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Spanish courgette tortilla

Chop 1 or 2 potatoes into cubes.
Heat a pan with plenty of oil and put potatoes in.
Chop 1-2 onions and a courgette.
Also put into pan when potatoe is half cooked.

Break 6-12 eggs into a large bowl.
Salt and pepper to taste. I also like to add a little milk (just a drop).
Chop some very fine slices of cheese.

Remove potatoe, onion and courgette from oil and drain.
Remove oil from pan, wipe clean and add a bit of olive oil. Also lower the heat to about setting 2-3 roughly half heat, every hob is different.

Pour egg into pan and then put the potatoe, onion etc in and press it into the egg with a spatula.
place the slices of cheese on top and also push this into the egg so it dosen't burn and stick to the pan.

After cooking for roughly ten minutes(I have no idea on time I just go on when its half cooked). Slide the tortilla out onto a large plate. Place the pan over the plate and flip it around to cook the other side of the tortilla (it should be 1-2 inches thick, better to go with 12 eggs).

When cooked cut into slices like a cake. Delicious hot or cold.
 


gutterseo said:
Spanish courgette tortilla

Chop 1 or 2 potatoes into cubes.
Heat a pan with plenty of oil and put potatoes in.
Chop 1-2 onions and a courgette.
Also put into pan when potatoe is half cooked.

Break 6-12 eggs into a large bowl.
Salt and pepper to taste. I also like to add a little milk (just a drop).
Chop some very fine slices of cheese.

Remove potatoe, onion and courgette from oil and drain.
Remove oil from pan, wipe clean and add a bit of olive oil. Also lower the heat to about setting 2-3 roughly half heat, every hob is different.

Pour egg into pan and then put the potatoe, onion etc in and press it into the egg with a spatula.
place the slices of cheese on top and also push this into the egg so it dosen't burn and stick to the pan.

After cooking for roughly ten minutes(I have no idea on time I just go on when its half cooked). Slide the tortilla out onto a large plate. Place the pan over the plate and flip it around to cook the other side of the tortilla (it should be 1-2 inches thick, better to go with 12 eggs).

When cooked cut into slices like a cake. Delicious hot or cold.
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Courgette is Zucchini to you folks in North America. I prefer this with spinach myself. You can buy decent ready made ones from the refrigerator section of the grocery stores here in Spain where you just remove the wrapper and heat. It's served in just about every tapas restaurant in the country, hot or cold.
 
One of my favourits which works with excellent with all kinds of Gravy:

Roeschti (it's Swiss)

Take about 4 big potatoes, cut them in half.
Cook them till they are softish but not too soft.
Let them cool down for about 30 min.
Raffle them and add salt and pepper.
Put them in the fridge for another 1h or so (you can do them without but it's better when cooled first)
Take a pan so that when you spread the potatoes out and press down, it will be about an inch thick.
Put about a 1/4 stick butter in the pan and melt it. Put the potatoes in, spread them out and press them solid. Cover and bake for 10 min.
Flip the potatoes onto a plate.
Add another 1/4 butter in the pan.
Slide the potato "cake" into the pan.
Cook for 10 min.

Done.
 
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Two fast and nutritious meals in under 30 minutes.

On a more serious note.

I like to keep fresh Galic, Fresh Onion, Luccini Virgin Olive oil, Real Butter, and a White Wine for quick cooking up diced meats. (Beef, Chicken, Turkey, Pork, Tuna, or Sausage.) I put it all into a 12" skillet on medium flame/heat and basically stir fry it. I usually also season it with Basil, Ground Pepper, Ground Bay leaves, and a little Sea Salt.

Dice up some veggies like Red & Yellow Peppers, Squash, Zucchini, and sometimes Egg Plant and add them when the meat is halfway done.

While the meat is cooking I make up some pasta or rice and mix it into the meat & veggies when it's done. Depending on what your mood, you can add some grated Mozzarella or Parmesan cheese to it. (You add a can of tomato paste to the meat & veggies about 2 minutes before their done if you want.)

Takes less than 30 minutes to prepare and cook.

If you want any garlic bread to go with it, it's easy to whip up also.

If I want hard bread I use the skillet to heat & harden one side on my bread slices.

I put butter, chopped garlic, and basil into a coffee cup and pop it into the microwave to melt it. Then I just take a spoon to drizzle the butter on the SOFT side of bread and use the bottom of the spoon to spread it around.


Another fast & Simple one is a Pizza.

I use a Boboli crust and instead of tomato sauce or paste, I take fresh on the vine tomatoes and slice them real thin. I put the thin tomato slices on the dough first. (They will break down while baking and make a very nice and light tomato base.) Then add whatever else you want to it.

I usually bake it at 350* for about 20 minutes. I just line a cookie sheet (I use the "Air-Bake" brand because I don't like burnt crust.) with aluminum foil to bake it on.

Again, done in about 30 minutes including prep.
 
Fatbat said:
Courgette is Zucchini to you folks in North America. I prefer this with spinach myself. You can buy decent ready made ones from the refrigerator section of the grocery stores here in Spain where you just remove the wrapper and heat. It's served in just about every tapas restaurant in the country, hot or cold.
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I lived in Barcelona last year, thinking of going back to Spain now as the dark damp winter draws ever closer here in Dublin. My favorite thing to eat in the bars was always pulpo a la plancha, that grilled octopus to you North American folks ;)
 
subigo said:
So my girlfriend pointed the fact out to me that I eat like the same five things all the time (chili, chicken/vegetables, pizza/pasta, salad, sandwiches)... I never really thought about it much, but I guess she's right. I likes what I likes.

Anyway, she's forcing me to buy "new" food tomorrow, so give me some ideas. What are some of your favorite (easy) meals to make? I normally try to get things that are easy and small. For the most part I'm the only one who eats what I cook, and I hate leftovers. And healthy is good.
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You have a girlfriend?!?! Pics or it didn't happen
 
gutterseo said:
I lived in Barcelona last year, thinking of going back to Spain now as the dark damp winter draws ever closer here in Dublin. My favorite thing to eat in the bars was always pulpo a la plancha, that grilled octopus to you North American folks ;)
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I like the little Puntilltas, the baby calamari, or just regular calamari will do. Iberian jamon, the ham from the acorn fed black pigs is pretty nice too. In Barcelona the one dish that really stood out to me at the tapas bars was the sauteed spinach with pine nuts and raisins sprinkled with sea salt. That was really tasty.
 
Ah yes the puntillas are delicious. little squid about an inch long deep fried in crispy batter. There hard to find around BCN though I remember eating them a lot in Cadiz. Where are you living in Spain now fatbat, do you speak Spanish? I have been to most places on the Mediterranean cost barring the English havens. Granada really stands out in my mind.
 
gutterseo said:
Ah yes the puntillas are delicious. little squid about an inch long deep fried in crispy batter. There hard to find around BCN though I remember eating them a lot in Cadiz. Where are you living in Spain now fatbat, do you speak Spanish? I have been to most places on the Mediterranean cost barring the English havens. Granada really stands out in my mind.
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I live on the Costa about 20 min drive from Gibraltar near Sotogrande. I'm in a community called Alcaidesa. My Spanish is shockingly bad considering how long I've been here. Partly because I was working in Gib for three years and partly because most of the Spanish we hang out with speak good English.

I was up in Barca for the Sonar music festival a few years back. I've only been through Granada on a road trip to Ibiza last summer. I should really go up there for a weekend sometime. Cordova too. Otherwise I've been to Sevilla a few times, Tarifa lots, Marbella, Malaga, Ronda, and the small white communities in the hills around here and up the coast in both directions.

I posted this before in the show us your workspace thread, but that's the view from my apt.

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Sorry for the thread hijack Subigo!
 
few drops of oil in a pan, heat, add a can of strained green beans a garlic clove and a pinch of hot pepper powder

eat with a can of tuna

under 5 minutes, quick, easy, healthy
 
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