A baseball outing at Somerset Patriots With my mom

Father’s Day

Dad looks at birthday balloons

"Happy Father's Day Dad"

“Father’s Day 061101

Sundays and Brunch and Blueberry Pancakes

Brunch in Long Branch, New Jersey
McCloone’s

strawberries, pineapple and marshmallow

Sometimes on a Sunday, we take a drive for brunch. McCloone’s is situated right along the ocean, the boardwalk of Long Branch, N.J.

Sunday brunch at McCloon's

What really inspired us to make the drive here was the chocolate fondue fountain (pictured). If you love chocolate, then you are cerainly in heaven here. There was a huge selection of brunch items, both breakfast and lunch type selections,carving stations for beef and roast turkey, several salads, muffins and croissants, but all during the meal, I knew I had to reserve room for the chocolate fondue.

Salt Creek Grille

Besides the array of food, what I enjoy about this restaurant is the Sunday jazz music. It is in the lounge area where the brunch is set up. The musician is playing a piano amidst small informal seating areas with comfy chairs and low cocktail tables.
Both times that we have come, we have had a table along the window in the main dining area. The decor is contemporary. Thre is a huge, it appears floor to ceiling display of wine bottles in a wall divider. As you walk in there is a fireplace to your right. It looks like during the summer, that there is a patio to dine outdoors.

Brunch at Salt Creek Grille

The chandelier

Raspberry cheesecake dessert

Today, let’s have one of my favorite flavor of pancake, Blueberry pancakes. Don’t you agree, that with each bite of pancake, you can taste, the plump juiciest of a blueberry.
There are many Sundays, that I work and therefore I do not have the luxury of going out for Sunday Brunch. Today, I will take care to enjoy every bit of my Sunday at home. blueberry pancakes, Sunday mass, cook some delicious winter soup and for the afternoon, we will go to Dorothea’s House (featured under Polenta Fest title), for an Italian movie. Italian movies are shown once a month in Princeton in Dorothea’s House, a place that was donated for the preservance of Italian culture and language by a lady named Dorothea several decades ago. ( see web site on Dorothea’s House).
Today will probably be the last Sunday that I will have off until a scheduled vacation week. I’m hoping it occurs sooner than that.

Waffles and Blueberry Syrup