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Sparkle

Thu, Jul 06 2006, 11:04 am

Now that I am getting such great ideas for Shabbos day - anyone have some good ones for Friday night? Anything other than chicken soup!

flippinout ↓

Thu, Jul 06 2006, 11:07 am

Fruit soup, nice, healthy and refreshing!! Or cold tomatoe juice served with a slice of lemon!

chocolate moose

Thu, Jul 06 2006, 11:09 am

you don't have to serve course after course on the latest nights. Chalah and a dip is fine.

DefyGravity ↓

Thu, Jul 06 2006, 11:14 am

SaraG wrote:

you don't have to serve course after course on the latest nights. Chalah and a dip is fine.

I agree with Sara. Shabbos starts so late as it is, many people would rather just get to the main meal without so many starter courses.

My dad was so excited when he visited last week b/c neither my in-laws or I serve a fish course. He told me that my mom always serves a course between soup and the main meal and it drives him crazy.

If I don't serve soup Friday night, we go straight to the main course. If people want salad, it's on the table.

shopaholic

Thu, Jul 06 2006, 12:11 pm

We don't like too much either but I don't feel that its Shabbos if we don't have fish course +salads & then chicken & kugel & sometimes dessert.

For the appetizer, try canned salmon mixed with mayo. Put a scoop on a piece of lettuce.

matha

Thu, Jul 06 2006, 12:16 pm

wowo you guys are lucky!!
we would never get away with challa and dip....
it has to be full meal even on friday nights....
challa with fish (usually more then one kind)
salad - lettuce salad and spinach salad
babaganoush
pasta salad
and few others that we alternate every few weeks
soup (sometime with matza balls sometimnes not)
chicken
2 side dishes like a rice and kugel (for the late friday nights in the winter we usually have more)
desert and tea
we can never get away with anything less..... its in sane......
of course it has to be on dishes Rolling Eyes

willow ↓

Thu, Jul 06 2006, 12:38 pm

flippinout can you make fruit soup without sugar?

↑ flippinout

Thu, Jul 06 2006, 1:17 pm

willow wrote:

flippinout can you make fruit soup without sugar?

you can but it can have a very tangy taste to it....depends also what fruits u use.....plums are very sour tasting after cooking..........

Chanie

Thu, Jul 06 2006, 1:23 pm

my mother would sometimes add grape juice as a sweetner to the fruit soup.

avigayil

Thu, Jul 06 2006, 3:03 pm

How do you make fruit soup?

mommy2

Thu, Jul 06 2006, 3:50 pm

Put sour cherries in a pot, it usually comes in a jar w/ water and sugar.
Add in nectarines, peaches, plums, apricots, blueberries, pears... mostly summer fruit, add about a cup of sugar, fill up pot w/ water and cook about an hour. at the end add water mixed w/ cornstarch to thicken and cook for another 10 minutes. U can also use an egg instead of cornstarch but add gradually only once the soup is cool or else u'll end up w/ pieces in the soup.
The good thing about this soup is that u can use up the fruits that are going to go bad. Put in fridge and eat cold!
ps. for those who grew up w/ it, summer cant go w/o it, for others who are trying this for the first time it might take a while til u'll like it and could actually use it instead of chicken soup.

↑ willow

Thu, Jul 06 2006, 11:12 pm

All thee recipes call for sugar. My dh loves fruit soup but How can I make it without sugar?

↑ DefyGravity

Fri, Jul 07 2006, 6:49 am

Use splenda.

red sea

Sat, Jul 08 2006, 9:13 pm

willow wrote:

All thee recipes call for sugar. My dh loves fruit soup but How can I make it without sugar?

Honey

yoyosma

Sat, Jul 08 2006, 9:34 pm

I dont make soup in the summer.
For Friday night, its usually fish and two other salads and some dips.
Then comes chicken with potatoes, or just chicken with NO side dish, IF its actually eaten.

Gaucamole and homemade Babaganous are always a hit.

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