Serenading the Dragons!

On Sunday 21st August 2011 at 8pm, come and watch my Dragons’ Den experience. I hope you like it and I’m sure you’ll remember it...!

Since I launched Rico Mexican Kitchen from my kitchen out of a strong desire to offer genuine flavours of my childhood in sunny Mexico, I feel I have been in an Alton Towers-style rollercoaster ride; hugely exhilarating, with many ups and downs.

Well, very much part of this ride is my Dragons’ Den experience. I was quietly super-excited about auditioning, and I decided to sing for investment. I asked the Mariachi Mexteca www.mariachimexteca.com to accompany me. After all, as well as cooking, singing has been an important part of my life. I have a music degree, my voice was my first instrument, I sang in choirs professionally, and conducted many more.

I decided to write some lyrics about my passion for Mexican food to the melody of a favourite childhood song called “La Bikina”. We auditioned and we had LOADS of fun! We had negotiated copyrights from the author, so all good.

Two days before filming, the BBC announced they weren’t able to accept my copyrights. We couldn’t use the song we knew and loved! The fantastic Mariachi Mexteca made up a new tune and we practiced our new song for the first time in the changing rooms just before going into the Den. Talking about winging it!! If you listen really carefully you might notice that I missed a bit. Oops!

I was in the Den for two hours. I won’t say any more now… only that I was so delighted to hear the reaction of the Dragons when they tried my food- the LOVED it!

I look forward to hearing your views about our experience in the Den, as well as your experiences of Mexican food- authentic or not, and what products you would like to see on the shelves to buy!

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