Tortilla Espanola

For those of you who had been to Spain, you might recognize this potato egg cake served on a nice and crunchy french baguette. It is always one of the options in any Tapas restaurant all throughout Spain. Spanish people like to cook with saffron. This plate, is made with saffron, famous paellas are also seasoned with saffron. It is a spice very rich in flavor.
I grew up in Venezuela, exposed to a variety of different cultures that made our Venezuelan cuisine into a mixture of all of them. It is very common to find a Tortilla Espanola served in any Venezuelan home as a light lunch or a side dish for dinner. We don't use saffron which makes it even easier and less expensive as saffron can be an expensive spice and hard to find in some places!

I used 3 of these potatoes. It can be any potato, if there is one sort you like more in particular, feel free to use that one!

I let the potatoes cool down. Most of the time I cooked them in the morning and set them aside until it's time for cooking ... Once they have cooled down they are really easy to cut in pieces, when they are still hot they fall apart. Place the cut potatoes in a round cake form. Previously oiled, with butter or spray, whichever you like best.

On a saucepan, saute some onions until they are transparent, don't let them burn otherwise they won't look so pretty inside the mix

On a large bowl, place your eggs and some salt and some pepper, it is easier to add the seasoning now so the eggs will absorb it well. Mix in the onions and stir.

Add the egg-onion mixture on top of the potatoes. Spread it thoroughly.
This is normally cooked on a large saucepan, I always found it difficult to turn it around. It was always fun to watch my mom as she "played" around with it. There was always a mess! sometimes little mess, sometimes big mess ...
So I decided to use a cake form instead, this way I don't have to learn to jiggle around and clean up a big mess and I use less oil.
If you are following what I am saying, you might have noticed that there is some egg leaking out of the cake form from the bottom, hehehe you are right! simply cover the cake form with some foil and you will be fine!

There you go! nice tortilla espanola for kids and babysitter while mom and daddy go out on a date!

Ingredients
3 large potatoes
1 onion (red or regular)
12 eggs
salt
pepper

You can adjust the amounts, again, there is no right or wrong! just enjoy and play with it until you feel confident!