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Whether you’re looking for appetizers for your next date night, brunch, party, or dinner, you’ll be able to find something right here. This category features all of our appetizer recipes, rolled up into one, easy location. We cover everything from mini to large, pre-appetizer to main appetizer, vegetarians to carnivores, and cheesy to savory. Our recipes are budget, family, living-on-your-own friendly and easy to make! We’ve made every recipe featured here and our posts will let you know how we liked the dish. Let’s be honest, we’ve loved pretty much everything. Leave a comment if you have one. If you’re looking for something more specific use our search bar or check out one of our niche categories. Thanks for stopping by, hope to have you back soon!

Appetizers/ Celebrations/ Christmas/ Dessert/ Snacks

Christmas Party Boxes

December 25, 2020
Christmas over Zoom

The holidays this year will be very different for almost every family around the world. While we won’t be able to fill our Christmas Eve and Christmas Day up with family gatherings IRL, we rallied around some creative ideas to keep us engaged and connected. My aunt thought it would be fun to put together Christmas party boxes to drop off at each family. These Christmas party boxes were filled…

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Tequila Lime Shrimp with Margarita Pipettes

May 23, 2020
Tequila Lime Shrimp with Margarita Pipettes

Make the star appetizer of your gathering, these Tequila Lime Shrimp with Margarita Pipettes! On a crisp and overcast October day, we gathered at a mansion in Connecticut for our last wedding in 2019. For the record, that feels like an eternity ago. It was a quintessential New England fall day. Up until this point, we had attended four other weddings and this was our wedding season finale. Cocktail hour…

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Everything Snap Peas

November 24, 2019
Everything Snap Peas

This past summer’s Food Network magazine was on point. Not only did we find the blueberry basil iced tea, but we found this everything snap peas recipe. One may ask, what is the “everything” in everything snap peas? It’s everything seasoning like what you’d find on an everything bagel! Trader Joes has an “everything but the bagel” seasoning and it’s fantastic! Snap and sugar snap peas are frequent sides at…

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Muddy Buddies

March 7, 2018
Muddy Buddies

This post on Muddy Buddies was originally published in August 2012. Pictures and text have been updated. Basically we gave this post an overhaul. Muddy Buddies (aka Puppy Chow) have been around for what seems like forever. However I never had them nor heard of them until I worked as an Orientation Leader in college. In the weeks leading up to our first new student orientation, the Orientation Leaders (or known as…

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John Legend’s Fried Chicken Wings: Cooking Through Cravings

January 25, 2017
John Legend's Fried Chicken Wings

Did anyone catch the game the other day? Good because you can fill me on what happened. If you haven’t guessed it, I am not a fan of football. But, I love “game day” food. I love a great dip, mozzarella stick and fried chicken wings. Although I’m not part of the 64% of Americans who watch football, I wanted to find a great appetizer to serve at my Super Bowl halftime…

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Cheesy Baked Spinach Dip

January 18, 2017
Cheesy Baked Spinach Dip

This cheesy baked spinach dip is going to the show stopper at your next party. One bite and your guests will end up devouring the rest. Lilies and Loafers has affiliate relationships, so we may get a small share of revenue from your purchases. Items are sold by the retailer, not by Lilies and Loafers. Do you love our goldware? You can find these gold stainless steel spoons at Target! In…

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John Legend’s Chili Recipe: Cooking Through Cravings

January 11, 2017
John's Chili Recipe

The next stop in our journey through Cravings, is John Legend’s chili recipe. His recipe is used with the Frito Pie Bar. We didn’t go all out with the Frito Bar, but we used a few of the toppings (cheesy guacamole, we have our eyes set on you!). If you haven’t been inspired by our other ventures into Cravings, then I hope we can sway you with this chili recipe. And all you’d…

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Homemade Vegetable Dumplings

December 13, 2016
Vegetable Dumplings

The first time Brian and I made dumplings was with my friend, Christine. She came over to our apartment and made these delicious shrimp and ground meat dumplings for us. We reimagined this recipe and made vegetable dumplings! When Brian and I are out to eat, I will always try to order vegetable dumplings. One day, I may turn into a dumpling. Surprisingly, I’ve had a hard time finding a great place for dumplings in New…

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Steak Bites: Cooking Through Cravings

December 7, 2016
Steak Bites

I cannot believe it’s already December! Where did this year go? Now that the holidays are here, we all need to find some amazing recipes for our guests. I highly recommend these delicious steak bites! A little something you may not know about me, is the first Christmas I ever celebrated was with Brian. I grew up in a Muslim household. Although I haven’t been practicing since I was nine, there were still a…

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Pumpkin Bisque

November 21, 2016
Pumpkin Bisque

If you could whip up fall over the stove, it would be called Pumpkin Bisque. This is one of my favorite recipes to make in the fall. I recently made this for our Harry Potter Halloween Party last month and I plan to make it again for Thanksgiving. What’s great about this recipe is you can substitute the pumpkin purée for butternut squash. I realize that butternut squash may be the…

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Pull Apart Garlic Bread

December 8, 2015
Pull Apart Garlic Bread

We’re aiming for a Pinteresting Christmas. Fatima found this delicious pull apart garlic bread from Eclectic Recipes and we added it to our menu because it sounded easy to make. The pictures make it look much smaller than we thought, it’s huge and delicious. The blend of Rosemary, thyme, and butter was magical and our family gobbled it right up. Because the balls are rolled individually, you can form any holiday-themed icon.…

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Pumpkin Spice Chex Mix

October 21, 2015
Pumpkin Spice Chex Mix

My aunt Linda makes some of the best chex mix around. I always look forward to Christmastime when a box arrives at my parents’ house with her homemade chex mix inside. We attempted our own crock pot chex mix last year. However, I will never go back to that. From now on, we are making this pumpkin spice chex mix whenever we can. But yes, there will always be room…

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Apple Pie Muddy Buddies

October 19, 2015
Muddy Buddies

The first time I had muddy buddies (some may call this puppy chow), was back in college during one of our summers working as orientation leaders. On one of our training days, we had an assignment where we had to deliver step-by-step instructions to the rest of the group on anything. I talked about cleaning sneakers and the effects of oxidation. One of the other orientation leaders made muddy buddies. To spice…

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Mini Happy Hour Appetizers

August 11, 2015
mini happy hour

Believe it or not we’ve had a few long weeks this summer. On one of those long week Fridays, we decided to have a spur-of-the-moment mini happy hour. We headed out to the grocery store, wine shop, and ran back home to start cooking. Our theme at Christmas last year, was mini appetizer. It was a hit. Having an “As Seen on TV” taco bowl, we were enlightened to try making…

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Guacamole Egg Rolls

July 9, 2015
Guacamole Egg Rolls

My aunt Helen makes THE BEST egg rolls. Seriously. From the Philippines, she brought over a ridiculously tasty recipe. While she won’t give me the recipe (just yet), I’m continuously trying to figure it out every time I take a bite. A few winters ago, we made shrimp rolls for my family when they came to visit during their annual Christmas trip to NYC. Egg and spring rolls are a must side dish…

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