What does a typical TRADITIONAL (like, in the old country) Ashkenazic weekday meal look like?

I know that sounds like a stupid question, but I’m just getting into cooking — lots and lots of fun, by the way — and I’ve heard things. I’ve heard about how Jewish buying habits changed in the 1940’s and 1950’s in America because kids didn’t want their houses to smell like schmaltz like their parents’ houses did. Well, I want my house to smell like schmaltz, and I want to eat what my people used to eat (at least on the Ashkenazic side of my family). I just don’t really know what it is; I grew up eating normal everyday Brazilian food. So, suppose you’re in pre-war Eastern Europe, you’re relatively well off (so you can afford varied ingredients), it’s not Shabbat or chag, what do you eat?

(Yes, I understand that different parts of the Ashkenazic world would have eaten differently, but I want to make food, not write a scholarly history.)

(Also, I’m not really back on Reddit, sorry… If I were back, I wouldn’t have had time to learn to cook! But I do miss being here in /r/Judaism, so I’m glad to visit again.)