with rice bowls and making sure to include salmon more often in our diet. One of my favorite bowls so far has been this blackened salmon and corn salsa rice bowl. Lilies…

July 11, 2024 By Fatima

All Recipes/ Breakfast and Brunch/ Comfort Food

Southern Egg Burrito

June 21, 2024

I recently went on a trip with my best friends to Savannah, Georgia. While we were there, we toured many of the local establishments. At this one place in particular, I had one of the best southern egg burritos. It was so good that I wanted to make it the minute I got home. The egg wrap I made a few months ago, was the best. And then I had…

June 21, 2024 By Fatima

All Recipes/ Healthy Living/ Lunch and Dinner

Crispy Chicken Salad with Honey Mustard Vinaigrette

June 20, 2024

We’re continuing our journey through “make your favorite fast food salad at home” with a trip to Just Salad. One of my favorites is their honey crispy chicken salad. It combines corn, romaine, spinach, red cabbage, crispy chicken, crumbled feta, quinoa, crispy onions, carrots with honey mustard vinaigrette drizzled all over. This salad fills me up every time. To make this crispy chicken salad at home, I pared it down,…

June 20, 2024 By Fatima

All Recipes/ Healthy Living/ Lunch and Dinner

Crispy Chicken Salad with Poblano Ranch Dressing

May 15, 2024

I’m hitting a wall on lunch options. It’s the most boring meal of the day; I’d rather skip it. Once we started making these salads, I felt inspired to continue my journey to find new lunch options. So the next stop on this salad journey is a crispy chicken salad with poblano ranch dressing. I took some inspiration from some of my and Brian’s favorite salads. Broiled corn, avocado, pickled…

May 15, 2024 By Fatima

Cooking Through Full Plate/ Lunch and Dinner

General Ayesha’s Honey Chicken: Cooking Through Full Plate

May 8, 2024

If you don’t already know by now, we love a make-at-home-takeout meal (copyright “make-in”?). Why? Mostly to cut down on all the unnecessary additives and sodium. I was flipping through Ayesha Curry’s The Full Plate and stumbled on General Ayesha’s Honey Chicken and it looked delicious. I had to make it. Lilies and Loafers has affiliate relationships, so we may get a small share of revenue from your purchases. Items…

May 8, 2024 By Fatima

All Recipes/ Healthy Living/ Lunch and Dinner

Guacamole Greens Salad

May 1, 2024

Sweetgreen is one of our favorite salad places when we’re eating lunch in the city. Once it started to feel like spring, we went into salad mode. We’ve been in salad mode for two months now! I thought it would be a good idea to try and recreate one of our favorite Sweetgreen salads, guacamole greens. We love our salads. One of Brian’s favorites is from Cravings. Personally, I like something…

May 1, 2024 By Fatima

All Recipes/ Comfort Food/ Slow Cookers and Soups

Ramen and Chicken

November 1, 2023

We love a bowl of ramen. However, this is Lilies and Loafers, this is not a cup of noodles situation. Well, sometimes it is! This is homemade ramen. We were looking for a new ramen recipe and we happened to stumble upon this delicious ramen and chicken recipe. We prefer a homemade ramen because of the high amount of sodium found in those little packets of soy sauce powder. With…

November 1, 2023 By Fatima

All Recipes/ Lunch and Dinner

Mexican Corn Salad

September 6, 2023

We’ve been wanting to make Mexican corn salad for a while now. We attempted a few times, but could not get the flavor right. Then we ventured into other things like Chipotle’s corn salsa and used that in so many of our recipes. Finally, I found the right balance of flavors with this latest attempt at Mexican corn salad. I even had to learn to use the grill! My family…

September 6, 2023 By Fatima

All Recipes/ Comfort Food/ Lunch and Dinner/ Vegetarian

Cornmeal Fried Cod Rice Bowl

July 12, 2023

At a certain point, we cycle through the same meatless meals every month or two. Specifically, our fish entrees. We have only so many salmon, white fish, shrimp, and fish tacos to go around. I love them all, but adding this cornmeal fried cod rice bowl, gives me more time between the last salmon dinner and the next. I went out to lunch at a place called Fieldtrip and ordered…

July 12, 2023 By Fatima

Millennial and Parents/ Parenting/ Side Dishes

Black Maternal Health Week 2023

April 12, 2023

Yesterday kicked off Black Maternal Health Week. Black women in America are three times more likely to die from pregnancy-related complications than white women. This is on top of the fact that women in America are dying at a higher rate from pregnancy-related causes than in any other developed nation. Black Maternal Health Week is a reminder that so many families experience pain, neglect, and loss during what should be…

April 12, 2023 By Fatima

All Recipes/ Celebrations/ Lunch and Dinner/ Thanksgiving/ Vegetarian

Thanksgiving Baked Ziti

November 20, 2022

What makes this a Thanksgiving baked ziti? I make ziti for Thanksgiving. With a handful of vegetarians in my family, I need to find other mains for the plate that aren’t just vegetables. So we get Thanksgiving baked ziti. What I love most about mid-to-late November is bringing my family together and cooking for them. I enjoy putting together a family dinner. I show you that I love you when…

November 20, 2022 By Fatima

All Recipes/ Celebrations/ Lunch and Dinner/ Thanksgiving

Parmesan Mashed Potatoes: Cooking Through Cravings

November 16, 2022

I don’t make mashed potatoes often. I usually make them with a few select meals like parmesan chicken, Thanksgiving dinner, and as the star in these mashed potato bowls. When we bought Chrissy Teigen’s latest cookbook, these parmesan mashed potatoes were one of the first things we tried. We made these for the first time on Thanksgiving last year! Did we take these photos almost a year ago? Yes. This…

November 16, 2022 By Fatima

All Recipes/ Celebrations/ Comfort Food/ Thanksgiving

Sheet Pan Cornbread

November 10, 2022

Brian bakes his cookies, and I bake cornbread. It is a staple side at our Thanksgiving. However, I don’t limit it to November. I bake cornbread all year. I make muffins and sheet pan cornbread. While I love making muffins, and those are easier for Liam to help make, I prefer a sheet. When I start my Thanksgiving shopping, four or six boxes of Jiffy mix are some of the…

November 10, 2022 By Fatima

All Recipes/ Celebrations/ Thanksgiving/ Vegetarian

Spicy Honey Butter Glazed Carrots: Cooking Through Cravings

November 8, 2022

I had to introduce more vegetables to my Thanksgiving spread. We make brussel sprouts way too often, and I needed a vegetable that wasn’t spinach or kale. Carrots were my first thought, but they’re also our least favorite vegetable. So a flip through Cravings, led me to these spicy honey-butter glazed carrots. I did not make nearly as many carrots as the recipe. Like I said, cooked carrots are our least…

November 8, 2022 By Fatima

All Recipes/ Celebrations/ Lunch and Dinner/ Thanksgiving/ Vegetarian

Collard Greens

November 4, 2022

A few years ago I decided to make collard greens for Thanksgiving. It had been a while since we had greens at our family dinner, and I had never made them before. For my first experience, it was quite the process. Now, I prep and cook those collard greens in no time. There was one year I looked at the Thanksgiving spread and thought, “There is nothing green here. Just…

November 4, 2022 By Fatima

All Recipes/ Breakfast and Brunch/ Comfort Food/ Dessert

Lemon Poppyseed Muffins

November 2, 2022

A few weeks ago, I was in the mood for some lemon poppyseed muffins. I am not the baker, that’s all Brian. When Brian took a bite out of one of the muffins, he said, “Oh my god, these are fantastic.” Then had a second one. When you get a compliment on your baking from Brian, you know you’ve made something really good. I can spend a whole day making…

November 2, 2022 By Fatima

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