Topic: First public tasting!

[Tommy Timebomb]

My other half's brother had a birthday barbecue yesterday so she asked if I would do a Chick Tick.

Her other brother was captain barbeque for the day and I was more than pleased with this as I've never been in control of one before as living in tower block land most of us don't have gardens as such and I don't think my neighbors would appreciate balcony cooking. No problem though as it's another excuse to get down the pub when they've got one on the go.

Anyway... I was in competition with him and his marinated jerk chicken of which I have to say I did not mind at all.
The family are not very experimental when it comes to eating ethnic as such, Nando's is about as flash they get.

I done a few C2Go things as at this moment this is what I feel comfortable with. It comprised of Red Onion dip, Mint dip, Pilau rice and the skewed Tikka in the photo.

After everyones very cautious approach and questions like is it hot and is it spicy etc and looking like it was going to bite them back when they first bit into it, I new id cracked it when my food was shifting twice as fast as his.
They even started giving it to the 10 month old baby of whom wasn't arguing about it at all!
So my first public tasting, all be it a very small one was a success.
I took a sneaky pic at prep stage as they would of got worried about me taking photos of food.

Probably not very professional looking but believe you me... For my lot this was regarded as proper upmarket and I actually felt sorry for upstaging her Bro.
I produced three trays of this

[976bar]

Fantastic!!! Well done TT there's nothing like a family feud...  ;D

Food looks great!!

[ELW]

I took a sneaky pic at prep stage as they would of got worried about me taking photos of food.

 ;D


Great post TT

[PaulP]

Looking good TT. Jerk chicken can be good as well and can sometimes be really hot.

Cheers,

Paul

[fried]

I love getting kids to try curry.

Some friends came round a couple of months ago with their daughter who's about a year old, we'd prepared some blander stuff for her but she wanted to dip her hands in some sauce and have a try. She made a face sucked some air in through her (non existant) teeth and dived straight back in for seconds.

It's when they get a bit older they start getting more conservative.

My niece who's 10 will try anything; the hotter the better. My nephew 7 not interested at all.

[Tommy Timebomb]

Looking good TT. Jerk chicken can be good as well and can sometimes be really hot.

Your quite right Paul and I did infact enjoy his food.
I think it was more of the fact that people eat with their eyes and his chicken looked like, well, chicken.

Mine on the other hand looked a frightening red colour with a mix of peppers, in their eyes something to be feared!

[curryhell]

I'd be quite happy for those tikka skewers to grace my bbq mate.  They look good and the evidence was obvious in the eating  .  You should invite them round for a curry night and really blow their taste buds away.  There'll be no looking back then.  Keep up the good work TT.

[colin grigson]

Nice post TT !  ....  I like the look of those kebabs ... I'll have to dust off the BBQ and give them a go   

[Aussie Mick]

Effort TT.

Isn't it a great feeling knowing that people are enjoying what you have taken the time and trouble to make for them?

[Tommy Timebomb]

That is absolutely Spot on A'M,
Couldn't have put it better myself!