If you eat chulent.........

Posted: Mon, Jul 23 2012, 8:52 am Post subject: If you eat chulent.........

Do you eat it throughout the year? Even when it is hot?

Growing up it was a winter food.
My husband did not grow up with chulent and so I dont make it at all, ever.

Someone, in another thread mentioned eating all year. I was just curious about what people do Smile

Silver Member Joined: Feb 14 2010 Posts: 558

All year witht he exception of the shabbatons on which we just dont feel like chulent...3 or 4 times a year. usually during the hot months. aside from that all year.

Silver Member Joined: Sep 07 2008 Posts: 901

All year round Smile

Gold Member Joined: Jan 27 2010 Posts: 1440

We eat something hot and fleischig each week. Some weeks cholent and other weeks we've been experimenting.

Executive Member Joined: May 22 2012 Posts: 437

Never make cholent, but I do usually have something warm to serve for main course.
I do skip soup friday night in the summer - soup really warms you up, and shabbos starts too late to eat a three course meal.

Silver Member Joined: Jul 12 2010 Posts: 654

Where I'm from I never heard of anyone who DOESN'T serve it every shabbos...

Silver Member Joined: Aug 03 2010 Posts: 515

before I got married, we never had cholent.
but now, we both like it, and yes, we have it every week.
im more Shocked

about people who have soup friday night even during a chamsin

Senior Member Joined: Jan 24 2012 Posts: 182

cholent every week. Wouldn't be shabbos without it (same with chicken soup for us).

Platinum Member Joined: Nov 17 2008 Posts: 5050

I personally rarely eat cholent, but I make it every week no matter what -- DH would be very unhappy without it. Even when he's dieting and eating no carbs, I've come up with a version for him.
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Posted: Mon, Jul 23 2012, 10:42 am Post subject: re: If you eat chulent.........

We have chicken soup every friday night and cholent every shabbos afternoon. Rain, shine, hot, or cold. We even had it when the smell made me sick and we had to cook it in the laundry room (which wasn't connected to my bathroom then!) with the door closed. Very Happy

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Gold Member Joined: Jan 12 2010 Posts: 2278 Location: US

We make it all year, not always cholent but some form of crock pot food. Maybe once in a while, I won't if I don't have time, and I have other things to serve. With guests I would always serve - I would think they are expecting it. There is a basis in halacha or minhag to have hot foods on shabbos.

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Silver Member Joined: Jun 21 2010 Posts: 827

We have soup every Friday night and chulent every Shabbos day. We have air conditioning so I I have no problem serving hot food in the summer, my house is just as cool in the winter.
I did not grow up with soup and chulent every week but dh did and he loves it and my kids eat it so I don't mind. And dh makes the chulent so it's less work for me.

Executive Member Joined: Jan 23 2008 Posts: 406

Same here! We have it every week except 2 or 3 times in the summer when it's just too hot. Almost the same thing with chicken soup, although I find the blech does make the kitchen hotter, so I skip it a little more often in the summer, although we miss it.

Diamond Member Joined: Mar 29 2005 Posts: 3592

We gave up cholent for weight reasons Crying or Very sad

but we have chicken soup every Friday night no matter what the temperature.

Posted: Mon, Jul 23 2012, 11:27 am Post subject: re: If you eat chulent.........

I make cholent evrey week. But we have lightened our Shabbos menu in other ways. We don't serve cold cuts anymore and rarely offer kugel. Instead we've been having a "salad bar" every week and serving salmon.
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Gold Member Joined: Oct 14 2009 Posts: 1234

we do have cholent in the warmer months but not every week. We only eat meat on shabbos so sometimes we want other things to eat too so I make those. Typically all of our Shabbos lunch meals are crock pot meals though. I do not do soup in the warm months though.

Platinum Member Joined: Feb 20 2009 Posts: 7671

Yup, we eat cholent all year round. Everyone here has central ac blasting so its not like we are sweating while eating it. Even if we are hot when we get home from shul, we have enough time to cool off with other courses before we get to the cholent.

Eating hot foods is a traditions on shabbat. And versions of cholent have been that hot food for a long time.

Silver Member Joined: Aug 03 2010 Posts: 515

sorry if I wasn't clear.
we currently have chulent shabbos lunch, every week, although in my parents house we never did.
we do NOT have soup every friday night, just because in the summer its too hot.

in my opinion, it's never too hot for chulent Smile

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