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Wednesday, 25 March 2020

Tortilla Española (Spanish Omelette)

Tortilla Española - Spanish Omelette Image: Joy / CC BY

Tortilla Española (Spanish Omelette) is, more often than not, the breakfast of choice in Tenerife, probably because, when it's served in bars, you usually have to be early to be one of the lucky ones to get a slice. But you could make it any time, not just breakfast, but for lunch, or tea, or supper ... It uses economic and basic ingredients, is easy to make and is pretty much comfort food. 

Ingredients
For 4 people

Potatoes 700 g
Onion 300 g
Eggs 6
Salt
Olive oil

Method

Start with caramelizing the onion, which will take about 30 minutes. Peel the onion and cut it into thin julienne strips. Then put them in a frying pan over very low heat and let them cook very slowly, stirring occasionally. We're not interested in the onion being browned, but being caramelised in its own natural sugars.

While the onion is cooking, peel the potatoes and cut them into thin slices, trying to ensure that all of them are uniform in size. Leave them in water for 15 minutes, drain, then place a frying pan with plenty of olive oil. Without giving the oil time to heat up, add the potatoes and let them fry very slowly. This way we get the potatoes to confit instead of browning. After about ten minutes, stirring from time to time, raise the heat to get some of the potatoes to be more toasted.

Once cooked, remove the potatoes and drain them well from the oil and put them in a large bowl. Drain the onions and add them to the potatoes. Beat the eggs and add them to the bowl, season and stir with a fork so that the ingredients are mixed well. Return the mixture to a frying pan with a tablespoon of oil and fry for about three or four minutes and turn it over to cook on the other side.

Sunday, 1 March 2020

Tenerife in March 2020

Vintage car in Santa Cruz de Tenerife

Once more, coinciding with the final Sunday of carnival, on 1 March 2020, the Vintage Car Club of Tenerife has organised its Parade of Vintage Cars, which celebrates its fiftieth anniversary this year, with some authentic jewels. This year there is a change of route: the cars will meet, from 10:00 am, as usual in the Parque García Sanabria, with entrance through Méndez Núñez Street. The departure is scheduled at 12:00 hours through the same entrance, to go along Doctor José Navieras street, Rambla de Santa Cruz to the crossing of the Comandancia de Marina, go up to the roundabout of Las Asunciones, go down San Street Sebastián to La Salle, cross the Galcerán bridge, go through Weyler and Méndez Núñez squares to Las Flores clock, go down El Pilar street, Villalba Hervás and La Marina to Francisco La Roche avenue, pass through the Cabildo, Correos and Casino de Tenerife and end up parking on that avenue.

With the big carnivals in the north coming to an end on March 1, the party moves to the south of the island with Los Gigantes Carnival starting on Friday, 6th March 2020, with their main parade being held on Sunday, 8th March 2020

Then Los Cristianos Carnival is taking place from from 12 to 23 March, with their Coso Apoteosis (Main Parade) being held on Sunday 22 March 2020.
 Los Cristianos Carnival was Suspended due to the pandemic.

It is now confirmed that, following government recommendations, the carnivals in Candelaria, Granadilla de Abona, Arona (Los Cristianos) and Santiago del Teide (Los Gigantes), as well as in La Guancha, have all been suspended.

There are no public holidays in March, nor municipal holidays in the month either. There is only one Romería confirmed at time of writing, the Romería de San José in Barranco Hondo (Candelaria) on Saturday 21 March and the Orvecame Norte Rally takes place on Saturday 28 March. That's enough, isn't it?