No need to be sorry Mark. We are Family. I hope your Son does make a carrer with the Navy. The way things are these days there is no job security anymore. The Col. stayed in for 20 years. I told him just to do twenty cuz I didn't get married to raise the babies on my own for the rest of my life.

You should be very proud of your son! It sounds as though you have a wonderful family.

What happened in Jersey? Well, what happened in Jersey...stays in.... J/K


The first time that we met, Mig and Becky had no idea what I looked like, and I didn't know what they looked like. So Mig calls me on my cell phone and I tell her that I was sitting at the bar. A few minutes later two woman walk in, and one of them says "Are you Don Cardi?" So I gave her this puzzled look like WTF? and replied " What are you talking about lady, what did you say?" And Mig turns beat red and Becky just grabs her and starts running out of the bar yelling at her and I just burst out laughing and only then did Mig realize that it actually was me!

But the look on their faces when I just made believe that I wasn't the person they were looking for was just priceless!

Mig has been trying to get me back for 4 years now!

That's a great story! You guys are a hoot! (There's a midwestern phrase!) This is such a great BB...I wrote in another post that I have been hooked on GF since the network premiere of The Saga in 1977. Of course my mother thought it was just a "phase" when I started dressing up as Al Capone for Halloween in the fifth grade...oh, God! I'm sorry - I thought I was on Melfi's couch there for a minute!

DC is definitely a hoot. I'll tell ya another story about me that makes DC crack up.

That same BB weekend I told my Dad that I was going to NJ to meet some people from the internet. He thought I lost my mind. He also thought I was going there to join the mafia.

We grilled out a pack of these today. OMG!! What a taste of heaven.

Hey.... you had a taste of New York!

Dunno if your supermarket sells them but Nathan's frozen french fries are really good too. You can bake them in an oven and they're the best that I've eaten (from the frozen food section). Of course they're better if you deep fry them but who wants to clean up that mess?

I'll never buy Ball Park hot dogs anymore.

One of my favorite dishes tonight: Cavatelli with broccoli rabe and hot sausage.

Macaroni and meatballs. YUM

Cavatelli with broccoli rabe is a favorite of mine. My wife was going to make it Sunday, but some people dropped by with pizzas and a stromboli. I was a bit disappointed, but she's going to make it later in the week.

I just took my Dad to Lord and Taylor in Scarsdale to buy some golf pants. We stopped at the Odyssey Diner in Eastchester, where I had the best meatloaf I've had in years. Mashed potatoes, brown gravy and corn on the cob, too.

My husband loves to order meatloaf in a good diner. I, on the other hand, do not. I don't even like to eat my own meatloaf.

We got a Costco chicken for dinner. You can't buy and roast a chicken for $5. I don't know how they do it. It always amazes me how good it is.

What a great country dinner.

I love to eat cold meatloaf sandwiches. Now I'm gonna have to make one for dinner.

Vienna Beef hot dogs are what's popular around here. Way more expensive than regular hot dogs but it tastes better too.

I had ribs, potoatoes, and veggies, and cottage cheese for dinner. My very prego wife made it and brought me some at work.

Tonight I make my wife's favorite "Wop Slop" - as she calls it...stuffed shells with my home made gravy, oil & vinegar salad, garlic toast and of course she will wash it down with about 3 gallons of Mountain Dew. Anybody know a Mt. Dew addiction specialist?!?

We're grilling some sausage tonight. I went to Corrado's in Clifton, NJ, which is an Italian specialty store. They make their sausage from scratch. I got the luganiga (long and thin) without the fennel. I can't wait to cook it up. We're also having some peppers, onions and potatoes with it.

Chinese tonight. A little bit of everything. Definitely some crab rangoons.

We're doing Chinese for Mother's Day. I'm riding my bike and eating Lean Cuisines for lunch to make room!

We are having a healthy salad tonight!!

Rabbit food

I will be sending for Chinese take out by 10pm

I had a good cheesburger last nite!

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Lasagne tonight. Hopefully with enough left-overs so i can take some in to night shift later.

I need my midnight feast when i work nights

Went to an Irish pub last night here in the Bronx and had shepherds pie and half-a-dozen Bloody Mary's.

Nice.

I love sheperd's pie.

I've got a couple of cornish hens defrosting on the counter right now for tonight.

Last night we grilled some steaks, and they were incredible. Today, the rain has returned, so it's back to the oven for us.

Pasta with peas tonight.

I had to take my Son to his Doctor's appt. Which is a hour there and a hour back. So We just went to Wendy's. I wasn't in the mood to cook tonight.

Turkey burgers, corn on the cob and baked beans.

Checking the weather forecast to make sure I'm not downwind of Pennsylvania.

The warnings have been lifted. Air quality is restored to normal. I always use Bush's Homestyle baked beans when we don't make our own.

BBQ - burgers, dogs, brats, sausage, steaks! Sailor boy is home from Norfolk and its an outdoor bash! Come on over!