So this is like our family dinner for Thanksgiving, right? You have to tell me the story behind this holiday. What is it that you´re celebrating? Independence?
No, not independence. Basically we´re celebrating the arrival of the pilgrims to the United States and the story goes that they shared a big dinner with the natives to celebrate the harvest.
(Pause.) Before they killed them all? Didn´t they fight them off later?
...Yes. We just celebrate the eating part, though.
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Thanksgiving.
Sopa Tortilla Mexicana
Manera de hacerla: Here is the tricky part--find the ingredients. Be sure to specify that when you say ¨frozen corn¨you mean corn off the cob and then when you say ¨cumin¨you specify that you need the powder, not the whole grain. Find a bodega somewhere to buy the tortillas, which will be rediculously over-priced, becuase they´re kind of an import. Boil roasted chicken to make stock. Drink a glass of wine. When the glass is empty, the chicken stock should be done. Remove bones, fat, add all other ingredients (put in a Spanish-sized amount of chile powder--which means go easy on the spice). While soup simmers, turn your attention to the lesson in Spanish tortilla making.Tortilla Española
Manera de hacerla: Slice potatoes and put in a frying pan with about two fingers worth of oil and fry. While potatoes cook, cut onion. After five minutes of potato-cooking, add onion. While potato and onion fry, beat eggs well. Very well. Make music, muy fuerte. After ten minutes more minutes in pan, remove potatoes and onions and add to egg. Do not add oil. Clean pan, mix up egg, potatoes, and onion. Put mixture in fying pan on low heat and cook. When the liquid becomes solid-ish, flip entire tortilla using either a plate or the lid of the pan. Do so fearlessly so as to not spill tortilla everywhere. Finish cooking other side. Refill wine glass.
Hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving!
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