Food

This is where I will post food I try, recipes Conchi gives me, and anything else you need to know about Spanish cuisine!

3. Tortilla
Kelsey and I made a Spanish Tortilla! It's always been a mystery to me but we got it. Kelsey had watched her house mom make it, but we youtubed it just in case.
A tortilla is an egg dish, like an omelette kinda, usually filled with potatoes but you can add peppers, onions, mushrooms, or spinach as you wish. It's cooked on the stove and the hardest part is flipping it.

This isn't our picture. By the time we were done cooking it was 11pm and we were starving so we just ate in instead of taking pictures. But this is what our's looked like I promise!

First we chopped up our veggies. We did potatoes, onions, and green peppers. Then we sautéed them until they were almost completely done. We had another bowl of eggs and we mixed the two into a giant bowl of egg and veggies. We actually ended up doing 3 pans of tortilla because there was so much!
So we poured our egg-potato-green pepper-onion mixture into a frying pan and set it on low heat. It cooked for about 10-15 minutes to set, so it was almost cooked all the way to the top. Then came the hardest part- flipping it. We used another frying pan- we stacked them and just rolled the wrists. (There was only 1 casualty) We let the other side cook to perfection and there it was- the perfect spanish omelette.


2. Churros y Chocolate
Culture corner- I know I've talked about Chocolate and Churros. This is probably one of my favorite things about Spain (please don't judge me). It's a fried pastry served with a dip made of pudding and hot chocolate. Usually it's eaten as an afternoon snack anywhere from 4-7, but it's also considered a breakfast food. I've had it at both times, and it never failed to hit the spot.

I know it looks a little weird in the picture, but it's way good.

There is a place in Madrid called Chocolateria San Gines that is known for their Churros and Chocolate, and their recipe is on the Food Network website! Here it is- Anna and I will definitely be trying this out when we get home!







































1. Salmorejo
It is the easiest soup I think I've ever seen, it sounds weird but it's so good! It's garlic, tomato, oil, salt, and bread pureed together and served cold. Weird right? Whatever, it tastes so good I can't even be mad about it. It can be served with croutons, hard boiled egg, peppers, onion, cucumber, tomato, or deli meat. We had all of them with ours.

When Conchi made it, she didn't measure out anything. I just had to watch and remember.

So here's what she used-

  • 2 cloves of garlic
  • 3 medium tomatos
  • Oil- it looked like about a 1/4 cup or a little more
  • A dash of salt
  • A hunk of stale chiabatta bread soaked in water
Then she pureed it all together and refrigerated it for a few hours. Vinegar is optional.


This is what it looks like. It's pretty much thick tomato soup.

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