Grab a matzah and egg for your Eruv Tavshilin
Many years ago, I wrote a piece entitled "There's no place like home for Pesach." Well, this year, that's where we're all to be, whether by choice or by legal requirement. I do empathize for those who will miss being with friends or family and can even have sympathy for those forced to make their own Pesach for the first time after going away each year, despite never being a fan of Pesach hotels (see https://kallahmagazine.blogspot.com/2014/01/pesach-hotels.html and https://kallahmagazine.blogspot.com/2018/03/pesach-hotels-revisited.html)
But when you're home, likely you are also cooking -- even if it only amounts heating up the food that you took out. For those of us observing 2 days of Yom Tov on Pesach, we have to remember to prepare the eruv tavshilin on erev Yom Tov.
To cover both cooking and baking, we use a representative food for each. It's traditional to use a boiled egg for the cooked item because it's simple and inexpensive. We usually all have a spare egg around. But it's fine to also use a piece of boiled chicken, fish, or meat, as well, so long as you can put it aside where it won't be consumed until the Sabbath day. The same goes for the baked item, which often is a matzah, even when it's not Pesach, though when chametz is allowed you can use a roll.
Find the blessing for the eruv here: https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/2327/jewish/Eruv-Tavshilin.htm
Note: The eruv tavshilin only allows cooking for the Sabbath on Yom Tov, it does not allow cooking from one day of the holiday to the next (i.e. Thursday for Friday), though it is permissible to cook more on Thursday than will be finished that day, and then consume the leftovers on the next day.
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Note: The eruv tavshilin only allows cooking for the Sabbath on Yom Tov, it does not allow cooking from one day of the holiday to the next (i.e. Thursday for Friday), though it is permissible to cook more on Thursday than will be finished that day, and then consume the leftovers on the next day.
For Pesach recipes, see gebrokts ones here: https://kallahmagazine.blogspot.com/2008/03/pesach-recipes-desserts-main-and-sides.html and more on https://kallahmagazine.weebly.com/whats-cooking.html
Additional recipes in the online magazine from spring 2011 https://issuu.com/ariellabrown/docs/spring2011
I wish everyone a Chag Kasher v'Sameach. This should be a time of ultimate geula, including refuos and yeshuos that we should all be praying for.
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