Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Spreading like wild fire

About six months into my business, I had finally convinced my sister Mary to host a show for me. Mary had never been interested in hosting a home show before and definitely was doing this as as favor to me. She did not want to mix her crowds of people - she had teacher friends, neighbors, old friends etc. So she wanted me to do two shows in one day. As I was still in the Pleasing Stage, I, of course agreed. We chose a recipe that we were all drooling over - it was a brownie pizza with chocolate and peanut butter cups. I had never made it before, but it looked really easy. (Are you starting to get nervous yet?). The brownie "crust" you make with a box mix and you omit the water (or add flour to the batter to thicken it) and spread it on to a parchment lined round baking stone. I started the recipe in the family room on a card table and then handed her the raw brownie - ready to pop in the oven. I had made one mistake though, I had added the water but did not add the extra flour. Within minutes, the brownie batter poured off the baking stone and was on FIRE on the bottom of her oven. So as my sisters closed the kitchen door and madly opened all the windows in the back half of the house,  handling the fire... I continued on with my demonstration, unknowingly.

Karen had slipped back in to the family room to discreetly tell me what happened. They scraped off the batter that was still on the stone, added some flour to thicken it and gave it another run. Luckily they saved my butt and by the second show, I did the recipe correctly!  We laughed, and about 8 hours later, I actually had decent sales and a couple of bookings that I am still getting shows from 15 years+ later. Thanks sisters!

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