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Whether you’re looking for recipes for your next date night, brunch, party, or dinner tonight, you’ll be able to find something right here. This category features all of our recipes, rolled up in one, easy location. We cover everything from breakfast to brunch, dinner to dessert, vegetarians to carnivores, and red meat to poultry. 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!

All Recipes/ Dad Bakes Cookies/ Dessert

Monster Cookies

August 7, 2019
Monster Cookies

This post on Monster Cookies was originally published in November 2013. Pictures and text have been updated. Whoa! These monster cookies are delicious. Basically, if Cookie Monster dreamed of a cookie that had everything he loved in one cookie, this would be it. I saw these monster cookies pop up numerous times on Pinterest. After scrolling by the fifth pin, I just clicked. Then I fell into a rabbit hole…

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#LoveSummer/ All Recipes/ Celebrations/ Cocktails

Huckleberry Lemonade

July 17, 2019
Huckleberry Lemonade

This post on Huckleberry Lemonade was originally published in May 2015. Pictures and text have been updated. Basically, we gave this post an overhaul. Once in a while, a delicious cocktail will inspire us on a journey to recreate it. Last year, we went to the Meatball shop right after its grand opening on the Upper East Side. There, Fatima had Huckleberry Tea: a combination of huckleberry vodka, iced tea, and…

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#LoveSummer/ All Recipes/ Celebrations/ Sponsored

All the Tips for Throwing a Fourth of July Picnic

June 28, 2019
Fourth of July Picnic

We love celebrating holidays, mostly because of the food. Whether it’s a birthday, Halloween, Christmas, or an impromptu summer picnic, we love bringing all of our new recipes together to share with family and friends. With America’s birthday coming up, we’re offering some tips to throwing a Fourth of July picnic to make your celebration a success. This post is sponsored by Stop & Shop. Lilies and Loafers was compensated…

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All Recipes/ Toddler Food

Rosemary Bean Burger Patties for Toddlers

June 26, 2019
Bean Burger Patties

It’s summertime and that means sundresses, beach days, and picnics. In the city, our version of a picnic is dining al fresco at a burger shop. Since we had our son, our eating-out days are limited, so we’ve been making our burgers indoors. I love a good cheeseburger, but I also like vegetarian burgers as well. We have introduced meat into our son’s diet, but I wanted to let him…

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All Recipes/ Cocktails/ Margaritas

Peach Basil Margaritas

June 25, 2019
Peach Basil Margaritas

Remember those peach margaritas? Well, we added in some basil and they were delicious. We used the basil-thyme simple syrup from the watermelon margaritas to make these peach basil margaritas. These were much more earthy than the last ones we made. The basil works really well with the peach juice. These peach basil margaritas are another one for the books. When we first whipped up the Marquisrita, I never thought I’d…

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Red Velvet Icebox Cake

June 19, 2019

What’s more refreshing than a cold slice of cake on a hot day? Icebox cake. Ever since Fatima introduced me to icebox cake, I haven’t looked back. How had I avoided this dessert until recently? With that Ginger-Spiced icebox cake still on my mind, we wanted to try a new flavor. So we put this red velvet icebox cake together and O-M-G it was fantastic. An icebox cake is really…

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All Recipes/ Beverages

Blueberry Basil Iced Tea

June 18, 2019
Blueberry Basil Iced Tea

Tea before bed has always been a ritual for my wife and me. We have a go-to chamomile tea we prepare before calling it a night. However, I’ve been craving iced tea. Specifically peach iced tea. But in this month’s issue of Food Network magazine, there were a handful of iced tea recipes. Their Blueberry Basil Iced Tea looked so good. This peach iced tea craving, though, hit me hard.…

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All Recipes/ Toddler Food

Squash Cakes

June 5, 2019
Squash Cakes

Our son has been teething–and to clarify, this has been going on since he was 4 months old–but his teething has gotten worse now that some of the back teeth are coming through. So he’s been a little uncomfortable and has shifted his appetite. He went from eating more than he nursed, to nursing more then he eats. The one thing I can get him to still eat is squash…

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All Recipes/ Birthday

Liam’s First Birthday: Party Animals

May 15, 2019
Liam's First Birthday

The fact that we have a toddler now is surreal. We felt like everything has been leading up to this milestone. We’ve been pinching ourselves a lot lately because we’re having so much fun watching this little human grow up. Where did our newborn go?? We celebrated our son’s first birthday with family. We poured so much energy into this party, it felt like we were planning our wedding all…

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All Recipes/ Comfort Food/ Dad Bakes Cookies/ Dessert

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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All Recipes/ Dad Bakes Cookies/ Dessert

Magnolia Bakery’s Banana Pudding

April 10, 2019
Banana Pudding

If you are not familiar with Magnolia’s Banana Pudding, then get familiar. I did not know about it until someone in the office requested it for their birthday. Even still, I thought, banana pudding? Ew! But was I wrong, it was delicious. Like the crazy type A people we are Fatima and I started planning for Liam’s first birthday two months ago, right after he turned 9 months. We thought…

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All Recipes/ Comfort Food/ Lunch and Dinner/ Vegetarian

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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