What To Serve Shabbos Lunch Besides Chulent

Takahmamash,

My parve chulent recipe is great for vegans (and carnivores, too). You can also do amazing things with Daiya cheese (like making a parve lasagna or macaroni and cheese), meatless crumbles, and a great variety of grains and vegetables (like making stuffed zucchini and stuffed eggplant with vegetables, rice, tomatoes, and onions, etc.)

I have repeated the force feeding chulent story to quite a few people and many people have written back that they too were force fed chulent and some of them said, not only did they not learn to like the chulent, they began to hate Shabbos because of it and eventually went OTD.

There is a story I heard of a Rav ,once someone went to him and told him he HATED shabbos, the Rav asked why. The man told him back in Europe every week his family would spend the whole week preparing and finding the finiest foods for shabbos, His father would buy only the best fish in the market for shabbos and the Rav thought to himself what a beautiful way to teach about shabbos and then the man said, every shabbos his father forced him “LKavod Shabbos” to eat the fish, every week he would dread when his father would force him to eat that fish and he hated it more and more. Shabbos to him became associated with eating that Fish and he couldnt wait to get away.

Live in your bubble and think everything is perfect and ignore the results of the Pew Report.

Now that the kids have kids of their own we don’t eat lunch as the shul gives us the opportunity to stuff our faces with all the ashkanzi style foods + a supply of Glenlivet and McCallen. This time of the year I sleep though mincha as well

the soton must be the biggest tzaddik then.

You know something? I’m not a tzedoki. Nor do I feel that I have to “prove” it by eating something hot or meaty on Shabbos.

As it turns out, 99% of the time we do so anyway, but for the occasional week where we have cold cuts or the like, I hardly feel that would indicate to anyone that I don’t hold of the halacha that a pre-existing fire cannot be used on Shabbos.

And if you want to infer from it that it does, well then, all I have to say is that you’re a lousy mentalist.

The Wolf

Chanie E : I didn’t mean to denigrate your style of Shabbos menu, not at all. Ess gezinteheit. Follow or don’t follow any traditions you want…

Wolf: There is a minhag to eat cold meat on Shabbos as well!

Good for you Torah6!

And good for your parents!

And if this thread proves anything at all, it’s that ALL Jews, flaming hot Chassidim, refrigerator cold Litvaks, and those lost under the iceberg of assimilation-

All take their food very very seriously.

Must be something in the Mesorah…

If you think it is good conversation technique to presume that everything always happens in its most extreme way, then I will still discuss with you because I am a troll.

Oops, wrong username.