Pasta, Pasta

Have you read Strega Nona by Tommi dePaola to your child? You know how Big Anthony wants pasta that continually comes from the magic pasta pot? Well, Saturday night, Big Anthony would have been in heaven!!  Pasta of all shapes and sizes filled the table along with some yummy desserts.

I don't know if you've ever hosted a Pasta Party....if you haven't you need to because it is oh so easy to do and makes for a wonderful time with family and friends.  Anyway, Saturday was our Ladies of Harley Pasta Party so I began last week gathering items for decorations.  I used red/white checked tablecloths (Oriental Trading has a roll which made it so easy...just measure and cut); empty wine bottles with red candles, jars of various uncooked pasta, fake ivy, some chef characters I found at Big Lots and a cooking plaque for the serving table centerpiece.  Nope nothing fancy but it did make the room festive for the party.

Everyone brought their favorite pasta dish or a dessert, I made a garden salad and brought three types of bread and ....Voilà, the party was on!!!  Here are a few photos from the party.

Dinner and a Show!!!

While in Tenerife, we had a night on the town in Costa Adeje and Playa de las Americas.  First we dined right over the ocean at Las Rocas Restaurant in Costa Adeje.  The view was spectacular and the food was delicious. Our menu consisted of Tropical Salad with passion fruit vinaigrette, grilled beef tenderloin tournedos and chicken breast with asparagus and prawns, Parmentier potato and Madeira sauce topped off with Cheese souffle' with quince and vanilla Devon cream.  Our wines were Gra Feudo Chardonnay and Gran Feudo Tempranillo Crianza. There was even a mariachi band serenading us during our dinner!!

Then it was off to Playa de las Americas for a spectacular show at Pirámide de Arona!!!  Outstanding dancers performed the flamenco show Aire! The Pirámide de Arona is a spectacular building containing one of the biggest auditoriums in Europe. This magnificent theatre, which holds 1,874 people and has a 350 m2 stage, is equipped with sophisticated audiovisual media. We weren't allowed to take photos of the show but I did manage to find an online commercial showing some of the scenes. I even received my own set of castanets!!!