Today I learned how to cook 3 different Spanish dishes ...
Yaiza came over, armed with the ingredients I didn't have, and showed me how to create a delicious Tortilla. And an Aioli sauce that is so divine I'm not sure how it won't be on the menu for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Or that's what everyone was saying as they handed the pot of it round the table.
Then there was the Habas con Jamon ... and I was left wondering how it was that New Zealanders could have failed to create that dish with their Broad Beans and ham??? Then, as the final touch, Picaillo. A divine salad, small pieces of boiled potato and eggs, cherry tomatoes, green beans, and tuna.
And oil.
So much oil but it was truly divine.
Tonight I'm realising how much I missed in life due to my mother not knowing to send us out into the world - to the beach, the forest, or simply 'out', with a package of cold Tortilla to save us from hunger and associated horrors. Ithink my childhood might have been that much happier if my mother had copied the Spanish mothers and done this simple thing.
Oh my ...it was all so good. Here is a close-up of the two Tortilla's created here in my kitchen. More of this Spanish cooking is planned.