The past few days I have been CRAVING diner pancakes. There is nothing like a New Jersey diner breakfast. There is even a website dedicated to NJ diners!
Anyways, this morning, my parents, Matt and I headed out to the Americana diner near my sister’s house.
The Americana is what I would call an upscale diner. Unlike a traditional diner, there was a specific breakfast menu. Also, the Americana serves alcohol at night. Breakfast was amazing though. Here’s my plate!
The Breakfast Sampler – two pancakes, two eggs, two pieces of bacon and one sausage. The pancakes were absolutely amazing – buttermilk – and just as I remember diner pancakes. I ate all the pancakes, both eggs and one piece of bacon – Matt ate the sausage and the other piece of bacon.
Matt would like to point out that he had fruit served with his breakfast. He even took a picture as proof. He had French Toast stuffed with blueberries and mascarpone cheese. It was excellent!
We finished breakfast about 11 am and hit the road. We were both stuffed but around 2:30 pm got a little car crazy and needed a break. Matt wanted some lunch so we stopped at Boston Market.
We split a Chicken Carver Sandwich.
and hit the road again!
We stopped at Hannaford on the way home to pick up our groceries for the week.
Dinner time rolled around and I wasn’t too hungry. Both Matt and I had no desire to make anything so he had a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and I had a Not So Peachy Parfait.
I made a fruit salad with one peach, one nectarine, some green grapes and pomegranate seeds.
Sadly, both the peach and nectarine were not the greatest – but not wanting to waste them, I ate them.
The finished product, layered in my tall glass with Oikos Vanilla Greek Yogurt and some smashed up Kashi Island Vanilla, Cascadian Farm Multi Grain Squares and Quaker Oatmeal Squares
Not my finest – but it hit the spot.
I know I owe you two – don’t worry – I’ve got some ideas churning in my head. Alas, on to today.
September 21, 2009: Avoid the dirty dozen.
At the supermarket today, I was faced with many choices – do I go with the Honeycrisp apples (my fave) or the organic gala (more expensive). The conventional vs. organic grapes. Unfortunately, my wallet does not permit all organic purchases. When I got home, I found this list of the “Dirty Dozen” fruits and vegetables that you should always buy organic. If you have an iphone, you can even download an app with them.
I guess I should have gone with the organic apples – at least I bought organic grapes.
Do you look for organic produce? How do you decide what to buy?
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What a great weekend! Mini vacations like that feel great. I loved your cousin’s wedding cake. The flowers on it were so vibrant!
Glad you’re home safe with a stocked fridge. You’re parfait’s look so good….very professional looking int he tall glass!
The parfait looks yummy!
I haven’t been to a diner in forever. I used to go to Dave’s Diner in Middleboro, MA on weekends in high school. I should try to get back there.
I read that you should buy organic if the item has a skin, so I try to do that with most fruits and veggies. Sometimes I just can’t afford it and go regular. I try my best and that’s all any of us can do right?