What's your go-to Shabbos lunch menu when hosting guests?

amother

Forsythia

Sun, Nov 05 2023, 2:06 am

Challah with lots of dips and salads.

Salmon fish.
(If guest are chassidish or appreciate traditional we do Egg and liver in the middle of the table with a salad. )
Cholent.
Corned beef or pastrami kept hot in cholent. sweet fruit crumble. Potato kugel.
Dessert of some kind such as napolean, tart with custard

Boca00

Sun, Nov 05 2023, 2:12 am

Challah
Dips
Salmon/Gefilte fish- if you guys like fish
Shnitzel salad
Cholent
Potato kugel
Deli roll
Breaded broccoli (from frozen)
Cookies/cake/ice cream

amother

Lemonchiffon

Sun, Nov 05 2023, 2:13 am

Gefilte
Fresh salad
Cabbage salad
Dip or two with challah
Cholent
Green beans
Sweet potatoes
Mushrooms
Quinoa
Fruit and cake for dessert

amother

Eggshell

Sun, Nov 05 2023, 2:32 am

Challah
Dips
Gefilta
Salmon

Eggs
Liver
Gala
Sliced vegetables-cucumber, peppers, cherry tomatoes
If I want to impress I'll do the eggs on some sort of crispy wrap base.

Cholent
Jerky/hot pastrami
Kishka
Lokshen kugel
Apple (or something else sweet) kugel

Dessert

amother

Starflower

Sun, Nov 05 2023, 2:32 am

Challah
Fish
Cabbage salad
Another salad
Cholent
Schnitzel
Pulled beef
Potato kugel
Another side (rice/noodle kugel/etc)
Green beans
Lettuce salad
Fruit + cake/cookies

amother

Silver

Sun, Nov 05 2023, 3:05 am

Can someone teach me how to keep pastrami hot in the cholent? This isn't deli pastrami, right?

SuperWify

Sun, Nov 05 2023, 4:04 am

Challah
8-10 salads and dips

Mazza (chicken nuggets, lachmagene, mini hot dogs, deli roll ect)
Meat board

Cholent with eggs
Over night potato kugel
1 more hot main (can be roast, pulled beef, chicken ect)

Brownies with ice cream

amother

Cinnamon

Sun, Nov 05 2023, 4:31 am

Sourdough
Dips
Side of salmon
Salad
Egg salad
Cholent
Overnight potato kugel
Brownies and ice cream

amother

Lily

Sun, Nov 05 2023, 6:28 am

Challah
3 dips
2 salads with greens
1 grain salad (sometimes served with main)
Gefilte fish
Salmon or sushi salad
Cholent
Grilled chicken
Potato kugel
Vegetable kugel or greens beans or broccoli
Sweet side ( apple kugel carrot muffins lukshen kugel)
Cake/cookies/ice cream pie, fruit, tea

This was developed due to guests with varying health concerns. People who are weight conscious or gluten free can easily enjoy plus people who like sweet foods can. If I know that we are having davka one type and not the other I adjust the menu.

When it's just my family:
Challah
Dips
1 salad
Gefilte fish
Cholent
Potato kugel leftover from the night
Vegetable left over from the night
Sweet side of a child made it.
Dessert.

amother

Babypink

Sun, Nov 05 2023, 7:35 am

For a change I sometimes make chicken and rice Cassarole instead of chulent
But you need to ask your Rav if you can put it on the blech on Shabbos

Here is my menu

Fried Tilapia or Ceviche in the summer
4 salads
3 dips

Cholent or Chicken & Rice Cassarole
Potato kugel
Vegetable kugel
And I heat up or serve at room temp all the leftover roast (I make extra for this) and veggies from the night. But you need to ask your Rav what you are allowed to reheat.

Dessert-
Fruit platter
Something mezonot
Ice cream
Dessert that guest brought

amother

Scarlet

Sun, Nov 05 2023, 7:38 am

Challah
Dips
Platter of cut veggies
Gefilte fish
Salmon
Egg salad
Leafy salad
Cholent
Meat board
Sliced grilled chicken
Ice cream and toppings

amother

Oatmeal

Sun, Nov 05 2023, 7:52 am

Challah (reg + sourdough) and dips (I make 2-3, and we'll buy or make according to any specific preferences guests have)

Gefilte/salmon/sushi --> some combo of those 3

DH and I both dislike cholent, so unless we're having a large family we skip it. Instead I'll do:
Grilled chicken
Hasselback salami
Deli roll
Quinoa salad
Lettuce salad
Other small salads like Israeli, pasta, broccoli, etc
Turkey deli
Kugel

Cake, ice cream or something for dessert

amother

Apricot

Sun, Nov 05 2023, 7:55 am

My regular menu.
I just set the table nicer and use nice serving platters.

Challah/dips
Pickles
Fish
Salad
Chulent
Overnight kugel
Deli
Franks’n blanks
Dessert

amother

Raspberry

Sun, Nov 05 2023, 10:44 am

My husband like the traditional 'Shabbos flavored' salmon

This is for 4 slices if fish
1 onion sliced in circles
1 carrot sliced into circles
3 cups water
3 tablespoons sugar
1 1/2 tsp salt
Pinch of black pepper

I let the mixture bubble and the add half a roll gefilte for 50 minutes, then add the salmon for 20-25 minutes