Friday, September 10, 2004

Living off the Fat of the Sea

My roomates and I live on Oahu's premier spearfishing beach. Yesterday, we went out and caught a couple medium sized goat fish, but my friend caught an octopus! We brought him in still on the spear and every time we tried to get him off he would spray thick black ink. I looked up some recipes on the internet and so we immediately boiled him. After he cooked for about twenty minutes, the skin, eyeballs, and viscera came right out. We cut it up, coated it in an egg mixture, and fried it along with some peppers. The taste...well, let's just say that I'm glad I did it once, but don't ever want to eat octopus again. Incredibly chewy, tastes kinda like chicken, but the texture of the tentacles was too much.

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