This weekend a friend from the village gave my mother-in-law some beautiful huevocitos (little eggs) from their miniature hens.

I am thinking about making tortilla de patatas for dinner, with a big salad and fresh bread. Mmm. Spanish tortilla is sort of like a sturdier fritatta or a taller omelette. The classic tortilla consists of eggs, potatoes, onions, salt and olive oil. Sometimes people throw in red peppers, chorizo, mushrooms, or ham. Tortilla was my best friend when I moved here, because it is served everywhere and is almost always pretty good. When menu choices were undecipherable by me, or just seemed a little dicey to my unadjusted palate, I always knew I could count on tortilla to get me through. And now that CS will eat it without even pulling a brow furrow, we can eat almost anywhere in Spain without me having to tuck a sandwich and yogurt in my purse. In short, I heart tortilla.

I don't have a recipe of my own to post, or any pictures - though tasty, my tortillas tend to be on the un-photogenic side. However, there is a good tortilla recipe with pictures posted here at Smitten Kitchen. Minus the chicken stock, this is more or less how I have witnessed tortilla being made in local kitchens.