Need ideas of suppers very traditional heimish type

amother

Tue, Jan 11 2022, 7:15 pm

Thanks so much for these good ideas! I’m going to work off of these lists. I don’t know how people have time to cook like this regularly! It’s like Shabbos every day. But I’m going to try to do it.

For those who wondered what American food is, so I’ll tell you that some of my kids’ favorite suppers are fajitas, chili and cornbread, tacos, and pizza. To me that’s American food, but maybe others would disagree?

amother

Obsidian

Tue, Jan 11 2022, 7:18 pm

amother [ Teal ] wrote:

Exactly! I mean I know my food is really heimish and Hungarian but I'm curious what "Yeshivish" means in food...

So the part that confuses me is that I always thought heimish food is home style food. Now it means Chassidish food?

synthy

Tue, Jan 11 2022, 7:23 pm

OP, I think your guest will be more excited to eat something different than what they're used to. Unless they're kids/picky eaters, I wouldn't change my cuisine. Stick with what you're comfortable.

amother

Tue, Jan 11 2022, 7:23 pm

I don’t consider it chassidish food only. It’s traditional ashkenazi food. Some people in my extended family cook like this, others don’t. There are plenty of yeshivish people eating like this and it’s delicious and comforting.

amother

Tue, Jan 11 2022, 7:24 pm

Synthy I want them to feel at home and know they don’t really care for American food. I don’t mind cooking different for a bit.

dankbar

Tue, Jan 11 2022, 8:04 pm

Fajitas, chili, tacos to me is Mexican food.

American food would be hotdogs, bbq steak, burger sandwiches, fries, coke, apple pie, maybe grilled chicken salad, mac & cheese (originally Italian ), pizza, also originated from Italy, meatballs & spaghetti maybe originally italian or Mexican.

Heimish has two definitions-it's the Yiddish word for homemade.
It is also used to refer originating from Hungary or Chassidic roots, even if currently not Chassidish.

There are also traditional food coming from Poland or Russia which might be slightly different than the Hungarian foods, even if they are both Eastern European.

dankbar

Tue, Jan 11 2022, 8:11 pm

Ukranian
Tokon- cornmeal porridge
Potato green bean soup with sour cream
Borscht soup with cabbage/green beans and sour cream

Polish
Cheese blintzes
Meat/ cheese/ or potato pierogies either baked like turnovers or cooked like kreplach
They do stuffed cabbage without tomato sauce
Their cholent they do with potatoes instead of beans.

dankbar

Tue, Jan 11 2022, 8:15 pm

Milchig Hungarian
Cheese blintzes
Cheese latkes
Lukshen cheese kugel
Might do white rice or pasta with cocoa & sugar
Macaroni with cottage cheese
Tuna patties
Breaded flounder fish fried
White fish in tomato sauce ( peas & carrots)
Fishballs in tomato sauce ( peas & carrots)

amother

Tue, Jan 11 2022, 8:17 pm

Chili and fajitas were invented in America - from cowboys driving cattle to market thousands of miles in the old days, near the Mexico-Texas border. The tacos most Americans make (not counting Spanish-speaking Americans) aren’t anything like the tacos you find outside of the U.S. so I consider them a solidly American food too. Taco Tuesday is a very American thing (and great marketing strategy).

dankbar

Tue, Jan 11 2022, 8:54 pm

Gefilte fish with chrein
Gefilte fish in tomato sauce
Cucumber salad
Cholomady
Marinated health salad
Squash in tomato sauce
Frank's & eggs
Potato balls in crumbs

More dishes for milchig
Baked salmon with cf crumbs
Mashed potato with sour cream ( could put milk & butter into too)
Rupetcrumpli- baked dish with layered potatoes & eggs sour cream
Farina
Letcho omelet with cheese or letcho with cheese & eggs with bread dipping into it
Kokosh cake/rugelach with milk
Cheesecake with cookie crumbs on top ( rebbetzin's cheese cake it's called, it's a diff recipe than regular, it's made with farmer cheese.

Meatballs come with rice in the mixture.

dankbar

Tue, Jan 11 2022, 9:01 pm

How old are your guests? Do they live in America? For older generation I understand maybe they only eat their traditional foods that they are used to, but if they are young living here, even if they are Chassidish they probably integrate a mixture of old time food & newer inter-cultural current food trends.

Sunday my family had leftovers from shabbos so those were mostly traditional/European
Monday we had schwarma spread so Israeli
Tuesday we had taco spread so American/Mexican

amother

Tue, Jan 11 2022, 9:21 pm

My guests are in their 60s and live in America but not into food trends at all. They live in a beautiful simple neighborhood and live a beautiful 100% Torahdikke life that I admire. I would feel shwarma or tacos is too casual for them even though I personally do like those foods.

ra_mom

Tue, Jan 11 2022, 9:37 pm

Just prepare a 9x13 pan with chicken legs with rice underneath.

A pan of sliced potatoes with minute steak baked on top.

Make 2 large vegetable soups and switch off each night.

amother

Navy

Tue, Jan 11 2022, 9:38 pm

OP- you can make 4 different types of soup in big batches and freeze
This leaves the main dish and dessert
Dessert is store bought and/or pre-cut fruit
So that leaves the main to cook fresh every day
Prep early morning or the night before
Try to make simple sheet pan meals even if it doesn’t sound heimish

Salmon with stringbeans and sweet potato
Chicken with potatoes and zucchini roasted in one big pan
Burgers French fries and corn on the cob
Meat lasagna with roasted broccoli on the side
Chicken and rice cassarole add peas and carrots (frozen) inside

I do not know how many days you will host for
Plus things like tacos or chili will be totally acceptable if the meal starts with soup and ends with dessert

This is my opinion

Oh and if they are older they may not eat that much

amother

Tue, Jan 11 2022, 10:40 pm

Thank you for these good ideas.

Ra_mom, how do you make the chicken and rice taste good and the rice not come out either crunchy or mushy? (I tried it a few times but it never worked for me.) How do you season the minute steak and potatoes, and do you cover it? I don’t like to use soup mix if possible.

ETA I had some sheet pan supper failures too so I’m scared of them. Something always seems to get overdone or even burned. I don’t know why!

pause

Tue, Jan 11 2022, 11:00 pm

Sample menu for this week:

Sunday - Shabbos leftovers
Monday - vegetable lentil soup, salmon patties, roasted whole green beans
Tuesday - citrus chicken cutlets, quinoa with assorted roasted vegetables
Wednesday - easy supper - bread, vegetable salad, omelette
Thursday - chicken bottoms from the Shabbos soup rebroiled, mashed potatoes, creamed spinach

gilamom

Tue, Jan 11 2022, 11:12 pm

Do you follow for-love-of-food on Instagram? She posts recipes for everything she makes like the type of food mentioned here and everything I've made from her is delicious.