The Real Thing

Mrs Oyster and babe......continues end of post

       How to make the real thing 🍳

First of all I'd like to welcome 2 new followers to my blog:

Salty Pumpkin Studio

Life away from the office chair             

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REAL Spanish omelette!  

I emphasis REAL because some people are inclined to add green peppers,carrots,peas,garlic and other bits and call that a Spanish omelette. An authentic Spanish omelette is made up of exactly four ingredients:Potatoes,Onion(optional),eggs and fried in Olive oil.  When you go for Tapas here in a local bar you can choose between Tortilla Española (Spanish Omelette) or Tortilla Española sin cebolla (Spanish omelette without onion) and you will also be asked "caliente o frio?"(hot or cold). Delicious either hot or cold!!

Tortilla Española

Ingredients: Extra-virgen Olive oil, 500 grams Potatoes ,1/4  Onion (optional) ,6 large eggs, salt  for seasoning                      ( 4 servings)

Method: Slice potatoes (wafer thin slices).

I know for a fact Yaya (Little Granny, my MIL) who taught me how to cook Spanish dishes would frown to see these slices...she would be telling me to cut them finer!!!   Sorry Yaya!! xx

Heat oil in pan add & fry potatoes on a medium heat ,add the chopped onions when potatoes start to soften.

Stir every few minutes until potatoes have softened . 

Strain potatoes and set oil to one side.

Whisk eggs into a large bowl ,add potatoes stir well and add salt. Pour a little of the strained oil into a pan Tip potato and egg mix into the pan cook on medium heat shaping the omelette with a wooden spoon into a round. Place a large heat resistant plate over the omelette and flip over pan so omelette slides onto plate ,slide omelette from plate back into pan so the other side gets cooked;continue to press edges inwards to maintain the round shape.

When cooked place plate back on pan and flip over pan & omelette on to plate.

That is a typical Spanish omelette!! 

Some people boil or microwave the potatoes before frying to cut down cooking time ....right....they turn out OK that way ..but....the taste is definitely not the same! You can taste that the potato has been boiled !! .  Yaya (Little Granny), My Spanish Mother-in-law ,would have definitely frowned at that ...I can just hear her now ..... "no tiene idea""  (they have no idea).

Tortilla Española is one of the most practical of dishes. It is a great favourite here to have when you go on a picnic,barbecue, a buffet,children's party,a snack and so on..... 😊

May's make during Lockdown:

             Shhhh!! now......Mama's taking care of her baby!! 

Mrs Oyster and babe

 

 

Thanks for calling in!    

  Have a great weekend!!

Stay safe

Amanda x

Shout out!! Can you see me?

Santa Barbara Castle and Santa Maria Church, Alican

 

I can imagine that the bloggers who I have contacted or tried to contact since last Friday must think I am off my rocker!!!  I apologise now for all emails I have sent to those bloggers concerned. I have used the emails that I had for you from our previous contact over the years and some of you I just don't know if you have received them or those email addresses are obsolete.  

Beware I use a new email address now so emails from me may have gone into your spam/junk folder.



It has come to this I have to ask for your help!!!

Everything was pretty smooth here in my blog space until last Friday ....no I tell a lie I was having problems posting on an old blogfriend's Wordpress blog page before that and I still can't all I get is log in to your Word Press account to leave my comment  ...but I haven't got a Word Press account and never have had!!!  Nevertheless I thought it was just a hiccup and I'd go back to it later.

Since Friday 17th there have been more glitches and what I think is the worst of all is that a couple of bloggers indicated to me that they couldn't see the comments I had posted on their blogs ...but...and this is weird I could see the post on their blog on my desktop!!  It just doesn't make sense to me.
I have also had half a comment appearing on a blog friend's post too...tch!!!

Understandably one of my major worries was that is was a Virus,so I asked one of my students,who is a computer geek and works designing computer games to check it out. He assured me over the weekend that it was all clean and my computer too...the latter was a plus and really nice to know.


  I have had a videochat with my nephew who is a computer engineer and he said that it sounds like I have been blocked on some blogs...such an ugly word and as I told him I just couldn't believe that.. as I don't use foul language or talk about nasty things and most of my bloggers are old blogfriends. Anyhow he  told me to delete the Word Press account...the one I never created at all!  I have managed to do that after noticing that the users web address given is not me at all ***** gravinamanda.com  definitely not me.  That may have been the problem???

However all the doubts I had are still hovering and every time I comment on a blog I am wondering will they receive it,will they see it!!!   It is really bugging me!!!

I have already been able to contact and check with some bloggers via email and have received comments back to say they can see me...you know who you are :-)       However all the rest of my bloggers please could you confirm you have seen my comments and post here ....short message will do....OK here or similar.   This would put my mind at rest a lot!! 


I have since gone over all my settings, checked that the blogs I follow are on my blog roll on here and on my reading list. If you don't see your blog indicated on my blog roll please let me know and I will sort it out straight away. I would be grateful if you could check you have my blog on your blog roll and /or reading list. I haven't checked if you are following me via My followers because it isn't necessary to have to follow a blog to be on the reading and blog roll.

Some people may think I am blowing this out of proportion! I don't think so. I was so looking forward to returning to blogging again and renewing contact with all the wonderful bloggers that I have and then this started.     Please may it be over and everything function as it should.

Stay safe and keep well

Amanda x

 PS: I am even thinking of trashing this blog if I can't get this sorted......I don't want to!!