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Find hearty, comfort food for your Super Bowl party right here! This category features all of our Super Bowl favorites, rolled up into one, easy location. Our ideas are budget, family, and living-on-your-own friendly, and easy to follow. We’ve made every recipe featured here and our posts will let you know how much we liked it. 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 other niche categories. Thanks for stopping by, hope to have you back soon!

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Buffalo Chicken Lettuce Wraps

December 24, 2014
Buffalo Chicken Lettuce Wraps

Buffalo sauce on anything is amazing and I found another great way to use it in one of my dishes. While browsing Pinterest I stumbled across these buffalo chicken lettuce wraps. This recipe is a great alternative to a buffalo chicken wrap using regular flour tortilla. Using the lettuce will cut the calories and it will still taste delicious. What is also so wonderful about this recipe, is you can…

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Garlic Lime Brussel Sprouts

November 24, 2014
Garlic Lime Brussel Sprouts

Fatima made these garlic lime brussel sprouts as a side for our honey glazed salmon dish. They were awesome! Like I mentioned in the salmon post, I fell in love with brussel sprouts at last year’s Sidesmas (hosted annually by our friend Kate – check out Ummm Now What).   These brussel sprouts complemented our salmon dish really well. Not to mention, these were really easy to make. Basically, sauté them until…

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Uncle Dave’s Pulled Pork

August 31, 2014
Pulled Pork

Oh my gosh. Fatima and I love being able to go over Uncle Dave’s house for parties. He’s an awesome cook and makes some really delicious food, food that you go back up for seconds and thirds. For his daughter’s birthday (my cousin Julia, aka One Broke Cook), he made some delicious pulled pork. It was a process. You’re going to need to start two days beforehand to let your…

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Super Bowl Cupcakes

February 27, 2014
Super Bowl Cupcakes

It’s never too late to post something, right? It’s been really busy in the Marquis-Sow household. Fatima’s been swamped with work, going about 7 days a week straight, coming back at midnight, and I’ve been swamped with my accounting class. Figures, right? The semester where I’m taking accounting, Fatima is in the trenches of busy season. For throwback Thursday, I’m going to discuss our Super Bowl cupcakes. For Super Bowl,…

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Mini Buffalo Chicken Wheels

January 27, 2014
mini Buffalo chicken wheels

When you’re in the mood for a quick snack or need some apps for a party, these mini buffalo chicken wheels are the perfect fit. Quick, easy, and delicious. My sister taught us how to make these; she’s been making them for our family, every Sunday for this year’s football season. Fatima and I made a ton of these for a handful of parties over our Christmas break, and they…

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Cucumber Salmon

May 8, 2013

Cucumbers are so refreshing.  Pairing them with fish, like salmon, can make a great summer appetizer for your parties.  Topping it off with a citrus-lime topping – BAM – you’re the master of party hosting. The appetizer, yummy and healthy, might bring hesitation to your guests.  Salmon on cucumber?  How can that be hearty?  It might not be hearty, but cucumber salmon will appease your health-conscious guests.  …

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Guacamole with Bacon

January 31, 2013

Guacamole is a favorite of mine.  It’s healthy and easy to make.  I love it on chips, toast, even grilled cheese!  Who knew that adding bacon to it would make it that much better?!  Feed your guests a hearty guacamole on game day.  You can use any bacon you want – you know how much we love our turkey bacon. Ingredients: 2 avocados 1 large Tomato 1/4 red onion 3…

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Cucumber Salmon

January 28, 2013

At half time, just before Beyonce performs, you walk into the living room with your new appetizer.  The room, wanting more of your delicious food, turn their heads to you, their eyes following your every move.  Hesitation sets in.  What is it?  Will it be good?  Staring awkwardly at your creation, the room is silent. Your toughest critic, the 12 year old cousin who hates all food unless topped with ketcup, gets…

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Stuffed Bell Peppers

January 22, 2013

Used as an appetizer or a side, stuffed peppers have filled up tummies for years.  For your Super Bowl Party, whip up a few of these tasty delights for your guests.  Hearty, warm, healthy, and flavorful! Ingredients: 2 cups ground turkey 2 Slices Cheese per pepper (Any kind you like) Large Red Bell Peppers 1 Medium Shallot 1/2 cup Chopped spinach 2 Tbs. Butter 2 Tbs. Olive Oil Salt, Pepper,…

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Tomato Soup with Grilled Cheese Croutons

January 21, 2013
Roasted Tomato Soup with Grilled Cheese Croutons

For the long weekend, my parents, my spoiled 8 eight year old puppy, and myself, ventured up to our lake house in New Hampshire. Brr, it was cold, even Siri knew it! I saw this recipe for the roasted tomato soup and grilled cheese croutons on Pinterest, and had it sitting in my back pocket for a few months. Saturday night, we wanted to make a healthy, hearty, warm-your-heart kind of…

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Turkey Chili

December 4, 2012
Turkey Chili

Want to wow your guest with little to no effort? Turkey chili is one of those dishes you can have as a lovely dinner, hearty lunch or amazing appetizer. Pour the chili over rice and have it for dinner. Chili the next day is always the best because it makes a perfect lunch. For my party planners out there, carve out a bread to make a bowl and use the…

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Turkey Parm Meatballs

November 28, 2012
Turkey Parm Meatballs

Love the taste of a good chicken parm?  Looking for a more healthier and fun option for your next dinner party?  Try these deeeeeelicious, melt-in-your-mouth Turkey Parm Meatballs! You can substitute any ground meat you want, we decided to go with turkey meat because it’s low in fat, leaner, and packed with more protein. We found this recipe on Pinterest, and modified it for our needs.…

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Homemade BBQ Sauce

August 29, 2012
Homemade BBQ Sauce

Hello! My name’s Ashley and I’m a friend (and now guest blogger!) on Lilies and Loafers. We like to do lots of things together like run in the Color Run, drinks lots and lots of Marquis-ritas, and share recipes. I decided to make their Turkey Meatball recipe Monday night for dinner but ran into one big problem…I don’t do jar sauces. This may sound really snooty, but I fault my…

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BBQ Chicken Pizza

July 30, 2012
BBQ Chicken Pizza

Love me some BBQ…maybe it’s just a summer thing, but I love a good grillin’ with some good BBQ sauce. I recently found a great sauce to use by Sweet Baby Ray’s, “Sweet Vidalia Onion.” Tangy…just how I like it. While experimenting with pizza making, we decided to try some good old fashioned BBQ Chicken. To make our chicken, we like to poach it. That way, it makes it easy to…

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