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Whether you’re looking for comfort food to get through a break up, weather a storm, or combat a cold winter night, you’ll be able to find something right here. Sometimes, all you want to do is curl up on the couch with a bowl of your favorite [insert fav food here]. This category features all of our comfort food recipes, rolled up into one, easy location. We cover everything from soups to chili, meatballs to wraps, and sweet to savory. Our comfort food recipes are typically budget, family, and 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!

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Turkey and Cranberry Grilled Cheese: Thanksgiving Leftovers

December 4, 2024
Turkey and Cranberry Grilled Cheese

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…

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Copycat Frontega Chicken Sandwich

August 7, 2024
Frontega Chicken Sandwich

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…

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Starbucks Medicine Ball Tea

January 20, 2024
medicine ball tea

January is Hot Tea Month! What a fitting time of year to celebrate a mug of coziness. I have a favorite tea for you. Otherwise known as Honey Citrus Mint Tea on the menu, Starbucks’ Medicine Ball Tea will warm you from the inside out. Throat feeling a little soar? Not feeling your best self? You can also make this legendary tea at home! My mom filled our Christmas stockings…

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French Onion Soup

January 16, 2024
French Onion Soup

In November, we were craving a soup. Fatima wanted French onion soup. I’m not sure why that soup, but it sounded cozy and a perfect dinner during a bout of cold weather. 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. If you’re looking for a recipe, you’re going to have…

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Ramen and Chicken

November 1, 2023
ramen and chicken

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…

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Cornmeal Fried Cod Rice Bowl

July 12, 2023
Cornmeal Fried Cod Rice Bowl

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…

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Food to Eat After Oral Surgery

April 26, 2023
Authentic French Toast

I just had my wisdom teeth removed. On the oral surgery scale, it’s like the least troublesome. But any small disruption in my daily routine is like the end of the world haha. I knew that I’d be limited to certain foods in recovery, so I planned my surgery in an off time of the year; between holidays and right before summer. Once I got through the first few days,…

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Cheesy Gordita Tacos

April 19, 2023

We love a taco night. Who doesn’t? Fatima and I had one of those weeks where we wanted the best, dirty-delicious takeout food. We were stressed, our kids were sick, and all we wanted was Smashburger, Taco Bell, nachos, and every fried blooming onion I could find. Instead, Fatima whipped up these cheesy gordita tacos to keep our cravings at bay. If you don’t know, you buy cheesy gordita tacos…

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Sheet Pan Cornbread

November 10, 2022
cornbread

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…

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Lemon Poppyseed Muffins

November 2, 2022
Lemon Poppyseed Muffins

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…

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Fried Fish Tacos with Avocado Salsa and Chipotle Tartar Sauce

August 18, 2022
Fried Fish Tacos

It’s been a minute since we had some tacos. Since we had these tacos from Cravings and these delicious tacos, we’ve been trying to find the next iteration of fried fish tacos. I think we found them. 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. These tacos are back…

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Roasted Red Pepper Pasta: Cooking Through Full Plate

May 27, 2022
Roasted Red Pepper Pasta

This is one of Liam’s favorite meals to eat and help us make in the kitchen. He loves a bowl of roasted red pepper pasta and we love it, too! Why do we love it so much? It’s easy to make, delicious, and when you’re bored of tomato-based sauce, this spices things up. To be honest, I was hesitant to make this. I love red peppers, however, the idea of…

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BBQ Chicken and Rice Bowls: Cooking Through Cravings

March 28, 2022
BBQ Chicken Rice Bowl

I wanted to love these BBQ chicken and rice bowls. I liked them, but I didn’t love them. Something feels like it’s missing, but I’m not exactly sure what it is. Brian loved them, so maybe it’s just me? 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. As a…

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Buffalo Chicken Pockets

March 4, 2022
Buffalo Chicken Pockets

A previous version of this post for buffalo chicken pockets and buffalo chicken rolls was published in January 2013. We took new photos, updated some of the content in the post, and combined the rolls and pockets. Additionally, we removed our buffalo chicken pizza post. Instead, check this recipe out for fried buffalo chicken pizza! I’ve been wanting to redo photos for these buffalo chicken pockets for some time. It…

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