A literal muffin top

On my lunch break today at Panera Cafe and Bakery, I got a small bite of heaven when I stumbled across a 0.99 cent real chocolate chip muffin top! No fuss, no mess, no wasted bottom that would have been thrown away! Just a delicious moist crumbly muffin top!!! It was perfect!

Guest Feature- Pizza Night at the Rigney Household

Guest feature from Kyle and Christina Rigney!!!

Ps Christina hand makes all of my darling hairbows!!! Check out her store online at etsy.com- her store name is "Basil and Bee!"

"We sweated the green bellpepper, mushrooms, and onions so we don't get a soggy pizza. We cooked the sausage before so we don't get a greasy pizza. We also added 3 kinds of cheeses and pepperoni. Kyle rolled the dough and tossed the pizza to stretch it out. We Baked it on a pampered chef pizza stone to make sure we dont burn the bottom. Woop woop!!! I'm so excited!"



Prep work



Rolling out the home made dough



Kyle tossing the dough- done with love



Pre-oven!!!



Voila- it looks so good!



Thanks for sending in the guest feature T-too!!! It looks so delicious.

Guppy House Monday Night

So, Sunday at the Food Truck and Bocce Ball was really fun. Due to some personal and technical difficulties, I decided to withhold the live blog and to stick with pictures. I will update tonight as I took my big camera and need to edit and upload the pictures to really do them justice.

Monday night, I didn't have Jackson with me, so I went go kart racing and to Guppy house. Again, it's true love and you have to go! Seriously.



Hawaiian fried rice, as seen in past blogs. The funny part comes next.



Kevin, Kiet, and I cleared the whole entire pineapple out of rice. Either we were all starving or the rice was extra good that night because we literally ate the whole entire thing.



Kiet had a spicy popcorn chicken plate with rice.



I ate delicious sweet and sour popcorn chicken. It was delicious. Conversation was flowing, we were all laughing, and getting nice and fat before we went racing.




We all shared some mixed tea. It's Mott's apple juice mixed with real fruit juice and pieces of fresh chopped fruit. So yummy.




And we finished with some heavenly brick toast. I think it was coconut and caramel flavored but I am not sure. I guess I will have to go back and have some more!!! It is sooooo amazing I love it!!!

I just have to finish this blog by stating that after dinner we all went racing and I beat the boys!!! They consider themselves professional Race car drivers, brought their real helmets and gloves etc... but I kicked their butts and not only beat them both- But I had the best lap out of everyone who raced in our heat!!!! Best ending ever!!!!!



Guppy House Anaheim Hills
714-695-1958
5642 East La Palma Ave. #107
Anaheim, CA 92807


Guppy Teahouse
562-865-7288
11803 E. South St.
Cerritos, CA 90703
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Guppy House Hacienda Heights
(626) 965-7288
17188 Colima Rd STE D
Hacienda Heights, CA 91745
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Guppy House Anaheim Hills
714-695-1958
5642 East La Palma Ave. #107
Anaheim, CA 92807
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Guppy House Irvine
(949) 851-9788
2730 Alton Parkway STE 101
Irvine, CA 92614
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The Food Truck and Bocce Ball Festival: what's to come

What do you get when you mix 9 of the hottest gourmet food trucks, 12 professional bocce ball courts and 4 amazing live bands? The Gourmet Food Truck and Bocce Ball Festival at Limoneira Ranch presented by Food Share! Why drive to Los Angeles to experience the food truck movement when it’s coming to Ventura County! Come out with friends and family onJune 12th from 12-6pm and enjoy a day of sunshine filled with supreme cuisine, great music and a chance to team up and play a couple rounds of bocce ball, from beginners to pro's!

For one low price, you will be able to access 9 gourmet food trucks, groove out to 4 of the best local blues bands and a chance to learn and play the best Italian game ever invented…Bocce Ball!

Lunch of Champions

It goes without saying that this is a terrible picture. But yes. For lunch I gorged over a turkey and cheddar lunchable with a banana for dessert. Not exactly what some would choose but there is something about a lunchable that gets me everytime.

Maybe it's because I wasn't allowed to have them when I was younger? Kim would get lunchables for us as a treat, rarely. But I love them, even still as an adult I cannot pass them up when I am at target in the grocery section. I love the turkey and cheese or the pizza ones. No pepperoni though. That meat just looks way too questionable for me. So cheers to you on your lunch from me and my lunchable.

Warm up for this weekend!!'

Ok- this weekend I will be live-blogging from a Bocce ball and food truck festival in Ventura! In honor of what's to come this weekend I had a little food truck heaven last Thursday night. Jackson and I were driving home wondering what I should make for dinner when we saw what looked like a mirage!
At the Best Buy parking lot in Orange, on Tustin Ave- there were 8 food trucks sprawled out and grilling away for my giddy delight! I got so excited and immediately thought this was a sign for me! I turned around and pulled in for a little food truck heaven for Jackson and I!

Best Buy Easy Orange
2375 North Tustin St
Orange CA 92865
Bestbuy.com/store/eastorange




Seabirds food truck was an organic food truck serving local foods... Nothing screamed out- eat me!!!!


French crepes!!!! I will definitely be indulging this guilty pleasure on Thursday night. They were serving savory and sweet crepes and I cannot wait to try both!


The truck you see above is known as "Barcelona on the go."
The chef, Jennifer Norton, was such a pleasure as were her fresh made daily sauces which I enjoyed on my two street tacos below! I had 1 steak taco with a corn and cilantro salsa. It was good. Mildly spicy with the meat still warm. I do personally however, prefer a flour tortilla over flour any day of the week so that would be my only criticism.


As you all know- I am a sucker for a good shrimp taco as well as a good macaroni and cheese! I enjoyed the shrimp tacos with an Aoili sauce and the manchego macaroni and cheese. Yes. Manchego. See the menu below! It was delicious!!!


The mac and cheese was phenomenal. It was so creamy and gooey with the perfect amount of crumbs and texture on top. Th cheese was sharp but also sweet with a touch of salt. Honestly this was the best Mac and cheese that I have had in a long time- and if you read my blog you know that that is saying a lot from me.
Next time I see the Barcelona on the go truck I am praying for two things! I want to eat the bacon wrapped dates and the Spanish Monte cristo. I have listed the menu and weblinks below. This really is a food truck worth following and I will be on the lookout for when they are out and about again!


Sweet Potato Fries with Lime Salt

Bacon Wrapped Dates

Papas, Huevos & Chorizo*

Egg & Chorizo Tacos*

Truck-Made Chilaquiles*

Potato, Artichoke Heart & Sun-Dried Tomato Frittata*

Shrimp Tacos with Chipotle

Top Sirloin Tacos with Roasted Corn Salsa

Manchego Mac & Cheese

Roasted Vegetable Panini with Chimichurri

The Spanish Monte Cristo

Grilled Chicken Sandwich & Fries

Catalan Sausage Sandwich

Paella Valenciana*

USDA Prime Top Sirloin & Fries with Chimichurri


Items subject to change based on seasonality of products.

*Served on weekends. We strongly recommend that you preorder Paella ahead of time via phone @ (949) 939-6798, via our Facebook Fan page, or by email.

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Next, was Spudrunners Gourmet Fry Truck.

I don't even like fries so I don't know what I was thinking- except that Jackson could eat a grilled cheese and we could share some gourmet Irish potatoes. I ordered Jackson a grilled cheese on wheat with sharp cheddar, Brie, and tomatoes. The disappointing thing was that the cheese wasn't even close to being melted which made Jackson totally disinterested in eating it and made the whole sandwich a waste besides the tomatoes, which he did eat. The Irish fries were good, but that's it. Irish fries. How can you mess that up? I did order them with a sun dried tomato ranch to dip in which really exceeded my expectations. I don't know if the grilled cheese issue was due to the truck aesthetics or what? In theory it sounded great and the line was long for Spudrunners. But the execution was a disappointment. I would definitely take a do over though!!! I am a sucker for second chances and was wanting it to be so delicious!

Spudrunners Gourmet Fry Truck
714.270.9012
www.spudrunners.com




Lastly, we finished up at what proved to be a small delight- the "Bakerytruck"

It was a cute, clean, and quaint dessert truck which featured cookies, cream puffs, cupcakes, and bunch cakes. What you see above is a strawberry cream puff and it tasted better than it looks! The truck served milk which was a sweet adage to their schtick.

Bakerytruck
562.536.8774
www.morselsbakingco.com

I will be there this Thursday supporting my local food trucks at Best Buy of East Orange. Hope to see you there! And check back this Sunday for live blog updates from the Ventura Bocce ball and Food Truck festival!

Playing catch up!!! Keep up

Jalapeño margarita!!!
Courtesy of Stephanie my sister
Lonestar restaurant. It was really good sweet and spicy with a whole jalapeño as a garnish.




Sweet potato from Lonestar. Jackson went absolutely nuts for this sweet potato. They served it as if it were a regular baked potato. I added a tiny bit of butte for Jackson and he ate the whole entire thing!!! Not bad for a 16 month old.




If you can't tell what this is, it's a carne asada burrito, wet. It looks good smells good tastes good but made me sick. I know I know, I don't need to share, but I'm blogging honestly and this burrito which tastes so good from Tacos Jalisco on Tustin in Orange made me ill! It's always the good ones that get you!




Cafe Lucca in Old Towne Orange.

Ok, so clearly I go through phase of food that I like to eat. I have my BLT phase, my macaroni and cheese phase which never has dissipated and currently I am on a gelato phase. The above mentioned picture is horrible- I know. But what it is is heaven!
Maple and bacon gelato. With real bites of bacon in it. It tastes like something that shouldn't be so good. The maple is really mild, sweet but not rich at all; while the bacon is salty and the polar opposite of the maple. It is heavy and overpowering and every bite of deliciousness that it sounds. Seriously- new obsession.

I've conceded to the fact that this blog is being done in vain and that at some point I will gain 463lbs. But the thing is- I don't care. I love to eat and to share all my experiences with the lucky people who stumble across this blog!!!