Sukkos menu - SIMPLE

amother

OP ↓

Tue, Oct 08 2024, 5:42 am

With a likely erev Yom Tov bris

Dd is due any day.
I need to simplify our menu & life for that matter
I came in from OOT to help out and seeing that I’ll be here for the next week, & Yom Kippur around the corner, please help me organize things in my mind and practically too.

Simple , easy & budget friendly.

I’m not counting on people bringing over anything. It’s too close to Yom Tov. that would be an added bonus but not counting on it.

Tue, Oct 08 2024, 7:28 am

WOW!!! What a load. BH for simchas.
Now tachlis.
Do you have a freezer? If so, the following is what I cook for the entire Yom Tov and divide into small bags, one bag for each meal. I rather pack smaller and in case I need more, take out 2 for the meal that I need more. This way I have a minimum to cook immediately before the Yom Tov/meal.
Lukshen
Ferfel
Tzimmes
Challa
Compote
Cake
Kreplach
Different specialty side dishes
Ground and sauteed vegetables in food processor with a few different sizes ready for Yom Tov morning to throw into pot.

Side dishes:
Apple/blueberry cobbler
Fruit pie (I buy the ready dough with whatever filling I want, bake in advance, ready to be defrosted and served)

The following are what I prepare in the morning before Shabbos/ Yom Tov.

Fish:
Put in the pot for all meals for the next few days the following:
Water
Gefilte fish
1-2 onion
Carrot
Spices
Cook for half hour
Then add the amount of fillets you need for the entire Yom Tov/meals for the next few days minus a few slices because the night meals people eat less.

Chicken soup:
Water
Spices (salt, white pepper, cayenne)
Onion
Carrots
Celery
Squash
Parsnip
Chicken bottoms (only as much as needed because the rest goes to the garbage)

Roast beef for day meal enough for 2 day meals:
Large roast in a lined baking pan
Lots of onion under the roast and over.
Spices or duck sauce
Cover really tight and bake

Chulent:
Beans of choice
Meat of choice
Water and spices
After the Thursday night meal, I put everything in the pot and let it cook on low flame until Shabbos morning and only take it down from the flame to warm up the soup and roast for the Friday day meal. And to cook the eggs for the Shabbos morning meal.

After the night meal of the first day, I put a big pot of water and beef bones on the small flame to cook overnight ready to add in the morning frozen sauteed veggies from before Yom Tov.

Anything else is extra and appreciated but not a must.

amother

Mayflower

Tue, Oct 08 2024, 9:42 am

We always do simple.
Either store bought challah or frozen challah dough that I stick in the oven
fish
store bought either cole slaw, potato salad or cucumber salad
soup
store bought potato kugel
one chopped meat main served by all the meals to satisfy picky eaters (usually meatballs or meatloaf)
some type of chicken (usually grilled or shnitzel) for the night meals
a roast for the day meals
some other side since one store bought potato kugel isn't enough- sometimes more than one depending on how big (luckshen kugel, rice, frank n blanks, etc)
I happen to have a sweet tooth, so we generally have more cake than meal food. Sometimes I just stick with Dunkan Hines for cakes, other times I bake other cakes. Dessert whip ice cream is really easy.

amother

Clematis

Tue, Oct 08 2024, 10:45 am

I think best advise I can give is evening meals are soup and main (one protein, one starch one hot veg) and day meals are just main,
for Shabbos you can have fish Fri night.
This is what we do....
so I make 2 meat soups chicken and a meat meat one and we serve either or.
mains for eve are same both nights....brisket or steaks or chicken pastrami roll up...with mashed potatoes or rice, green beans or tzimmes...
lunches are slow cooker or chicken or shnitsel, kugal, salad.
end of
bake or buy (I prefer to bake) a few cakes and cookies, these double for desert.
I make houmas and dips to supplement meals but you can buy too.
btw I do this every yt. so if I can do it regularly you can do it with everything going on BH!

amother

Lawngreen

Tue, Oct 08 2024, 12:11 pm

I do the same menu for the night meals and the same for the day meals, so it's much less planning. I make a couple of desserts and decide at the time what to serve for what meal. Usually either mousse or ice cream, which can just sit in the freezer until we want it. I will usually make a salad just before the meal with whatever I'm in the mood of. Cucumber salad or coleslaw is good as it can be made before yom tov and sit in the fridge, but I don't always have time.

Night meals
Soup (succah is cold it's nice having a soup)
meat and chicken shnitzel (usually a roll of meat that was sliced and it's served cold if I don't want to bother trying to heat it up, or heated up in a sauce)
rice
either veg or sweet kugel as a side

Day
easy appetizer such as knishes
chicken in sweet and sour sauce
steak or other meat
potato kugel
veg or sweet kugel as a side

amother

Catmint ↓

Tue, Oct 08 2024, 1:19 pm

Here's an old menu of mine. It's heavy on meat, So you can substitute chicken. All of these recipes are really quick. If you need any I can share.

• First night
○ Chicken Soup
○ roast
○ Roast potatoes
○ Caesar salad
• First day
○ Gazpacho
○ chicken Marsala
○ deli roll
○ Pepper salad
• Second night
○ Tomato Soup
○ Carrot muffins
○ Tuna steak
○ Hearts of palm salad
• Second day
○ Simple Fruit salad
○ Silver tip +potatoes
○ chopped salad
• Shemini Atzeres night
○ Zucchini soup
○ Roast
○ Roast potatoes
○ Nishnosh salad
• Shmini Atzeres day
○ Salmon
○ Baked bologna
○ Green beans sautéed with garlic
• Simchas Torah night
○ Brisket with potatoes
○ Broccoli and Cauliflower
• Simchas Torah day
○ Corn beef
○ Cranberry muffins

azoygeshmak ↓

Sat, Oct 12 2024, 9:16 pm

amother Catmint wrote:

This is amazing. Could you please post ALL the recipes? If you’re too busy I understand

amother

DarkGreen

Sat, Oct 12 2024, 10:41 pm

amother Catmint wrote:

What’s baker bologna?

amother

↑ Catmint ↓

Sat, Oct 12 2024, 10:43 pm

amother DarkGreen wrote:

What’s baker bologna?

Best recipe ever. Take a whole bologna (it will be a large tube. You may have to ask your deli counter special for it.) Smear it with mustard and bake it for a long time (I put it in the oven before Shul for the day meal). Take it out, cut it into chunks. Delicious and different. Fun for kids and adults.

It gives you an easy but substantial meat appetizer for what's a fish meal.

↑ azoygeshmak

Tue, Oct 15 2024, 6:56 pm

amother Catmint wrote:

Could I ask which of these freeze well? Or any other strategies for advance preparation. Specifically with:

Brisket with potatoes
Broccoli and Cauliflower
Corn beef
Cranberry muffins
Baked bologna
Green beans sautéed with garlic

TYSM!

amother

↑ Catmint ↓

Tue, Oct 15 2024, 6:57 pm

azoygeshmak wrote:

Could you please post recipes for:
Brisket with potatoes
Corned beef
Green beans sauteed with garlic

Thank you so much!

Corned beef
Buy corned beef from the store.
Fill your Crock pot with water and add the corned beef still in the bag.
Cook for 8 hours on low.
Slice.
Create a quick sauce out of mustard, ketchup, brown sugar, vinegar, or whatever else you like. You can also use barbecue sauce.
Pour the sauce on the corned beef when you reheat it.

Green beans with garlic
Peel and separate a clove of garlic
Saute green beans with garlic and a little oil.

I don't have a brisket recipe I love. But any brisket recipe you do you can cube potatoes and carrots and cook with the brisket and they will be quite tasty.

amother

↑ Catmint

Tue, Oct 15 2024, 6:59 pm

azoygeshmak wrote:

Baked bologna It's actually pre-cooked, but don't freeze it. You can make it on Yom Tov.

Broccoli and cauliflower I definitely would not freeze. You can make it probably up to a week in advance and keep it in the fridge. Same with green beans.

Cranberry muffins freeze

Potatoes don't freeze well so I wouldn't freeze the potatoes with the brisket. You can freeze the brisket and make a different side dish or make it fresh