Mask Contest

On March 12th we had our First Tango BIP Mask contest. The Party at Country Auction Plaza was awesome. We enjoyed very nice country music, beer samplers, beads exchange, chocolate coins and a lot of fun.
We had a great afternoon.
The Mask contest for Mardy Gras finished at 7 pm. (We know, it was too much waiting, but we learn from our mistakes) Next time it will close earlier.
We had only 12 contestants but they made a great job using recyclable materials in their masks.

They used everything they had on hand, from papers to feathers, from seeds to beads.

All categories, Stick Masks, Full Face and Venetians Masks were represented there at the contest.

In the end as there were less contestants that what we expected we had to choose only four winners.

The Best Mask Ever prize was for   Joey Sokolowski Full Face Mask . He made a mask of recycled paper.

These were the three contestants for the Full Face mask category

Contestants for Stick Mask. The winner was: David Goff, he used all sort of things he had at his house for his mask, he decorated it with a couple of knives too. The design and the use of materials on that mask was excellent but we must mention that all the contestants masks were very nice. The three judges has a hard time trying to choose a winner.

This Stick mask was as pretty as the contestant, with a fine design and very well decorated using our Mardi Gras color, green yellow and purple.

Thank you everyone for participating and for making this afternoon unforgettable.

Nobody went home with empty hands; there were chocolate gold coins for everybody.

Mask Contest Information

You are invited to participate in a Mask Contest on March 12^th at

Country Junction Plaza.

For this contest, contestants must create a Mardi Gras mask using any recyclable material.

It must be decorated using colors: green, purple and yellow (or gold). Mask can be decorated using, feathers, stones, glass, pearls, beads, etc.

The mask can be made and decorated entirely from scratch. The contestants can not use any professional made mask.

You can choose to participate in any of three categories:

1- Stick masks, 2- Venetian Masks, 3- Full face masks

Judging Criteria:
•    Originality for mask design
•    Craftsmanship
•    Use of recycled materials

When your mask is ready e-mail a picture of you wearing your mask to: sunrisedreaminc@gmail.com to enroll in the contest.

e-mail subject : Mardi Gras Mask Contest enrollment

Content must include:

Complete name:

Category you are enrolling:

Address:

Pictures should be no larger than 800 x 800 pixels in JPEG format

~Entries must be received by March 9th, 2011

~ First, Second and Third place winners from each category will be selected on Mardi Gras celebration at  7 pm  at Country Junction Plaza, March 12th, 2011.

Winner pictures will be published at Tango BIP web page ( http://www.tangobip.com )

Contestants must be wearing their masks at the celebration.

Student’s winning this contest will receive free pizza for his/her class.

Our sponsors:

Tango BIP ,    PJ’s ,          AAA Motors,      Stanley Pond

Prizes:

                                        1^st  “Best Mask Ever”       Cup &  I-Pod                                           

1s’t prize each category      card phone

                                                 

2^nd prize each category       movie gift card

                                               

3^rd prize each category      Products basket

Mentions for: Originality, use of recycled materials and craftsmanship.

 Categories: 

         

Stick mask

  

                                  Venetian mask

Full Face Mardi Gras Mask

 Country Junction Plaza

25924 CR 561 

Astatula Fl 34705

sunrisedreaminc@gmail.com 

http://www.tangobip.com

Happy Valentine"s day

Here we are again. It nearly Valentine's Day and we are working a lot. A new year has started and we are very busy. Tango is doing great, we have grown a lot. We have been opened 8 months and it seems to be yesterday when we opened. Well, we are very happy with the store and with the people around Astatula; they are incredible people always eager to help.
Now Tango sells not only bread pastries, ice-cream and pizza but we have added more appetizers, soups and salads. Our Customers like our products and we are happy to provide the best products we can.

David and  Angels make a good team and it is very well complemented with Francisco in bakery and Christopher making pizza, calzone and stromboli and lots more things.
We keep investing and growing, Now we have more working space as we have added another room  at the back of the store just behind suite B.

Dave Kuchareck (owner of Country Junction Plaza) is a great landlord and an excellent human being, We are very comfortable making business with him over there.We are working together to improve our business and collaborating with Dave to bring activities for the whole family to Astatula.

After the grand opening in October 2010 we realized that Astatula needs more activities. With that in mind we are now preparing a celebration for March 12th. It is Mardi Gras and Saint Patrick's Day Celebration, we are looking forward to see all of you there. We are very excited.  We'll have a mask contest for children and adults who will have to create ans wear a mask made from scratch using recyclable materials in green, gold (or yellow) and purple. We expect to have lie music and entertainment for the whole family with good food and beer.
(You will be able to read more about this in the next posting)
Well this all for today. If you have a little time check our web page, I have just finished adding new stuff in there.

Wait for you at the Mardi Grass celebration.

Bye
Cristina

Grand Opening October 23rd That was incredible !

Yes, we did it. It was a success! People from all around came to the Grand opening.
Bruce entertained the people with his wonderful voice. Dave Kuchareck from PJ's got samplers of beer and other drinks. Tables were placed at front of the store with umbrellas and a eating area was fenced so everyone was safe.

Those were the most amazing 4 hours, Tango BIP offered the people samples of the new Barbecue Wings and different pizzas. A discount of 25% off and games with gift certificate prizes kept the attentio of adults and children as we tried to prepare entertaining games for everyone.

The winner of the Quiz contest was Linda Goff of Astatula.

The winner of the labyrinth contest for children was Mary Sokolowski's daughter, she won icream one a week for 4 weeks
The cross words contest was won by Alice Sanchez


Thank you everyone for making this day unforgettable.  We would not be able to get this success without all you. Friends family and customer supported us so much that is was really a great Opening and a great experience.


Our special Thank you to:

Astatula City Hall

Dave Kucharek owner of Country Junction Plaza and PJ's Run, Suite 1

Jimmy and Eleonor from AAA autodealer

Little Lake Harry Pub

Jim, Melinda and Heather Atkins

SYSCO

Stanley Pond

Miller's Girls 

Stanley Pond

And any other one who kindly gave us help and support. We would like to remember the names of everyone o if we forgot someone, please forgive us.

Saturday Night Menu served with Wine or Beer?

I was researching to find out what wine to serve with my dinner and I found an article named "How to Choose a Wine With Dinner" by By William D. Gardlock, 

He suggests some simple and straightforward explanation to pairing wine with dinner. According with his article the most important  is essential to stay consistent with the entire menu, keep in the same line of food for the entire menu so you do not need to have different wines to match any of the foods. 
Keep in mind that: 

Red and white wines are the wines typically used for dinners. Other wines include champagne, which is often consumed during celebrations when food is not being served, and a rose wine (pronounced ROH-ZAY), which is a light wine for casual summer days.

 

Choose a white wine when you're having a light dinner, consisting of pasta with light sauces like olive oil and garlic, chicken or turkey dishes, fish and vegetarian dishes. Good wines to try are Sauvignon Blanc and Chardonnay.

Choose a red wine when you're having a heavier meal, consisting of pork, lamb, or red meat, or pasta with hearty tomato sauce. Good wine choices for these dishes are Pinot Noir, Burgundy and Merlot.

If you're having a very heavy meal, such as game meats like venison, duck, or rabbit, the best choice is a full wine, such as cabernet sauvignon or syrahs.

Extracted from:

How to Choose a Wine With Dinner | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/how_2305546_choose-wine-dinner.html#ixzz11AD0i4zF

 

http://www.ehow.com/how_2305546_choose-wine-dinner.html

Read more: 

How to Choose the Right Dinner Wine | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/how_5042060_choose-right-dinner-wine.html#ixzz11ADopphU

 But waht I really wanted to know was if it was wine or beer what goes better with pizza. According to Jim Clark, author of Beer and Pizza, and the begining of Pizza Pairing, 

"The idea that certain wines go well with certain foods is an old one – even teetotalers know the “red with meat, white with fish” cliché. Beer’s place at the table is less codified, and beer drinkers can be reluctant to explore food pairing – why ruin beer by creating a lot of rules? After all, one of the most stifling things about enjoying wine is the old-fashioned, hoity-toity sense that some authority will come along, judge your wine choice, and find it lacking.  Beer drinkers are wise to avoid that, and the wine world has had to work hard free itself from that snobbery (a work in progress, at least)."
If you are really woried about the election I recommend you to read about this at:    
http://www.starchefs.com/wine/features/html/beer-and-food/html/index.shtml
But in conclusion I must say that the rule is that there are no rules, your taste will decide what you like and no matter what people say you will enjoy only what you really like.

For this week end we suggest a "Tango a la Chile Pizza"  with Beer or Wine and Caramel cheese cake for dessert.
Enjoy and have fun ! See you next Saturday.
CIG

Friday evening, dinner party ideas

I was thinking what people do on Friday evenings and  an informal dinner party came to my mind.
After a long week of work, a simple Friday night  dinner party is a good way to start the week end.
Searching the web I found a web page with nice ideas for Friday dinner parties.
"Friday night is the perfect time to pull out your casual dinner party ideas. Everyone is glad it’s the end of the week and nobody expects gourmet. In fact they probably prefer to come over, kick off their shoes, pour a glass of wine and gather round as you pull together easy dinner party ideas." says the unknown writer
I would suggest an easy menu thinking on what the guess and you like like and will be the easier for you after a long day of work.
Take your shoes off, have a relaxing bath, choose a good music that let you rest and put hands at work.
Order some appetizers from the local store like garlic bread and marinara sauce.
Choose your favorite pizza and one that your guest will enjoy if you know which one is his/her favorite.

Add a personal touch displaying olives, artichokes and a salad to add to your pizza or order a pizza salad. (Don't forget the dressing)

Choose a nice tray to place the pizzas and some matching plates to serve it. Place forks and knives on one the right side of the plates to have everything close at the moment to enjoy your dinner.


Check your refrigerator for a cold white wine, a good beer or a room temperature red wine. Think twice before you choose. Pizza, Calzone or Stromobli are Italian specialties and they all combine with red wine, a wine with good body may match with the dinner but the personal taste is the key. No matter how well the red wine fits  the pizza, your guest is who you want to impress and make feel welcome and comfortable so keep some beer and a bottle of white wine in the refrigerator just in case.
Check your cupboard for the correct glasses and find a small table where to set the informal table. Place mats will be the best choice, keep it simple but take care of gathering several candles of different sizes to illuminate and to decorate the table. Don't forget the napkins 
Don't forget the dessert, mint ice-cream with chocolate or lemon may be a good cool end for this Friday night party but for those vanilla lovers add some strawberries and the dinner will be completed .

If you like to check the dinner parties ideas for Friday night you can visit:


http://www.thedinnerpartyplanningsite.com/dinner-party-ideas.html,

Let's introduce Tango BIP

Well... here we are. What can I tell you about us? I'm sure you are curious about our name. "Tango BIP" what B I P means. So let's start just there.
Why Tango? Is it dance academy ?
No, not at all. We came to USA from Argentina in 2001, we were in business before now with a bakery at Four corners area in Davenport, Florida; after being in business for 5 years, we took a break but we decided to come back to business with a new project. When trying to find a name for our store, something  that would be able to identify us, we choose our traditional dancing " Tango".
Now what BIP means? Normally people think about VIP but we are BIP. that means, Bakery, Ice Cream and Pizza.
So, that is what we are, an eatery specialized in breads, pastries, desserts, ice-cream, and completed with a variety of Pizzas.
We are located at 25924 County Road 561, Astatula Fl 34705 Florida, USA.
Astatula is a small peaceful city 11 miles from Clermont and 3 miles from Tavares, It is a nice place to live and it was really in need of a store like oursTango.

We had a wonderful welcome in the area. We try to make the best we can to give our customer good quality products bringing  new choices for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
We are opened from Monday to Friday from 7am to 9 pm , Saturday from 10 am to 10 pm. Sundays 1 pm to 9 pm.

Our favorite imagine is a couple of tango dancers, they represent our culture and gave us the idea to choose our colors (red, white and black)
The goal for this blog is to start a fluid communication between our customers and readers. Talk about things that may interest the reader and we enjoy sharing.
So Let's say this is a fresh and tasty idea and we hope you like our blog.
Welcome to our blog 
It's Tango Baby!