haluski

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1. pluralplural onlyA traditional variety of thick, soft noodles or dumplings found in many Central and Eastern European cuisines.

   If the water wasn’t boiling hard enough the haluski sank to the bottom and stuck.

   2009, Fran Cirbo, Working the Land: Building a Life, [Denver, Colo.]: FELLTTA Books, →ISBN, page 69

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   Kay bought two bowls of haluski—or cabbages and noodles—a festival staple in western Pennsylvania.

   1996, Craig Kennedy, Pennsylvania Fairs and Country Festivals, Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, →ISBN, page 73

   Stir in the crumbled bacon, the noodles, the remaining garlic salt, and the pepper, and let the haluski cook for 5 more minutes or so.

   2009, Guy Fieri with Ann Volkwein, More Diners, Drive-ins and Dives: A Drop-Top Culinary Cruise Through America’s Finest and Funkiest Joints, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow, →ISBN, page 74

   The church is only a few miles down and across the Ohio from our house, but rarely have I remembered to drive there on Friday mornings, or to swing across the street for the haluski that came from heaven by way of the St. John the Baptist Ukranian^([sic]) Catholic Church. (Fridays were once more competitive than Sundays on Olivia Street, but I hear St. John’s no longer has the people for haluski.)

   2009, Brian O’Neill, The Paris of Appalachia: Pittsburgh in the Twenty-first Century, Pittsburgh, Pa.: Carnegie Mellon University Press, →ISBN, page 45

   He imagined a dot marking Olbinski’s, where he’d taken Trish Jaskula on their second date because she said the haluski was just like her grandma’s.

   2013, Laura Hemphill, Buying In, Boston, Mass.: New Harvest/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 71

   Don had the Haluski Special and it had arrived swimming in a pool of yellow grease.

   2017, Stephen King, Owen King, Sleeping Beauties, New York, N.Y.: Scribner, →ISBN, page 464