The English Summer

So this is what things have looked like around here lately:


The flowers are lovely, and everything is green, thanks primarily to weather like this just about once every afternoon:



Grandma and Grandpa's visit went very well. They stayed here for a good while, from before Matt's graduation party, to Sunday morning. So I got the opportunity to cook some more at home, fixing up the lasagne for Matt's party, as well as a good-sized dinner for a belated Father's Day on Thursday, and then ziti for the Independence Day party. Thursday's menu started off with an insalata mista, then for the primi I fixed up tagliatelle alla bolognese, and for secondi, a beef pot roast braised in red wine. For contorni, we had steamed asparagus, and cannoli for dessert. And here's the prep for the sauce:


And the finished sauce:


Also, as you can see, Molly the Kitten has been learning Latin with me.