Tortilla Espanola
I love eating and cooking tapas.
A while back I had a little project going cooking through my Tapas cook book
and it was going smooth. I stopped posted pictures but got through a great deal of it.
Then job stuff and blah blah whatever happened.
I am not technically back to that project but I wanted to do a little tapas cooking this week,
Small plates all around the world to make cooking easier and smaller portions.

Monday I did Tortilla Espanola.
So easy and fast that I had time to also dive into baking a bit while I prepped and cooked.

I think this is a super good dish for guys to make to seem awesome in front of guests and dates.
Even your buddies will like it, Its just a big hard omelet and guys love that.
And eggs are easy to have around. Start cooking this up and tell the girl how you got interested in
Spanish food after watching movies with Antonio Banderas (name dropping ftw AND women love him she is already interested by this point)  and you felt the best way to learn about people
is through their food. Not only eating, but cooking it as well. At this point, look her in the eyes and, pause.
You can thank me later when she loves you. But really, it sounds way harder than it is.
And it packs away for lunches and brunch and dinner. Depending what you put it in it you can even do it for breakfast.

They were not bullshitting about the incredible edible egg.

Tortilla Espanola. Onions, cilantro, black olives.

Ingredients and Method and such

6 large eggs.
2 cans of sliced potatoes could have used some Yukon gold or fingerling potatoes thin sliced
1 cup black olives, sliced or not.
1 cup yellow onion diced
4 cloves garlic minced
black pepper
salt
cilantro
dried basil
paprika
cayenne pepper
olive oil

start by bringing olive oil to medium heat in large oven proof skillet.
add garlic and move around till you can smell it, it should take no color so keep moving it with spatula.
Add onions and sprinkle of salt then cover. Let this go for about 5 -7 minutes, you are sweating these now. We want to keep the
liquid in and get them softened but not browned. The salt will draw out moisture also and make them almost steam to softness.

In separate bowl, add the eggs to the olives with black pepper and basil. Mix well.

Add the potatoes to the onions and some paprika and cayenne pepper. You will need to toss this good to get some even coating
and then cover and let cook for another 5-7 minutes. Or until the potatoes are softened but not mushy
Keep an eye and make sure no sticking occurs.

After the potatoes are coated and softened from some cooking. Pour over the egg mixture. Make sure you get good coverage all over th potatoes. It will go down into the cracks and this is what we want. cook without stirring uncovered for 5 minutes.
Now you have two options here.

I have done both and they are nice. The advanced method takes confidence in your kitchen skills and knowing your equipment.

Advanced Method, You will need large plate and a big spatula.
Remove pan from heat and with spatula and some work loosen the cooked mass from the pan while leaving it in the pan. Once it is loosened up you will take you plate and with the eating side facing the top of the eggs cover it. Now with you hand on the back, you will flip the Tortilla over onto the plate. Once there you will slide it back into the pan upside down now. Sprinkle it with cilantro and basil and let cook for another 5-7 minutes until done all the way through.

The basic method, the one I used last night is to simply let it cook on one side till solid and set, then move it to the oven and place it close to the broiler and crank it to 500 degrees for a bit, checking ever 30 seconds until it is at the desired brownness you want.
Remove , sprinkle with cilantro and serve.

They turned out nice and I made a sauce of Franks Buffalo Wing sauce, honey, cornstarch, and ketchup.

along with that I made a batch of Applesauce Spiced muffins.

The recipe was super easy and like most people on the thread below, I modified it to suit my tastes.
I KNOW I didn’t need a whole stick of butter there and only half the sugar as well.
I used a cinnamon applesauce since we could buy it in smaller cups and use the rest through out the week as lunch
fillers.

Muffins were fantastic and Nobody died.

Applesauce Spice Muffins. Applesauce, allspice, cinnamon, nutmeg.

Baking… I’m coming for you…

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