Share your basic Shabbos menus!

The Happy Wife

Fri, May 23 2014, 6:53 pm

I think everyone always shares their best recipes and menus. Please tell me I'm not the only one who sometimes can't manage a big, fancy meal?

Not feeling well this week. Working and taking care if my very active toddler took most of my energy.

Shabbos meal is vegetable soup, tomato tortellinis with sauce, chicken nuggets (the frozen kind), and oven farfel. Veggies from the soup on the side, too. Rice crispy treats for dessert. Store bought challah.

Share your most basic, bare bones, I-just-wasn't-up-to-cooking-this-week menu!

sarahavigail

Fri, May 23 2014, 7:11 pm

Friday night when its just us DH has fish and then we have soup and thats it. If we have guests we'll make chicken and a side or two, since most people are used to a meal. Shabbos day when it's just us DH has fish, cholent, and potato kugel and I make a big salad with a protein of some sort. The huge elaborate meals is just way too much.

cbg

Fri, May 23 2014, 7:12 pm

Store bought challah or pita

Salmon grilled with salt and pepper

Green salad (lettuce, tomato, cucumber)
Heart of Palm with frozen peas and chopped peppers a drop of mayo.
Avocado sliced or mashed

Chicken with duck sauce and sesame seeds (pour sauce, bake covered at 325 for a long time ( or put on the plata for lunch, sprinkle with sesame before serving),

Rice (plain or with sautéed noodles)

String bean (turn on hot water from the tap, when it's very hot fill a bowl, drop in FROZEN stringbeans and mix until defrosted, drain, put on paper towels and dry VERY well, sauté with olive oil and chopped garlic,salt and pepper to taste. Secret very HIGH HEAT, when sautéing, and not too long.

Sweet potatoe (wash, slice in thick wedges, cover bake)

Duncan Hines brownies or cake

Fruit

When you are feeling up to it make doubles and freeze one tray for days like this

Jewishmofm

Fri, May 23 2014, 7:58 pm

this is our shabbos menu every week:
fri nite: challah, baked salmon, chicken soup, chicken, leafy salad, funky salad (this changes weekly, made by DH),
day:
challah, same fish, cholent (made by DS 11), store bought deli, same salads, dessert (ice cream or fresh fruit platter)

abaker

Fri, May 23 2014, 8:42 pm

challah (sometimes from the freezer from another week)
chicken (baked) with a different sauce/spices each week
rice or quinoa (cooked under the chicken sometimes) or microwaved
potatoes/sweet potatoes diced and coated with oil and spices
tofu mousse or banana bread for dessert

Shopmiami49

Sat, May 24 2014, 2:54 pm

I dunno, I'm reading some of your menus and thinking "That's your BASIC BARE BONES menu??" lol...those are like my Yom Tov with tons of guests menu!

We usually have:

store bought challah with various dips
chicken soup with matzah balls
chicken with spices and potatoes underneath
usually no dessert

Shabbos day is challah and dips, a lettuce salad, and cholent (sometimes kishka).

5*Mom

Sat, May 24 2014, 3:15 pm

Friday night:
Store-bought challah
Fish
Chicken soup with lots of veggies
Spiced chicken
Rice
Roasted Veggies
Dessert baked by dd or store-bought parve ice cream

Lunch:
Fish
Cholent
Fresh veggie salad
Broiled chicken breast strips
Leftovers from Fri night
dd's dessert/ice cream

chani8

Sat, May 24 2014, 3:44 pm

Poor OP, sorry you're not feeling well. On a shobbos like that, I'd just hand the job over to DH. He'd serve store bought challah, hummus, chicken in a pot with veggies (and probably no spices), rice, and store bought dessert, like cookies.
For the day, he'd make a pot of beef with veggies (and no spices), served with left over rice, and store bought dessert. 3rd meal is PB&J.

Liebs

Sat, May 24 2014, 5:38 pm

if really no guests and just us and (4) kids then:
challah (from freezer/bought)
loaf of fish baked in oven (as opposed 2 a pot, so no washing nec)
fresh lettuce salad (s/t DH makes it)
if soup in freezer then we have, if not we skip soup especially in summer-but always freeze soup!)
chicken with potatoes (spices/duck sauce/bbq sauce0
if dessert in freezer/bought dessert

day-same fish, fresh salad, chulent
(s/t will buy turkey
this is basic as it gets. if time will-
1-throw green beans in oven with crushed garlic,salt, pepper, soy sauce.
2- potato kugel fresh or take frozen one from freezer & add cup boiling water and bake covered in oven on low temp for really long time. if in rush bake on 350 first 4 hour then lower for 3-4. but if do for 8 then real ttaste of overnite kugel.
3-salt and pepper kugel (w/o onions unless have in freeezer)
4-jello
5-quick cake

Really trick is to always double & freeze. I usually have in freezer:
challah, cake, chicken soup, raw chickens cleaned & in pans (if have time even in freezer with sauce & onions), pot kugel for backup or to put in chulent, apple kugel, homemade kishka, desserts and sauted onions.

sped

Sat, May 24 2014, 5:56 pm

Fri night:
bought challah
salads and dips - what ever I have in the freezer; bought salad mix + dressing, buy more if needed
fish - ususally gefilte either cooked or baked. I try to always have a jar on hand for emergencies
some kind of soup with chicken in it
canned pineapple or cake for dessert

Shabbos day:
same challah, fish, salds and dips
+ egg salad (with onion)
cholent
something from the freezer - shnitzel or chicken or anything else appropriate, if there is. if not, then not
same for kugel
dessert - same as above

Raisin

Sat, May 24 2014, 6:06 pm

I always make challa but sometimes I use from the freezer.

boiled gefilta fish
chummous
chatzilim dip

chicken
roast baby potatoes or rice or kugel from the freezer.
green beans or a fresh salad

bought ice cream, or fruit or something from the freezer.

Just a cholent for lunch. If guests turn up I serve leftover gefilta fish, dips and make some salads as well.

cinnamon

Sat, May 24 2014, 6:12 pm

Friday night
store bought challa, store bought dips, honey mustard salmon
chicken soup w/ kneidlach and lukshen

Shabbos day
bought challa, egg salad, bought lukshen kugle and dips
chollent, lettuce salad
If I has schnitzel in the freezer than also schnitzel if not than I skip it.

gold21

Sat, May 24 2014, 11:34 pm

This week I made a bare-bones Shabbos cuz my husband is working round the clock these days and the shopping didn't get done on Thursday...

Anyway, so we bought challah, sushi (one roll for each person old enough to eat sushi) and vegetable soup... I made schnitzel and grilled chicken.... We bought potato kugel, broccoli soufflé, spinach soufflé, and a rice dish (from the takeout section).... We bought dessert.... I made cholent and salad... We bought deli.... That's pretty much it :-)

mandr

Sun, May 25 2014, 1:15 am

Store bought challah, store-bought dips (except I make the cole slaw), no fish because neither of us likes fish, fruit soup, cooked pastrami wedges, potato kugel, farfel, and brownies for dessert.

thankyou

Sun, May 25 2014, 1:29 am

Ours is so much simpler:
Night:
Store bought challa
(Hummus if DH wants)
Meatballs with potatoes/ deli roll+potatoes in the oven/chickenand potatoes in the oven
Id sometimes throw in rice.

We are not dessert people, id make cookies or something if I'm in the mood

Morning:
Challa and cream cheese and salad.

Third meal:
Left overs/deli if we have

Cest tout!

pumpernickle

Sun, May 25 2014, 1:42 am

Friday night:
-Homemade challah ( I bake and freeze upon demand)
-Various dips (alternating between; eggplant, dill, matbucha, tomato, olive, jalapeño, techina)
-cooked salmon and gefilte fish served w/ sprouts
-Chicken soup w/ noodles
-cold cuts with vegetables
-homemade compote or dessert

Shabbos lunch:
-homemade challah
-dips
-same fish
-eggs and sautéed liver with cut up veggies or salad
-cholent with kishka
-compote or dessert
On weeks where I'm not upto it,
I always keep chicken soup, noodles, challah, compote, techina,
Sautéed liver, raw kishka and even cooked fish in freezer for rainy days... And believe me, it rains pretty often..!

Emily Thorne

Sun, May 25 2014, 2:00 am

I make the same menu winter or summer, with or without guests. I was raised that its a menu passed down generations and every dish has a meaning, and we shouldnt change it or even serve in a different order

friday night- homemade challah
tomato/eggplant/dill/marinated eggplant/chrain dips
sweet n' sour salmon
gefilte fish
chicken soup
chicken
salt n' pepper kugel
ferfel
tzimmes
compote

shabbos day - homemade challah
same dips as above
herring
sweet n' sour salmon
gefilte fish
ayer mit tzvibel
sauteed liver
gala
griven
cholen/kishke
tongue/pastrami coldcuts
salt n' pepper kugel
compote

Emily Thorne

Sun, May 25 2014, 2:08 am

really dont mean to offend anyone. im just genuinely curious. I never knew that people dont serve the same menu as I do. wherever I went since I can remember everyone serves very similar to what I serve. im curious, are these menu's something that you saw by your mother or is it out of convenience? I like to learn different customs