Pasta bakes are an easy way to use up what you have on hand, so this recipe can be highly customizable!
Ingredients
1 container cherry tomatoes
2 portobello caps, roughly chopped
1/2 zucchini, roughly chopped
1 bell pepper, roughly chopped
1/2 tbs oil - I used avocado oil
1/2 package fresh spinach
1 (24) ounce jar marinara sauce
1/2 tsp salt
pinch pepper
pinch red pepper flakes
1 tbs Italian seasoning
1 lb cooked pasta noodles
1 cup parmesan cheese
2 cups mozzarella cheese

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 400 F. 
2. Toss all veggies (minus spinach) in oil and spices and spread out on a baking sheet. Roast for 20-25 minutes. Cook your noodles now.
3. Remove veggies from oven and add to a large pot on medium heat - preferably one that can go directly into oven so it's a one-pot wonder! 
4. Add spinach to wilt, then stir in marinara sauce, 1/2 cup parmesan, 1 cup mozzarella, and pasta noodles.
5. If leaving in one pot, top with remaining cheese. If adding to a casserole dish, add to casserole dish...then top with remaining cheese.
6. Bake for 25 minutes or until cheese looks goldenly good.

These are really good and this is totally. not my recipe. I copied it down to the final minute. (I did add 2 extra minutes to the total baking time.)
Click here to access the recipe!

1 cup softened butter
1 cup sugar
2 eggs, room temperature
1 tbs vanilla
3 cups flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
1 tsp cinnamon

Directions: 
Preheat oven to 400. 
Cream butter and sugar until combined. Add eggs, one at a time, then add vanilla.
Sift together flour, baking soda, salt and cinnamon. Add the sifted ingredients to the wet ingredients.
Roll out your dough on lightly flour-dusted parchment paper. Cut out shapes and place on parchment or silicone mat-lined baking sheet pans. Place baking sheet pan in freezer for 15 minutes. 
Bake 10 minutes until bottoms are golden brown. 

When somebody tells me I can't do something, guess what?
The above happens.
Nobody in particular told me I couldn't tackle a macaron, aside from the whole Internet. Apparently this is one of the tougher recipes to tackle. So, guess what (again)? Yup, I decided to attack the elusive M A C A R O N!
Over the years, I've Pinterest-ed them, studied them, envied them. And yesterday for some unknown reason - aside from cabin fever - I decided it was time. 
I had all the necessary ingredients, thanks to a short love affair with the Keto diet: almond flour, lots of eggs, and even more sugar (since sugar is the devil). 
I followed the recipe as is usual for me. Hurriedly. Unmeasured. And guess what (again x 2)? 
They turned out beautifully.
Only to quickly deflate and stick to the Silpat. 
​The end.

We have officially launched a new product...our ice cream freak shakes! These are delish ice cream creations topped with a sprinkled donut and other goodies. We are currently offering strawberry, chocolate, and vanilla shakes and will be rotating them into our regular dessert menu. 

Well, now that I have celebrity status, I just thought you should see how a celebrity lives. In the winter. With all boys. And cats.
Exhibit A: Cats

Once upon a time, Tom and I met on a blind date, fell in love, got married and had a baby golden, Scooby. Then along came Daphne, another golden. Then along came our kids, but we'll skip over them. Then we were down to Scooby. Then it was empty bowls. 
And during the empty bowl phase, came the resurrection of my teaching career and thus laid to rest the idea of taking care of a puppy full time. So when my son started struggling with anxiety, he requested a rabbit. A rabbit? Um, no. They are nocturnal and I am not. A guinea pig? Yes, I've heard they're sweet, but I still envisioned a dog in our life.  So rodent? No.
Well, what about a cat? 
A cat.
Hmmm.
I had cats growing up and I don't recall them being a nuisance, but as a dog lover I didn't want to transition to a cat. Eventually, though, my son wore me down and when my husband went out of town, we rescued our first cat. 
So here is the cast of characters:
Hairry - glossy black fur, marble green eyes. typical meme cat. belongs to Jack. likes no one.
Jerry - tuxedo cat. small head, big belly. mini human, belongs to Evan. likes Hairry. not liked back.
Ombre - discovered in our fire pit with his siblings. likes to cuddle but is equally petrified of you.
Bronco - likes to kick with his feet. first one at the treat drawer. causes trouble. fire pit sibling.
Gonzalez - was a boy until yesterday when I actually looked and he is a she. fire pit sibling. Thanks All About Animals for getting us in quickly!
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Our adventures begin! 
We will begin documenting the true life and crimes of food truck life! 
This week we will embark on a semi-cross country road trip. My friend Jen and I will be taking Agent D.F. (Donut Fryer) to Tennessee where her husband will be repairing the ill-fated fryer.
Follow my new You Tube channel: https://youtu.be/pnSr1YiD4wM to see the misadventures of D.F. and other hilarity!

So, who are we? 
Well, I would describe us as yin yang. I'm not going indicate who is the "dark side", but it's NOT me. No, just kidding. We both find ourselves residing in the dark side at some point during each event!
Most recently, it was my brilliant idea to add in a new product - funnel cake! We already make donuts, so how hard would it be to spontaneously throw on an additional fried-dough item?  Just look how delicious that picture looks!
I have to say that you do not add in a new product without a) discussing it with your partner first, b) trying before you buy (or sell in our case). and c) discussing it while trying it before you buy!
This particular event consisted of a large amount of middle schoolers who wanted nothing more than to devour fried treats. {As a side note, they really are a fun group of awkwardly-cool people to watch from the window.} 
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...that I can't remember what the series was supposed to be about! I know it was going to be something about being prepared, or measure twice cut once...oh, sorry, that's my sewing blog. Yah, we have a lot that goes on around here. 
But let me start this year by saying we still have not learned to double check the donut fryer before moving the truck. Seriously. I can't stress this enough. That doggone fryer has flown off the counter so many many many times that I'm surprised it even works. But that's not the part of the story that even bothers us! It's the fact that it's always filled with warmed donut grease and guess what happens to that donut grease when the fryer flips upside down and not delicately? 
When it's warm outside, that grease sticks everywhere and we have sung the song Slip Sliding Away (is that even the title?) as we glide across the floor on a wings of grease. Gross, I know. But it happens. We can easily hose down the interior, buy stock in Dawn dish detergent for its degreasing properties and move on to the next time we forget to bungee the fryer AND empty the grease.
But..when it's cold outside...well, that's a different story. The grease hits the surface - any surface - and immediately freezes to that surface. With numbed fingers we try to chisel it off the important surfaces and hope it "disappears", but since we are not on the truck everyday we realize that's not a good idea either come 2 weeks later. 
The good part is our truck is very easy to keep clean and since it is owned by 2 women, we tend to like our cooking spaces clean. That doesn't mean we don't also have mom brains that cause all prior knowledge about donut fryers filled with warm grease to exit our brains instantly as we pull away with a loaded truck for an important event! Again.