The trick to deliciousness is to pour the juice from the octopus can onto the beef while it is frying — preferably with Swiss cheese from the good people at Food Lion.
The last time I shared an octopus recipe online, somebody told me to “up my meds.” Sigh … like pearls before swine, people.
Update — I know that this does not seem like part of a heart-healthy diet. But it actually IS, because an octopus has eight hearts.
Environmental Protection Agency.
People on the “I Found This Online” Facebook page are joking about this weird faux-wood paneling from the 1980’s. (It got 96,000 “likes.”) There is even a Reddit page about them! These walls were everywhere in my rural/suburban New York neighborhood.
I love them! Sure, you couldn’t hang anything up because you couldn’t get a thumb-tack in. But they’re dark and rustic, and they take me right back to the 1980’s. Gimme a basement with these walls, a plush rug, a television, an Atari 2600 and a stack of 80’s horror films on VHS ands I’ll be very happy. (Hopefully the movies will include 1986’s “Aliens” and 1982’s “The Thing.”)
Better yet, leave out a couple of liters of soda and some chips, and let me invite a couple of Longwood High School friends over.
Etching, aquatint, drypoint and burin.
I am a man who is loathe to tamper with a classic. And every slice of pizza from Benny Marconi’s in Roanoke, Virginia is a damned artwork.
Still … they did not offer octopus as a topping. (I searched their website pretty thoroughly.) And then I realized that I had NEVER seen the most sublime of foods offered as a pizza topping.
Innovation built this country, and I have a flair for the culinary. So I went home and concocted the brilliance you see below.
Update — Damn. I just realized I wrote this whole post ignoring the potential for an “octupie” pun.
Marvel Comics.
Taste Test — Geisha Smoked Octopus in Sunflower Oil.
MMmmmmmmm. I give it two thumbs up. Or two tentacles.
Marvel Comics.
Eric Robert Nolan, Author 