Dining Al Fresco

With the weather finally feeling warm and enjoyable, we can enjoy dinner outside each evening. It's really nice to be able to let the boys run and play, while sometimes giving me heart failure with their "brave" stunts off the play set, and just enjoy time outside together. There's just something about us all being outside together even if we are each doing our own thing. We all come back together to eat dinner on the patio and have some fun since dinner outside is a more relaxed meal than when we eat inside. Eating dinner together is really important to me, mainly because I know we all come back together after our busy day. With the boys beginning to get involved in sports I'll be really striving to find ways to keep our nightly meal routine in tact.

The temp was around 80 today, so the idea of cooking was not high on my list of things I really wanted to do. Fortunately, I had roasted a chicken last weekend. I really love roasting a chicken on the weekend because it allows me to make chicken stock, chicken salad and use the cooked chicken in salads and other dishes throughout the week. So, dinner tonight was extremely simple and reasonably healthy.

Chicken salad and egg salad topped our Matzah, and an assortment of grapes, watermelon and carrots finished out the meal. It may not seem quite like a real dinner but it was nice and cool and not heavy. Exactly what the evening required.