Four brothers

 Each cheering for a different football team.  Each with a team in the playoffs. Bill – SeahawksTom – TexansDavid – NinersSteve – Broncos Four separate games.  None of these teams play against each other this weekend.  This weekend we can all be fans *with* each other.  Go Hawks, Texans, Niners, Broncos!!!  

.and then, and then.

 …we got invited to an 18th Century Jeffersonian meal; a meal prepared entirely from Thomas Jefferson’s own recipes.  It even came with a menu!  The muffins were heavy, chewy, and flavorful.  The best we’ve ever eaten.  The soup a thin broth with homemade noodles.  Virginia Ham sliced paper thin provided a salty flavor complimenting the other food on the plate.  White beans with brown onion sauce.  Cabbage.  Sweet potatoes.  Butter sauce.  Simple food.  Simple flavors. Another excellent adventure.  

Rouladen

 And then there was rouladen.  With potato dumplings, pickled cabbage, and sauce. Our friends from Canada (by way of Germany) volunteered a home-cooked German meal.  Rouladen is bacon, onions, mustard, and pickles, rolled up in thinly sliced beef, slow-cooked, then covered in sauce. A culinary adventure.  All new flavors for us.  Delicious.