What to eat on shabbat?

Answer 1

Most of our cuisine (once it's kosher) isn't bound by Jewish law. For that reason, there's a lot of variation in such a minor matter as what is served at meals.

1) These are necessary at Shabbat and festival meals: bread and wine. Slightly sweet, braided challah-bread is customary; as is sweet red wine.

2) These are long-established customs: fish (typically gefilte fish, and especially at the evening meal); and cholent at the morning meal. Cholent is a slow-cooked stew of barley, meat and beans, with other ingredients to taste, but each family adjusts the basic makeup of the cholent as they wish.

3) These are common: soup at the evening meal; especially chicken soup (that's the famous "Jewish chicken soup" with its reputed healing-properties). Egg salad with chopped onions, and/or chopped liver.

4) Other dishes, including dessert, will vary according to family or community habits and taste.

Answer 2

A multi-course meal, with traditional songs and words of Torah between courses, and guests often invited. Customarily, that week's Torah-reading (parsha) will be a topic of conversation; and the children of the family will have a chance to speak of what they've learned in school.

1) The Kiddush blessing is made over a cup of wine.

2) Everyone washes their hands and says the blessing for handwashing.

3) First course: the blessing is made over bread, and everyone gets one or more slices.

4) (Still first course) Fish is eaten; gefilte fish is customary.

5) Second course: soup. Chicken broth with kneidlach is customary.

6) Third course: (Shabbat night meal) Chicken with side-dishes such as vegetables, rice, etc.

(Shabbat morning meal) Cholent, which is a thick stew of beef, beans and barley (may be altered to personal preference).

7) Fourth course: dessert.

All of the above is, of course, just one common example. Considerable variation may be found among the different Jewish communities, and smaller variations from family to family and from one week to another. For example, some prefer a meat and vegetable cholent, while others prefer meat and rice.

Answer 3

Challah (braided bread), wine, candles, kiddush cup, and a board for cutting the challah.

Answer 4

the candles

and the prayer

Answer 5

A show-plate and a glass of wine to bless upon

Answer 6

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