the real tortilla
Tonight's post features a new addition to my cooking world. He's my friend Trey, he likes to cook, and tonight he made dinner at my house. Appropriately enough for my tortilla comparison, he made real tortilla española!
Real tortilla is a different experience from what we saw yesterday. First he peeled baking potatoes and sliced them really thin. They went into a hot pan with olive oil to cook through.
Meanwhile he sliced a zucchini really thin and cooked that in another pan with onions and olive oil.
Once everything was cooked enough they got mixed together in a single pan. Then you add the beaten eggs.
This all cooks slowly so it can cook evenly through. It has to be flipped and everything, it's a crazy process.
This one was cooked to perfection through, Trey was happy with it. See the proud father look?
But that wasn't all! We also picked up some fish while we were at Publix, and Trey transformed it as well. We got the lemon herb catfish and he breaded it with flour and cornmeal and fried it. I'd never had catfish before, but this was really good. In the end we had a feast because he also had some leftovers that he brought with him and we decided to eat those as well. There were mashed potatoes and meatloaf that his mom made. The meatloaf was really good, I need to figure out how she made it.
We were happy with our meal, it will have to go on the menu at our future restaurant. But anyway, after all his talk about being a good cook, I was impressed by the actual results of Trey's cooking. He seemed happy with it too, see:
Real tortilla is a different experience from what we saw yesterday. First he peeled baking potatoes and sliced them really thin. They went into a hot pan with olive oil to cook through.
Meanwhile he sliced a zucchini really thin and cooked that in another pan with onions and olive oil.
Once everything was cooked enough they got mixed together in a single pan. Then you add the beaten eggs.
This all cooks slowly so it can cook evenly through. It has to be flipped and everything, it's a crazy process.
This one was cooked to perfection through, Trey was happy with it. See the proud father look?
But that wasn't all! We also picked up some fish while we were at Publix, and Trey transformed it as well. We got the lemon herb catfish and he breaded it with flour and cornmeal and fried it. I'd never had catfish before, but this was really good. In the end we had a feast because he also had some leftovers that he brought with him and we decided to eat those as well. There were mashed potatoes and meatloaf that his mom made. The meatloaf was really good, I need to figure out how she made it.
We were happy with our meal, it will have to go on the menu at our future restaurant. But anyway, after all his talk about being a good cook, I was impressed by the actual results of Trey's cooking. He seemed happy with it too, see:
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