What's on the menu?

amother

Bronze

Sun, May 09 2021, 12:23 pm

We have very small meals because we are not big eaters and can't handle large multicourse meals. So I know my menu might seem paltry compared to everyone else, but it works for us

Night meals:
Onion soup with garlic knots
Cheese blintzes with sour cream and fresh fruit
Ceasar salad (I usually do a salmon salad but not this year because I am pregnant and cannot tolerate fish)

Day #1 meal:
Tropical salad
Dairy broccoli soup
Fettuccine Alfredo

Iced coffee and mini cheesecake for dessert

Going out for day #2 meal

misteray

Wed, May 12 2021, 11:25 am

We don't eat tons and I don't enjoy cooking, so I try to find a balance between Yom Tov meals that are special and easy to prepare and kids will eat (or at least try).

Fleishig meals
Soup, Knaidels, Noodles, Croutons (from challah)
Roasted garlic cloves
Roast (of some sort, didn't decide yet)
Leftover Shabbos chicken (with rice under) for whomever wants
Krautpletzlach (noodles and cabbage)
Potato Kugel
Sliced potatoes and sweet potatoes with spices
Roasted cauliflower
Zuchinni and onions
Roast garlic string beans
Carrot muffins
Pumpkin chip muffins

Dairy meal
Toast cups with brocolli and melted cheese inside (at least I'd like to, we'll see if it happens)
Blinzes (I really don't like making these, but it was specially requested by my son...)
Hard boiled eggs (for my daughter who will not eat anything else...)
Salmon- probably simple with just garlic and lemon
Lettuce salad, I don't do the "fancy" salads, anyone who wants to ad-lib can do it to their own plate.
Spaghetti with a cheese sauce, my kids don't like tomato sauce.
Cheesecake (made by my mother in law)

Eating out one meal

4g01o

Wed, May 12 2021, 11:34 am

misteray wrote:

What's your noodles and cabbage recipe please?

amother

Dodgerblue

Wed, May 12 2021, 11:44 am

amother [ Green ] wrote:

First night

Parmesan tilapia
Penne
Salad with feta cheese
Lukshen cheese kugel
Cheesecake
Ice cream
Iced coffee

2nd meal

Gefilte fish
Dips
Corn beef
Potato kugel
Deli rolls
Steamed broccoli
Mini carrot muffins
Maybe rice
Coleslaw
Pickles

2nd night

Salmon
Brown rice
Sweet potatoes
Mini pizzas for kids
Cheese blintzes
Leftover milchigs from first night

Last meal
I don’t know!

Are you preparing the mini pizzas in advance? I won't have my oven on so trying to figure out how to make it so it will still taste fresh

amother

Blonde

Wed, May 12 2021, 12:11 pm

lets see I have to remember what I made to actually get unto the table!

First Night (dairy)

Moroccan fish
Broccoli/zucchini soup
Light Fettuccini alfredo
Penne
mini pizzas
Eggplant Parmesan
mini mushroom quiche
Dairy Caesar salad
dessert - cheescake

First Day Meal

mango/strawberry smoothie
London Broil salad
meat tacos as appetizer
riced cauliflower
hasselback franks n blanks
potatoes
apple cobbler
miami ribs
dessert - lotus coffee individual cups

2nd Night
Salmon
meat soup
chicken capons
vegetables
orzo
dessert - choc cookie lotus dessert

2nd day
fruit cup
deli roll cigars as appetizer
?sweet potato salad
flanken roast
apple kugel
pumpkin muffins
some kind of veg side
rice
dessert: brownies with ice cream

misteray

Wed, May 12 2021, 12:25 pm

Fab4 wrote:

What's your noodles and cabbage recipe please?

I don't really have a recipe, but usually saute onions till soft, add bag of cabbage, lower flame, add salt. Cook till soft. Mix together with cooked egg noodles. That's all :-)

amother

Yellow

Wed, May 12 2021, 12:35 pm

amother [ Blonde ] wrote:

Can you post both lotus desert recipes?

sky

Wed, May 12 2021, 12:39 pm

First meal - dairy
Strawberry soup with crunch
Nachos with cheese sauce and gaucamole
Penne ala vodka (quick)
Salmon
Quiche
Greek salad
Eggplant parm (baked)
Cheesecake
Iced coffee

First day
Pulled beef with tortillas
Frank’s n blanks/deli roll/potato knish
Lettuce salad
Quinoa salad
Soup
Sesame chicken roll ups
Silver tip roast
Baby potatoes
Roasted broccoli
Apple cobbler
Cherry pie

Second night
Salmon
Corn salad
Purple cabbage salad
Chicken soup
Mushroom minute steaks
Coconut chicken
Green beans
Potato kugel
Minor pecan pies
Ice cream

Second day
Sushi vegetable brown rice salad (poke bowls)
Roasted eggplant salad
Russian coleslaw
Pastrami chicken
French roast
Apple kugel
Cauliflower
Left over sides
Dessert?

4g01o

Wed, May 12 2021, 12:46 pm

misteray wrote:

I don't really have a recipe, but usually saute onions till soft, add bag of cabbage, lower flame, add salt. Cook till soft. Mix together with cooked egg noodles. That's all :-)

Love the sound of it! Thanks Smile

bigsis144

Wed, May 12 2021, 12:48 pm

- I bought a 5 lb corned beef on sale
We are not being guests or having guests, so that will be all our fleishig meals. Because my children don’t eat meat anyway!!!!!!!

- re: milchig, all that matters is dessert. Making cheesecake and key lime pie; local home baker is selling cheese babka so I’m buying one. What are the meals, heck if I know, probably scrambled eggs because the kids will eat that and DH will ask for oatmeal because he loves that stuff and he can’t go 24 hours without a bowl...

It is both liberating and maddening to cook for a house full of picky, sensory eaters 😂

Now whatever you do will feel fancy! I’m happy to make other people feel better about themselves by setting the bar really really low 😜

amother

Green

Wed, May 12 2021, 12:57 pm

amother [ Dodgerblue ] wrote:

Are you preparing the mini pizzas in advance? I won't have my oven on so trying to figure out how to make it so it will still taste fresh

I was just thinking that... yes, prepared in advance. I might leave on my milchig oven on 200. One year I think my husband asked his rav who said that if we cover the fleishig blech with foil we can heat milchig things up.

amother

Chartreuse

Wed, May 12 2021, 1:02 pm

First night:
Challa
Dips
Tomato basil soup
Mushroom onion brisket
Root mash
Roasted mini peppers
Berry lemon crisp
Vanilla ice cream

First day:
Milchig kiddish with whatever the guests contribute and cold brew coffee
Homemade onion rolls
Breaded salmon cubes
Spinach feta bake
Broccoli cheese bites
Greek salad
Some kind of dairy pasta made fresh on yt
Tiramisu

Second night
Challa
Dips
Onion flanken soup
Cowboy steak with tomato garlic confit
Cucumber salad and cole slaw
Strawberry applesauce

Second day eating out

amother

Plum

Wed, May 12 2021, 1:06 pm

Dairy
Blintzes with strawberry sauce
Penne a la vodka
Mini pizzas
Salad

Meat meal
Salmon
Cream of chicken soup
Cabbage noodles
Malawach cabbage
Roast
Deli roll
Chicken/pastrami in flaky dough

(Hopefully I’ll manage to cook all this)

allthingsblue

Wed, May 12 2021, 1:06 pm

Chartreuse, yum yum!!
Can you share the mushroom onion brisket recipe?
And can you let me know how the cowboy steak comes out? Looks delicious, wanted to try it but I am not leaving a flame on for yom tov so can't sear it fresh.

amother

Chartreuse

Wed, May 12 2021, 1:14 pm

allthingsblue wrote:

Onion mushroom brisket: half and slice 3 lg onions. Remove stem, peel and slice 3 boxes mushrooms. Sauté in oil until soft, add 1c dry red wine and cook down. Place 2nd cut brisket in pan, sprinkle liberally with salt and pepper, spread onion mushroom sauce over brisket, cover tightly and bake at 350 for 3 hours.

Will try to remember to report on the cowboy steak. Was going to post and ask how to adjust reverse sear timings for well done. That’s the only way some people in our family will eat it.

amother

Green

Wed, May 12 2021, 7:05 pm

amother [ Plum ] wrote:

Can you tell me how to make cream of chicken soup?

hellokitty

Wed, May 12 2021, 8:12 pm

very relaxed, just us and also due to be warm, not super interested in heating up the place - I haven't thought much further than tuna noodle salad (because I like it and it makes me happy) good iced coffee fixings (because coffee), store-bought cheesecake (because cheesecake), big bowl of cut fruit and perhaps bagels