Party Snacks: Spanish-Style Tortilla (omelette) with leeks, potatoes, and peas

22 Nov

NOTE TO READERS: This is a reblog to help you out with party menus over the holidays….in addition to the leek tortilla in the title, there are links to three other gorgeous tortilla recipes!

Hot, Cheap & Easy

You say party, I say tortilla. I have loved Spanish tortillas since I tried them on my first trip to Spain a million years ago and have been making them just about as long.

Let us be clear. I am not talking about the bread-like Mexican tortillas that are used for wrapping burritos and quesadillas. I am now talking about Spain, where tortilla means a stove top egg cake, a thick omelette, a frittata. Many are vegetarian (and many are not). All of them allow you to play with ingredients!

View original post 609 more words

Comments 4 Comments
Categories Uncategorized

4 Responses to “Party Snacks: Spanish-Style Tortilla (omelette) with leeks, potatoes, and peas”

kathryningrid November 24, 2013 at 10:45 pm #

Oh, this version sounds great–and so does the chorizo and peas one! A good tortilla is hard to beat. 😀

Reply
- Natalia at Hot, Cheap & Easy November 25, 2013 at 5:17 pm #
  
  The chorizo and peas are my favorite!!! The original has lima beans, just so you know. I don’t do lima beans!
  
  Reply
Mad Dog November 22, 2013 at 7:52 am #

I love tortilla – I’ll have to try it with leeks 😉

Reply
- Natalia at Hot, Cheap & Easy November 22, 2013 at 9:29 am #
  
  I think I’ll go chorizo and peas tonight….
  
  Reply

Talk foodie to me, baby... Cancel reply

Enter your comment here...

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Email (required) (Address never made public)

Name (required)

Website

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out / Change )

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out / Change )

Cancel

Connecting to %s

¡Comida Hispana! Recipes to unleash your inner Latino

Mango Mojitos With Ancho Chili Salt

It was another summer Friday in the neighborhood and that called for another festive cocktail. Riding high on the success of last session’s passionfruit mojitos, I decided to make mango mojitos. The drink itself followed much the same construction, but the mango was decidedly sweeter than the passionfruit, so I decided that it needed a […]
Passionfruit Mojitos by the Pitcher or Glass

Summer evenings in the neighborhood can be wonderful. Occasionally on a Friday some of us neighbors bring out folding chairs and sit together in one front yard for a bit of happy hour while the kids go mental on someone else’s lawn. It’s pretty much BYO, but we do mix up a pitcher of experimental […]
KID IN THE KITCHEN: Tembleque (Tropical Coconut Pudding)

We spent the better part of last summer in Puerto Rico, and among the tasty things that my little guy fell in love with was tembleque, a jiggly (temblar means to tremble) dessert that falls somewhere between pudding and flan. I promised him we’d make it back in New York, and this weekend, for a […]
Sangría Tropical (and rainforest paradise pictures)

When the heat gets tropical, so should the drinks. On a recent trip to the mountains of Puerto Rico, I was inspired by a wonderfully cooling and exotic sangría I had up around and about El Yumque (Caribbean National Forest, the only tropical rainforest in the U.S. Forest Service system) at Noelia’s, recommended to us […]
Salmorejo de jueyes (Land Crab Stew)

There are a number of land crab species skittering about Caribbean coastlines. Some are edible and the one we eat most here in Puerto Rico (although I am told they mostly are imported from Venezuela these days) is Cardisoma guanhumi which we call juey and — if you are English-speaking — you might call the […]