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Whether you’re looking for lunch and dinner ideas for your next family night, dinner party, or tomorrow’s in-law visit, you’ll be able to find something right here. This category features all of our lunch and dinner recipes, rolled up into one, easy location. We cover everything from meatballs to pizza to salads. Our recipes are 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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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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Air Fried French Fries

February 20, 2019
Hamilton Beach Air Fryer

Our 2019 goals are not off to a great start. Target runs (big-box store shopping in general) have reverted back to their old ways. Our reading? Still on the same books. And a balanced diet? Sure, I think that’s the one goal we’re sort of hitting, at least with these air fried french fries. It’s so hard to try to wait until you’re out of everything. But then a few…

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Red Chicken Curry: Cooking Through Cravings 2

February 13, 2019
Red Chicken Curry

File this Red Chicken Curry recipe under “easy weeknight dinners.” Once you’ve prepped (chopped, seasoned, sliced) everything, it takes about 30 minutes to cook. The chicken comes out so moist and the all around flavor is perfection. It has every seasoning you love in a curry, but with a lighter taste. Lilies and Loafers has affiliate relationships, so we may get a small share of revenue from your purchases. Items…

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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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Sweet Potato and Pomegranate Salad: Cooking Through Cravings

October 17, 2018
Sweet Potato and Pomegranate Salad

The more proper name for this salad should be ‘Harvest Salad’. This will make a great starter or side salad for Thanksgiving or compliment any fall meal. While pretty basic, this sweet potato and pomegranate salad is delicious. Everything works together really well and the garlicky honey-dijon dressing pulled it together. The original salad was filled with butternut squash, which would be just as delicious, but we substituted it out…

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Fried Fish Tacos: Cooking Through Cravings

September 5, 2018
Fried Fish Tacos

The past few months have been filled with breastfeeding, diaper changes, lullabies and discovering new recipes. Parental leave has been an amazing time as I bond with Liam and discover a whole new side of myself as a mother. But I could not lose sight of what I’ve always loved doing, which is cooking. Cooking is like therapy for me and it was just what I needed to do between…

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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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Berry Smoothie

August 1, 2018
Berry Smoothie

Our most used appliance in the kitchen is our Nutribullet. Every day, I make sure to blend a smoothie for Brian and me to pair with our lunch. After trying a few green, fruit, and vegetable smoothies, we found this berry smoothie is our favorite. It pairs our favorite elements of the other smoothies into this one, delicious drink. With every smoothie, not only did we find out what fruits…

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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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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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Cauliflower Mash: Cooking Through Cravings

November 8, 2017
Cauliflower Mash

Our next trip through Cravings is this Cauliflower Mash with Roasted Garlic and Ricotta. 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! Whenever I see a recipe for vegan or vegetarian burgers…

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Yellow Rice and Mediterranean Shrimp

September 27, 2017
Yellow Rice and Mediterranean Shrimp

It’s almost that time of the year when it starts to get cold out. Not lately! I’m antsy waiting for the fall weather to arrive, but I should know better. Today is our three-year wedding anniversary, and every year at this time, summer makes a comeback. Don’t get me wrong I love the summer and the warm weather, but I miss my hearty stews, soups and warm comfort food. During…

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Black Bean Burger with Chipotle Mayo

September 20, 2017

I just celebrated a birthday and as I get older I realize how the food I eat affects how I feel. As much as I love cheeseburgers and fries, I know I cannot have them everyday. I have two sisters who are vegetarians and one who’s trying to limit the meat in her diet. So you can imagine the pressure I get from them when I blog mostly about non-vegetarian…

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