What do you serve at your Friday night seudah?

amother

Mon, Dec 20 2010, 10:19 pm

I'm from the gefilta fish and the chicken soup generation with tossed salad and dessert. Lately I've heard that people serve dairy on Friday nights or challah and dips. What do you serve your family and guests?

Sweet Valley Gal

Mon, Dec 20 2010, 10:21 pm

Dairy?? Never heard of that one!

I do do challa and dips but def not dairy.

Do you skip a main course or do you have chicken or meat too?

de_goldy

Mon, Dec 20 2010, 10:23 pm

We do Challah, dips, salad and fish (either gefilte or salmon)

Soup

Chicken/kugel/greenbeans/baked sweet potato slices or some such.

MyKidsRQte

Mon, Dec 20 2010, 10:52 pm

Challah & dips
salmon (& gefilte, if I get around to making it)
chicken soup
bbq wings, potato kugel , lukshen kugel and farfel
dessert of some sort

Marion

Tue, Dec 21 2010, 1:14 am

challah
sometimes soup OR salatim
a main
a side, depending on the main (last week it was just spaghetti, so no side)
sometimes dessert

We don't have much company in the winter on Friday night, and the kids are still up so we try to just make it a kid-friendly family meal (something we don't get the rest of the week). In the summer we are more likely to have company (Shabbat is late anyway, so I'm not getting to be early!) and the kids are in bed (so we can enjoy the company!) so the menu is likely to be more elaborate.

ra_mom

Tue, Dec 21 2010, 1:27 am

when we have guests...

Challah and dips
plated salad
gefilte fish and/or salmon
chicken soup and lokshen
some sort of chicken, carb side dish, and veggie side dish (usually all 3 are roasted)
dessert

when it's just us, we skip the main dish and dessert

fiddle

Tue, Dec 21 2010, 2:01 am

challah, chicken and rice or salad.

my sis in law does dairy. like a dairy soup with a main like eggplant parmesan or fettuccine alfredo

gold21

Tue, Dec 21 2010, 2:16 am

I was under the impression that shabbos meals should include basar (meat or chicken) and dagim (fish)... which explains why my sisters used to each take one fingernail-size piece of gefilte fish, doused in buckets of horseradish, at each shabbos meal, to keep this mitzva. (my family members and I are rather picky eaters) I couldnt bring myself to touch fish so I was the "bum" LOL.... anyhow, we serve challa, dips, gefilte fish, soup, matza balls, shnitzel, carb side dish, dessert. we skip salad on friday nights, its my "break" from having to prepare it...

Raisin

Tue, Dec 21 2010, 3:52 am

challa
dips
either gefilta fish and salad and more dips
or chicken soup with matza balls, lokshen
chicken
kugel/roast potatoes/rice
green beans or another side
salad if we didn't do a fish course
dessert

(we always have fish by day if we don't have it at night. lately its been chicken soup becasue of the cold but I usualy serve fish. very rarely I do both but I consider it baal tashchis to serve so much food that most normal people can't eat it)

grace413

Tue, Dec 21 2010, 5:26 am

wine
challah
eggplant salad/humus/other dips
chicken soup w/shkedei marak
chicken
vegetable salad
couscous w/veggies, roast potatoes, maybe brown rice or mushroom barley casserole
cake and pareve ice cream.

Never serve fish Friday night - soup and main course are plenty. For just us I don't serve dips and make only 2 sides. There might be cake/ice cream in the house but I don't serve it formally.

mom/2

Tue, Dec 21 2010, 6:01 am

We serve the traditional shabbos menu:
Fish - salmon and gefilte
Chicken soup w/ Kneidel
Chicken (oven baked w/ onions and spices) Potato kugel, Farfel, and another kugel or pie
Dessert

pumpkinsbubby

Tue, Dec 21 2010, 6:55 pm

Wine, challah, gefilta fish and assorted salads, I.e.,
tossed salad with lettuce, tomatoes, cukes, onions,
cucumber salad, tomato and onion salad, chic pea salad....
chicken soup with matzo balls with croutons and/or thin noodles, if desired,
roast or broiled chicken with potato or noodle kugel
pareve ice cream or jello for dessert

Lady Godiva

Tue, Dec 21 2010, 7:00 pm

mom/2 wrote:

We serve the traditional shabbos menu:
Fish - salmon and gefilte
Chicken soup w/ Kneidel
Chicken (oven baked w/ onions and spices) Potato kugel, Farfel, and another kugel or pie
Dessert

Traditional for whom? LOL

Lady Godiva

Tue, Dec 21 2010, 7:04 pm

Challah with dips.
Salmon in spicy sauce (and gefilte fish, too, when we have guests who don't eat spicy).
Salad.
Either: Roast beef, corned beef or steak. (When we have guests I make 2 main dishes so I'd also make sesame chicken or lemon chicken or turkey in addition to a beef.)
Rice, a vegetable side dish (string beans, spinach pie, roasted veggies...) (2 vegetable side dishes and rice and baked potatoes when we have guests.)
Dessert is usually chocolate cake or brownies or cookies. (2 desserts and a fruit platter when we have guests.)

suzyq

Wed, Dec 22 2010, 11:01 am

Friday night is usually just the two of us. I can't have a Friday night dinner without soup so we usually have:

Challah
Soup (usually chicken, but sometimes other kinds)
Main - either chicken or meat
Salad
Dessert

Amital

Wed, Dec 22 2010, 1:11 pm

I serve dairy sometimes, but not as a regular thing, and often just if dh is out of town. The rest of us really like dairy better!

We do challah, dips and salads. In the winter, soup. Occasionally fish. Then some sort of main dish, a veggie, a starchy side, and something the kids pick out--often sweet noodle kugel, which becomes the starch. Almost always desert, even if it's just jelly beans or Twizzlers.

I often use the same sides for Shabbat lunch, maybe with something additional if we have guests.

Ema of 5

Wed, Dec 22 2010, 1:47 pm

fish/dips (some homemade, some bought)
soup
roast
chichen
roasted vegies
one or two other sides

no dessert usually.....

aidelmaidel

Wed, Dec 22 2010, 1:56 pm

No Guests:
Wine
Challah
Chummus
Tuv Taam Tuna Deluxe (my husband's thing, not mine)
Lox
Sweet red eggplant chatzilim
a tray of cut veggies
batampte half sour pickles (bright green only)
hard boiled eggs
plain lokshen
one of these: coleslaw, potato salad, green salad
soup with mandel (and some of that lokshen)
chicken
starch - could be rice, could be sweet potatoes, could be baked squash, could be quiche
a green vegetable - broccolli, asparagus, green beans
with might have cookies from the package or ice cream for dessert but usually we skip it friday night

with guests:
same as above but
3-4 salads
a roll of gefilte fish
maybe chicken dumplings for the soup
fancy kugel as the starch
a tray of cake with ice cream or watermelon for dessert

ray family

Wed, Dec 22 2010, 1:57 pm

homemade challah
homemade dips/ salads (about 5 more if there are guests)
fish
chicken
rice
veg side dish
dessert
if there are guests I add more side dishes

amother

Tue, Jan 18 2011, 7:53 am

With my husband only the tradittional food goes.
fish, soup & chicken + potato kugel + salad. & dessert depending on my mood.
Lucky those that get to be original!