I’m excited to share a recipe with you for Vegan Parmesan Cheese (a “cheese” that everyone can eat and enjoy, including vegans or those who are sensitive to dairy products). This Vegan Parmesan Cheese is not cheese-cheese, it’s “cheese” or “cheez” with a Z. Or whatever it is they’re calling non-dairy cheeses these days. This…
Roasted Brussels Sprouts with Bacon + Parmesan
Plain steamed veggies have no business gracing a holiday table. But roasted veggies, baked in rich avocado oil, tossed with crispy matchsticks of organic bacon, garnished with large curls of sharp Parmesan cheese, and lovingly drizzled with a balsamic reduction? That sounds like my kind of holiday side dish. This recipe for Roasted Brussels Sprouts…
Green Chicken Enchilada Casserole
We have been chowing down on this Green Chicken Enchilada Casserole ON. THE. REG! It’s a minimalist // meal-prepper’s dream come true. Taking care of protein, fiber, and satisfying carbohydrates all in one dish. As a San Diego girl – any and ALL things even remotely similar to enchiladas / tacos / burritos is bound…
Lasagna Stuffed Zucchini Boats
Lasagna Stuffed Zucchini Boats! Summer squash loaded up with ALL the good stuff. Mozzarella AND Parmesan cheese, tomato basil sauce, wilted spinach, and ground turkey flavored to taste just like crumbled Italian pork sausage. Low-fat, protein-packed, and carb-conscious // but tastes like you’re digging your fork into a meaty, cheesy layer of freshly baked lasagna….
10 Minute Breakfast Sandwich
Behold, the 10 Minute Breakfast Sandwich! Fluffy egg whites, melted cheese, lean Canadian bacon, arugula, and a dash of hot sauce. All nestled between a freshly toasted English muffin. The fastest food you can shove in your mouth in the morning without having to actually resort to fast-food. A bonafide breakfast meal that is high on…
Creamy Parmesan Polenta
Creamy Parmesan Polenta! Top with some wilted spinach, crispy cubed pancetta, warm tomato-basil sauce, and sautéed tomatoes and you’ve got yourself a little homemade Italian dinner happening. Yep. That means date night caliber food that you can eat in your sweatpants and maybe even that holey old concert tee. The one you eat all the…
Chipotle-Peach Quinoa Salad
Hi there! I’m Mara, the author of the blog Put on Your CakePants, and I’m so excited to have the opportunity to do a guest post today on Free Your Fork! Lauren and I met in college, back when I thought that scrambling eggs for dinner merited taking a photo to document my culinary “skills,”…
Southwestern Breakfast Tacos
Southwestern Breakfast Tacos. YEP. Tacos for breakfast, my friends. Clearly, I have no shame. A high-protein breakfast skillet using egg whites, green hatch chiles, black beans, melted cheese, and a tomato // garlic chili paste all wrapped up in cozy little tortillas. The kind of plate full of food that will help keep you energized…
Chicken Spinach Enchiladas
We’ve got a green-sauce-on-all-things kind of mood goin’ on over here in our little apartment. It rained for a hot second several days ago, giving me an easy excuse to make comfort foods king of this castle. The perfect time to make a big batch of cheesy Chicken Spinach Enchiladas and smother them in my beloved Creamy…
Shredded Chicken Street Tacos
It’s Taco Tuesday, everybody! Well in my case it’s tacos I ate on Super Bowl Sunday AND ate on not-so-meatless-Monday, that I happen to be eating on a Tuesday. AND will also maybe be gobbling up again on Wednesday–Thursday–Friday. When I like something (like reeeeally like it to the point of making embarrassing, low octave,…