Xi'an Terracotta Warriors

This was actually the reason we went to Virginia Museum of Fine Arts a couple of days ago.

Happy New Year!

Christmas Dinner 2017

Home-made pâté de campagne to start.



Followed by butternut squash soup.



By the time of the main course, we were already quite satisfied. But we managed to still find a bit of room in our stomachs for sirloin steak with a red wine reduction.

Christmas dinner accomplished. Time to go back to grading.

Richmond Art

After all these years we finally discovered Virginia Museum of Fine Arts!

Richmond Food

Excellent food at Supper in Richmond VA: Charcuterie, fried oysters and griddle cakes with pulled pork. Yum-o!

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Thanksgiving 2017

Tuncay invited us over for Thanksgiving --- something you do not want to say no to. We had very nontraditional Thanksgiving foods: amazing foie gras, wonderful meatz and cheeses for lunch, and a full dinner with sous vide duck (pictured above).



We started with pumpkin soup which was even better than it looked.



Then we had this beautiful salad with goat cheese.



And then there was the pièce de résistance: duck that was first sous vided, and then pan fried.



Also, veggies.

We are very thankful to Tuncay!