I had essentially the most spectacular night with my mates at Shakespeare within the Park. Each summer season Shakespeare Dallas produces two William Shakespeare exhibits carried out on the Samuell-Grand Ampitheater simply south east of downtown Dallas. You get to take a picnic and wine and luxuriate in theater the identical approach they might have had Shakespeare’s time: below the celebrities. It’s positively magical! Really, what could possibly be a extra Rose Desk occasion than that?!
Disclaimer: a number of years after my first article raving about Shakespeare Dallas, the corporate employed me to do their PR. In the event you didn’t know, I work as a publicist once I’m not writing about meals.
The Wine
I feel this is perhaps the prettiest bottle of rosé I’ve ever seen. Sadly, the chilled glass was slightly frosty to actually seize the fantastic thing about the etched roses in footage however belief me, it’s beautiful. I had excessive hopes for this wine, because it has the proper delicate blush colour of all of my favourite rosés and because it’s made in Provence, France – two good indicators! This was my first time ingesting Danica Rosé and I used to be fairly impressed. It’s a pleasant, tart rosé with notes of cantaloupe and peach. I’ll positively purchase this pretty wine once more!
The Meals
I needed an excellent simple make-ahead picnic as a result of I knew I might have a busy workday on Friday. I made the cookie dough someday, baked the cookies the following, then all I needed to do was make pasta salad within the morning and pack it up in my beautiful customized Rose Desk tote by King of Handmade. Really easy! I additionally took blue hydrangeas in a light-weight gold vase and my favourite rose picnic blanket.
Menu
Pimento Cheese and Crackers
Cherries
Mediterranean Pasta Salad
A lot Ado Cookies
Pimento Cheese and Crackers
If Ina Garten taught me something, it’s that you just don’t need to make each single factor from scratch to be a terrific entertainer. I bought this insanely creamy pimento cheese by Bodega Provisions on the farmers market and determined to take it on the picnic with crackers for a straightforward appetizer. Yum!
Cherries
I’m a sucker for recent cherries. I gobble them up all summer season lengthy!
Mediterranean Pasta Salad
This would possibly simply be the perfect pasta salad I’ve ever made. It simply turned out completely. With tons of recent herbs, creamy feta cheese, artichoke hearts, Kalamata olives, cherry tomatoes, and a lemon zest dressing, it’s a easy however elegant mixture and solely takes minutes to stir collectively. Get the recipe right here.
A lot Ado Cookies
This whimsical twist on my Chocolate Walnut Cookies has pistachios, white chocolate chips, and darkish chocolate chips. The result’s candy, salty, critical, enjoyable, and slightly chaotic – identical to A lot Ado About Nothing! One of the best half? These cookies keep good and delicate all week lengthy. Get the recipe right here.
The Present
Shakespeare Dallas by no means disappoints! This manufacturing of A lot Ado About Nothing subverted Shakespeare expectations by setting the basic comedy within the Seventies at a Hawaiian resort which means after all the costumes are implausible. The present even featured 70’s music and a few dance numbers that had the viewers tappin’ their toes. It’s an action-packed, high-energy manufacturing and the gang went wild.
It was actually essentially the most spectacular night time with my mates below the celebrities. Go see it! Love theater as a lot as I do? You should definitely try my Midsummer Evening’s Dream social gathering, Romeo & Juliet dinner, and SIX the Musical social gathering!
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Comfortable picnicking,
