Tortilla Española

Oh how I love Spanish omelette. Since this month, we tried out Spanish food, my tutorials have been based around Spanish delicacies. Last night my mother made me one of my favourite comfort foods. In Spain, you can just pick these up in the supermarket as if it's eggs but in England that's not the case. So here's my mum's foolproof way of making Spanish omelettes. 

 

You'll need:

3 Potatoes

1 1/2 Onions

6 Eggs

Olive oil for frying

Salt & Pepper (duh)

Just a general rule, for every potato used, you'll need two eggs.

Let's cook!

 First we chop up the potatoes and onions into fairly fine slices.

 Then we soften the onions and potatoes, this takes around 15 minutes. Add seasoning. 

Put the potato/onion mixture into a bowl with whisked eggs. Then cook the mixture as you would do with any omelette.

 So when you see the sides of the omelette form shape the hardest obstacle has arrived. Flipping this bad boy. I must admit I am terrible at this hence I always make mini tortillas whilst my mother makes the family sized toritillas. I once tried and the omelette dropped on the floor so I just leave this bit to my mum.

 Using a plate or lid larger than your pan, cover the pan, flip upside down (like my mum has expertly done) Then slide back the omelette into the pan so the other side can cook.

 TAH DAH! 

Look at that beauty! Perfect served hot or cold which makes it perfect for picnics or when you just cannot be bothered to heat things up, this is the perfect grub for any lazy person. You can also add seafood, chorizo or vegetables to your omelette, the possibilities are endless!

 Kudos to my mother for being awesome.

Rainbow Cupcakes :3

Welcome to our new piece where we're going to give tutorials on different things (mostly baking).

It's Erin with you today and I got bored on Sunday evening, as I was rummaging through the cupboard I found some cupcake mix so I decided to make some cupcakes, not boring cupcakes though, some rainbow cupcakes!

What you'll need to do this is some cupcake mix (you can make your own mix if you wish but I find it is often easier and saves time just to use some mix), whatever your mix specifies you need (in my case eggs and water), food colour and some cupcake case. If you wish you can use frosting, or icing, whether bought or made yourself (I made my own icing in this case) and some decorations such as sugar stars or hundred's and thousand's.

First you need to make your mix as specified until it is the right consistency

Once you've done this you need to separate your mix evenly depending on how many colours you're using, I'm doing mine as red, yellow and blue so I have split it into 3 bowls evenly as you can see above.

Add your food colour and mix until you get your desired colour for each layer of the cupcake

Make sure you have your oven preheated by this point. Now you need to put your cases into the cupcake tray and spoon the mix in your desired order (be warned, this can get messy so prepare for some cleaning up to be done). I started with red so fill each case evenly with the one colour. When you move onto the next colour, be sure to then add the next colour trying to cover as much so you can't see the colour underneath (as you can tell I failed with a few of them...)

Once you've done this, it's time to pop them in the oven and let these babies bake!

Have fun in there young ones!

If you're anything like me, during the 20 minutes or so that these take to bake, you will most likely take a few selcas (self captures) out of boredom to pass the time...

 

Once they're out they should look something like this:

While we wait for them to cool, it's time to prepare the decorations! I was going to use chocolate frosting however changed my mind and decided to make icing while I waited for these to cool. I raided my cupboards for some decorations (I'm not the most creative person in the world!). Here were some of the decorations I ended up with:

Decorating these was pretty basic for me, just some coating of icing and then a dash of sprinkles, sugar stars or hundreds and thousands ontop and they were done!

And voila! You should have your rainbow cupcakes!

When taken out of the case

After taking a bite

If you want to have some sort of a tie die effect within them, you can get a toothpick and 'stir' the mix when in the cupcake cases, just before you put them into the oven.

I do recommend experimenting with this as you can do many other things for this such as ones I have previously done before, especially seeing as this is the basic rainbow cupcake tutorial with only 3 colours.

Irish Flag St Patricks Day cupcakes

'Real' Rainbow Cupcakes

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Churros!

So after going to La Tasca and indulging on some churros, I found myself craving it recently. As a child, I always ate churros for breakfast (hence I was a fat child) and I always wondered how they were made because it seemed difficult. Fast forward to now and it is the most simple thing I've ever made. Apart from toast. Basically it is as easy as making toast. Just a little more messier. 

You will need:

1 cup of plain flour

1 teaspoon of baking powder

A pinch of salt

2 tablespoons of oil

250ml of boiling water

Vegetable oil for deep frying

 Mix the dry ingredients and then add the oil. Afterwards slowly add the water whilst mixing. 

 The consistency of your batter should be not too wet, mind you it is very very sticky. Your oil should be placed on a high heat and once you see little bubbles forming put a little bit of the batter to test how hot it is. If your batter floats, time to cook these babies!

 You'll need a piping bag. If you don't have one, fear not! Just take a food bag, snip off the corner and stuff it with batter, tie the top and you are ready.

 The length of the churros depends on you, my little sister prefers them short because she thinks its cute. So just wait for these to float to the top and wait for each side to be golden brown. The batter mix actually makes quite a bit so your churro craving will surely be fulfilled!

 If you want to you can roll these around in a mixture of cinnamon and sugar but I usually serve these with melted Nutella. That's messy enough. 

These are so quick and easy to make so go ahead and give it a go!