Monday, 18 October 2010

Prawn, pea and feta tortilla


So it's come to my attention that I'm a rubbish photographer of food. I'm a rather rubbish photographer of everything, but my main failings seem to centre around the thing I currently need to be able to do the most. Hmph.

Hence this, the only good photo of my food so far (and, to be fair, the food looks rather rubbish too but that's because it's a bloody tortilla and it's hard to make them look good yeah? Oh... a I becoming defensive? This is not a good side of me...) was taken by the boy.

Phew. Now that's out of my system, on with dinner... I'm becoming a bit obsessed with 'using things up'. And as I had week old eggs, past-its-prime coriander, an on-the-turn orange pepper and some sour cream, I figured I would whip together some tortilla action.

I hate hard potatoes in tortilla, and lost my metal-handled oven-proof frying pan in the most recent house move so opted to par boil the potatoes beforehand. Meanwhile I fried onion chunks and the pepper. After slicing the almost perfect potatoes, I tossed them in a big bowl along with beaten egg, chopped coriander, small chunks of feta, frozen peas, chopped mint, a dash of cayenne and some onion salt. My black pepper grinder is playing up so they only got a little fleck.

The lot was put on a low hob for 15 minutes then put under a low grill for another 15. This was mainly because I was waiting for the boy to come back from his rehearsals and I don't like it when the egg gets too hard. I served slices up warm with some sour cream and a little greenery.

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