This beautiful girl turned 16 in China. I don't think that's the easiest thing to swallow. She'd like to be home getting her driver's license and enjoying other things might be part of her life. But she doesn't complain. It is hard, but she has a good attitude and I'm thankful for that. I made her one of her favorite meals: purple sweet potato raviolis with seared steak. Just coming out of quarantine, and still without the green health code required to ride the subway to Sam's Club, we had to order online. They picked the steak, and it surely wasn't what I would have picked, but just coming from quarantine food, thin cut steak tasted better than it might otherwise. And since this in China, acquiring good cheese is impossible, so the browned butter sauce for the raviolis was not quite the same, but I did find some fresh basil, so it was quite lovely! And I figured out how to make creme brulee for dessert so there was lots ...