Breakfast for Dinner: Frittata Española
As a kid, I would get so excited when my mother made breakfast food for dinner! There was just something exciting and extra special about having bacon, eggs and grits at night. I know now that my mother was making breakfast at night because she was simply tired and couldn’t muster the energy for anything else! But, to this day, I still love to eat eggs at dinnertime. To continue with the inspiration from the tapas cooking class, I made this version of a “tortilla española”, which is a classic Spanish dish made of sliced potatoes, onions and eggs. It is very similar to a frittata, the main difference being the technique in which the eggs are finished. Both dishes consist of eggs and filling cooked in a frying pan on the stove, but a frittata is finished in the oven, whereas a tortilla española is flipped over so that the top of the eggs are finished in the frying pan. Because I didn’t want to risk possible disaster trying to flip the tortilla over …