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The day was blowy and sunny and warm and I got out on the bike to tootle around the neighbourhood and eventually to the yuppie conveni for organic eggs. With which I made a Spanish tortilla, using my last-for-a-long-time potato. Tortillas involve sauteeing onions and thinly sliced potato in ridiculous amounts of olive oil until tender, and then dumping beaten eggs on top, letting it cook slooowly until bottom seems to be done. Then comes the hard part: cover pan with a dinner plate, flip pan over so tortilla falls onto plate, hopefully! in one piece, and then slide it back into the pan to cook on the bottom. Today for the first time in decades I managed the feat, though because of curved dinner plates and weak wrists I did it via two plates: flip onto back of curved plate, slide onto right side up plate, slide back into pan.

Because I don't have measurements for this dish, it's always a toss up whether I use enough eggs or not. Today I did: 4 eggs to one russet potato. Could have used twice the onion and probably three times the salt, but the latter must be restricted, so.

My boring life makes for a certain sameness in the brief entries I put in the daybook. Thus I have no idea what happened when because it's all 'did kaniji, did exercises, read French'. Anent someone's mention on the FFL I've started a bullet journal where I can simply tick off these repetitive tasks as well as noting things like when I washed my hair or vacuumed. I think that will work well.

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I know this dish as "Spanish Omelette". My family version is in the same conceptual universe, but adds assorted vegetables and chopped up sausage, and only uses enough eggs to bind the whole thing together. We don't do the external flip, just slide it under the grill, or use the Happy Call pan (from Korea, highly recommended).

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Happy+Call+pan&atb=v207-1&iax=images&ia=images

I tell my minions that boredom is good, it means that they have no bigger problems. I used to have it stuck up on my office door. I should put it back up again. Maybe get a nice calligraphy or letterpress version...

I learned the dish from a Spanish roommate from... Toledo, I think?For all I know, there are regional variants that add other veg or even cheese, but evidently the flip is essential. Grills would be nice- safer if nothing else, because the flip usually ends in disaster- if one had a grill or was willing to turn the oven on just for that. Those Korean pans seem a better bet.

Ah, that sounds like my mother's 'Cheer up, chum, it can always get worse.' (Or occasionally, Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit, which means essentially the same thing only in Vergil's Latin. -_-) With age I've come to appreciate having nothing worse, but it wasn't much consolation in the middle of adolescent angst.