Home Cooking (Casa de Kwablo)
Silver Spring, Maryland
I realized that I have not made a FPOTW of the entry in quite some time. This FPOTW entry will feature some of my homemade cooking with a side of drama/f*ckery.
I'm in a learning Spanish Meetup.com group, and one of our recent events was a potluck fiesta. I decided to take a Spanish tortilla for this event. I'll say that I (probably like most folks) get really nervous when trying out a new recipe especially for folks that I do not know too well. Also, the nerves were even more intense because I pretty much had one shot to make the Spanish tortilla. The funny thing: the husband who is a chef from Spain offered to make the Spanish tortilla for me, but I told him that I could make it myself. As some may already know, a Spanish tortilla essentially is a large egg omelette with potatoes and onions. Ok, that doesn't seem too difficult to prepare. Unfortunately, flipping the large omelette, which in my cases contained about 2.5 pounds of sliced potatoes, can be quite dramatic. For example, check out this Spanish tortilla fail.
My result:
Fortunately, I did not have a flip fail, but I didn't I put enough oil in the pan because I had a patch in the top layer.
My tortilla was a little darker compared to the ones that the Spanish husband makes, but it had the same color (more or less) of the one from the website where I found the recipes. So I'll take it as a win.
Not to toot my own horn, but I (and the husband) thought my tortilla was very delicious. Before actually reading through the recipe, I just assumed that you mixed some eggs, potatoes & onions and threw them into a pan, flip it, and cook the other side. However, there are a few tricks to the trade:
Letting the potato slices sit in water for at least 10 minutes.
Using a mandoline to slice the potatoes . . . fortunately, I did not lose any fingers using the mandoline.
(Tip from the husband): If you use an online recipe for a Spanish tortilla, you should add 1-3 additional eggs. I definitely will have to use this tip next time, because I like my tortilla to be a tad running.
Once you mix the eggs, onions and potatoes, the mixture sit for at least 15 minutes.
Trust yourself and try to flip without any hesitation.
Meetup Drama:
The organizer of the potluck fiesta indicated that he would let use know the location of the event via Meetup.com's messenger. I figured that made sense because I do not think that I would want have my address listed in a public group. The morning of the event, I was a bit concerned because a couple of the guest and I had not received the address. So, I sent the organizer a message through the app inquiring about the location of the event. I carried on making the tortilla throughout the morning. Long story short, I never received a response, and by 2pm, I was over it. I guess it kind of worked out for the best because earlier that morning a friend from NYC texted me to tell me that she was going to be in DC for the day and asked if I could meet up (no pun). Rather that attending the dumb potluck, I hung out with my friend that I had not seen since running NYC 2022's marathon.
