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Comfort Food

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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Better than… Boxed Brownies

May 1, 2019
Boxed Brownies

Our go-to indulgence, when chocolate chip cookies are not able to be made fast enough, is a box of Duncan Hines’ dark chocolate brownie mix. We’re team fudgy all the way. So when I saw Butternut Bakery’s Better Than Boxed Brownies, I knew we needed to try them! They look exquisite. We had to make these twice. One thing I hate about moving is getting used to the oven. You’d…

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Rice and Beans with Lemon Roast Chicken

April 5, 2019
Rice and Beans

Towards the end of my pregnancy, I was on bed rest and that meant I watched a lot of daytime television. Every day around my lunch break I would watch The Chew. Still really upset that was canceled; RIP The Chew. They always had fun guests and delicious recipes. One day they had Ina Garten on and she made her skillet lemon chicken and it looked delicious. I remember texting…

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Roasted Chicken Pizza with Goat Cheese

March 20, 2019
Roasted Chicken Pizza

When we were in Las Vegas to see Celine Dion a few weekends ago, we had this delicious Roasted Chicken Pizza from Trevi. Maybe we were a little buzzed from their super-strong cocktails, but this pizza was delicious. So good, we needed to try to recreate it. It was truly a weekend in Vegas, well 30-ish hours. We had been talking about going to see Celine Dion for some time.…

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Almost Like Chip Chocolate Chip Cookies

March 13, 2019
Chip Chocolate Chip Cookies

Now that we’ve had some time to breathe and explore our new neighborhood, we already have a few favorite spots. One of those being Chip – like everyone else around us. Chip makes only four cookie flavors daily and switches them up every day. We’ve had way too many cookies in the short time we’ve lived here. They are freakin’ delicious. Then I had a thought, “let’s try to recreate…

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Coconut Chicken Tenders: Cooking Through Cravings 2

January 23, 2019
Chicken Tenders

We loved these chicken tenders so much, we had them for dinner four nights in a row! These were so delicious and deserve a spot on the table at your Super Bowl halftime viewing party. But what makes them so good? They’re crunchy, sweet, and savory. The coconut breading makes them crunchy. I love coconut-fried anything. Pineapple is in the marinade for the chicken and in the sweet chili sauce. It…

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Cornbread Muffins

November 14, 2018

Thanksgiving is right around the corner and we’ve been planning everything we want to make. Cornbread is on the top of the list. Since I was a little girl, I have always loved cornbread and every year it would be on the Thanksgiving table. My mom would make the best cornbread using the Jiffy mix and a few extra ingredients. She worked her magic and never tasted so good. Everyone…

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Creamy Garlic Tuscan Chicken

November 7, 2018

While we were on parental leave, we continued to cook. Everyone told us we should make freezer meals or order take-out. Yes, we ordered take-out (thanks Edwin), but we continued to cook. For us, cooking is a stress reliever. While we were so tired in those early days, cooking gave us a chance to trade-off and take a mental break. We tried new things, made our favorites, and indulged. One…

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Cinnamon Rolls

September 19, 2018
Cinnamon Rolls

Breakfast in bed. Airports. Extended vacations at the lake house. Snow days. Christmas morning. These are some of the things that come to mind when I think about cinnamon rolls. They are the comfort food of all comfort food. A Cinnabon cinnamon roll is the greatest indulgence when you’re waiting at the airport. You can’t just walk by the store, smell the warm cinnamon and sweet icing, and not buy…

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Edible Cookie Dough

September 10, 2018
Edible Cookie Dough

My favorite part about baking cookies is eating some of the cookie dough. Our friend, Stephanie, took us to a place called DŌ. It’s a shop dedicated to edible cookie dough. I fell in love. Since that visit, I haven’t had a chance to go back. Instead, I made my own edible cookie dough. Surfing Facebook one late night of trying to soothe Liam, I stumbled upon an edible cookie…

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Onion Rings: Cooking Through Cravings

August 22, 2018
Onion Rings

I’ve never been able to make rings, until now. Every attempt leads to failure. While looking for something to make for our cook-in dinner, I consulted our Cravings cookbook and I landed on these onion rings. 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. Since we were staying in for Fourth…

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Fatima’s Savory Beef Stew

March 21, 2018
Fatima's Beef Stew

In like a lion, out like a lamb. That’s the March motto, right? ​It’s crazy how many snowstorms we’ve had in the last few weeks. On day two of spring, we find ourselves in another winter storm, “four’easter”. On days like today, one of our go-to dinners is this beef stew (or chicken noodle soup). This is not our first beef stew adventure. But after reading through The Food Lab,…

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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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French Toast Casserole with Salted Frosted Flakes: Cooking Through Cravings

December 13, 2017
French Toast Casserole

We’re ending our scheduled trip through Cravings with this French Toast Casserole with Salted Frosted Flakes. 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 interested in making this dish or any of our others, you need to buy Chrissy Teigen’s cookbook! When Fatima and I visit my parents, we…

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Homestyle Mac and Cheese with Parmesan Garlic Bread Crumbs

November 12, 2017
Homestyle Mac and Cheese

This post is sponsored by FreshDirect. We are participating in FreshDirect’s Fourth Annual #FDFriendsgiving! In exchange for this blog post and photos of our Homestyle Mac and Cheese for Instagram, we were given a FreshDirect $100 gift card. It’s hard to think about my childhood without my mom’s baked mac and cheese. Usually made on nights the babysitters (aka one of my cousins) would come over. She would prepare a pan and stick it in…

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