Another great dinner!

Maple-Walnut Chicken with Sweet Potato Aioli (Kosher By Design: Short on Time)

Ingredients
6 boneless, skinless chicken breast halves
1/2 cup chopped walnuts
1/2 cup plus 2 tbsp pure maple syrup, divided
salt
freshly ground pepper
2 tsp vegetable oil
2 tbsp Dijon mustard
1/4 tsp dried thyme
1 cup panko bread crumbs
1 large can of yams, drained
1 1/2 tbsp light brown sugar
2 tbsp of Miracle Whip
1 1/2 tbsp pure maple syrup

Directions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a baking pan with non-stick tinfoil.
- Place a chicken breast smooth-side down on a cutting board. Lift up the tender and if necessary, make a cut to form a long pocket. Repeat with the remaining breasts.
- Stuff each pocket with 1 tbsp walnuts and drizzle 1 tsp maple syrup. Close up the pocket. Place pocket-side down on prepared pan. Repeat with remaining breasts. Sprinkle with salt and pepper.
- In a small bowl combine the vegetable oil, Dijon mustard and thyme. Brush eat cutlet with this mixture.
- Bake for about 18 minutes or until chicken is cooked through.
- While the chicken is baking, heat up yams and then smoosh them with the back of a spoon until smooth.
- Meanwhile, in a small bowl, mix 1/2 cup maple syrup and panko to make a paste.
- After the chicken is baked, remove from the oven and spoon and press on the panko paste to form a crust. Turn the oven to broil, return the chicken to the oven and broil 6-8 inches from the heat source for 3 minutes, until crust is golden-brown.
- Continue to heat the yams, and then mix in the light-brown sugar. Right before serving whisk in the mayonnaise and 1 1/2 tbsp maple syrup.
- Serve each cutlet with a dollop of the aioli.

Another snowy Monday

I haven't been in the office on a Monday in weeks!!!!!  And my team, usually has a Monday morning meeting.  Instead, our team has been working remotely (Newton, Brookline, Somerville, Wellesley) while we each dig out our homes.

Again, and again.

And now that this is our fifth snow day in 11 school days (my kids have had five snow days and six school days, unless you are my daughter, who was sick all last week).  The kids are bored of snow days.  They are old enough to help us shovel, but shoveling gets old - fast.

Today, we had choice time.  They were each given lists of activities (that should take 30 minutes each).  They were to check in with me at the start of the activity, and then again at the end.  We met during the break time, so I could review progress, and make sure the next activity was ready.  Today my daughter did 30 minutes of reading, one your of Khan Academy for math, thirty minutes of type to learn and then 30 minutes of class Valentine's Day cards.  My son did 45 minutes of reading, thirty minutes of researching what the Torah parsha Naso is about, thirty minutes of Hebrew Bar Mitzvah study and talked about his next book report on Mockingjay.

And now it is 2 PM and both are having screen time.  Because I have to get some work done!