Flashback Friday: ✨My Type✨ of Summer Menu

featuring homemade Falafel, Golden Chicken & Rice Pilaf, & more

Deeming this the first week of May (last week still felt like April to me, don’t ask me why), we’re back with a Flashback Friday——the once-a-month edition of Restaurant Dropout, where a previous menu is dusted off, polished, re-shared, and cooked all over again. If you’re a newer subscriber, it’s also a way to cook through some of the older menus that you might have missed.

While this menu was written for the season of summer, it can certainly be made in the spring. I’ve begun to notice across social media that the weather is warming up in most places (including cities overseas).

This week, we’re diving into a menu full of warm-weather flavors—think meals that are bright, make you feel nourished, plus cooking that won’t heat up your kitchen too much.

Since this is a Flashback Friday, we polished the recipes and lists to reflect the never-ending improvements to Restaurant Dropout; Plus, we’ve also included a few notes throughout this newsletter (accompanying an asterisk ‘*’) responding to questions/feedback and highlighting details I might have missed the first time around.

Now let’s dive into it.

Golden Chicken & Rice Pilaf, Summer Orzo Salad, Mediterranean-style Loaded Potatoes