Making a Main Dish for Your Summer Cooking Show: Ideas & Advice

[vgibsonrn]

So if we can't sell the deep dish baker, except to the host, why use it in a show..And if I don't use the baker what should I use to make my main dish for the show....I'm really stumped..Do I bake something in the oven all summer...Grill something(which I don't know much about except for steak and hamburgers)..What are you guys doing at your shows?

 

[BethCooks4U]

Pampered Chef existed for over 25 years before we had the DCB and we did lots of demos without it. We can still demo it, just have to change our words a bit. Look through our recipes. Anything that can be cooked in 30 minutes or less is perfect. You could do the crust of a pizza (sweet or savory) before the show and then do the toppings as the demo. Or do the s'more cups in the mini muffin pan or a salad or something in a piece of cookware or... the possibilities are endless. One thing I'll go back to doing is the 13 minute cake in the stoneware fluted pan. It, and talking about the other uses for this stone have made it one of my best sellers.

I also plan to offer parties where we do a tasting of the sauces or a dip with veggies to show off the cool & serve and then finish with a cool dessert.

 

[Suzballard]

I will still be using my DCB at all shows. It is a great booking tool! And in each recipe there are so many other products to feature that I don't think it will be a problem. I hope to see my bookings increase.

 

[vgibsonrn]

I have just depended on the baker since I really started in Dec that I just don't want to change...I will still us it for the Lave cake. It's just the main dish I can't seam to come up with...

 

[cheflorraine]

Try the Three-Cheese Garden Pizza that is a new consultant recipe - it's an awesome standby.
The Jerk Chicken Nachos are also one of my all-time favorites - I would still cook the chicken breasts in the DCB in the microwave beforehand, but the recipe is finished off on the Large Bar Pan.

 

[ChefCKHall]

Not changing anything! The DCB has changed the way I feed my family during the week with our hectic schedule. I demo so many items during my recipes and always take stuff on the side to talk about. My mission is for every house to have one! CK

 

[flemings99]

A consultant on my team had a show last week where she demoed the cake in DCB and had 6 bookings!!!!!! WOW!!

You'll run into host who don't have a big enough microwave for DCB so it's great to have a stand-by anyway. Make a dip (love the garden dip--all the best), the stoneware fluted cakes are always impressive in the microwave, try a trifle (lime berry mousse is a favorite-sb spring 07), or salad. The possibilities are endless.

 

[vgibsonrn]

Have booked 3 shows since yesterday so I better get ready....All my host were very open to suggestions about food...thank you all for your suggestions...So maybe cook the chicken in the DCB and make a salad and have lime tarts for dessert, or use the 12 inch skillet for the chicken, make a salad, and use the DCB for dessert....mmmmm. I can do this.....I can do this....