Friday night menu dilemma?

smile

Thu, Nov 19 2020, 4:06 pm

I have a Friday night menu dilemma.
We are not big eaters and therefore don't eat a lot or many courses. However everyone wants something else.

First course is Challah, fish, 1 salad and 1 dip.
This is liked by most.
Then chicken soup with lokshen, I have to do because my husband likes it.
By now we are full for main course. But some kids do want some sort of a main.

Is there any Friday night main course I could do that's light and not too filling?

ra_mom

Thu, Nov 19 2020, 4:26 pm

We do a skirt steak salad. Every gets a nice salad plate. Then we put out a platter of sliced steak and sliced chicken, and little pitchers of dressing, and everyone helps themselves to the add ons.

mha3484

Thu, Nov 19 2020, 5:12 pm

I make all the courses and then what doesnt get eaten gets used either for shabbos lunch, sunday dinner or someones lunch during the week.

smile

Thu, Nov 19 2020, 5:23 pm

tigerwife wrote:

What if you added shredded chicken to your chicken soup and made it more like a one bowl meal?

I do something like this. I have chicken soup with lots of lokshen and chicken breast strips in the soup. I do it, to be more filling and leave out a main course.
However it's not everyone favourite.
I would leave the soup out and do a main instead but hubby feels chicken soup is what makes shabbos.
I could do plain chicken soup but am looking to try out a light main

smile

Thu, Nov 19 2020, 5:25 pm

ra_mom wrote:

We do a skirt steak salad. Every gets a nice salad plate. Then we put out a platter of sliced steak and sliced chicken, and little pitchers of dressing, and everyone helps themselves to the add ons.

What type of salad ?
And the recipe of the dressing please?

life is fun

Thu, Nov 19 2020, 7:16 pm

I serve a tiny bit of fish only with salad
Soup
And chicken for whoever wants, but no kigel if it wont get eaten, or a few pieces of potatoes cooked with the chicken.

Good luck abd good shabbos

ra_mom

Thu, Nov 19 2020, 7:22 pm

smile wrote:

What type of salad ?
And the recipe of the dressing please?

We use romaine, red onion, kirbies, grape tomatoes, and yellow pepper. Sometimes it's romaine, red onion, grape tomatoes and sautéed mushrooms.
We make a red wine vinaigrette with 1 part red wine vinegar, 2 parts olive oil, crushed garlic, salt & pepper.
You can make your family's favorite dressing. Or serve 2 dressing choices.

shmosmom

Thu, Nov 19 2020, 7:43 pm

Meat pizza
Empanadas
Wings
Baked chicken
Boneless chicken and rice tossed together and baked/ cooked with spices.
Yapchik
Deli knishes

Frumme

Thu, Nov 19 2020, 8:07 pm

Bake chicken breasts in a pesto sauce. Serve it Friday night and anything that isn't eaten gets sliced into strips for a pesto chicken salad for Shabbos day!

Other light ideas: mini turkey meatballs; Asian lettuce cups.

artsy

Fri, Nov 20 2020, 5:52 am

ra_mom wrote:

We do a skirt steak salad. Every gets a nice salad plate. Then we put out a platter of sliced steak and sliced chicken, and little pitchers of dressing, and everyone helps themselves to the add ons.

Can you give specific instructions? What do you do with skirt steak? How do you cook it? ?Is there any other name it goes by when I go to the store or just skirt steak? Serve in salad at room temperature? What else would you serve with this on Friday night ra-mom?

Thank you!

imaima

Fri, Nov 20 2020, 5:57 am

smile wrote:

I would just cook what they want, but hopefully it is something that they can also eat next day or sunday. It should not go to waste.

DrMom

Fri, Nov 20 2020, 6:14 am

smile wrote:

I'd be full after challah and fish and salad too To me, that's a meal.

Can you pare down the first course to challah and dip, then move a main course and salad to after the soup?

Or have soup OR salad but not both.

Or make a lighter soup (vegetable soup) instead of chicken noodle soup.

SuperWify

Fri, Nov 20 2020, 7:07 am

Lots of times when it’s just us I’ll make chicken soup and fish and skip the main. Or I’ll just make a small main course.