Impress Guests at Cooking Show: Quick and Easy Appetizer Ideas!

[Bexamo]

I need fast help!! My business has had a slow start. I have (only) my second cooking show Thursday. This host is an experienced PC junkie. She was a festival/fair booth walk-up.

Here's the deal... she wants a catalog overview-type show. I copied all the great ideas from the thread about Rae's outline, so I think I know what to do... but I am stuck on what to make! I want to make a GREAT impression, but I will have very little time to prep at home (after work) before I leave for the cooking show.

I thought about making a trifle... maybe strawberry cheesecake???

Perhaps the salsa recipe from the catalog - I can have the Classic Batter Bowl with the ingredients and the salad choppers in it with the rest of the food - (Is is tacky to buy chips to go with the salsa? If I make them, what's the easiest recipe?)

What she asked for was an appetizer. I really don't have any recipes that I am really great at... there will be 10-15 guests for a 6:30 PM show.

SUGGESTIONS???????

 

[gilliandanielle]

I do the touchdown taco dip at shows like these. I saw Jana do it at one of her shows and it covered so many products and was so fast. I always buy store bought chips- remember you want people to picture themselves making the recipe, and they will connect the two if you do homemade chips and never picture themselves making just the dip.

I throw it into the oven for 15mins to warm and go through everything in the catalog that wasn't in my quickie demo. I works out really well! Good luck!

 

[chefann]

The Touchdown Taco Dip is great, as is the Hot Pizza Dip.

Absolutely use bought chips. Like Gillian mentioned, you want the guests to picture themselves making it at home, and most people will buy chips. But you can tell them that they can make tortilla chips easily by cutting flour tortillas into wedges, spritzing them with a little oil, and baking them on stoneware for a few minutes until crispy.

 

[Jules711]

I 3rd the Touchdown Taco Dip. It always gets wiped clean! Also, since I don't believe it's in a current recipe book, you can post it on your website or email it to people (to get their emails!).

 

[BethCooks4U]

I make that recipe a lot too but I do make the chips. I want them to taste how good they are. They ALWAYS are amazed how easy and quick it is to do - and it shows a second stone/another use for the large round. Of course I also tell them that they can buy a bag of chips instead if they prefer.