Your typical Shabbos menu

amother

Electricblue

Wed, Nov 02 2022, 7:44 pm

Friday night- if just me and DH awake

Chicken soup or gefilte fish
Baked schnitzel
Roasted bodek broccoli or cauliflower
Quinoa
Roasted Green beans

Lunch- we usually host 4-6 people

First course-
Challah
Big salad with shredded red cabbage, almonds, dried 50% less sugar cranberries, and chopped bell peppers
Hummus

Main course-

Baked schnitzel or chicken thighs
2 starches- usually two of these: roasted potatoes, farro, quinoa, squash kugel, cranberry apple kugel
2 veggies- two of these- roasted green beans, broccoli kugel, roasted cauliflower, roasted carrots
Grapes
Store bought kokosh or duncan hines baked in a graham cracker crust

It it’s just us- often just cabbage salad and cholent

amother

Amber

Wed, Nov 02 2022, 7:47 pm

Married 2.5 years so its just DH, me and a toddler. Daughter usually sleeps before the seuda so its just us.

Were sefardi so I make a tonnn of salads (homemade) with challah
Tachina, chumus, matbucha, moroccan carrots, salsa, beets, egg salad, potato salad, jalapeno dip, garlic confit, 2 types of coleslaw, homemade pickles, babaganoush, fried eggplant, zaalouk.. cant think what else. I usually make at least 6/7 diff salads.
Then we have moroccan fish and were full so thats it.

Shabbos day either dafina or cholent, maybe grilled chicken or roast chicken with potatoes, maybe meat pizza or rice and meat.

Idk what I am going to cook this week

amother

Daphne

Wed, Nov 02 2022, 8:06 pm

Challah
Homemade: techina, roasted garlic, jalapeño dip
Bought: grilled eggplant and chummus.
Gefilte fish with chrainaise
Sometimes a small piece of salmon too
Chicken soup
Grilled chicken legs or breaded chicken cutlets
Potatoe kugel
Farfel
Yerushalmi kugel (usually bought)
Roasted vegetables
Cole slaw
Sour Pickles
Dessert

Daytime:
Challah, same dips as night before
Gefilte and/or salmon
Egg salad
(Liver sometimes)
Green salad
Hassleback salami
Turkey breast
Hot pastrami
Cole slaw
Cholent
Potatoe kugel from Cholent
Dessert

amother

Coffee

Wed, Nov 02 2022, 8:33 pm

Friday night:
Usually TJ half baked instead of challah
(No dips, not my thing. I prefer to eat real food)
Soup (assorted. Split pea, mushroom barley, red lentil squash, gllwnril, carrot chickpea, chicken)
A main (assorted: this week beef stew. Last week chicken and pierogies. Sometimes meatballs, Salisbury steaks, roast, etc)
Starch (rice, farfel, kasha varnishkas, potato kugel)
Vegetable (roasted cauliflower/brussel sprouts/cauliflower/green beans/sweet potato/butternut squash/acorn squash/spaghetti squash)
Assorted side (either another starchy side or another veggie side)
Dessert (always homemade)

Shabbos lunch we eat at kiddish in shul

amother

Wandflower

Wed, Nov 02 2022, 8:45 pm

Challah, with a few mostly bought dips
Gefilte fish
Soup with Kneidels
Chicken baked over rice, farfel, or barley
Usually one kugel
Green beans

If we have guests I may extras.

Shabbos day main is usually just cholent unless we have guests, then add deli and schnitzel

Sometimes we have desert, assorted onuts and cake/cookies I bake almost every week

amother

Saddlebrown

Wed, Nov 02 2022, 8:47 pm

Friday night
Salmon and gefilta with dips
Chicken soup and knaidlach
Cholent (my kids love it) and deli salad

Shabbos day
Cholent
Kishke
Deli

If we have guests I add a different main fri night and another side

And I serve fish and eggs by day

amother

Coffee

Wed, Nov 02 2022, 8:54 pm

amother Saddlebrown wrote:

Do you make 2 pots of chulent?

jfk92

Wed, Nov 02 2022, 9:25 pm

Friday night
Homemade challah
Dips/salatim (I make them) tehina, beet salad, fried eggplant dip/babaganush w tehina, cabbage salad, Israeli salad, fennel salad.

Randomly I'll make hor devours like meat bourekas or sausage in puff pasty, or Individual deli roll
Fish (usually salmon but change the seasonings: teriyaki, Pesto, pistachio etc)
-sometimes I sear tuna and make spicy mayo and serve w veg and present it very nicely
Soup (typically chicken, sometimes borscht, eggdrop, lentil or mushroom barley)
Parsely- chicken legs over rice w carrots, sweet potatoe, Parsnip and garlic
Meat: minute steak or lamb shoulder, sometimes a delmonico w wine sauce
Sides: yerushalmi kugel (husband) potatoe kugel (kids).
Baked dessert. I like doing muffins lately. Last wk was lemon Blueberry.

Daytime is much less
Leftover salatim (depending on what's left I may make another fresh salad)
Eggsalad
Liver
Leftover kugel
Chulent/stew. I try to change this up as much as I can.
Fruits

amother

Navy

Wed, Nov 02 2022, 9:31 pm

Friday night challah
Salmon/halibut/spicy fish balls
Dips: chuchuka, techinah, homemade mayo, fresh beets carrots, tomato dip, chrein,pickles olive dip mostly homemade
Chicken soup noodles
Meat from cholent, Ferfel sometimes liver
Shabbos lunch challah
Fish eggs liver gala cholent dessert
Sefardi/chassidish mix

amother

Burntblack

Wed, Nov 02 2022, 9:44 pm

I’m only feeding 3 people (including myself). We just do a soup, salad, main, and a side or 2. And even that’s too much food. Next day, we’ll do leftovers or a cold pasta, wraps, salad.

amother

Steel

Wed, Nov 02 2022, 9:57 pm

Challah and 3 dips such as eggplant, tomatoe, madbucha, onion jalapeno.
roasted garlic.
Warm Salmon
chicken soup
meat from the cholent
compote

Challa dips
salmon
sauteed liver
eggs
cholent
compote

My menu is a lot bigger when we have guests.

amother

Saddlebrown

Wed, Nov 02 2022, 10:21 pm

amother Coffee wrote:

Do you make 2 pots of chulent?

No
I make in a large crockpot and I take some out right before shabbos and put into a baking pan onto hot plate for Friday night. (It cooks some more there so even though I put it up Friday late morning and it’s not so well done it cooks up to some on hot plate)
My kids call it two different cholent a since the taste is a little different and they love both types

amother

Almond

Wed, Nov 02 2022, 10:31 pm

Night:
Homemade challah (yum)
Baked gefilte fish (busy in brooklyn 3 ways)
Chrain chatzilim chumus
Big filling salad such as potato or pasta or cabbage
Easy salad like cucumber, tomato, or corn salads
Chicken soup with kneidlach
Some kind of roasted chicken (bbq sauce, mrs dash, ketchup sriracha and honey)
Kugel: apple or pineapple lukshen or broccoli or sweet potato or my own version of potato knish kugel
Dessert: fruit salad

Day meal:
Challah
Gefilte fish and dips again. Sometimes I add avocado dip or whitefish salad or pickled vegetables.
Same salads as by night plus a huge fresh lettuce salad. Romaine, spinach, grape tomatoes, cucumbers, radishes, croutons and a good dressing.
Cholent (my teen boys go crazy over it, I skip it)
Dessert: storebought or homemade baked treat

Then shabbos party nosh
Then melava malka- leftover challah warmed in the oven with deli and any other leftovers from shabbos.

Family of 10 kah. With daytime guests I add deli roll and another type of kugel and a variety of easy desserts.

Phew tomorrow is Thursday. Gotta start from scratch.

amother

Bottlebrush

Wed, Nov 02 2022, 10:38 pm

Homemade challah
Homemade dips: tomato dip, techina, olive dip, sometimes eggplant babaganush. Store bought: chummus
Gefilte fish and salmon with chrain
Chicken soup with veggies, and whatever I have in the freezer: lukshen, knaidlach or both
Radish, sometimes homemade chickpeas
Baked chicken
Potato kugel
Ferfel
sour pickles
homemade sauerkraut
applesauce compote
cake

By day:
same challah, dips, fish
eggs with veggies
Chulent with same kugel , I put fun add-ins into the chulent each week different: sometimes naval pastrami, sometimes marrow bones, sometimes kielbasa, etc.

amother

Amaranthus

Wed, Nov 02 2022, 10:55 pm

night
challa- olive dip, techina, chumus (sometimes grilled eggplant)
salmon and gefilte fish
chicken soup
corned beef or boneless meat or shnitzel
potato kugel, apple cobbler (sometimes salt n pepper kugel or yerushalmi kugel)
ice cream- if kids want

day
challa and dips
salmon and gefilte fish
egg salad
potato kugel
cholent
ice cream

amother

Vanilla

Thu, Nov 03 2022, 12:05 am

Me, DH and 3 kids

Night --
Homemade challah
Schnitzel
Potato kugel or rice
Roasted broccoli or cauliflower

Day --
Homemade challah
Cholent
Homemade Kisha
Deli
Salad

That's all folks

amother

Cyclamen

Thu, Nov 03 2022, 4:29 am

amother Amber wrote:

Recipe please?

amother

Hydrangea

Thu, Nov 03 2022, 4:53 am

If it’s just DH and I we have the same thing Friday Night and Shabbat Day
My Rav let’s us put food in the warming drawer

Salmon
I make 4 salads and 2 dips. I rotate the following
Chopped veggie salad - all color peppers, cucumbers, red onion
Grilled Eggplant
Grilled mini peppers
Red cabbage
Heart of Palm with avocado and cherry tomatoes
Kohl rabi
Anis
Syrian style beets
Spicy Carrots
Syrian style Potato salad
Tapanad
Matbucha
Babaganush
Guacamole
Garlic Confit
If I have lots of guests I may make all of the above

For the main
Roast or minute steak or stuffed vegetables with meat
Roasted mushrooms
Roasted cauliflower and broccoli
Fresh green beans with roasted garlic
If I have guests I’ll add rice or another starch and a second protein, usually a chicken dish

If I have the same guests at night then I’ll serve different night and day

I live in Florida so we usually don’t have soup (FRIDAY NIGHT) or Cholent (Shabbat Day)
unless it’s cold outside.