Pappardelle Bolognese

Yum! Pasta found at...where else? TJ's.

Lilly gave me some time to cook when she fell asleep on the ride home! I tried my hand at some bolognese. Tons O leftovers!

And Lilly LOVED it. She wanted seconds.

Dumb Blonde Moment - at its best!

It was one of those mornings. I got up late, Lilly took forever getting ready and then as I was on the road to work, my "refuel" light came on. DING!

OK, so I'll try the spankin' new WaWa. Lord knows I can't show my face in the other WaWa, because about 2 months ago, I pulled away from the gas pump with the nozzle still in my car! Luckily, it popped out of my tank easily and no harm done. It did make an awful sound though...

So I get my gas going, lock my car and head in for some coffee. I left my phone in my car. When I came back to my car, I checked my phone, and as if on auto-pilot, throw it in "Drive" and take off. AGAIN! With the nozzle in my gas tank!! THIS time, the entire hose broke away from the pump station. HOLY FREAKIN' HELL.

It felt like I ran over something. Now all the morning commuters who stopped at WaWa are looking to see what all the noise is. It's just me! Blondie, mangling the brand new pump!

So now I look in my rearview to see the long hose trailing behind my car. *Sheer embarrassment now* I put it into reverse, and pulled back into my spot to return the detached hose to its cradle. Being an honest consumer, I walked into WaWa to explain what happened to the cashier, but she used this opportunity to lecture me on why I shouldn't sit in my car while gas is pumping. I explained that I came in for coffee. She said "Well you know you're not supposed to leave the car unattended, that's a fire hazard...don't you know that?" I politely replied, "Ma'am, I came in here to tell you what happened so that it could be fixed. I don't need a lecture on fire safety." So with that, she decided to embarrass me even more by yelling across the crowded store to her manager, "Jay!!!!!! This lady pulled away with the nozzle still in her tank and it came off!!"

Another customer looked moritfied FOR me. She said, "Oh God, could she say it any louder?" I said to the cashier, "Yes, yould you like a bullhorn?"

So out comes Jay to save the day, in his neon yellow HazMat vest! Cripes, can't I just LEAVE? Jay is comforting and smiling, and explains that these hoses are made to breakaway, jsut for this reason. "Otherwise, you'd blow up." Thanks Jay! Can I go now?

Ugh...I was happy to get to work!

Dinner: Stuffed Shells

For a quick, easy and awesome din-din, I use Scaramuzza'a stuffed shells and their sauce as well. Found in the frozen section of the better grocer stores, such as Safeway and Janssen's in Greenville, DE.

Thaw the sauce, throw the shells in a pan, pour over sauce. Cover with foil and bake at 350 for an hour.

I keep coming back for these because they are just so yummy and you'd never know they came frozen. I'm not a fan of frozen, so this is big coming from me.

In this dinner, I also added some frozen meatballs I had from Roy Tweedy's Meat Market. They are they best I've found.