What's for Dinner, Sun., June 28, 2026

[NJCher]

Orecchiette Salad With Halloumi Croutons

In addition to the pasta, this salad has tomatoes and cucumber plus cilantro and mint. The recipe calls for marinating the tomatoes with red wine vinegar and oil in advance. Finely chopped tip lettuce with baby arugula. I'll add the halloumi while still warm, right after a brief stint on my cooktop.

I'm dining light tonight as I made quite a breakfast: a large frittata using both yellow crookneck and zucchini. There's enough for leftovers for the week ahead.

For dessert, white cake over which I pour a banana milkshake made with no sugar ice cream and 1/2 and 1/2. On top of that, blueberry syrup and fresh blueberries; a sprinkling of ginger crystals over the top.

[AnnaLee]

1. Random leftovers

Little bit of broccoli; scoop of cabbage; 3 tiny potatoes and a hefty serving of chili.

[buzzycrumbhunger]

2. Son is cooking, yay!

Well, once he deals with the wasps trying to build a nest at our front door. He caught them starting a nest in a leaf of the big banana tree that never should’ve been planted by the door because it just keeps spreading in all directions. Not sure if the wasps or the plant are the biggest danger.

BBQ seitan, baked potatoes, and sweet corn once the crisis is averted. Yum!

[democrank]

3. Felt like eating simply, a little bit of this and that.

~Assorted vegetables on the grill

~ Side of cottage cheese

~Watermelon chunks

~Slice of pumpernickel bread cut for scooping homemade hummus

~ Lemon water

~ Maybe a mini ice cream sandwich later

[mike_c]

4. spaghetti and a salad

Made a big pot of meat sauce.

[Emile]

5. Meatloaf sandwich, and potato salad.

Strawberry shortcake for dessert.

Popcorn later.

Good Evening

[La Coliniere]

6. Spicy Red Lentil Soup

Got back from an early morning hike and it was already 80 degrees so I decided to spend the rest of the day inside in the ac and make a pot of soup. Made enough for a couple of meals. Also had a nice fruit salad as dessert. Cheers!🥂

[chowmama]

7. Kielbasa, salad and potatonik

The potatonik is a first-time try from Jewish Cooking In America by Joan Nathan. It's a yeast dough that's half grated potatoes, half flour, and baked over sliced onions. It's supposed to come out gold and crispy. That should be about half an hour from now and I'm hoping for the best.

I usually follow a recipe completely the first time. This time, I'm deviating on 2 points. My potatoes are very thin-skinned golds (I could peel them by scratching with my fingernail), so I didn't bother to peel them before grating. And it has a lot of salt, all of which goes in the dough before the raising. Salt does interfere with yeast, and anyway I thought that it would be odd to have unseasoned onions under a salty dough, so I split the salt in thirds - part over the onions, part in the dough and part sprinkled over the top. I'm still nervous about the amount of salt, but at least it'll be evenly distributed. And the dough rose really well.

I'm having fun with the book, which came from Half Price Books. I got it home and half-read before I realized I had an autographed copy. Joan Nathan was thanking somebody for welcoming her to Tulsa. How it got from Tulsa to Minneapolis, I'll never know.