Shish Ka-Who?

Yesterday I made Shish Ka-Bobs! Simple right? Not if you've never used a grill before! The apartment has two grills on the roof, and I decided to make good use of them. The first thing I did was venture upstairs to try to figure out how to work the thing. Of course that was an epic fail seeing as grills don't have instructions on the outside. So I called my father, resident gourmet chef and grill master, and he told me that I needed to check what kind of a grill it was, gas or electric. Thankfully it was gas and he explained how to start it. With this information at hand I was ready to start! So I soaked some wooden skewers in a water bath for three hours and gathered my materials: a few ounces of tofu, one cob of corn (I don't really know how else to say it...one piece of corn? If you know, feel free to shout it out in the comments below,) one yellow onion, one red pepper, and some balsamic vinaigrette. A word to the wise: Don't attempt to skewer corn using a wooden skewer, it just won't happen, I promise. Just grill the corn separately. I assembled the kabobs, rolled them around in the vinaigrette and brought them upstairs to the grill. I still was nervous about turning on the grill, but luckily, some of my neighbors had already done the job and let me jump in and grill my three kabobs. I figured 2-3 minutes for each side, so I covered the grill, counted to 180, and opened it up again, to find that one of the skewers had lit on fire! Ahh! I quickly used my tongs to grab it and move it away from the flame, and the burning stick part fell away. Crisis averted! Of course it freaked me out and I ended up under cooking the kabobs a bit, but they still tasted pretty good. I think I'll be making kabobs quite often this summer, so hopefully they will continue to improve. The next time I do I'll post pictures!