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Sweet and Savory Sweet Potato Pastries

October 5, 2016

Fall is our favorite season. Growing up in New England, I loved experiencing the changes in the leaves, the crunch they make when you step on them, and the cool, crisp air. My family’s annual Halloween Party this year is Harry Potter-themed. It has been so much fun to plan. I think it will be our most Pinteresting Halloween Party, yet! We wanted to experiment with some of the internet’s greatest…

October 5, 2016 By Brian

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Mini Potato Skins

December 15, 2015

These are so good! A great idea for game day, amazing for any party, and delicious as personal appetizers during the week. And who doesn’t love potato skins? We made these for Halloween, and wanted to make them again as a appetizer for a family dinner this week. These can be a little time consuming, since they take 40 minutes to cook, and then they go in and out of the oven to…

December 15, 2015 By Brian

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Apple Cider Spiced Sangria

November 30, 2015

An apple a day keeps the doctor away, right? Would a cup of Apple Cider Spiced Sangria do the same? Boy, do we love apples. In the fall, I could make and eat apple pie ever week if I could. Sangria is a lovely creation. Summer parties, Halloween, and even the winter, sangria can be made to please your guests all times of the year, for any occasion. The recipe below…

November 30, 2015 By Brian

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How to Get Away with Halloween

October 29, 2015

Happy #TGIT! We can’t believe it’s Halloween this week! When this holiday rolls around every year, I know that November is literally right around the corner. What I love about this year’s Halloween weekend, is the that it’s time to turn the clocks back! Our favorite new show out of the gate last year was How to Get Away with Murder, a show we make an effort to watch live –…

October 29, 2015 By Brian

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Peanut Butter Monster Eye Cookies

October 28, 2015

I love adding a little spook to food around Halloween. This year, among many other delicious dishes, we made these peanut butter monster eye cookies. Aren’t they cute? These are so easy to make and don’t require anything special other than these candy monster eyes (found at Michaels). If you’re familiar with peanut butter blossoms, then you’ll know exactly how to make these cookies. Basically, you push the Hershey kisses…

October 28, 2015 By Brian

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Garden Thyme: Halloween Beer Garden

October 27, 2015

With winter on the way, that can mean one thing – most of my garden has been harvested! The only things I have left are my brussel sprouts and kale. They love cold weather and should be ready for harvest just in time for Thanksgiving! 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…

October 27, 2015 By Colleen

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Halloween 2015: Costumes

October 26, 2015

What are you going to be for Halloween? For us, finding Halloween costumes is a stressful process. It’s not so much the making of the costume, it’s more about the idea. Either we’ve come up with an idea a month before and prep for it, or we turn up last-minute as salt and pepper – the literal version. We hate trying to pull something together last-minute and there’s only so…

October 26, 2015 By Brian

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#TBT: DIY Tissue Ghosts

October 22, 2015

As mentioned in our DIY pumpkin wreath tutorial, I used to make these DIY tissue ghosts. And not just a few around Halloween, but hundreds all year long. I must have made thousands over the course of my childhood. I don’t know why and I don’t know how I picked up the habit, but our house would be filled with these little guys. So, to honor this childhood tradition, I’m…

October 22, 2015 By Brian

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Pumpkin Spice Chex Mix

October 21, 2015

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…

October 21, 2015 By Brian

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Mini Candy Apple Fail

October 12, 2015

Oh Pinterest, you pain me sometimes. While we don’t have many cooking fails, when we do, they are complete utter failures. It took us a few tries, but we finally got these chocolate chip cookies to be thick and chewy. When putting together our fall food preview party, we wanted to try to make mini candy apples. We saw a lot of failures, but also other food blogs who seemingly made it work. While…

October 12, 2015 By Brian

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Apple Cider Donuts

October 7, 2015

Fall has arrived! Time to eat everything with pumpkin and apple spice. Brian is working hard with MBA classes so we decided to make most of our fall blogging over the course of one weekend. To get rid of all the food we made, we enlisted some of our closest friends to come over and eat our Apple Cider Donuts. I can’t even begin to tell you the amount of food…

October 7, 2015 By Fatima

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DIY Pumpkin Wreath

September 30, 2015

When it comes to fall and Halloween, my two favorite things to decorate with are ghosts and pumpkins. As a kid I would make little tissue ghosts. They’d be everywhere. I think I made millions of them throughout my entire childhood. Now, Fatima limits my ghost decor to one… Pumpkins, on the the other hand, are sprinkled throughout our apartment. This year, we wanted to get a wreath for fall.…

September 30, 2015 By Brian

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Cookie Monster Pumpkin

October 31, 2014

Happy Halloween! Last weekend, my pumpkin entered into my family’s annual Halloween Party was this Cookie Monster Pumpkin! BONUS POINTS because it was interactive. While I didn’t win, I had so much fun making it. I used a small craft pumpkin from Target, ping pong balls and a sharpie for the eyes, and blue paint for the skin. At the party, I displayed him on a platter with Entenmann’s Cookies and…

October 31, 2014 By Brian

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Halloween Photo Booth

October 27, 2014

Of course we had a photo booth. It’s been the one activity that our guests love participating in. They may not agree on the games, dancing or other entertainment, but everyone flocks to the photo booth. Fall-i-fy your picture-taking space with cornstalks, haystacks, and bats. We had some leftover Polaroid film from the wedding, so we made good use of it. Colleen took apart an old frame, painted it black,…

October 27, 2014 By Brian

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Zombie Cookies

October 27, 2014

Clearly a “nailed it” post. These were so cute. We saw a post on Not Quite Nigella for Voodoo Doll cookies and thought they were adorable. We used a sugar cookie mix to make these little Zombie cookies. Fatima did a great job with the decorations and improvised when we lost a few limbs. We had a few mummy cookies, mostly zombies, and human victims. When one of the cookies lost…

October 27, 2014 By Brian

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Cousin Itt and Samara

October 27, 2014

In addition the plethora of food you’ll be making and the jack-o-lanterns you’ll be carving for the front of your house, you’ll have decisions to make about what to do on the inside. To fill up space, we made some frightful characters to place around the house. COUSIN ITT: I saw Starshine Chic used a grass umbrella and topped with a top hat. Shopping around the dollar store, I came across…

October 27, 2014 By Brian

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