Pesach Holiday

It was another marathon two day holiday - Tuesday night to Thursday night - for the last two days of Passover. The pace is different, since the kids don't have school and Dan doesn't work. They have been going to parks and ravines and, in keeping with social distancing, exploring areas off the beaten trail. They've made some amazing discoveries and I love what they are learning about nature and habitats. They found an area with trees that must have fallen several years ago during an ice storm, a marsh that had a couple ducks and lots of mud. 

On Wednesday night, I made salmon burgers, brocolli  with cheese and sweet potato fries. It was a huge success. We are a bit more limited in what we can eat over Passover, and need to get creative and find alternatives. For the salmon burgers, instead of using bread crumbs, I used matzah meal, the go-to for pesach. I was was worried that my sweet potato fries would be soggy without my secret ingredient, cornstarch, but they were still very crispy! Maybe this was from soaking which apparently removes the starch. 

Ava and Ezra were also extremely helpful with making the meal. Ezra peeled the potatoes, and he ans Ava helped helped mix the ingredients for the burgers, and then formed patties. On Sunday evening I made lasagna for Monday and Tuesday, and still had some leftovers which seemed to do better with age. I used matzah in lieu of lasagna noodles, and the kids really enjoyed the last few pieces tonight along with the rest of the salmon burgers, fries and brocolli. 

Definitely a more productive day for me, as I was able to work while Dan was with the kids over the holiday period. I finished work relatively early and we had dinner together as a family.